Logging 1950's West Forks, ME

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[@richardcaron6340]

My father stumbled across this video the day before last, as it was in his recommended videos after searching the name of his fathers old boss, Wallingford. As he passed before I was born I never met my grandfather Eugene Caron, the discovery of this video is huge to me, as no one in our family knew there was video of my grandfather. I’ve only ever seen him in pictures until today. This is truly astonishing!

[@thedocisin3204]

Nice to see some history of a place I visit often, hiking and ATVing.

[@dangottwald9298]

It’s great that you can see your grandfather!

[@waterworld248]

Beautiful ,loved it!! A man really put in a work day back then ! No wonder those old timers were so tough ///

[@Picklekicker]

Reminds me of yarding wood with cattle growing up

[@jacobvantuinen5426]

Pretty amazing historical footage!! very kind of you guys to upload this. Thanks for sharing.

[@lucegiroux2454]

This is truly amazing to stumble on that video of our father in the 50". This is a keeper for sure.

[@buckchase1]

Thank you for all of this video footage!! My wife and I purchased a house near Katahdin, and I'm studying Bob Geller's book of logging in that region. This footage has put a visual to the process that it took to get the logs into the waterways. Utterly fascinating!

[@danielsites1439]

This is so comforting to listen to.

[@paulaltermatt8750]

Absolutely amazing. Thank you

[@craigguilmet6282]

Incredible video and narration thank you for sharing . Craig guilmet

[@rodfrost5051]

Very cool,thanks for sharing

[@Spiritontherise]

6000 ft wow that's a big freaking load

[@gordoncorey8023]

Thank you for this video

[@chrisamadon279]

this seems much more efficient than the way its done today

[@PapawMule]

Very interesting.. retired logger myself.

[@royramey5659]

enjoyed

[@lucasgraf9744]

i remember Dick and Winnie very well they used to come into the camp on the snowmobile .

[@stevenwescott1422]

Those frozen birch logs would be quite dangerous to handle with them tongs. You wouldn’t have a man on the truck nowadays.

[@jonstanley917]

😀

[@countrywoodsman7734]

👍

[@Timberbeartrail]

This is long before you head to have a class one or a class two endorsement

[@gordoncorey8023]

Talk about horse power