I found this very interesting. So many questions I've had about the old methods answered in this film. I love the river drives and the huge band saws.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKCjQdxtO0
That's great! Thanks for posting. I'm currently managing some of that forest. Neat to see the comparison.
Thanks for posting. I don't live too far from where this was taken. I remember as a child seeing the men out on the river drtives walking the logs. Cherished memories!
GREAT stuff! :)
Great film and also nice to hear a normal voice... ;D
Great comprehensive video showing a full story of logging history.
Way awesome piece of history!! Thanks for putting this up for us to view.
Wicked good. ;D
That was great !!! Thanks.
I think I bought that tape.That's how much I liked it. They show those at Fryeburg Fair.
I've not seen the video, dial-up here. But I believe PBS has shown it on occasion during pledge drives. Kind of like the old guy up in Alaska building his cabin.
Boy wouldn't you like to have lived that era instead of today having all those hydraulics and electric motors doing all that work? Those were some hard working fellas and dangerous conditions also. Thanks for posting. bg
now thats hard work, you can tell no fat men :D :D
You never met the cook. :D My grandfather's uncle Dick was a camp cook and he was tall and big round. When he waved that clever at ya, it was time to move. :D
Quote from: SwampDonkey on November 05, 2012, 01:49:16 PM
You never met the cook. :D My grandfather's uncle Dick was a camp cook and he was tall and big round. When he waved that clever at ya, it was time to move. :D
Never trust a skinny Chef.
Thank you very much. That was great.
what was that mill around 21:30? were they making lap siding or something? It probably told on the audio, but I aint got audio at the moment.
Yes audio called it clapboard siding
Yeah clapboards are pretty common on old houses up this way.
Thanks for the post. I am fortunate enough to have a grandfather still live next door to me. He will be 90 next month and has told me some good stories about when he worked lumber camps and log drives.
Since I never saw the video because of slow connection, I was wondering if the video showed the floating camp on a raft for the cook shack to feed the log drivers. ;D
I don't think it did SD.
Usually required big wide rivers I think. Up here they were common sites on our river drives up until the early 50's I think. Our main rivers here are big rivers. There was a special name for them rafts, anyone know. ;D
There was a sort of floating cook shack. Not real big by the looks of it. I think. They called it a wangen or wannegen or something like that
;) wanigan yes. But, also wangan or wangun. :) They weren't real big no.
That was something to see. Thanks for posting it. I'm new around here. From Pa.
Welcome to the Forum, saxon!
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That's a great old film. Thanks for posting.
For those who are interested in purchasing a DVD, it is now published by Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, ME. You can watch or order films online at their website www.oldfilm.org or call them at 1.800.639.1636. Other amazing historical films that they have include "King Spruce" and "Last Long Log Drive Down the Kennebec".
Quote from: Okrafarmer on November 12, 2012, 10:11:52 PM
Welcome to the Forum, saxon!
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Thank you, a lot of good stuff here, I'm liking it.