Silver Bay Logging Company at 25 Years - Overview of Alaska Operations

[@trefallerhighline2152]

Thanks for sharing the video.had some of best times of my life in those logging camps

[@mountainmover777]

Talk about a walk down memory lane... So many people I recognize. Thanks for this!

[@jameswiddifield2482]

Surprised to see myself in this video! Worked for Silver Bay Logging for two seasons at Cube Cove.

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

This is a great video ! Good days long gone .

[@hunt2alaska399]

Hoot and Clee couldn't have built those roads without Harvey Miller welding up the AR plate. I sure wish I had that dinner bell that Harvey made from half inch plate. Mike Meske was a great side rod. Kenny...not so much. Chuck Watson and Monroe Sheffield were awesome. I bet Chuck remembers "Cowboy" letting all the bundles float out the bay. And Roper and I standing there at the waters edge as the boom boat drive unit fell off the Hughes 500 hook and sunk, LOL. Shout out to Turbo George Phillips. And eternal gratitude to Wally Ersland for teaching me how to fit in and not get run off. Adrej, I hope you're flying high! Dave, I miss your cooking @ Cube Cove!

[@camshaftP16]

Nice one Eric. to bad those days are only memories now. Thanks for posting this.

[@MotoScootMech]

what happened? only memories?

[@camshaftP16]

@@MotoScootMech Bill Clinton turn the Tongas area into a park.

[@Jpr1376]

That’s Awesome! I seen people in this video I haven’t seen since 2001!

[@denniswaggoner8056]

Loghard. Thank you for the great footage

[@tttco]

This is cool! Thanks for posting Eric

[@Jd74747]

I spent thousands of hours in that Denharco 3500 getting it dirty on the landing under a few of those 61’s. Nice little trip down memory lane.

[@chuckdworak1909]

Very enjoyable video thank you

[@lanewilliams3232]

Very cool Eric! My uncle was pretty good friends with Dick and loved hearing some of the stories about logging up there.

[@muddawgkomm9642]

That's pretty cool their, thanks! Ya got anymore shows like this of different outfits up their?

[@pitchpines3851]

Great video!

[@charlesortwein8093]

Worked a couple of years working at the cornerbay camp for silver bay as a hooktender

[@desertrattim]

Hauled a lot of their lumber from Seattle to various places south.

[@kiefekiefe9542]

Hard work 💪💪

[@TimberTramp]

I always wanted to go cut for silver bay!

[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

A lotta cutters (actually, the GOOD ONES, Were FALLERS, quit Silver Bay, but that's okay, we all pretty much had fun, didn't we🙄☺🤠💛☺❤🎄🎄🎄🌲🌲🐓

[@Joelontugs]

Did this company survive

[@adillon262]

They still in business?

[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

That's funny, we just gave you an entire history and We're next door until 2004, Silver Bay has pretty much disappeared but continues as Sampson Tug And Barge. The industry has pretty much shrank back to Ketchikan and the biggest problem in the USA is an ignorant public, that's happy, living in thier vehicles and talking on der scammerfones like downtown Tokyo or Europe or something. Apartments seem to be what it will be if mansions survive, low income housing usually turns into Apartments or high rises.

[@DHRDarren]

I cut timber with Jim Turner in the early '90s

[@staceysherman247]

I thought this was a video about timber not about this family telling me how great they are and all their accomplishments hero worship!

[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

A lot of yer non Corporate FRIENDS, who are familiar with POLITICLY correct and Um.... sorta Legalistic, Who Moooved our Cheese and Kids like John Deere, Boeing and msnHTTPS, Egg head Software, um, Propaganda by COMPLYING with the Dum people, doesn't usually 🙄Work, forever. Zero Tolerance, TURN KEY BUSINESSes, usually fade and break up, and eventually, MAYBE COME BACK REVIVED BY PEOPLE WHO REALLY CARE.....but sometimes we don't live to see it.☺YOUR COMMENT IS PRETTY FUNNY. .... They tryed to be the best.

[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

Many would agree. ☺🤠

[@josh-fr3hr]

makes m home sick :( Fire Cove and Polk and shelter cove

[@TimberTramp]

No money in logging....yeah right! So impressive! Be nice if the feds would recognize and promote our nations most renewable resources!

[@onceANexile]

USA,USA,USA....

[@berticard9405]

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[@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568]

As FAR AS WE KNOW THE COMPANY WAS OKAY, BUT IT SURE WASN'T JUST ONE GUY, WE worked next door. Whitestone was a combination or many outfits from Oregon and Washington primarily and eventually Tyler Brothers with Survivors from quite a few others ran it, and the mill still runs at Hoonah as Icy Straits Lumber, Alaska Wood Products, Alaska Legacy Log Homes, also. The office in Seattle of Silver Bay was unoccupied About 2004. As far as we know, Silver Bay survives as SAMPSON TUG AND BARGE.... But we could be wrong. .....Don Brown passed away in 2000 or so, made the back page of ALASKA Magazine, Mud Bay Log was changed to: "EROSION CONTROL. " DON'T Know how that is now. BUT: The Legendary Stretch CHATHAM survives in Ketchikan, the last we knew about 2018, doing fine around town. Sadly we have to call the ALASKA LOGGERS ASSN. THE Alaska Forest ASSN. But they still fight for us all as time and money allow. Simpson Timber had one of the Finest paper mills in the USA , and in 1964, ABANDONED IT , in Everett, AND 600 MEN LOST JOBS AND ALL RETIREMENT. The company bought A New mill in CALIFORNIA And Simpson survives today, There are others BUT WE THINK THIS VIDEO HAD TO BE MADE ABOUT 1998 OR maybe 2002, but we doubt that Silver Bay is a Log company other than owning some good assets. Certainly WE ALL IN THE FORMER PROSPEROUS STILL SUSTAINABLE, TIMBER INDUSTRY Could still be Fun like before. But we will see. Thanks anyways. ❤

[@jimhere1]

The first shelters humans made were likely made from hides, not wood.

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

This is a great video ! Good days long gone .

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

This is a great video ! Good days long gone .

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

This is a great video ! Good days long gone .