In the 1950's I lived a small community west of Orofino, ID. Peck, ID was my home and each year we got to see the log drive down the Clearwater. I thank who ever posted this video, it was great to see the way it was done then.
@methylmike
20 күн бұрын
idahoan before the 70s is a true idahoan i wish i couldve seen those forests back then
@tabuilder
20 күн бұрын
Brings a tear to my eye...the best of times we'll never see again.
@broheim23
5 күн бұрын
This should be required viewing in grade school: "This is what your granddads and great-grandads used to do for lumber. " Such a great video!
@lyzadavis543
28 күн бұрын
❤❤❤❤absolutely love this video..grew up in this country...nothing like it anywhere..too bad all them old giants are gone
@david9783
27 күн бұрын
I'm a 69 and did construction all my life, mostly on the East coast. This is about the wildest job I've seen. I mean WILD. All those guys probably ate 6,000 calories a day to keep up. Didn't see any that were overweight. I MIGHT have been able to hang with those guys in my prime. Not sure, though. Cheers from South Carolina!
@ern48
Ай бұрын
Nice video. I lived my first 10 yrs in Lewiston and my relatives were some of the first settlers in the valley owning and farming the land where the mill sits today. My grandpa and his dad were part of the crew leveling the site for the mill using horses with drag boxes dropping the dirt down through an overhead trestle into Model TT trucks parked underneath. My other grandpa was a log scaler in the woods, a few cousins and an uncle worked at the mill.
@je6630
20 күн бұрын
I live here today. Great place.
@adamdemirs3466
18 күн бұрын
My grandfather swam from Saranda Albania to Corfu Greece to escape the Ottoman in 1905. He reached the states in 1907 and settled in Lewiston Main. Where my father was born. I'd like to visit the twin cities eventually.
@DrDanTDC
24 күн бұрын
So very cool! I grew up in Enumclaw, Washington in the 70’s and 80’s when it was a logging/dairy farm town. Kinda makes me sad seeing the end of that era.
@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971
18 күн бұрын
I’m from DuPont back when it was a company town surrounded by forests. My grandparents lived in Buckley. Those days are gone my friend but we got to experience them and that’s amazing!
@dangriggs332
Ай бұрын
Thanks for posting this great content.
@EightWheelsRollin
Ай бұрын
Awesome. Simply Awesome. Thanks for the video!
@karenegersdorf5667
Ай бұрын
I remember watching the log drives when I was a kid and grew up in a timber family!
@ervinbratlien8741
Ай бұрын
Not many people can say that today.
@brianbarney1885
28 күн бұрын
There used to be a large book in the reception area at Potlatch in Lewiston that was a photo and prose telling of the last log drive. It was a fascinating record and made waiting for an appointment worthwhile. Growing up on the Columbia River almost underneath the Broughton Lumber Co. slough (see Disney’s Charlie the Lonesome Cougar) we would watch mile long log rafts being towed downriver almost hourly. Who knew in the 1960’s the timber would be gone by the 1980’s?
@RobertFay
Ай бұрын
*- When the 18 year old's were at work on that last drive, I was on top of Mt. Washington using a propane torch to cutting H-Beams with flanges 3 inch thick to disassemble the Jet Engine Testing Laboratory at the end of WW2.* *- I suspect that I would have been on the river if I lived out there.*
@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists
Ай бұрын
Thanks for this view into history
@MartinLyons-nx4xp
Ай бұрын
I suspect the loggers were NOT candy asses……..
@markat9576
Ай бұрын
Definitely not a union crew
@rickw.7923
20 күн бұрын
Potlatch was union. Not sure about the river rats though.
@forrestwinkle1896
Ай бұрын
Great video .
@alexlovtsov5043
12 күн бұрын
being in the valley next to the river the lewiston mill sits in. nothing like it in the world.
@markkirschling9340
Ай бұрын
Almost no Americans know what hard work means.
@furthereast6775
Ай бұрын
B.S. My corner of the country is populated by hard working tradesmen. Americans not illegal aliens by the way.
@markkirschling9340
29 күн бұрын
You missed my point. I said most Americans, not all. The tradesmen you speak of can understand how hard and dangerous being a river diver was. If you put on some waders, in cold fast flowing current, and had to push jammed logs…almost no Americans can relate to this because they never had to work a job like that. Yet they are very comfortable living in the buildings that were built from these same logs.
@magicone9327
28 күн бұрын
@@markkirschling9340grew up in Orofino, knew Red MacAlister the drive foreman, went to school with his son Lee. They didn’t wear waders like they were fishing. The waders of those days may well have kept them dry until they fell in, filled up and drowned. That’s why wool under and over garments were worn. Even wet it would keep you warmer.
@markkirschling9340
28 күн бұрын
@@magicone9327 Thanks for the insight. Makes sense as I’ve always wore wool next to my skin when winter logging. Eventually after all the sweat and cold snow, you’re body tires out and you get cold so you’re day is done. Start up my Pickup truck and turn on the heater and head home. River driving looks more hazardous than chainsaw logging and cable skidding.
@david9783
27 күн бұрын
@@markkirschling9340 SO true!
@barnyardbrio7597
17 күн бұрын
that's incredible
@MrDeekaph
3 ай бұрын
This is so interesting to me.
@catherinepayton6169
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@ervinbratlien8741
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@curtis-e
29 күн бұрын
cool history. i just subscribed.
@Greasygrassful
27 күн бұрын
Was there a significance with the different colored Crusher hats???
@roberttrout3588
Ай бұрын
Nobody today knows what a peavey is 🤔 remember using dads when we’d cut firewood
@lewiemcneely9143
Ай бұрын
I bought one years ago. Came out of Canada. Gave a hundred dollars for it. Still have it. Raised around a sawmill.
@fourfortyroadrunner6701
Ай бұрын
I am 75. I know full well what a peavey or cant hook is
@lewiemcneely9143
Ай бұрын
@@fourfortyroadrunner6701 You got 2 years on me and I've still got mine! Used both.
@david9783
27 күн бұрын
@@fourfortyroadrunner6701 Me, too. I have one.
@jkline999
9 күн бұрын
I have fished, hunted and floated this river. Wish I could have seen it before the damned dam. If you like this movie, go watch Disney's Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.
@michellebrant3261
28 күн бұрын
Best
@kennethhites1738
15 күн бұрын
Now everyone carries assault rifles and side arms whilst having face tattoos
@TheHonudiver
20 күн бұрын
People don't realize how the US was de-forrested. In California alone, 95% of redwoods gone. The entire US landscape was transformed.
@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971
18 күн бұрын
You’re factually wrong
@idahobob180
Ай бұрын
They will never see the likes of this again, that's for sure they striped all the old growth out every corridor in the state.
@je6630
20 күн бұрын
I live here, and although they've cut a bunch, there is a lot out there. It's huge.
@ryanmedley773
19 күн бұрын
Great history in Clearwater County. I wish folks would do more research before bad mouthing critical industries. Most be don’t realize the areas these logs were harvested from are being harvested again through proper management. Before timber was harvested and in areas not harvested massive wildfires would make history and reset the lifecycle in the mountains. Next time you need a restroom or enjoy a nice warm nights rest in a timber framed house thank the hard working men and women in the timber industry.
@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971
18 күн бұрын
You’ve never been to the PNW
@khadijagwen
Ай бұрын
The video is awful
@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists
Ай бұрын
It's an awful-good look at history
@Richard-zc1cj
Ай бұрын
Why do you say it is awful?
@richardcarter3406
Ай бұрын
No I max in 1971
@mervjb809
Ай бұрын
@@Richard-zc1cj... she's a hippy that lives in a tent!!😅😅
@fourfortyroadrunner6701
Ай бұрын
It is not awful. It was "filmed" either with film or video tape, and I guess you missed the part that this ended in 1971. Some of this may have been filmed years before that. I have slides and other film from the 60's and '70's. Very few of them have survived with any quality at all
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