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After the first Gulf War I was sent to the inactive ready reserves. Being a brand new Father and living in Montana, I had to do something. I got into logging. Started as a choker-setter, then worked my way through every job on the site. Running a 70 foot West Coast Yarder Tower rig was the ultimate in little boy toy fun! I was in my early 40s at the time and running up and down the hill with 19-21 year olds sure made this old man tough in a hurry. I miss it greatly. Thanks for a nice history of logging!

I was raised in a small drinking community with a logging problem Half Moon Montana

There was a 5th or 6th son of royal Swedish lineage who saw he was never going to be king so in 1860 he came to Washington and built a cabin next to a spring on a high hill.he was a logging company owner during first generation logging operations in the area of Issaquah fall city Snoqualmie. Before he and his wife passed they showed up with a convoy of cars to see the old cabin one last time .The man and his wife were very old and very nice,very thankful to see The old cabin still standing.

I’ve done a lot of physical work but can’t really comprehend how hard modern logging must be. After watching this I’m well aware of just how easy my life has been. A wonderful documentary, thank you.

My family were mostly farmers and loggers. My grandfather was a high climber and tree rigger. He was crushed by a rolling log on a landing near Powers, OR back in 1945 . My father and his twin brother drove log trucks for Cos Bay Lumber Company in the '40's and part of the '50's. My father then bought his own truck and hauled logs as a gyppo until the late 60's. On my vacations from school I rode with him in his truck on many a trip in SW Oregon and developed a love for the woods and logging processes. He worked many hours of the day from dark mornings to dark nights and the hard work on rough roads took its toll on him. I attended Oregon State University majoring in what else but Forest Engineering and Management, graduating in 1966. After 33 plus years I retired comfortably in 1999 from Weyerhaeuser Company. I still find these old pictures interesting and am in awe of these early loggers who never had to contend with the modern know-nothing environmental groups and governmental agencies that have no interest in the plight of workers but only in advancing their own agendas at everybody's expense.

Been logging for 46 years now. It has changed so much in my time. Gator

This just came up on my feed & since my Dad was in the early logging industry, I had to watch. As a young girl I was allowed to go with my father to certain locations but stayed in the truck to watch. He did many aspects of logging from felling to drive to the mills. I remember the spikes on the boots, rope around a tree to hall yourself up & certain words in this video bring back memories of this time period. Many good childhood memories . Thank you for showing this piece of history 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

I live in Red Bluff, Ca, and we still have logging going today, although not much. They log the mountains and haul the logs down by truck. There used to be a 21 mile long slough that was built like a train trestle, about 70 feet high, and water poured through it so they could float the logs down. It's quite a sight in pictures. I also lived in Eureka, CA, and that's where all the redwoods are. The history of logging with those huge trees was somewhat different than cutting down sequoias or pine. The redwoods have been preserved now and there is no more cutting of them. They are beautiful to walk through.

My dad and his brother started logging in the misery-whip days in southern Oregon. Maybe there were newer methods in the '30s, but they wouldn't have been able to afford anything better. I grew up listening to my grandfather and dad talking logging and it was always a special treat to go out to the woods with one of them. I can still hear the growling, clanking Cat and smell the machine grease, damp dirt and fresh wood. Those men had a shocking amount of brute strength and stamina. I don't know how they did it. We all knew it was a dangerous job. I remember the night he came home, sometime in the 1950s, and said a man was killed in the woods that day. He was obviously shaken, something my brothers and I had never seen him be. It was a somber dinner at our house. Logging took a physical toll on my father and I suppose on most, but thank goodness he moved on to another successful career in 1961. I thoroughly enjoyed this fantastic documentary, thanks to all who worked on it.

My dad worked as a logger in Arkansas in the late 40's, Oregon in the 50's and Missouri in the 60's ,70's and 80's had a little saw mill the last 20 yrs. Sawed lumber for a barn pattern the day he died. Sawdust sure brings back memories.

at 3:08, the fellow on the far right is Matthias Hammer, my great grandfather, a Norwegian colonist in Bella Coola.

I worked 2 winters helicopter logging up 4th of July Creek about 20 miles north of Salmon Idaho in the 1970's. Luck had me in it's sights! The saw boss turned out to be Curly the legendary faller of the 1950's and 60's. He was straight out of your documentary and I am darn glad I got to work with him. One tough man who knew right from wrong and loved to laugh or punch you in the nose, either way he was going to have a good time.

What a great presentation!! My great grandmother ran a logging camp near Johnsondale. Before this she was a switch line operator on the railroad working in Oregon and washington. She left a daily journal and a stack of photos. This video is inspiring. I need to get her materials together and share.

This is certainly extrodanary footage of the early days of logging on the West coast. I never realized so much live footage from that early era existed. I've had a close interest and relationship in forestry all my life and have many old time logging books but never saw this type of live film footage before. This was a real treat. Thanks.

Many of the photos in the beginning our pictures taken from my great great Uncle Darious Kinsey! He was a photographer For many of the logging camps in Western Washington! But his family and ancestors of mine all settled in Snoqualmie! Including my greatgrandmother Maxine Kinsey! There pictures of the hotel and Feed and Mercantile shop they owned and operated! At the Snoqualmie train depot. My Great grandmother is it one of the pictures as little baby! Love the video and the sap runs through my vanes! As the men that are in this video! Our mechanized technology as made it much easier for us than it was for them all of those years ago! Cheers to the great men of the woods! Hat's off to the women and there family's. That had loved the hard men that had and have such a difficult dangerous jobs such as this! Thank you God bless!

My grandpa was one of these loggers. He started at 13 and said that's also when he picked up smoking. Back in those days you weren't given a break unless you smoked. If you were millin about without a smoke in your mouth you better get back to work. He did it for many years before enlisting in the air Force and serving in ww2. He spent the rest of his older years as a successful roofer and had tons of stamina to keep going on roofing past the younger guys

If you walk the woods today, in the right places, you can still see stumps with spring board holes cut into them. My father was a faller and I actually watched the last log drive in this country, Lewiston ID where I grew up. The dam on the North Fork of the Clearwater killed the log drives, was a sight to see! Hard work, made you tough, killed many people...

I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Thank you! I'm writing my birth grandmother's story - she was born in Salmon River where her father worked as a logger. This film has given be such wonderful detail and also has filled my heart with adoration for the men and women of the early logging industry. Many good wishes for today's loggers and for a future that includes sustainable logging.

I bought my first pair of Caulk boots in 1965...I started early enough that I worked on a Sled-Mounted Yarder, and we rigged a Standing Tree, and Raised a Tree on the next setting....the Hooker found out I could hit with both hands, so I was put to spiking the Left-hand side of the wraps on the guy-line stumps, (no screwy hooks back then),..........and this is a GREAT testament to the men that actually built this country...no lumber, no building...thank the loggers, if you get a chance, yesterday, AND today ....onWard......

It’s crazy the size of those logs!!

Thanks for a great documentary from a logging family in Queensland Australia

10 out of 10 for this historic video.

In the 1970s rivers were still being used to transport logs in Northern California. Logging trucks were also used. In the late 70s early 80s the mills I knew were all closed.

Love the old footage iM a fourth generation timberfaller from oregon love it lots of changes in years iam 55 yr old 35yrs for me still working.

I have watched this video several times and will probably watch it again, it is great, My grandfather had two youk of Oxen he used in the woods of northern Utah, He died in 1900

My commentary would have been vastly different. Thank you for the walk through history in America. ❤ It gave me visuals for what I already knew.

This is a first class documentary. I love the detail on the machinery and how it works. Even with steam power and crawler tractors this had to be the toughest job around...No sissies need apply...Except for the "Whistle Punk" of course. LOL

Logging industries come long way from 1929 to today..the market change a lot.thank you video

Well done! Brings back memories of the men & machines I witnessed growing up as the son of a PNW logger.

In this presentation the narrator said a fellow went out of business when he lost is donkey in a poker game in Squamish well my two grandfathers (Fidele Laviolette and Amide Levesque)won a donkey in a poker game about that very time in Squamish and that is how they started logging. I have two cousins on the Levesque side still living in Squamish.

My grandfather would sharpen his own blades every night. He was a bucker in the Humbolt area where they were they were logging redwoods. He lived out of his truck with a camper set up.

My dad and both his brothers were loggers from 1929 on. Starting in and around Columbia County, Oregon. Began cutting timber with the crosscut saw at that time. He referred to them as the old hand briar or misery whip. One uncle was killed in a logging accident during the early 40s, while my dad was overseas in the Philippines during WW2, when a block (huge pully) slipped off a yarding donkey while they were moving it, and hit him in the head. One of the guys in the pic at 1:36 looks like pics I have seen of that uncle. I'd love to know the date and location of that photo. My dad moved to Linn County Oregon after the war, moved on to chain saws and continued cutting timber primarily til the mid 70s. Though took some jobs on the rigging crew during the late 40s til early 60s from time to time. He never preferred those jobs to cutting timber though. My other uncle liked the rigging crew better, said chaser was the best job in the woods, and stayed in Columbia County til the late 50s when he moved to Northern Calif to log a few years, then on to Rodman Bay Alaska til the mid 60s, when an injury forced him to quit the woods, and work other jobs til retirement age. While my uncle worked near Eureka and then up in Alaska, my aunt, his wife, worked as a logging camp cook at the same time and places Thanks for posting this interesting video.

Thank you for that glimpse into the past.

Fascinating footage & narration Personally I edmire those people even though they aren't around anymore

If you ever get a chance to hike in the West Coast wildness area's the old growth trees will impress you. Mt. Lassen has some truly amazing old growth tress along the Pacific Crest Trail that only costs five or six miles of hiking to enjoy. There are several other wilderness area's of the PCT that impress but Mt. Lassen has some beauty's.

Excellent video, I am an Aussie raised in the timber industry and to this day stills run through my veins.

You did brilliant on this if you ask me I enjoyed it very much for showing me a perfect picture of history Have a Good Day my friend

Thank you for a Great time in history.

It’s amazing how they got the huge logs out of the woods

Amazing! Even the photography in those early photos must have been quite a chore given the bulkiness of cameras during that period.

one of the best things I have ever seen on youtube! thank you!

Amazing video ! My commute to work just got a whole lot pleasant.

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing!

very good

GREATvid to watch!!!

Wow i loved this video! Way to know their history i showed rhis to my hubby and he loved it❤

The Shay power delivery arrangement is similar to how a 4x4 truck equalizes power delivery between forward and rear and right and left. It was an intelligent design.

Good documentary!

Thankyou for this, very cool

I once found a pocket watch in the hollow of a logged stump as a kid. Had the initials J.P. Seymour on it but I've never found the the descendants to return it to.

Excellent. Thank you.

Fantastic video 👏🏻 bravo 👏🏻

Wow! great documentary!

what a great video thank you for taking the time to upload this.

This job is not for any body. I drove a log truck back in these mountains of east Tennessee and south west Virginia. You can get hurt bad or killed real fast. I really liked my job and had a lot of fun with the loggers. More times than one I took doughnuts to the loggers and they loved it. More than one time they let me load out first...lol..Thank You for the video brings back many thoughts of back in the day.

Terrific footage and presentation. Thank you!

My great grandfather built a mill in boulder UT it had a giant water wheel to power it. My grandfather father worked it and my dad worked there as kid. I was hauling out of mill in panguitch UT, spotted an old 2 man saw by shed, few years later they shut it down. Old boss called me said your only one who liked that saw you want it, I said yep. I still have it 30 years later in shed. It's 7 feet long. I have a collection of logging antiques including 2 man hand saw in my living room. I still cut trees but just to clear for new sites. Long ways from great grandpa.

i have spent time looking at old famly photos of my granddad dad we all have logged to see all this old pic and filems take me back to my younger days

legacy indeed! this is a fascinating video of a fascinating industry. hard workers. you could see the pride on their faces of a job well done in those early photos. i bet they slept well at night with insomnia nary a problem. the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Wow. Super informative. Huge thanks for the thoughtful and fascinating detail

Anyone else love the music? I played it as I drove a semi through Maine

Absolutely fantastic video!

We were the first owners after the Homesteaders of a farm at Ladd Hill, Oregon. It had been 160 acres but was cut up and we bought 57 acres in 1950. Most of it was still second growth woods, but the stumps from many of the original trees were still there. Many were 8' or more in diameter and still had the chopped in holes where the lumberjacks put their planks to stand on while they cut the tree down with axes, and misery whips. In those days, it was normal to see three log loads on the gas log trucks, with some of them holding a single log. These days, the logs that were left in the woods as trash are all you see on the trucks. Now days, in Oregon, when the land is logged, it must be planted within a year. They still log off woodland tree farms, but most of it is regulated such that there will always be mature trees to harvest.

Imagine bumping into one of these dudes in the saloon after he just received a dear John letter and finds he has nothing to lose to stove in your face..

Loved it,only thing missing is the balloon. Port Eliza,circa 1995

great video!!!! thanks

Very well done I thoroughly enjoyed this,thanks

Absolutely fantastic thank you!

Awesome video. BC sure has some absolutely beautiful country that's for sure!!

My father was killed logging by a falling limb near Seaside, Oregon in 1945 when I was 3 years old.

A coastal hand faller is still a Damm hard man they work where machines can't hard terrain in shit conditions most of the year

Paul, can you imagin a poker game where everything is on the line.You gotta have big cahunas.These guys were beasts.love them.Live long and prosper. Peace Out Rich

I had an Army buddy who worked the logging camps of northern Michigan and Sothern Caneda. Get a few drinks in him. He could tell you things that would stand your hair on end.

McMillan Blodel is a huge company in the logging industry. Air,land and sea.

Спасибо. Интересный фильм. К нему бы ещё и перевод, о-ооо....👍✌

A good read is the coauthored book called UNION JACK. The book tells of the IWA times of Jack Monroe and the part that he played in making safety in the woods more important than profit. The death toll from the lack of safety was shocking and the men who worked in the woods were wasted in the hundreds for profit. Sadly, Jack has died but his legacy of WORKSAFE BC will live on and the working life of all persons is safer for him having passed this way.

the old photos tell the story

Very intersting thankyou :-) Learnt alot

At 1:50 the picture of a sled piled high with logs being pulled by horses isn’t from the west coast its from Michigan when they were clearing almost all of the white pine forest.

The 138 people who disliked this great documentary were either tree huggers or lazy millennials who have never worked a hard day in their lives! Nor do they even have a clue what it is.

I have photos of my great grandfather logging in the 1920s/30s in Oregon and Washington.

23:38 IMPRESIONANTE!!!!!!!! DIOS LOS BENDIGA A LOS LEÑADORES QUE TRABAJARON CON TANTO ESFUERZO Y EFICIENCIA!!!! APRENDAN POLITICOS Y EMPRESARIOS EXPLOTADORES!!!!!!!

Don’t forget, the man who was in charge of driving the ox was called a bull punch, or if it were donkeys he was called the donkey punch.

I am a retired arborist & these MEN are as TOUGH as they come. The work is HARD & DANGEROUS.

My grandfather died on a steam donkey in 1945 near the Trask River .

Absolutely great video ...

Everyone loves wood products but hates logging.

That was great !!!! Does anyone know about the rubber tired skidder at 30:50 ? It looks like it has double drum on top,

Grays Harbor Washington had huge trees back in the day. I wonder if those loggers ever came across Sasquatch?

My hat off to all the loggers of the early times when men where men . Thank you.

nice video

From stump to ship is a great documentary film also

There's a very good book on steam donkeys in Oregon at the library !

When men were men and sheep were nervous

Sad to see magnificent trees destroyed, but the men that did the work were a breed unlike anything we know now, and were doing a tough, dangerous job providing the timber to build a nation as best as they were able 👍👍👍

Superb thanks

I can't begin to imagine the accidents that occurred when power chains were first used due to that they had no chain brakes especially those 2 man saws.

My dad was a logger in the early 40's up in the Yreka area of northern cal and he told me a story once of a logging camp that kept having stuff moved around like someone or something was mad about them cutting trees then one evening after dark there was a horrendous roar from way up the hill where the camp was along with all of the equipment and no sooner than the roar echoed through the valley a huge 1200lb earthmover wheel was rolled down the hill which went all the way down until it smashed right through a cabin, luckily no one was in the cabin that evening but everyone was quite weery and scared because they never did figure out what kind of creature it was and bears were ruled out since the wheel was much too heavy for any bear to have lifted up from a flat position. Someone once said that the creature named sasquatch or bigfoot does live in the hills surrounding Mt Shasta but I have my doubts.

What’s the song at the end ?