This reminds me of a summer I worked as a chokersetter for Weyerhauser in Coos Bay, Oregon, 1968. It was highlead logging in the Oregon Coastal range. The trees were big like in this video. It took an hour and a half by company bus to get to the work from downtown Coos bay, and an hour and a half back. At the end of the day you were tired! I remember staying at the old Tioga Hotel. Japanese plywood factory ships would come into Coos bay, load up on wood pulp and go three miles offshore to manufacture plywood, then bring them back to Coos bay and sell them to American distributors, thus avoiding US regulations and perhaps some taxes.
@@jamesgossweiler1349 It was so long ago I don't remember names. I remember that the manager at the Hotel Tioga was an old coal miner from back east somewhere. Could that have been Buzz Martin? He was a nice guy as I remember.
Sizable Logs! 35-40 DBH. The nice thing about Cruising timber that big is often no brush! due to a closed overhead canopy. Getting your heights, & crown heights, can be a bitch only because these trees were so tall. 175’-225’.
I set chokers for bohemia in the 70s and drove log truck in 80s for a gypo I still got an occasional 3 log load then. Logging is alot different now with feller bunchers. Good video, brings back good memories.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Like you, I pulled riggin and tended hook in SE Alaska in the mid 70s. Lots of big wood then. Good memories but can't say I miss pulling kinky 1 1/8" chokers through the brush. haha Thanks for watching and commenting.
ahh the good ole days. Did quite a bit of polocking for big wood out of Port Angeles and Forks. The shotgun was alot of fun too. After the Turn was in the air. It took less than a min to hit the landing. Thanks for video.
Glad you enjoyed it. Not much big wood being logged these days. I worked the rigging in SE AK in the early 70s. Lots of big wood and used Pollack block all the time. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@garycima5475 A pollock block (or some called it a grabinski) is a block riding on the haulback and attached to the butt rigging with a short strap to help give the rigging a lift and keep it off the ground. At 1:45 in this video you'll see it as the turn hits the landing. Thanks for watching and commenting.
My father logged out in Idaho in 47to 50. They used steam yarders the first year . But still used cross cuts and axes and stay in the logging camp in quarterlein Idaho . (Very dangerous work) liked your Vidio very much .. Still today I’m in logging ( differant know) in northern minn.
Glad you enjoyed it. They don't log big wood like this much anymore. I have another video on my channel you might like "Old Time Logging - Galbraith Brothers History" here is the link to it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3v3Xm7SCXA4.html Thanks for watching and commenting.
Honest question, did you guys back then ever think that the clear cuts were too much? I can appreciate it was probably the company trying to maximize profit
I live and grew up in the PNW (inland pnw to be exact, n. Idaho) and logging has been on both sides of my family for a few generations. My grandfather had one of the first self loading log trucks in the area, and the state police had seen hus truck around and his name on it (this was 60s or 70s) and a bad car wreck happened one winter where an r.v. had tipped and crushed a small car on l90 and killed everyone in the car. The state police called my gramps to come out at 2 a.m. to thus part of the interstate coming into cda idaho with his self loader and pry the car from under the r.v. My gpa said he saw the dead family when he removed the r.v. it gave him nitemares for years.
Hey small world I grew up in big lake... I was actually looking thru the comments to see where exactly this was since I saw Arlington wa on the side of the truck.
I worked on a lot of 009s.. track always came off when we moved em. Had to use a cone along or haywire to get up back on. After my logging career I spent a summer bicycling round N.Z. saw a few towers on the north island and wondered what they were. Saw some loggers around Turangi when I was cycling. Some young Maori looked at me and my bike coming out of a store with some beer heading to his crew bus. He looked at me and said I should try breaking out..guess that's what you guys call setting chokers. Told em I did it for 15 years in the states lol. Thought about giving er a go again, but I was over 50 and thought might be biting off more than I could chew.
The big trees are often so severely damaged theyre not worth the hassle, triple forked tops, lightning struck with dead tops, cracks, scars, major sweeps, crooks, and lots of piny infestation,… the second growth isn’t even mature being cut on a 30 year rotation. Only a few family companies in Oregon are allowing for a 70 year harvest rotation which means better tighter growth rings, better product. Most industrial farms cut everything once it hits 25-30 years,..Immature trees.
I was a choker setter and then a chaser on the landing in 1968…just 19, almost killed twice and almost lost my right arm but a fantastic experience! One of my most memorable memories of my younger life! I love the woods to this day!
Yep - Same here - I worked in the this area in the PNW then a couple years at a camp in SE Alaska pulling riggin and tending hook. Good memories but don't miss pulling kinky old 1" chokers. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Polackin under a tower. Been there , dun that for several seasons in S.E. Alaska. Until I could break in cutting. Seems like even then they were using what we called ( down south safety whistles) In Southeast it was 1 for stop and 1 for go aheadoner. 2 for skiner back. 3 was go ahead on the haywire. 1 long was slack both main line and haul back. 3 was go ahead easy on the main line. And on and on and on. I was never a fan of Koering or Lorain hydraulic log shovels. Very unreliable, wouldn't start in the cold. Just really problematic. Good vid. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Where were you in SE? I worked for AW Logging in Corner Bay pulling rigging (across the inlet from Tenakee Springs) in the early/mid 70s. Lots of good/big wood. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Was that Jack Bunch's outfit. ?? I worked at False Is. Quite a bit later. The guy that broke me in falling worked at Corner Bay for quite a while. Don Dayment. He was cutting and booming. I knew a bunch of guys that worked at Corner Bay
Holy shit!! It's a small world. Don Dayment is my brother in law!! He worked for Jack Bunch at Hanus Bay for several years before moving over to Corner Bay which was Al Wittla's outfit. I used to help Don raft logs on the weekends. I'm going to the Deming Logging show in June so might see Don then. I'll be sure to pass along the story. Amazing.
Wow, ya, I'de say that was amazing. I worked with Don in Sitka. I trampled all over Southeast and some in south central AK. I now live in the interior. If ya see Don, tell him Glen hasn't forgot the 300 bucks he owes him. ;-) . It kind of a joke we have going.
Glen - Another small world story. I was talking with a fella yesterday and telling him about your comment about Dayment breaking you in cutting. He said he knew you and cut timber with you at False Island. His name is Curt Buchanan. We've known each other all our lives. Amazing.
I started as a "choker dog" in early 70s in northwest Washington then on to SE AK for a few years pulling riggin and tending hook. Loved working in the woods. Thanks for watching and commenting.
That was an early model hydraulic. Today's versions are far more powerful. No real need for a shovel that big anymore as the big wood is pretty scarce these days. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Big wood is fun.. hard work and slow, like butt riggen.. Bowman pull far and fast, 50 load day average. Everyday. Buncher now, easier on my knees.. fast and busy, always something to cut!! Awesome video 👍 west coast. Peninsula WA
Yep - not much big wood being logged these days. Don't miss pulling those kinked up 1" chokers through the brush though! hahaha - glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Haha - be careful what you wish for - dragging inch and inch 1/8 chokers through the brush was a whole lot different than what’s used today! Thanks for watching
Nice punkin, the only thing is getting it to stay in your grapples, but a cable shovell would already have picked it up and have it loaded. Cable shovels are twice as fast as a hydraulic one, and cable is able to lift more too.
Perhaps. This was about the time cable shovels were being phased out and hydraulics were fairly new. No way a cable shovel could keep up with today's hydraulic machines. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Back in the days when you started at daylight and quit at dark, none of this starting at 3 AM and quitting at 6 PM. I also note no drop axles on the trucks.
Neat older video!..I see the truck is out of Arlington,is this in the Oso/Lake Cavenaugh area?My oldest son lives in Darrington and has done some logging,but not big sticks like those!
This video was from a job up in the Circle Creek area out of Darrington in the mid 80s. Not much big wood like this anymore. Thanks for watching and commenting.
A rewarding tough job. I haven't been in the rigging since the early 70s in SE AK. Very little big wood in the PNW anymore. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Yep - with all the machines very little tower logging these days. The young bucks have no idea what it’s like to drag a kinky 1” or 1 1/8” choker through the brush - like the good ‘ol days!😂. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I agree setting chokers is tough, but felling those bad boys is tough work and skills. My father was a faller for over 40 years and i went up on the job with him a couple times. I must say, its an art form. I got to fall one and set some chokers and drive the skidder one time. Its so much fun.
@@elwellboy That's exactly who I was thinking it was! This is amazing- I am working on a biography of Mr. Moses and would love to use this footage. Do you think this would be possible?
Looked like western red cedar down in the flat towards the the end and it looked like Doug fir that was being loaded? Anyone tell me for sure? Thank you
This area is virtually all doug fir with some red cedar but mostly fir. They sort out the cedar on the landing and when there is enough for a load it is taken to a different mill that cuts cedar. Thanks for watching and commenting.
hmmm - if you're looking for a tower that ran a 3 7/8' mainline, you won't find it. They don't exist. Even skylines don't approach 3 7/8". I've seen worked under lots of big yarders and never encountered any wire close to that. Good luck. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@jimhere1 G&D Logging in Darrington had some amazing skyline shows back in the 80s. I think they had one of the biggest yarders ever made on one side. It was custom built by Berger and if I remember right they had a 250' tower specially built to get additional lift and deflection. Pretty amazing stuff. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@TR-on9tx Hi Terry - Clayton was one of the finest men I’ve ever known. Also, your mom was one of my best Sunday school teachers.😂😂 Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@elwellboy yes I knew that ,wish you could get the tapes of us rigging a tree steve was running the Camara. We used a D6 to hang the rigging it was a hot tree model yarder ran thur it and another tree we that we raised and rigged a BU 80 ran thur it down to the hot tree . That was all up circle cr. Same time the carriage was working
@@elwellboy is the loader keoring or loraine ? I saw people in the comments say koring never made anything with the cab on the left but 1 video pops up if you search keoring log loader and the cab is actually on the left
@@Joelontugs It's been a long time but if I remember correctly - that machine was a Koehring. I believe the reason why log loaders had the cab on the left was to have better visibility to the truck driver when loading. Good discussion. Thanks for commenting.
In the mid 80s Hi Vis wasn't even thought of yet. The closest we got to Hi Vis back then was an orange hard hat. Even today Hi Vis still isn't as common as you'd think in the woods. Most of the truck drivers wear hi vis because the mills require it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
There is brush and wood debris left but these areas recover very quickly. Where this was logged is now a healthy stand of mature second growth. Thanks for watching and commenting.