Nice looking firewood, dried with no bark. Strong men who work hard and deserve to be warm on long winter nights with their Swedish lady. Much respect.
For all you ladies out there… this is how real Gentlemen of Culture get wood. The next demonstration will be how they bring home the bacon. Stay tuned. 😊
Wood stoves are designed to ensure men have no spare time in the weekends. These legends have just made it fun, of a sort, just backbreaking fun. Let’s hope their wives never see this, or it’s going to move to painting the wooden joinery, gardening, and other endless tasks!
Just when your teen or young adult baby starts complaining about how heavy, how hard and how tough it is to take the trash cans from inside the house outside, empty them into the trash can and roll the can to the curb you see this. You think you know hard work, these mature gentlemen would say move aside “man-by” I’ve got stuff to do.
Be a challenge to find help in this country willing to put this kind of effort into work today; my hats off to those older men which could probably kick the sh$% out of most our youth, lol.
You don't cut down living trees to burn for firewood. You'll have an awfully cold winter if you try burning green wood. You gotta find the good standing dead stuff. Try not being so dumb.
This is a perfect example of "old time tough..." These men will put young men to shame! I do like how they designed the sleds to be tall enough to slide over them if they fall in front of them. Very cool design! They could just let them slide over them if they get out of control. Great video!
and in thevnext Video . . . Watch Amazed fathers as their 3 year old daughters invent the wheel . . . joking apart. always remember that this wood is for their families’ SURVIVAL over the long winter in the mountains. Beautiful firewood, Listen to the noise if makes, Dry and clean, and ready for the stove.
For those interested the third example with the clay pots -- They are making what is called 'Kala Namak' --- an Ayurveda medicine also known as 'Black Himalayan Salt'
@@Gzussss it;s near the end. You can see bags labeled SALT. looks like they take white salt and cook it with some organic material in the big round clay pots and then crack it and bag it.
@@Raul28153 Yes, they call it kala namak, I use it often at home, it taste very sulphuric. It's amazing for a tofu scramble to make it taste similar to eggs. I knew they cooked salt with herbs but had no idea the process was that hard on the body. It blew my mind.
There is virtue in soil for farmers. There is virtue in wood. Cutting firewood was the hardest job I ever loved to do. Much like harvesting a deer in the forest and processing everything yourself, there is virtue to be found working in the natural world that GOD gave us.
Technique ancestrale du schlittage dans les Vosges, qui avait été remise en lumière dans le film "Les grandes gueules", dans les années 1960 (Lino Ventura, Bourvil,...)
I'm not sure which is the most fantastic challenge... sliding down with all that weight or carrying those sleds ALL THE WAY back up... and how many trips do they do in one day?
Real men doing real work. When someone who works from home bends my ear about how hard they work for their 6 figure salary my response is "go dig a ditch and then tell me how hard you worked." If all you do is stare at a laptop you're not really working and most tech companies are severely overstaffed.
Wow! I envy those guys' stamina, strong hands, strong bones, courage and true grit, not to mention their ingenuity. I thought the old redwood forest loggers, in old photos, were amazing - tiny little figures with their tiny little saws next to the behemoth trees they cut down (300+ feet tall; 7-8 ft around!). They used cattle, partial railroads and sometimes, unfortunately, streams and rivers (destroying the fisheries) to get the logs off the mountains. Still, it was a slow, laborious process and they couldn't get every last ancient redwood - not until later when gas-powered mechanization came in and the redwood forest was decimated. If they had to do what the loggers in this vid are doing - ingenious carts and wood slat roads - they wouldn't have done such damage. But they were certainly as amazingly strong and true gritty as these clever men.
lo stesso strumento era usato in Carnia fino agli anni 50, per trasportare il fieno dai prati alti alle malghe, non c'erano strade ma soltanto sentieri.
@@Aluttuh It takes a tiny brain to consider this an either/or situation. One infected tooth that slowly kills you or your wife or your kid would have you praying for mercy. But that’s a thought experiment far beyond your capability. Mr. hard, real life…
@@carpballet Sounds like you are the one thinking either/or... But i dont expect you to realize that. Your ego reeks by the way, maybe its your rotting teeth?
Imagine this fact being forgotten and after few hundred years people like History channel would start speculating, that two people could not manage this amount of work.
Hillbilly bob sledding (European edition). Not only keeps you strong and fit, but walking on the sleepers on the trestle bridge also keeps you balance strong. And sledding down the hill like Calvin and Hobbs will keep you forever young.
What happens when a leg falls in between the wooden cross beams? Is that why the sleds are so high above ground? So it will slide over you in case you fall/trip?
Wow couple of times thought these guys got hurt...but nope no limping, and still moving well, liked the seat to fall back on, and still be able to toss the logs
Use to use a similar method installing roof top AC units when it was too expensive to build a crane or rent a helicopter. You can learn so much from old methods, and it makes the technology make more sense as well, when you understand old ways. But, you really do love lunch break when hauling wood this way!! lol no less than 5, no more than 15 at coffee time though lol. You can move an entire mountain, with pipe rollers and chains!!!!!
The is so much lost “practical knowhow”. Some of these amazing structures built in the past are the same. I’m 61 and I’m seeing so many widespread skills disappear even in my lifetime.
I pray HEAVENLY BLESSINGS ON ALL THESE HARD WORKING MEMS. I PRAY NO WEAPONS FORMED AGAINST THEM WILL PROSPER, AND NO EVIL SPOKING AGAINST THEM WILL HURT THEM, BUT I PRAY OUR HEAVENLY FATHER FAVOR 🙏 ON THEM FOR EVER AND EVER. I PRAY IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AMEN 🙏 AMEN 🙏
Just stumbled across your channel. Thought it looked interesting, I got to the 4,42-minute mark and realized I am a useless fat lump that needs to harden up. I don't know how old those two legends are, but I am 60+ and they look older than me. I am sure I wouldn't last the morning. Cheers
back breaking work that will eventually lead to ruptured discs, and torn vertabrae....ask an orthopedic surgeon about this video, he can explain how the body deteriorates with age, and how hard physical labour damages the spine, and lower vertebrae causing irreversible damage...glad for these people, but they better wise up before it is too late !
This is a lot of work but perhaps the only option for domestic level fire wood moving. The bridge sections have built up years of moss. So the tracks ways are generations old and repaired as they rot out. The truck looks like an adapted old military viechle
En este mundo sobrevivirá el autosuficiente, llegará el día después de la desolación y solo se salvarán los que manejen estas técnicas ansestrales y milenarias.
¡Gracias por compartir este vídeo! 👏 La técnica del deslizamiento es realmente inteligente e interesante y ayuda a transportar la madera de forma eficaz. ¿Sabes si existen máquinas modernas que admitan este proceso? 🤔🚜
I should imagine that it’s done this way to preserve the forest and wildlife, protecting it from huge machines ripping up the countryside. Plus I would also think that it is pretty inaccessible to machinery.
@@peterstratten3087 Perhaps these people should be given a course regarding investments; Affordable machinery can handle heavy workload faster and more efficiently which in turn generated more income. It also saves a lot of time for other tasks which could also means more income.. The quicker money is earned, the more time one has 'cuz time is money. 🤑🤑🤑
It is the old ways from before machines. Too steep for horses too when there is a cart behind. I bet it was used for big stones too. Put two pieces of wood under the stone and let it glide over wood too. With some extra grease if needed.
@@nevadaboy9769 No. Just Tradition. And it might be a protective forest that protects the farms from avalanches. Often the ground is sensitive to heavy equipment. Any damage of the ground might bring a danger to the farms in the long term.
I have questions... Like how is this the best way to get firewood home?? What an insane amount of work in infrastructure to get to the point you can haul wood
Heavy machines rip the forest ground, so maybe they are not allowed to use machines. Maybe it's just a part of the world where people like to do things the old fashioned way, because it works for them. Anyways, they can use their sleds in winter and summer times, that's definitely an advantage.
@@GoGoGoRunRunRun there are plenty of ways that are not heavy equipment that does not require 3 years of infrastructure building to get to the point that you can haul wood before you run out of wood you can get. then go build another sled road for another 3 years to get wood from a different section of woods
