Thanks for your videos. In the mid 80's I worked for Munn Logging from Granite Falls. Munn had a yarder just like this one. He also had a Skookum-Tyee slackline machine that we did a lot of long span skyline yarding with, mostly with a modified North Bend system. Tony Reece flew our layouts for us. He also flew a lot of shake blocks for my dad.
Glad you enjoyed them. Anthony passed away about a year ago. Great guy and awesome chopper pilot. There is a great video on RU-vid of Anthony dropping dynamite charges to blow avalanches on Stevens Pass. Check it out. Thanks for watching and commenting.
to the man at 17.26 .......hats off to you!!!! good logger !!! unless someone has been there ,packing a bunch of weight through the the brush ,they will never know how hard you work!!!!! PEACE
Yep. Carrying a couple sections of strawline through the brush on steep ground is tough work. These guys love what they do and never complain. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Alex - good to hear from you. I'm subscribed to your channel and enjoy your videos. A family friend (owner of this outfit) took this video in the late 80's. Unfortunately, he was killed in an logging accident about 5 years later. Lots of good footage here including leaning out the support tree. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting. "stay safe get logs"!
Glad you enjoyed the videos. Not many people these days have ever seen this kind of logging in the big wood of the Northwest. The family friend who took all these videos was the owner of the featured logging outfit. Sadly he was killed in a freak accident on one of his jobs a few years after the video. His son was hook tender and one of the guys tipping out the lift tree.
Pure golden footage really.sad but true,the days of the big old growth big iron operations are done in your state.Still a lot of old growth done here in Coastal BC,but a huge amount of processor/mechanical size wood now too
Not sure I could tell you what brand carriage that is. In the 60s and 70s there were a lot of shop built carriages and other contraptions used for various setups. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Glad you enjoyed the videos. Be careful what you wish for-haha!! Logging that big wood required much heavier rigging than what is used today. Pulling inch or inch & 1/8 kinky chokers through the brush was a bitch. But, seeing all that big wood stacked in the landing was a beautiful sight!! Thanks for watching.
@@elwellboy Twenty years ago I left Alaska and went to work in Oregon. In Ak. I had been logging big wood for years, and I was thinking (for some reason) that it was going to be easy money, with little chokers, little wood, etc. It didn't take any time at all on the hill to realize that it takes one of a lot of turns of peckerpoles to make any kind of scale compared with logging first growth wood. One hell of a lot faster pace, doing presets front and back.
@@lesharrington4174 I logged in SE Alaska in the early 70s - worked at a camp at Corner Bay pulling riggin and tending hook. Lots of big wood and fighting hang ups when there wasn't much lift. Not sure I'd do well high leading the little crap being logged today. Although 5/8" chokers are a lot more tolerable than 1 1/8" - hahaha. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thats because back in the day they took the best and left the rest for Last so they took all the easy real good export logs, and exported them only timber lake that left now is in our parks in the long rivers
Oh my gosh. These video uploads are excellent. Thank you so much for taking the time to post these. Very very very good footage. Hard working men there in beautiful country.
Glad you enjoyed it. I wish the quality could have been a bit better but that's about as good as it gets from a 30 year old VHS tape. I still enjoy watching these.
elwellboy my dad logged 4 x 80= 320 acres in 1946 in grays harbor county. Took a year to fall old growth cedar and build railroad. Then a year to yard it! Jacksog logging and shake mill.
@@elwellboy haha I sure did. Was practically doing backflips when I saw that it was the same one from your video. That is so true it is a small world for sure . Sounds like it will start a new life dredging rock sometime soon.
Not on the peninsula. This setting was near Darrington WA. The Madil yarder working this side is now in someone's boneyard over on the peninsula. It's noted in one of Daniel Boone's logging videos. Check it out. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Who was doin the logging? I was just born in 1985 but plenty of pictures of me in a car seat in my dads A model kenworth on plenty of North Fork Timber jobs just like this one..
This show was Reece Logging out of Darrington up the Suiattle River. Sadly, the owner was killed in a freak accident a few years after he took this video. Reece's stopped logging in the mid 90s. Another RU-vidr found the yarder used in this video - you can see it at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lU1QxZihQ78.html - Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thanks for watching. I remember the trains too. As a kid, there were still two reloads in town where the trains would come in from the woods and they would reload the logs to go down the mainline. If you want to see some big timber check out my video "Old Time Logging-Galbraith Brothers History". Glad you enjoyed the video.
I was able to have my son download the Galbrath Brothers history of all the great pictures of all the great popele and the great equipment that they had for the time. My grand father had two mills in nothern Utah in the late 1800 which was powered by water, I think, He never had any horses that I know of, just a few Oxen, I think He Pased before 1900. and that was the end of the family saw mils.I am 85 now
