What I'd give to be around in my prime then rather than now is absolutely priceless. Thank you for posting. It's like an online museum for us younger guys. I appreciate it emensly. 🙏

Dennis Wilhelm is the salt of the earth. One of the nicest guys on the peninsula!

That’s my Grandpa Wilhelm filming and talking, and my Uncle Dennis Wilhelm driving truck. #RollOn

D Boone w the best of 23 right outta the hole!THX MAN! B model Cats, 1693s.. Lorains and Skagits... RAD RAD RAD!!! Oh and chrome budds.. The best of times! GREAT CONTENT!!!

Little trivia on this job. If you notice I was shortened up more than other trucks. My idea was trailer was 2 feet farther up in bad corner, thus giving a less of a chance to spin out. We drivers debated this concept for a few days, with only Wendell the shovel driver agreeing with me. Dale may have come around, not sure about JR🫣, but I do know this….that skidder was behind me the least amount of time. Sorry Dale😊. But, JR was ALWAYS packing more weight than us, he just couldn’t help himself….

That black and red 359 has a 1693 under the hood, love it!

Daniel that’s a heck of a video! It’s too bad a fella couldn’t go back in time with the current digital technology. But the cool part is others have to watch videos, we got to live it!

Great video Boonie! The good old days for sure. Very impressive to see the whole thing.

Really cool old footage. I was sitting here in my 91 kenworth watching this in the turn around waiting to get loaded, I guess these lo bastard were new at some point! 😆 🤣

Now that’s some high lead logging 👍🏻

Thank you for sharing this.. EPIC area and times... instantly takes me back, all the sounds and smells. Whistles and waterbreaks, and the long hike out The Good Ol Days 👍

I think at about this time frame i was with my dad in his long logger up cinnabar thru "hole in the wall" out of Morton/ Pe Ell. Same kinda mntn goat country. All export headed to port Tacoma. Epic flashback! Thanks

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing

Thank you for the great historical video, loved every minute of it, the last time I saw junior Winters was in the 1960's when he had the Union 76 station in Hoodsport Wn. I remember seeing Emery Winter sr. And Eugene Winters stop by the 76 station. It was the only place in downtown Hoodsport where you get a bottle of pop for a dime.

July 1962 fresh out of high school riding the crummy morning and night out of Montesano. Most of our rigging crew was just out of high school. We were setting chokers out of Camp Grisdale, our yarder was a original steam donkey convert to run on diesel set on two big logs. At the time the Army was ruining war games in the area, and one day a soldier came out of the woods and asked to join us, he set his pack and rifle down and went to hooking up the chokers after about a hour we turned around and he was gone. If anyone remembers the Columbus day storm, that convinced me to quit logging and enter the military.

Great video I loved it

really cool!!

Well worth the time 🤠

I remember riding in the truck as a little kid with my dad on quite a few jobs that North Fork Timber had in the high country on some steep roads, trucks getting pulled away from the landing and down the spur. Good times. They don’t do it like they used to..

Great vid,I used to work for an outfit that had 2 of those Lorain 60 c hydra kings,monster shovels,50 ft boom if I remember.Keep em coming Mr. Boone..

I was 5 when this was filmed lol cool video

I wonder if this was a Simpson company logging side, and if so, wonder who's it was. As my uncle Gerald : Gerry : Burger was my uncle, and know he worked for Simpson for a very long time, and still can remember some of the fire wood cutting parties, up on a tower side, with beautiful buck skin old growth fir logs, and only the cream was cut. They would cut a block off, and after getting the block split in half, and if they couldn't split the rest up with an axe, throw that log to the side, and Gerald would fire up the shovel, and set up another one. Man, can still remember the smell of that old growth buck skin wood. And with alot of the ones he would get for cutting up fire wood, being knot free and straight as an arrow log. If you wanted a fence rail 60 feet long, you so could.. The good ole days that people who were around and seen it will always remember, but anyone that has not seen that type of logging and wood, will never ever know, only by hearing, reading, and pictures. To bad.

That load is hard on a truck with only five axles

Im 54 these were my glory days i did get to log in the late 80s early 90s one outfit i worked for that was highball B&C Logging out of sumner Washington they had 4 sides one that stands out in my mind is papa joes 110 foot washington with a turbo charged V10 this beast had 10 guidelines 1 1/8 mainline stretched out a mile bowman skycar pre setting electric chokers 3 guys on the landing 6 choker men hook tender and pimp1500 year old overrip timber 45 loads a day Biggestvlog was 36ft 10ft at the Butt lots of 4 and 5 log loads this waa in the Greenwater Watershed Enumclaw Washington God Bless The American Logger no Tougher Dedicated Family Man....TRUMP 2024 🇺🇲

Very cool video. Was this up above wynochee lake area or up above govey some place. Grew up running up there. Don't remember where they logged last.

The good old days, shot gun yarding at its best there.

Dennis looks so young! 31 years goes fast, hell I was only 13 years old in July 1991, probably up Black Creek gettin yelled at by Terry Adams and Jack Latherow in between trips riding shotgun in my dad's Pete.

I was driving for Pat Rabey Trucking in 91 hauling for Pete Rabey eho loged for Simpson'

why were they logging such difficult terrain ? was it the quality of timber?

Who would wanna log like that? 😂

Whats there today??

I worked in the woods some( setting chokers,bumping knots) but mostly drove truck, and on a good day there wasn't a better job.

good ole days. rather see the forest being logged than burned up like you see now. cut a tree, save a forest.

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These loads must not have hit the pavement cause they look to be well overweight..