Historic Washington: A Story of West Coast Lumber Operations

A story of West Coast Lumber, the principal industry of the pacific northwest in first half of the 1900s, presented by Schafer Brothers Logging of Montesano, Washington. This segment features a short visit to the logging and lumbering operations (footage courtesy of WA State Archives).

[@barrysmith8193]

Excellent resource footage. Many thanks.

[@tommykincaid3267]

It's too image Aberdeen as a booming town full of bars and brothels with plenty of drunken sailors and loggers with pockets full of money and ready to spend it. That couldn't possibly be any further from the Aberdeen I grew up in, it's hard to even believe it was once one of the most happening cities in the state of Washington. It's far from that now, happening and Aberdeen don't belong in the same sentence.

[@buckwylde7965]

Ford ship "Onondaga" 13:05 sunk 22.22 hours on 23 July 1942 by U-129, 20 dead, 14 survivors.

[@curtise2536]

interesting

[@GaryLX870D]

Wow

[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

Thanks for adding that. It Relates Quite well. As we have known must have been OUTSIDE, But maybe (doubtfully) sneaked into the sound.

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[@JJE2010MO]

Super cool video!! Thanks for sharing!

[@robertrowan3270]

All my uncle's, and many of my cousins, were loggers in the 50's, 60's,and 70's.

[@perrystone1413]

Excellent video

[@janetssumbillo9596]

Lovely video. It reminds me of a similar lumber company based in Philadelphia. It has a big mill timber operation in the Philippines. The Insular Lumber Company. Harvesting area in the island of Negros Occidental.

[@jeffreymccarty1388]

Oh my god.. this made my mouth water my stiffer pecken up and heart beat quicken

[@SuperTitank]

that guy at 4:29 was no joke. Cutting stuff while 175 feet jesus. Props to him.

[@jonnydanger7181]

A 2x4 used to be just that, 2 inches by 4 inches. Now it’s 3-1/2 x 1-1/2. Actually now it’s 3-1/4”. Same goes for the rest 2x6 and so forth. watch buildings start falling down with their inferiorness.

[@richardlawson6668]

No it's not! Still 1 1/2 x 3 1/2

[@jonnydanger7181]

I wonder how often those guys saw Big Foot? Ive head from a lot of different sources about his sighting in Washington state.

[@tommyhatcher3399]

Music gives it a fantasy feel. Like I'm watching hobbits logging.

[@mikeborgmann]

I cant imagine the physical condition these guys must have been in to do this job......

[@henryjonesharrell6003]

this is cool

[@MrYoubet]

the whistle boy, was called a whistle punk

[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

Ya, and He often hadda coupla STICKS of Dynamite For problems 🤠☺

[@cunderw12]

Dang. We’ll probably never see trees of that size in this state again.

[@Sarah-rf2wq]

no shit...all those greedy idiots cut them down

[@scasey1960]

How old are the trees harvested in this video? 100 or 1000 years old?

[@r__v__b_9897]

Those forests had trees that were more toward the 1000 year mark

[@joeblow2063]

Most of what I saw there couldn't have been more than 100 years old. The one going into the head saw was only about 60 or so years old. Wayerhauser used to put up signs when they'd replant a section showing the year it was done. It was surprising how fast the trees came back to a usable size. Tried to explain to the environmentalists from California once that we grow trees in WA like Nebraska grows corn. It's (for the most part) always been done responsibly - if it wasn't they'd only be destroying their own crop and "fields".

[@USCG.Brennan]

@@joeblow2063 If these trees were 60 years old.....who was planting them there in the 1860s?? I saw no old stumps (from before) where they were cutting these trees down anywhere. I think these were original, 1st cutting, non human-planted trees.

[@joeblow2063]

@@USCG.Brennan Apparently you've never been to the area and seen actual old trees. They're a bit larger, like one small section fits on a railcar. I grew up there, and logging goes all the way back to my great-great grandad who logged with a mule team in what is now the Olympic National Forest.... in the 1870s.

[@USCG.Brennan]

@@joeblow2063 I grew up in Aberdeen (1950s-60s) and my grandfather was a "boom-man" for a mill on the South Side at the end of Curtis street. Unless I'm mistaking, there were no stumps that I could see anywhere near these guys in this video where they were logging. If these were 2nd growth trees, I believe there would have been stumps....BIG ones left over from the original cuttings from years before. In the late '50s I attended a Bible Camp out at Humptulips (Bethel) and our cabins were out in the nearby forest. All around those trees were old stumps....very large old stumps which I'm sure were original. So yes, I'm very farmiliar with the area and the forests. Quinault is another good example. There are many trails you can follow here and there and again....many very large old stumps from many years ago to walk around as you go..

[@khue2626]

If you go out into any forest area in the Puget Sound region, now and see the stumps, which are most still standing 125+ years later almost all the stumps are chard blackened/Burnt Why is that ?

[@tonyarmstrong488]

They used to “slash burn” after logging. The old growth stumps have endured through the cycles

[@thealecwilliam]

Puget sound I would not know, but not too far north of there, just across the border, in fact, there was a big wild fire in what is and has been for many many years now, developed and densely populated land. If you have a few minutes, google the 1931 wildfire near Alouette Lake. I should add, I logged around the area recently (not in the park). I hoechuck/shovel log - I see tons of these massive stumps I could park a truck on top of. The happen to bear springboard notches and many of them are charred from the fire. Side note, I find lots of old "plank road" remains too

[@nnj6918]

See the film Sometimes A Great Notion

[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

Get the book TIMBER COUNTRY, WASHINGTON STATE CONTRACT LOGGERS ASSN. OR YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE.

[@WilSon-ov7gv]

About giant japonés hornet, Solution: protect the hives with a mesh. Only bees pass through these meshes, but wasps, hornet giant, if they try they get stuck.

[@Mycotography]

makes me sad this is all cattle land now...

[@ulanhett6259]

No its not . All the land that schafer bros logged has been replanted two to three times since these films where made . I live on the old schafer railroad grade and very little of their old logging areas are pasture

[@Mycotography]

@@ulanhett6259 thanks for letting me know! i guess i meant more the Chehalis valley through elma-porter-montesano-aberdeen areas

[@GaryLX870D]

That's all spruce and Alder bottom.. big fir grew uphill

[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

@@GaryLX870D at least yu know now. The 60m law case was 3 townships up against the Rainier NATIONAL PARKS THAT MANY PEOPLE GET MIXED-UP, NO THANKS TO PRESENT DAY U.S.F.S, U.S.F.S. Used to be a little more educated and also some VERY EXPERIENCED timber people who we SOMETIMES GOT along with. State TIMBER WAS usually the best, and most has been LOGGED AT LEAST twice or more. Most Americans have little knowledge, now EVEN WHEN THEY work in Fishing and Oil and minerals how little we have actually used and how much more we are finding. Thanks Gary.

[@Sarah-rf2wq]

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