1950s Sawmill Workers Educational Documentary - Timber In The Northeast - CharlieDeanArchives 

I've worked in timber most of my life. I'm currently a millwright. I got tired of the mud, rain, and snow. Anyways, my mill does half a billion board feet a year. Back then, over 2500 sawmills only did 1.25 billion board feet a year. Wow. And thank God for modern chainsaws!!

I may have seen this in grade school. Lots of hard, dangerous work done by strong, fit men.

Very good Doc. I love all the footage of them working the logs on the river.

cool historic video. thanks for sharing.

"Keeping America the best informed country in the World". What happened?

Today the Northeastern United States is totally overgrown with forests. We should start again to use these forests' wood through scientific "management" practices that provide the resource and improve the forest at the same time.

Very nice documentary. Unfortunately the backround "music" is nerv killing

What a great film. NO CAL OSHA to worry about, Just people working hard.

People seriously don't realize how long conservation has been a thing a people haven't been just pillaging trees with no care this is in the 1950 and they are talking about taking care of the forest

I wish I could have lived during this time! The US wasn't over crowded, outragously expensive, and the little man could make something of themselves rather than bow and submit to the endless government red tape!

Obesity wasn't much of a problem among the workers in those days. In fact, it was more or less impossible, even with four starchy meals a day. And OSHA really was just a small town in Wisconsin. There was no mention of the number of serious injuries and deaths, especially by drowning, that occurred. Those wotkers were a long way away from any medical help. Some parts of "The Good Old Days" were pretty good; other parts, not so much.

They don't make men like that anymore nowadays lot of them want to wear dresses

17:58

We must save the hairy chested nut scratcher

No worked all day today on Old cleat tractor in the woods hauling logs now I come home and watch someone else do what the hell's wrong with me

They used to show us these films in the early 70s in AV (audio visual) hour on Friday afternoons. Loved these as well as the nature films.

That video was so blurry I think I saw a bigfoot.

Nature was also a part of the manufacture.

A very early use of RENEWABLE.

At around 11:20. How to destroy a stream. But back in those days nobody was concerned.

Keyboard action doesn't add much to the show.

more organ music please

They quickly forgot what the creator said then 🤔😂

Over 2500 sawmills

4 meals a day toons of calories to do a jlot of manual work. rumorhas it the old time loggers burn over 4000 calories a day. the more sebentary lives require less than 2000 calories with.less processed sugr an othee ingredients. this video is of the new england perspective. yet trees grow most every where the jungle forest near the equator . the usa has a wst coast california redwkood forests and the british columbia douglas fir forests . i was born 1956 and have been around men who worked cutting and trucking pulpwood for living. technology has x changed . less manpower and motr gasoline and diesel power. thevhnology is evolving to electric battery power. moe effiency less man power and the horse power moves from animal to machine horsepower.

back when lots of wood now days America going to hell

That is so f#€@&* annoying music.

Look how demographics have changed

Timber is NOT a crop.

How to destroy an ecosystem...

I remember seeing logs in the Kennebec River in Madison Maine

Man, that’s great stuff. That really was America’s greatest era, mid 20th Century.