I am a olde man now. I still have me broadaxe which I used to build log homes. Hand forged. Fin style homes. Cut off the outer layers to expose the hearts of the log. Olde school but effective against beetles and rott. Third generation home builders. My joints are wore out. Many a surgury. I still live in the high country n breathing is good. I loved the art. All the homes we built are still occupied and beautiful. I mayed funiture after I could no longer push or peel log. My draw knives are still sharp. Once n a while the peeling "songs" the knives would make and there is no other satisfaction. I no longer have that "pinsSol" smell my wife fell in love with. My hands don't work as well. I rock in a old chair I made a long time ago. Had to double up on the cushon! All you hear off in the distance nowdays are those chain saws....but once in a while..... a familiar ring...a song that needs no words, tells that story, of a broadaxe well in tune, and some olde soul of times past....takes the time...to "tie one on"! and navigate a stream of flow, a balanced step and a jam undone, and new bendels in the river in of life....flow...flow...flow!

Fifty % of the internet is trash but programs like this is why I love it. Videos like this should be shown in schools to show some of the people that built America.

"... there was no doctor, you either got well or died!!'

Holy smoke, I'm 57 and I thought us IRONWORKERS worked hard building bridges, skyscrapers and such! Damn these were real men and women!! Little wimps and mammas boys now days should be required to watch this in school! Most of the younger generation doesn't know what work is what alone knows how to do it! Thanks for posting it was awesome!

Great story telling!

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL MOVIE THANK YOU TO ALL INVOLVE , TO BRING US THIS

jeez man..learn't something new again. Would never have seen this if it wasn't for youtube bringing this valuable history to my home. Thank you PBS and the internet.

love this videos - the historical consept - my dad came to US of America in 1923 - he was 21 years old - and he came right from a drama - when the tall-ship went down , round terra del fuego patagonia ... they was headded for Antofagasta in Chile - but around the cape horn the sailship went down - a gaocho rode to a little village and telegraph to Buenos aires - so a british navy boat came and get them up to New York - where my dad worked in the harbor on tug boats ... he was in beautiful America for 12 years - and had work all the time...he passed away in 1990 ... greetings from Norway - sorry for my lousey english :<) I've never been over there ... but i have allways loved America ...

It’s hard to believe the difficulty and amount of work that these puny humans could do. Those ties are stacked so deep and so high! Just remarkable. Thank you PBS Wyoming.

Wonderful look at the past; and so much history of what it took to make America great! These folks came to build; not destroy. These are the "little things" that contributed to the building of America.

Ma was born in SW Virginia in 1925, and grew up on a small farm w/11 brothers and sisters, and she told me she would get an apple and an orange at Christmas and was thrilled.

Good food makes just about any difficulty more endurable.

Absolutely wonderful. That’s the thing about KZfaq. So much of it is trash. Then you have gems scattered about. This is one of those gems 💎 among gems 💎

"Amazingly, in thirty years of tie drives no one was killed". It took some skill to manage that. A LOT of skill.

This dude that chopped the notch and sawed the tree down, you wouldnt want to tangle with that old man, he would tear you up. Incredible work for a guy his age and you can bet back in the day, he and his crew could definitely work you into the ground.

all the young pups nowadays,need to watch this.

I was born and raised around tye hacks, sawyers, and skidders from Sweden, Norway, and Czechoslavakia in the Snowy Range Mountains west of Laramie, just after World War II. How great to see this video-brings back so many memories.🙋🏼‍♀️🏔🌠

Brilliant, I can't get enough of this, what an incredible time in that day

That was a good company those men worked for. Most companies, then and now, look at workers as disposable. This company seemed to care about their workers, even when they were too old to work.

Wonderful program, especially the vintage images. I'm 82 and wonder where you would find men today that could do that kind of difficult and dangerous work.