S. Madill Ltd - 1983 Promotional Sales Video

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S. Madill Ltd - 1983 Promotional Sales Video - Yarders and Loaders

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The Rusty Grapple

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@billjaxin Жыл бұрын

Thanks. It's hard to find footage of a choker crew working big wood on the steep hillsides of the Pacific Northwest. I started work in 1968, Vancouver Island, Canadian southwest coast. That world doesn't exist any more. But back then when I was young, the guys in their 40's said the same thing, that the world of their young days was gone. High riggers, tin pants, swede saws and steam donkeys. They were the real old-timers.

@leemackay888 4 ай бұрын

I logged hi lead from 91 to 99, got to work with men like yourself, that helped make me a man by showing me what real work was lol much respect brother , and your right those days are long gone.

@billjaxin 4 ай бұрын

@@leemackay888 I didn't say I was great at it or earned a lot of respect. I enjoyed the work and respected the competence of the men. But I was and still am a habitual daydreamer who can't shut the internal noise off and pay attention to what's going on around me. So I really shouldn't have been there. Couldn't move beyond chokerman because I didn't have the eyes in the back of my head that you need to work in the landing. I'll say this much for the job. It got me in good enough shape for a long enough time that for the rest of my life I've known what that feels like and when I don't have it. Before I got married I switched over to forestry work. Figured I should try to keep myself alive.

@leemackay888 4 ай бұрын

@@billjaxin lol ya I was a rigging rat my entire career, saw lots of close ones and a few bad accidents over my 8 seasons , pulled rigging and chased as well. Have a good one man!! Beep beep beep!

@christuttle3980 Жыл бұрын

We had several at Eve River Division for MacMillian Bloedel on Vancouver island in the early 1980s Great machines My Uncle and his son Worked for Madill in Nanimio building them

@skadill 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much,this is just wonderful.The mid seventies to mid eighties,would have been a great time to be involved with the logging.Big timber,big iron,wish I was my age at these times then.

@lewiemcneely9143 5 жыл бұрын

This looks like one of your deals, just longer. MERCY to hear those V-12's and V-8's humming. I need to save this and rewatch it about 50 times. Looking forward to another from you, Pal!

@frankleeuwerke8786 2 жыл бұрын

You are bang on the money skadill The mid seventies to mid eighties, were a great time. We still had the GREAT Old Timers to learn common sense from, the Logging know how they retained and were proud to pass on was priceless.

@ArmpitStudios 3 жыл бұрын

That's a pretty neat promo film. Stuff most of us civilians never see. Thanks for saving and sharing it.

@DanielBoonesloggingvideos 2 жыл бұрын

This video never gets old. I still love it just as much today as I did when I first watched it nine years ago

@cullenequipment 13 жыл бұрын

Back when you could spend a season on the same block, miss those days!

@erikanderson8868 8 жыл бұрын

My old man was engineer for Madill back in those days. He grew up in the steam days. He has some pretty damn good stories

@jickdawmonelason7239 8 жыл бұрын

your Dad has a lot of forgotten knowledge.

@ctdieselnut 4 жыл бұрын

I'd pay to listen to them. I know this is 4yrs old, he isnt still around is he? I wish people would record them like war stories, once they're gone, its unwritten history.

@nikerailfanningttm9046 2 жыл бұрын

I was in 2nd grade when this was produced....here in Florida we don't do logging like this, but boy the 80's and 90's were the greatest years for yarding equipment.

@gangesexcavating 13 жыл бұрын

Great piece of film history here. True testament of engineering to see a lot of this equipment still at work in the timber today.

@matthewoffenbacher6548 10 жыл бұрын

Wow! Powerful stuff! I never worked in this field, but it's interesting to watch and I can appreciate the skill of the operator loading those trucks; Not to mention all the crew involved.

@localcrew 11 жыл бұрын

The music makes me want to go logging!

@Kodamason 10 жыл бұрын

i still sell parts for these 046 Madill yarders. many of them still running today, and even more in NewZeland

@Kodamason 10 жыл бұрын

no job security in quality now days

@2889Adam 9 жыл бұрын

***** now ad days they prefer that Chinese shit stuff, low cost garbage..and people became numbers just like those serial numbers written on \Chinese throw away stuff

@QuadMochaMatti 5 жыл бұрын

The gentleman doing the voiceover/narration work certainly sounds like the late Phil Harper. Those of us in the PNW (Seattle/Tacoma area) and other fans of old-time radio were fortunate to hear him regularly as the voice of the titular character in "The Adventures of Harry Nile" radio dramas.

@daleleslie2437 5 жыл бұрын

I operated a madill loader in Philips Arm. It was rated to lift 101 thousand pounds with am empty drum, was probably the nicest log loader I ever ran.

@leemackay888 4 ай бұрын

Good ole brush dragon !!!! 🐉

@dantkachuk8764 2 жыл бұрын

I remember it well ... fly-in gypo camp Friell Lake Logging, Henderson Lake, Kildonan ol' Pal 'hydro pole' Smith with his D-4, swear it was a D-2 it was so tiny. through 70s to 82ish, then I was done, had enough.

@lewiemcneely9143 5 жыл бұрын

MERCY this is GOOD! THANKS ever so much!

@mikehd3904 3 жыл бұрын

Dam straight, I run a madill 3800 butt n top, she's gettn houred up but still such a champ!!

@TheLarrytwo 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this one. Moved these machines around the bc coast by equipment barge. Amazing were they could take those heavy machines. There's one up the road from me about a mile. not quite as shiney now. A yard nearby has been buying up these old rigs and reselling them to asia someplace.

@Graveltrucking 13 жыл бұрын

Interesting video, those days are gone for sure.

@nieleedan 8 жыл бұрын

I was a choker setter under one of these when the tower broke in the middle and crashed down on the loader and chaser. Both came out alive but it sure stopped production in a hurry. Kuiu Alaska late 70's or early 80.s.

@localcrew 13 жыл бұрын

I just watched the whole video. Very interesting stuff. That's some big timber! I had never seen one of those cable grapple loader things. I don't think that anyone uses them anymore, do they? Great vid!

@bobmartin6055 Жыл бұрын

Awesome!!

@DanielBoonesloggingvideos 12 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Eric me likey....

@chuxtuff 3 жыл бұрын

I believe and seem to remember a news piece where the CEO Pat Madill of S. Madill Equipment was killed in a helicopter or airplane crash several years ago (December 1990) which forced the eventual sale of the company. Yep, here it is: www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1990-12-04-9012040853-story.html

@kenclark0619 Жыл бұрын

Why do they leave so much wood behind? Wouldn’t it be better to come in and clean up the logs that are not good lumber and use them for chips? It would make the forest look better.

@jeffreymccarty1388 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah buddy

@NomaDairy 12 жыл бұрын

Wow Great VIdeo!

@jimhammond2396 4 жыл бұрын

Washington 20

@daleleslie2437 5 жыл бұрын

Grapple yarders ruined logging as far as I am concerned, lots of times I was on my own just hanging on a stump and walking when I finished the road I was on. I believe the logging should focus on getting more people working than profit being the only focus. Natural resources should be for citizens. Use to be 21 men on a old slack line, now one or two are getting more production benefiting very few .

@ronniejohnson9145 5 жыл бұрын

L&I killed cable logging. The grapple yarders are a way to get boots off the ground to avoid paying.

@dantkachuk8764 2 жыл бұрын

And now there's those feller bunchers taking over from grapple yarders and to blow off all the sawmill and pulp & paper mills are shutting down, logs are virtually all heading straight to tide-water and off to Indo-Asia. No wonder we got so many damn homeless ..... they are the jobless that industry has cut out we forest workers and all the mom&pop stores and dinrrs that kept those mill towns running.