Those coots were tough. No cabs, ROPs, or safety gear of any sort. Just an aluminum hat if you were lucky. What a time to have been alive.
@asbestosfiber3 ай бұрын
more than a few never made it out.
@michaelwills19263 ай бұрын
“Shake hands with danger”
@DanSulyma3 ай бұрын
And so easy to become unalive with employers who didn’t give a shit about health and safety
@freelonmorris365928 күн бұрын
Get hurt and it was " thanks for your efforts, now get lost" What a deal.
@kendrawilliams13483 ай бұрын
My grandpa's logging company had 19 D8s and 4 loaders and grader all catapiler
@asbestosfiber3 ай бұрын
those guys at 4:30 bucking those logs with a saw and the dozer just goes by and dusts them out. I guess as long as the Cats have the copper bellows dust collection, the loggers are on their own
@robbaskerville2533 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed that. Thanks for keeping these films alive.
@johns31063 ай бұрын
Some good sized turns being pulled here!
@deepbludude46973 ай бұрын
Ive got a barn here in the Ozarks that was built with old growth lumber, there is a lumber co punch mark and date of 1887. I can still see the bulldozer scars where they bladed out two ponds on my property (1938) I found a bottle dump where one night someone drank some beers. Some one had to cut down the trees and pile rocks to make pasture. I have 40 year old lumber on most of my property now, and some really old growth black oaks. Sometimes I just wander around tripping on the hard core dudes and women that tamed this land by hand.
@bardo00072 ай бұрын
Cars only been around for 30 years when this was shot, amazing how technology quickly advanced in a few years.
@TheRuffusMD2 күн бұрын
and the D 7 etc really hasn't changed that much only improved and refined , they were really well designed
@scratchdog22163 ай бұрын
10:47 Beautiful country.
@siskiyouwoodsman42792 ай бұрын
Yes I believe that is the old Long Bell lumber mill in Weed Ca with Mt Shasta in the background
@jhonsiders60773 ай бұрын
Could you see the gym boys with the tats and topknots doing that kind of work today ? It would kill them in a shift ! Those guys were tough pulling those cross cut saws all day long felling and bucking !
@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin3 ай бұрын
Those gym pansies couldn't even make a day running the Cats..
@cooliobob-q7o3 ай бұрын
I miss the days when people had to keep their tattoos covered up when working and a face or neck tat would bar from employment everywhere.
@PapawMuleАй бұрын
Tuffer than most people can imagine..
@randybaker556615 күн бұрын
Hard to bet a cat
@johnnycrash3270Ай бұрын
1980's Percy Logging (Knight Inlet British Columbia) 20yr old I was a swamper on the road crew working behind a D9 THAT CAT SKINNER did things with the D9 was amazing and many times scary thought he was going over the side so many times 45 degrees but he pulled it back🤔👍
@arnenelson44953 ай бұрын
Excellent video, thank you!
@freedomforever67183 ай бұрын
I owned and operated a 1954 D-7 dozer for 28 years. It was a tough hard worker. I foolishly sold it and have regretted that decision from day one.
@DanSulyma3 ай бұрын
My neighbour felt the same way and bought one for his retirement.
@georgeemeny61233 ай бұрын
7 cents a gallon diesel, those days are long gone!
@freelonmorris365928 күн бұрын
And 50 cents a hour! The good ol days.
@benniebarrow3483 ай бұрын
So cool ........thanks !
@itsnotme38823 ай бұрын
I loved my 977 cat greatest machine I ever worked with
@mikeedwards17683 ай бұрын
proper people
@avalon1rae3 ай бұрын
Leeland Haley, one of the greatest WW2 veterans and cat skinner.REST IN PEACE Leeland. 😘
@jasonpearson250727 күн бұрын
My great grandfather didn't like the new diesel yarder to slow it would only push small trees out of the way vs steam was going fast enough to just break them off...
@tentacledood57842 ай бұрын
It's kinda surprising to see how a lot of the design aspects in these machines have remained the same today, just given a new look.
@twen7yseven2 ай бұрын
Amazing to be able to see this stuff! Impressive machines, and men. Also a shame to see where all the deforestation started. Hopefully we can find a balance very soon.
@pattyberq20123 ай бұрын
Muy bueno tu canal 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@Daniel-jk7pe26 күн бұрын
East of Sacramento 😊
@azmike13 ай бұрын
When America was strong.
@thestandardaccount3 ай бұрын
Bug squished in the film at 04:06:14
@TickledFunnyBone3 ай бұрын
"A diesel engine installed saved the company $750" in the 30's thats ALOT of money!
@thefencepost3 ай бұрын
5 Cents in 1935 equals $1.14 today.
@jhonsiders60773 ай бұрын
It’s more than that five cents a gallon back then it’s about four dollars a gallon now !
@azmike13 ай бұрын
@@jhonsiders6077 Our dollar is about to collapse.
@Geardrive427-ip8vj3 ай бұрын
I just converted the other day delivered heating oil in Detroit Mi in Oct 1950 12.8 cents is now $1.70 and our family was delivering it in 1972 for 16 cents a gallon. Very steady.
@jhonsiders60773 ай бұрын
@@azmike1 i hope not but i will bet if things do not change it will take a lot more of them to buy the same things we are paying too much for now !
@bigredc2223 ай бұрын
@@azmike1 I've been hearing the same BS my whole life. As long as Trump doesn't get elected we'll be fine.
@how_to_hallagon13 ай бұрын
I think transport was safer with railroads in the woods. Logging roads are always one lane. You have to get on the radio and let the truck coming the opposite way know that you are on the road and their is no place to pull over if they get caught. Trains don't have to do that.
@billhillyer3343 ай бұрын
My daddy drove a caterpillar Mccormick Dearing TD 35
@sd312633 ай бұрын
McCormick Deering crawlers were made by International Harvester, and are therefore not Caterpillars.
@billhillyer3343 ай бұрын
@sd31263 There were fortifications along the border to discourage invaders pa had to drive one in the year twenty twenty seven I come from the future not really but don't tell any one
@billhillyer3343 ай бұрын
Don't screw with my grandpa it still had tracks and it clattered so.
@pickititllneverheal90163 ай бұрын
.25c worth a fuel an hour 😮😢 Five and a half cents a gallon.
@VicsYard3 ай бұрын
Awesome
@korhing10662 ай бұрын
Cat Diesel Power ! Built in America ! When our Country Had Pried ! What The Hell Happed ?
@freelonmorris365928 күн бұрын
People learned to spell correctly for one thing...
@outdoorlifemaine66913 ай бұрын
4:30 that poor guy getting dusted like that
@AdamBechtol3 ай бұрын
Neat, thx.
@PaulusRutter3 ай бұрын
These documentaries and advertising movies may be "ecological incorrect" but by good, do I wish these times back. Gimme the chance for a one way time travel ticket and I'd say good bye to our political correct and coward times!
@gearhead388analogger33 ай бұрын
💙🇺🇲💙
@stefanp76033 ай бұрын
Not a whole lot of veneer timber left in the north east… Maybe they should have left a few.
@joeymay40533 ай бұрын
Much love to you, and goodbye to this pussy whipped blue haired, bullshit world. Take me back too!
@franklindorrell47553 ай бұрын
It breaks my heart knowing we will never live in these glorious times.
@Orygungearjammer3 ай бұрын
Heard that brother.
@waterboy41243 ай бұрын
There's a park just north of Peoria where a 12 foot by 20 foot sequoia log resides. Brought to Caterpillar for the purpose of test dragging forestry tractors.
@badcommentbot83493 ай бұрын
Zaz zif noob
@PattyboythekingАй бұрын
God I wish we could go back to the days of no high visibility or safety gear. Just men working. Getting the job done. Corporate America has ruined everything.
@freelonmorris365928 күн бұрын
Yeah and no workman's comp or emergency rooms.Everybody is a pussy nowadays. AMIRITE?
@edwardbright94343 ай бұрын
thts hw th country was built on hard wrkn people
@threesisterstrucking80442 ай бұрын
The new ones cant do anything at 1 and ahalf gal per hour,,,we really have gone backwards in efficiency
@michaellombardo73123 ай бұрын
Logging in Arizona????
@johnsims53302 ай бұрын
yep. they finished it.
@MrBen-ukАй бұрын
Rather of worked then than now
@KO6DVA3 ай бұрын
We are not seceding. There is no provincially authorized government. Obey the laws of the land and if you are my enemy bow down. Before being cut down!
@Kamina17033 ай бұрын
.................Riiiiiiiiight.🙄
@HubertofLiege3 ай бұрын
Sometimes you wonder if the algorithm slips and posts comments on other channels
@jtrocktree54093 ай бұрын
You are the MAN !
@october4203 ай бұрын
👷♂
@thomasgoodwin26483 ай бұрын
Take only life. Leave only moonscape.
@sirrom51553 ай бұрын
nice story bruv
@michaelwills19263 ай бұрын
@@sirrom5155and mudslides later on
@TheGreyGhost_of43rd2 ай бұрын
Wtf happened to US!?
@CS-eb9wh3 ай бұрын
As usual, they sold anything and everything regardless the consequences. Large corporations have consolidated and are doing it today. But instead of mining timber or minerals, they are mining you... Food cost, medical cost (insurance co.), fuel cost, drug cost, communications cost, etc. How's that $18.00 hamburger working out for ya? Or the $4.50 a gallon gas? Or the $1500.00 insurance premium with a $7,000.00 deductable? Waste, waste,waste. There you go.
@williamjones60532 ай бұрын
Yeh trump made a mess of our country and it's supply chain ..it will be decades before it settles after him ..
@FB-gm6el3 ай бұрын
makes me sick to see the last of the old growth forests being permanently destroyed here. 😢 i am fully aware that i am a part of that continuing problem. still horrible to watch.
@michaelwills19263 ай бұрын
Same 😑
@JMKady763 ай бұрын
They were just trees at the time... Far from the last of the old growth.
@tentacledood57842 ай бұрын
You'll be happy to know that the US might actually have more forested areas now than it did some decades ago