I was cutting small trees on a fence row, they were maybe one foot diameter, I dropped one and a dead branch from the topof one dropped squarely on the hard hat I'd been smart enough to wear that day that drove me to my knees, the suspension on the hard hat broke if I hadn't worn that hat that day, no doubt they would have found my body with a smashed skull after that I wore hard hats whenever I was cutting wood, which I used to do often, I live in the northwest portion of michigan's lower peninsula I used to heat my house with wood, no longer now because I remain paralyzed on my left from a stroke I had in 2018
@bluegrassoutdoors
5 күн бұрын
@davidnewland2556 That's a very interesting story, and thank God you came out okay. So many have done similar things and never even knew what hit them before they lost their lives. Thank you for sharing 🙏God bless
@michaelwhiteoldtimer7648
11 күн бұрын
Thanks Dillon for putting this on for us to watch
@bluegrassoutdoors
11 күн бұрын
@michaelwhiteoldtimer7648 It's my pleasure, Michael! I'm glad you all enjoy it as well 👍🙏
@garry9296
12 күн бұрын
Great video DILLON. MAKES YOU APPRECIATE A GOOD CUTTING CHAIN SAW. WATCHING THIS MAKES CUTTING FIREWOOD SEEM LIKE A WALK IN THE PARK.
@bluegrassoutdoors
12 күн бұрын
@garry9296 I'm glad you enjoyed it, Garry! I thought you would if you saw it. I really liked it too. You are very right! Those men worked hard! It's so much easier nowadays, thankfully. But it's very interesting to see how they did it then. It's good to hear from you, my friend, and I hope you have been well 🙏
@greenbeld
11 күн бұрын
This was great. I’m from the upper penninsula. My Dads family came from jolliette Quebec. To the Keweenaw penninsula. My grand father was born in lake linden. For unknown reason they moved back to the eastern part and became farmers .
@bluegrassoutdoors
11 күн бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I really liked it too. Sounds like you have some very interesting family history 👍🙏
@greenbeld
11 күн бұрын
Thanks Bud. Pretty common amongst the people of up there.
@riverraisin1
9 күн бұрын
Fantastic! I thrive on logging history. This is one of the best videos I've seen on KZitem and it's from right here in my home state!
@bluegrassoutdoors
5 күн бұрын
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! It is a very interesting look into another time and a very rough and respected labor.
@fasx56
7 күн бұрын
Interesting and Valuable History of early logging life that gives many of the current generation that have never seen or held an axe or ran a chainsaw. Logging was very dangerous in the 1930s - the 1950s using no chainsaws and still is dangerous with modern logging methods.
@guybennett3569
Күн бұрын
I broke out in the wood at 10 years old carrying saw fuel and the cutters and my lunch. Me and my folks lived up Deadwood Cr. part of the Siuslaw drainage. This was in the late 50's early 60's. In those days most of the logs coming out of the woods were still old growth and bastard growth second growth was used as deck logs. Anything smaller were just pecker poles to cradle the bigger trees on the trucks, in the days of the one log loads. They would head on down the creek to the mill pond in Tide, Ore. They had a big headrig there to cut those big logs into rough cut lumber. Then when I was 12 yrs. old I became a marker, ran my own saw by then. I would run down the fell trees with a tape and a limbing saw marking the trees log lengh for the cutter and cutting off the stobs and limbs as i went, cutting off the tip when i got to it. Never forget taking down a Fir that was almost 10 ft at the butt took Frank 4 -1/2 hrs to get it on the ground. It was life changing. I been in the woods ever since. Cowboy'ed and fell many a tree in my day. I'm old now, about the only thing I cowboy anymore is my easy-chair, tending a smudge in the woodstove out in the shop. Logging in the woods has a smell of it's own, like "Heaven" loggers heaven.
@ElizabethDranoel
6 сағат бұрын
What a life. My husband and I were a team many years ago. He cut. I skidded with our team to the landing. I got handy driving grabs, popping them out with a skip hammer, and rolling the logs with a peavey. Loved that kind of life.... the sounds, the smells, and scary too... ahhhh.
@DanielAtkinsFirewood
4 күн бұрын
Thanks for posting, Dillon. I know Washington state has a similar history on loging
@bluegrassoutdoors
2 күн бұрын
It's my pleasure, Daniel! Be safe out there and keep up the good work 👍
@nevertoopoortotour.3033
9 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@bluegrassoutdoors
9 күн бұрын
@@nevertoopoortotour.3033 It's my pleasure 🙏
@gunterbecker8528
12 күн бұрын
Absolutely brilliant men , those were men back then,unlike the wimps today with warm handlebars on their saws, 35hr. Week n lazy attitudes 😌
@bluegrassoutdoors
12 күн бұрын
@gunterbecker8528 They were very hard workers indeed! It's very interesting to hear the old stories about them 🙏
@urbanlumberjack
6 күн бұрын
Great video!
@bluegrassoutdoors
6 күн бұрын
I'm glad you liked it! I thought it was very interesting to see how they did it back then!
@johnnolan4312
5 күн бұрын
My father in-law cut wood by hand with a horse up in northern Ontario, after 20 years of that he landed a job in the paper mill in Kenora, he could not believe how easy the job was compared to cutting wood, he never missed a day in 30 years
@joeyrector1015
11 күн бұрын
That's when men really worked cutting trees. That's why I really appreciate lumberjacks. If it wasn't for lumberjacks. People wouldn't have homes, paper and other things that comes from wood
@bluegrassoutdoors
11 күн бұрын
They really did a lot indeed! I believe so many people today, including myself at times, take things for granted. They really had to work hard for a living back then!
@joeyrector1015
11 күн бұрын
@@bluegrassoutdoors right. That's why when I see a logger. Or any one that works at a sawmill. I respect. I use to work at a sawmill for a long time. And done logging. Nether one is easy.
@captaintrips2980
4 күн бұрын
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay.
@bombocropper5142
2 күн бұрын
Why are the first two guys shown in this video not from the historical period focused on?
@bluegrassoutdoors
2 күн бұрын
@bombocropper5142 just a re-enactment, I believe
@floydwilliams3321
5 күн бұрын
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@rawbacon
5 күн бұрын
You're not getting by on a couple thousand calories a day doing that kind of work.
@floored3078
10 күн бұрын
Did you leave xpress, or are you still with them? Haven’t seen many updates about them in the last few months I’m looking at going into that account, I have 3 years of food service delivery humping 45,000lbs on average 4 days a week, and I’m seeing the pay at US average 1700-2350/wk so thinking about coming.
@bluegrassoutdoors
10 күн бұрын
I never got anywhere near $2350, but the minimum is $1700, as long as you are on time. I'm no longer with them. The home time is what made me leave. You never have a set schedule there. I enjoyed the job and the pay, though.
@floored3078
8 күн бұрын
@@bluegrassoutdoors I totally understand that, home just for a reset is tough and basically takes your entire life away. My wife’s a nurse thank god and earns $2,000/wk, so together we’d be at about $3,700 or $7,400 bi-weekly. Might do it for a run
@floored3078
7 күн бұрын
@@bluegrassoutdoors was it hard to keep the $1700 top up pay? If you lose it how much is the real average pay per week?
@bluegrassoutdoors
7 күн бұрын
@floored3078 no, you get the $1700 minimum as long as you are on time. I got it every check as far as I remember. I loved the job and pay but the schedule is what didn't work for me.
@bluegrassoutdoors
7 күн бұрын
Yeah, you're right. And when the home time is random it makes it that much worse. I like to be able to tell my family when we can do things and with that account it wasn't a sure thing.
@ArenAurelius
4 күн бұрын
Scientists tell us that approximately 42 million trees are cut down each day, which amounts to a staggering 15 billion trees each year. Forests presently cover around a third of the world's surface, but that is diminishing at an alarming rate.
@1989Falkor
4 күн бұрын
Wrong! The earth is greener than it was 100 years ago.
@terryjeffries3233
Күн бұрын
My grandfather was a lumberjack in Missouri before my father was born my grandfather cut oak ties for the railroad after my father was born 1934 he started cut white oak stave tel my dad was around 18 then my grandfather got to old he was born In 1883 I still have his huing axe with the hickory handle he made in it
@JOHNTHE8TH1
Күн бұрын
I laughed when the guy said that the lumber jacks didn’t bath often, “ they didn’t get a bath every week like the rest of us “ This reminded me of my father who had a “sit down bath” every week if he needed it or not! Enjoyed the video, thanks
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