The Timber Getters 

Thanks for the wonderful history shown in this video. Imagine my surprise when the old Willy's jeep drives past at 8:40 there's my dad "mick" heyward sitting in the back almost being thrown out. His mate peter hopkinson in the passenger seat. Dad went on to become 2nd forester in that same forest at bellangry. He has passed now but peter is still kicking.🌳🇦🇺🌳

G'day NSFA Films, thanks for that glimpse into our past my grandfather Arther Ure Was a forest commissioner at that time in Healesville .he believed in selective logging and replanting he was an unsung hero during the 39 fires saving many people as he had a government car and the knowledge of bushfires at Taggerty he picked up six mill workers walking towards hell and he was fleeing it . He convinced them to get in and they drove back to the mill and spent the night in the mill pond they all survived but were smoke blind for a week and suffered lung damage . Timber is a renewable resource I started planting trees in 1991 I've been in landcare since then I have a Lucas mill and only cut blow down non habitat trees, the timber is sold for various uses and the carbon stored . Thanks once again for for a look back into the lives of heroes that are all gone now .

Timber was a huge industry for my town. All the internal timber of the Sydney opera House came from around here and was processed by one business in town to be fitted at the Opera House with no cutting, but it was accidently done up side down, but due to symetry it was just a matter of flipping it and sanding, and most people never knew, but that's another story

This movie out of the 1950s is a look back at the timber industry and how trees were harvested sixty years ago is so valuable. It preserves on film how difficult logging was then compared to now, It has always been dangerous and has claimed the lives of thousands of men and injured many more. The difficulty of the work back then would wear out men's bodies by the time they turned fifty. Chain saws and much more efficient heavy logging equipment made the industry more humane by the 1960s but it is still some of the most dangerous work a man can get into.

Wow, this is a beaut bit of history recorded. I was lucky enough to grow up around Belangry and Bril Bril. It's first rate country which is by no means spoiled; you can still see the wonderfully huge old stumps with their notches, but there's lovely timber all around. What ruins the land is the pine plantations. They are the scourge of the Snowys which is where I'm from now. I have many years ahead of me to rehabilitate an old logged pine patch.

1:08 that snake has been to the gym look at it go! 💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿

That's what I call "Hard Work"!

The best forgotten documentary of a brave strong & hardworking men of this century...

3:58, yells timber walks off doesn't even phase two other dudes, just keep sawing away like a giant tree isn't falling next to them lol boss status

Another great upload, NSF. All those glorious trees. Hard to watch! Great, strong, salt-of-the-Earth Aussie men.

AMAZING, these men are REAL TOUGH MEN!!! Felling these MONSTERS is serious business. MUCH RESPECT to them ALL👏👏👏☝️☝️☝️☝️

Lovely really I love it.... Ancient times are se good than the time we are spending now

Fantastic footage, how grateful are we to these hard working men 🙏thankyou.

brilliant, absolutely good work men

Just crazy, understandable for the time period but... We understand so much more now, and for us to still log forest of 200 odd plus years trees for a quick buck, which cant be replaced for another 200 plus years is insane.

hard times create strong men; strong men create good times; good times create weak men; weak men create hard times...

This is a really cool piece of Aussie history. 6:32 is a 48 Bedford PC Ute & 6:38 a 50 Chevy Ute, both body's by Holden.

Great video I like these old videos a lot

I feel like we'd show this videos to aliens and they'd be like wow you guys are pretty great, and then we'd be like yeah well then it got a little out of hand... all jokes aside, what a great movie! thanks for sharing, would be a great life to live.

how did that guy climb that tree with the size of nuts he must have been packin'?

Undoubtedly the toughest men on the planet at that time!

The chain saw must have been a godsend!

Magnificent men, and women, in a hard time!

My ancestors immigrated from Scotland to what was to become Queensland in the mid 1800s and were timbergetters at what became a Southport and at Speerwah which is today Kuranda.

Oh how life changes over time Have we really progressed as society or are we losing ourselves in the busyness

Those pine plantations have since taken over a lot of the beautiful hardwood forests we once had. Kinda sad in a way

Always enjoy this video. Sure looks like hard work. The old trees are monstrous. On my parents property in southern NSW we have old eucalypt trees around 100ft tall. Can't comprehend what a thump trees twice the height would make when they come crashing down.

It has the warm feel of a 1950’s Disney movie.

Imagine if these men could see what their country has become today...

Awesome👍👍👍

Bellissimo video 👊👊

Those are some bigass trees for sure. I`d quite fancy climbing them ;-)

5:03 Damn, that would've been me back in the day 😂 pipe packed with some fine herb tho

You know What I like to hear that the forestry is strict by assigning which tree to cut and the seed tree to stay the forest won't die love to hear that

Koala, "Its bad enough choppin' me tree down mate but keep yer sweaty bullocks to yerself".

7:41 ''3 hours of climbing,chopping and sawing.It's a man's work,alright.''

definition of hardwork

Respected I was searching this Thanks for giving this May I god bless you Thanking you, Sravan

گزرے ہوئے پچھلے وقتوں زمانے کے لوگ کتنے محنتی ہوتے تھے لیکن اب توبالکل بھی انسان تھک ہار جاتے ہیں👌👌👌✌✌✌👍👍👍

Hard yakka to hard for the men of today really appreciated watching thanks.

9:22 my man was eating saw dust and not even a flintch

I love this place but now😭

Lol the sound effects department must have been on a tight budget

I like how the two who fell the 🌲 run away and two still sawing just carry on cutting.

My uncle and his family before him live in dorrigo and used to run the block teams before there were machines and dozers to do the work ....hark yakka that's for sure

These old videos are great. Seeing that tree hit the ground and all the limbs just fly off, dang, it's a lot easier than logging fir or redwood. (Edit: except for all the poisonous snakes!)

Amazing story 👌👌👌👍👍👍

4:09 the tree completely disintegrated after hitting the ground lol

Great men building a great Nation, it's shameful how weak our Country has become in just 70 years

Wilsons Dowwnfall area, Queensland, New South Wales border. Dad and Uncle John, loading logs, having lunch. John. Geezus I'm sick of these bloody Vegemite sandwiches. Dad. get your Missus to make you something different. John. I can't, I make 'em myself. Next day, bloody Vegemite sandwiches again. Both gone now, but never forgotten. Love 'em, Hey!

Gotta love these guys wearing Zero eye, ear, hand protection

7:30 to 8:27 Yes, you need nerve and skill for that work!

Strong legs on the climber/topper...

Spends the days lopping off the tops of 250' trees, @10:16 almost breaks his leg walking in the grass with his kids.

3:01 that bloke looks like he was in a blue at the pub the night before 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Moro no país no estado q forte e a madeira estado do Acre Rio Branco pais Brasil com toda a tecnologia d hoje em dia ainda e muito trabalhoso transporta madeira.Parabéns a esses guerreiros...

Amazing Bromo

and thats what happened to our old growth forests ..

Nature will cry ohhhh

careful "periscope films" has been going around adding timestamps and water marks to video's like these ...then they claim them

yes. They are really the " heroes" of Australia

Back when logging was a lot slower and less invasive! I wish I got to work Ali g side these men

6:32 Does anyone know the year make model of the pickup?

surreal

Where was this filmed?

Damn good idea with those inserted planks getting one higher up the stem.

When was this video recorded?

Yo aun tengo ese trosador dw mi tatara abuelo 😁

Such a shame to see giants fall that stood for hundreds of years and housed hundreds of animals in their lifetime.

How the men back then would scoff at the premier league football 'men' now.

It's cruel to me,? Men that love nature, paid to harvest, grows family, forest grows, family grows, fast and healthy. But the forest family has only grown , not increased in number? Mercy, for are minds in times like these?

I spoke with my friend Sam McKlusky who was an old man still living up around Cairns in the 1990's. His dad was a woodcutter in the Daintree rainforests. He grew up living in the Daintree in the 1910-'s - 20's, mainly with his mum and many First Nation Aboriginal people who still lived in the rainforests up there. His mum lived with him a baby, alone in a hut in the forest while his dad went off to work. He'd be gone for weeks on end. When his mum got lonely and sad, she couldn't breastfeed him. The aboriginal women came to help her and fed him from their own breasts... and so Sam grew very clever and strong, often running around naked in the forest with his mates, the aboriginal kids. He learnt a lot. By the time he started primary school in Cooktown, he knew a lot about the bush that most white kids didn't. He recalled how a nun at the school once killed a goanna running through the school yard. She said the goanna was the devil.!? Sam thought this was utter nonsense. Unlike this film his dad and his mates mainly worked alone in the bush. Sam's dad told him how he and his mates would get very lonely. Sam's dad told him how he got so lonely, they would cry at the sound of a barking dog. A barking dog meant another white man was approaching. He'd have the company of his "mate'. Sam also told me about the time he sat talking with an old man, an aboriginal elder (who must have been born mid 1800's) who told him the story of the first time he ever white men cut down a FOOD tree. These trees produced so much food for so many thousands of people over so many thousands of years that this old man could not comprehend why these white people were cutting down all this food. He was in shock. Sam grew up wild in the bush and wrote beautifully, had a heart of gold and a wisdom beyond most other white men I have ever known. I was very lucky to have known him. My dad loved trees and timber. I learnt from him to be careful how many we cut. Now I live in the rainforest. I am very careful to protect the trees, the incredible wildlives who live in them, and the stories of happier healthier humans who lived here so long ago they still remember when their families stood on the cliffs of eastern australia which are now hundreds of metres out at sea. The men were not peaceful, quiet and healthy. The mothers were not happy and the children struggled. This film is as much a tricky nonsense as ever the clear felling of trees ever was. Men were not men enough usually to stand up to their dads and see what was really going on. So much desperation kept their real broad appreciation of life under the axe. These men were strong, but this film does not show the ones who were strong and brave enough to learn from a culture and the locals who learnt about these trees over 50,000 years!

Classic. But interesting for planning new forests way back then, when ever when was. Was that 1942?

Khi không có con người hiện đại xuất hiện, những vùng đất xa xôi chỉ có vài bộ lạc nhỏ , và những khu rừng lớn cùng với hệ động thực vật phong phú. Khi người hiện đại đến họ đã tàn phá tất cả những thứ đó.

What kind of truck was Joe driving? The steering wheel was on the passenger side and it had suicide doors.

Never worked in the sawmills, know a few men that have, and some who still do...

I was cutting some big branches from a tree in the garden today, and I ran away like a little girl once I heard the first crack. I don't feel quite so bad about it now after watching these guys doing the same.. Granted the monsters they're cutting are a little bigger, but I don't care.

Men of steel heart...

Hello there being a ex logger myself and generations of us I really enjoy this and I still loves the bush today so thank you keep the memories alive keeping up I thoroughly enjoyed Ray🎉❤

Spare a thought for the Aborigines, who would have known some of these trees, and their role in the landscape. Thanks for the vid.

Tahun 1952 sudah ada buldozer tapi belum ada chainsaw ya... Ngomong-ngomong sekarang apa masih ada hutan selebat itu di Australia, apa sudah habis semua hutan nya dibuat lahan pertanian?

Just look at all those hard working feminists cutting trees.. ohh.. never mind..

Where abouts is this do u know

Esses tinham coragem e vontado

Aborigin crying😢😢

It's weird seeing tractors and dozers and hand saws and axes

If it makes sense or not, I don't like it? I hope the trees come back when they want?

2:05 💪🏼

7:56 if I’m not mistaken but that is a big old joints in his mouth lol 😂

At 8:30 balls of titanium!.

Observe the difference between the tree cutting men, and the teaching man.

Who is watching this now

Respekt

These blokes having a go or what? :-)

How could these "riggers" At 7:30 possibly climb trees with such big balls

Safety first boys

75 years ago

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