awesome 1940's logging and sawmill operations video

Lance T · January 16, 2012, 04:01:52 PM

I don't know if anyone has seen this video before but its a beauty to watch from back then...

http://youtu.be/3MDgxNLDR64

Lambee10 · January 16, 2012, 04:25:55 PM

Thank was great. thanks for posting that. that is some hard work.

Magicman · January 16, 2012, 04:34:03 PM

Thanks for that video Lance.

Chris Burchfield · January 16, 2012, 05:22:06 PM

Thanks for the vid. I'm just glad I don't have to work that hard these days!

mikeb1079 · January 16, 2012, 05:29:17 PM

i've seen it before but it's well worth watching again. it's funny, i consider myself to be a hard working guy but compared to those guys i'm an absolute baby. there's just something about watchin a guy tie a rope around his waist climb 200' up a tree and cut off the top 100' with an axe that'll humble ya. :D oh, he also probably made like 10 cents that day. very humbling to say the least...

dgdrls · January 16, 2012, 07:01:25 PM

Two things stand out for me. The surveyor in the beginning (matches the last three letters of my login)
And I want a pair of trousers like the fellow has at 1min 58 sec in the movie!!

Great stuff Lance T

DGDrls

shelbycharger400 · January 16, 2012, 07:19:08 PM

i want that steam powered cross cut saw ! . i like how they used the standing redwood tree and made it into a boom for moving the logs.

Autocar · January 16, 2012, 07:21:25 PM

It would of been hard work but those were the days ! ;)

smwwoody · January 16, 2012, 07:27:18 PM

thanks

POSTON WIDEHEAD · January 16, 2012, 07:28:32 PM

SIMPLY AMAZING!

Shotgun · January 16, 2012, 07:51:07 PM

Wow! Really neat video. Can you imagine?

Norm

Woodchuck53 · January 16, 2012, 08:34:34 PM

An aweson example of what it took to build our nation. Also a good reason for all of us to document our logging adventures and some of the other can do things that we do everyday. Someone some day is going to look at this and say much the same we are saying now.

I have taken a camera with me all my life and have been able to keep a record of what we as a family have accomplished so for in our life time.

Stay safe guys.

leastofthese · January 17, 2012, 05:12:27 AM

T for trotti?

Lance T · January 17, 2012, 08:27:16 AM

Sure is

terrifictimbersllc · January 17, 2012, 08:34:34 AM

And my knees are knocking when I try to start my little tree saw off the ground.

Tom L · January 17, 2012, 08:36:58 AM

cool video

thanks for posting

Chuck White · January 17, 2012, 10:18:26 AM

Great video!

One of the first things I noticed after the cutter got up the tree and started chopping the top off was "how close to the rope that axe was coming"!

After all, that's his lifeline!

Riggs · January 17, 2012, 10:31:00 AM

Great Video, thanks for sharing

jueston · January 17, 2012, 10:52:28 AM

i have seen it before too, but i can watch it over and over.... awesome....

mad murdock · January 17, 2012, 12:16:27 PM

Thanks Lance for digging that treasure out of the archives! That was really cool!

John S · January 17, 2012, 12:43:36 PM

Great video, same vintage as me "1946"!

MapleNut · January 17, 2012, 02:09:03 PM

Great video...the music at the beginning and end almost made me feel like I was watching "Lassie"!

petefrom bearswamp · January 17, 2012, 06:33:21 PM

Very interesting video and i enjoyed it immensely.
Boy did those guys work like dogs. And lived to be maybe 75 if lucky.
However the preservationists have a point.
A 2000 year old tree felled to make houses that may last 200 years.
Seems like a waste.
I am a forester who is retired now but made my living marketing hardwoods that were maybe 150 to 200 years old.
This video did put, for me, a new perspective on the Redwoods.
pete

millwright · January 17, 2012, 07:20:39 PM

Great video thanks for posting it.

Cutting Edge · January 17, 2012, 08:33:13 PM

Excellent Film!! That was 1940's......imagine what logging was like another 50 yrs before.
Love to see how things were done in the past, still stuff that can be learned from that era.

Quote from: Woodchuck53 on January 16, 2012, 08:34:34 PM
An aweson example of what it took to build our nation. Also a good reason for all of us to document our logging adventures and some of the other can do things that we do everyday. Someone some day is going to look at this and say much the same we are saying now.
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I agree with you on this. And folks like us are still "building" a nation through inovation, technology, and just good common sense. Makes me want to get a video camera too.

Thanks for the film!