THE TIMBERGETTERS [Timber Felling Of Large Trees] Australia Axemen

[@detecting_Nathanael]

My father did this for a living in his younger years. He then took up sleeper cutting using the crosscut saw and broad axe. A great uncle was a bullocky on the Gold Coast.

[@Nedskiee]

We are standing on the shoulders of great men and woman who built this country. They toiled hard so we could reap the rewards of this great land. As a beneficiary of this hard work I say, thank you.

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

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[@glennbrown1961]

This film is from Victoria Australia in the early 60s I would say. My family done the same thing in southern Tasmania for 5 generations. Bloody hard but honest work. My old man swore his boys wouldn't be working in mud up to their arses in winter and fighting bushfires in summer so he got out of the bush and went boatbuilding in the mid 70s. Cheers and G'day from Tasmania sorry stand corrected...early 50s.. should have guessed by the lack of chainsaws.

[@MrCites1]

Yeah, only to have it handed to third world migrants that have contributed nothing

[@OregonCrow]

Remind me of your contributions to the world again? I keep forgetting

[@theofarmmanager267]

@@OregonCrowcongratulations! You’ve won this week’s prize for the most misplaced comment. Go to jail and don’t come out until a brain cell appears

[@rhyswoodman6781]

I understand this sort of industry and hardwork is why Australia is one of, if not the best country in the world to live but it's still heartbreaking to see these beautiful forests destroyed. Either way Great video.

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

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[@pamtnman1515]

I’m in the American timber industry, and I agree with you. What takes the sting out of seeing a forest cut is that over time we see the new growth that usually results, and we see forests aging to where they fall down. It’s still tough. There’s nothing more serene than a big mature forest

[@rhyswoodman6781]

@@pamtnman1515 Agreed👍. The only thing is the fauna takes twice as long as the flora to come back and usually not all the species recover. And it's definitely not as beautiful and impressive with out the insects and animals.

[@pamtnman1515]

@@rhyswoodman6781 here in Pennsylvania we have to aggressively cut in order to have the overwhelming regeneration that busts past the browsing deer. Deer are our forests’ biggest threat. The “edge” and early pioneer habitat resulting from aggressive forest management is the best, most productive habitat holding the widest types of wildlife.

[@rhyswoodman6781]

@@pamtnman1515 wow ok that's interesting. Much different here in Australia. We have a big problem here with introduced weeds taking over at the slightest disruption to the environment.

[@skipmilligan]

Thanks for sharing. Great video. Watching that guy climb the tree I was thinking "No bloody way, not me!" And then it went to the guy looking up at him with a ciggy and I was like "yeah that's more like it..." 😂😂😂

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

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[@wayneberry8703]

Fantastic old documentary, loved it.

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

Me too! Glad you enjoyed it as well 👍

[@wayneberry8703]

@@SilverloafCustomRazors absolutely 👍🏼

[@大食い太郎-q9x]

これは凄い。自分も山仕事をする者として、国は違うけど、大先輩達に感謝します。

[@billylyf6995]

Its amazing to think that a hours job for two men now can be done in less then 30 secs with feller bunchers. And that Forest which would take year or more to clear can be done in a couple of long days in an air-conditioned cab. These were real men back in the day

[@t-dog8528]

Hard pressed to find big trees these days, proper big trees

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

Absolutely, it's fascinating to me to watch these vids and see these massive trees.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Of all the crawlers I was expecting them to be skidding logs with, A Cletrac wasn’t one of them. That was neat to see. Didn’t really get a good enough shot of it to judge the size but the first one looked like a model BD and the second one looked like it might have been an FD. Both of which are pretty rare.

[@vwbusguy]

I used to tordon trees and the best part of the day was when the boss said "alright you go off 10 minutes earlier for smoko and get the billy going

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

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[@vwbusguy]

Nothing better than sweet billy tea brewed in a milo tin

[@mattjohn836]

We can make shingles even. lol

[@seabassmcgee3367]

Just got the baby to sleep when Joe comes along in that fuckin truck!!!!!!!

[@Lucky.Devil0311]

Imagine having a time machine and bringing a 60ton crane, a stihl ms-201t, a stihl ms-661, and a protos with helmet communication 😳 these guys would think you're from another planet. 😆

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

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[@lonniechartrand]

And we think our modern day loggers are a tough breed!

[@timothysullivan4130]

I am a retired logger & we ARE tough BUT these men I hate to say make us look like marshmallows

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

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[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

@@timothysullivan4130 I have respect for the hard work of anyone in the industry, past and present. Hard work that I feel goes underappreciated.

[@JohnSmith-pn1vv]

Another level, watching that guy take the top off with a saw, with cuts not as clean as a chainsaw and seeing it swing, it was not far from removing the wood holding his lanyard

[@danpoole7933]

Fantastic.

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

👊😀👍 I agree

[@hypercomms2001]

4:55 / 7:55 .... "Western Tyers was a small town in the Gippsland[1] region of eastern Victoria (Australia), founded as a timber community in the late 19th century and at its peak home to around 500 residents. Whilst only one original house still stands it once possessed a school, post office and public hall. Until 1969 it was a functioning community but with the closure of the timber mill all the remaining residents left. The town site was bought privately in 1970 as freehold".... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Tyers,_Victoria It was north of Moe, in the mountains of the Moondarra State Park near Walhalla, Victoria Australia.

[@herbnalis3723]

There's a wonderful book called ' JACKSON'S TRACK '. It's a true story written by 1 of the 2 brothers who the book is about. The brothers are STOCKMAN from QUEENSLAND who move to VICTORIA & buy land for producing FIREWOOD. They write about living in the bush in a bark hut & supplying firewood for the meat pie factory.

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

I'll check out the book, thanks for sharing that info!

[@frankszlachetka6382]

If you think you can armwrestle try taking one of those sawmen on.

[@billbezzant3033]

I’m for background music. I’ve watched so many other videos with sound dropouts and I’m scrambling to figure out what’s wrong with my setup, why I’m not getting audio, only to find out later it was a bad KZbin video. In those cases I get peeved with the KZbin creator for uploading flawed material. So, give me the music and let me smile and tap my toe until Bjarne or the sounds of nature come back online. Thank you for exciting content and great editing!

[@mariociaramellano7509]

Timber was the way to build Industry and progress in a direct way yesteryear, today its role is more indirect, as Steel, Concrete, and Plastics have taken chunks in construction in general, and industry in specific. Nobody wants today to see old trees go as it is less necessary than before. Forests are great as they consume large amounts of CO2 and today account for a questionable carbon credit deal as CO2 sinks. Industry needs today can be to a great extent replaced with Regenerative artificial forests, so progress and conservation can work together into the future. I am also certain mistakes will be made, and corrections will take place to right wrongs, progress is 2 steps forward and one backward to correct. Great Men indeed, better than me and better than many I see full of weakness, dogma, and bile.

[@paulcoffey359]

This was one of a series of films made by various federal Australian Government departments in the 1950s. In hindsight they are all early propaganda work by the National Party in support of logging.

[@trudyandgeorge]

Do you reckon the propaganda intentional?

[@paulcoffey359]

@@trudyandgeorge Propaganda is intentionial by definition

[@trudyandgeorge]

@@paulcoffey359 Quite right, let me rephrase. Do you think the intention by those who funded this piece was to glorify the industry rather than create an artefact of historical value? If both, which do you suppose was forefront in their minds?

[@seandefreitas2699]

Luckly there's no such propaganda used these days hey paul.

[@yonmusak]

And that's not buttery soft lumber either - that's rock hard timber those old boys were cutting through. Their wrist must have been screwed by the time they got in to their 50's

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

Wrists of steel, late into their life. Some videos of these axemen in old age are still impressive for demonstrating their strength and stamina.

[@JohnSmith-pn1vv]

Wrists are strong and good thanks to exercise.

[@TheHydraulic1]

I know a couple of wankers that work for NSW forestry today, they are under 30 and their wrists are screwed, but not from working.

[@brucemirbella2215]

@@anthonyj7989Growing up in Tasmania I would see those huge stumps inside native forest which had regrown with large trees. The forest had probably been cut a hundred years earlier, and has regrown. In my mind, cutting working forests, which provide a complete ecosystem for much of their lives before being cut and regrowing, is far better than the sterile tree farms that are seen as more sustainable in our day. By all means preserve and manage remaining old growth forest, but working forests should be seen as preferable to plantations.

[@B61Mod12]

They took too many of the great giants… Forestry can be a wonderful, sustainable industry. But a tree has such immense value beyond simply lumber.

[@ironhornforge]

If only they knew then what we know now. Those old growth forests were thousands of years old, very slow growing trees in the ranges. It's why we have so little left now

[@trudyandgeorge]

Hear hear. The world is so small today in comparison. The attitude was so clearly that this wild, untouched land was to be tamed by man, after all, it's such a vast, infinite resource 🤯

[@LtFrankDrebbin]

Just imagine the youth of today being asked to work like this.

[@jamiegreen8065]

Why on earth would any adult imagine asking their kids to do this? Responsible, common sense parents would teach their kids/youth to learn work smarter and more efficiently as opposed to working "harder". Imagine getting the same job done without back breaking work. Think of this analogy. At a construction site would you rather be the guy wearing a hardhat and covered in mud/dirt and body beat down from doing labor that takes years off your body and life, or would you rather be the guy at the construction site wearing khakis and a button up and a hardhat?

[@paulbarker4411]

​@@jamiegreen8065and how do you think those "khaki wearers" got that position? It wasn't by being the laziest worker,I can assure you that.

[@jamiegreen8065]

@@paulbarker4411 those "khaki wearers" are more than likely mechanical or construction engineers/project managers who used their education to get those positions.

[@paulbarker4411]

@@jamiegreen8065 I can't speak for every trade in construction but I did do line work for a contractor to Verizon,and not a single foreman or supervisor I ever met be it with the contractor Woodlawn or even Verizon,had a. College degree. They started at the bottom as a groundsman and worked their asses off to climb the ladder to the positions they were in. Anyways,I get what you're saying about raising your kids to want to leap into jobs that keep them from doing any hard labor. Sadly not everyone will succeed in doing so and will surely have to perform jobs that consist of hard labor. And like the previous comment said a large part of these younger generations are a bit too soft for these tasks. Just the way it is.

[@garengtutorial8923]

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[@claudestuder4199]

What good is eucalyptus wood for anyway? They're not really used anymore are they?

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

Still used in construction and furniture from what I've seen, even flooring

[@seanlander9321]

Derrr.

[@450clancy6]

It's one of the best for everything from frame to finish, external cladding and flooring. Still used for everything and probably will be forever. There's hurdles when using it because gums are very hard but the results are worth it

[@arthurdunn1452]

Stringy bark black butt yellow box,stronger than steel,can be used for anything,beautiful timber,check out the janka test

[@liquidtopaz6903]

This is selective logging and land management no clear cutting...if only everyone knew how much these men understood the bush.

[@mowerman60]

Hard land,hard men,hard times. Imagine the soft fu##ers of today doing this work.

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

I know I couldn't do it! Hoping to build back up to being a bit tougher and having better stamina in work, but certainly don't see myself getting to the level of these men