I can't wait until the year 4000 when we can see those big trees again.
@guaporeturns9472
2 ай бұрын
Spent yrs logging and fishing SE Alaska. Loved it
@kellymiller3136
2 ай бұрын
My guess is the bar was located at Point Baker back then? This was the first place I would begin my adult working career out of school staking the road to be built so they could log working for the US Forest Service. Coffman Cove was very small back in 1976.
@TheWBuilder
3 ай бұрын
That is an awesome story, I love to see this kind of history.
@leemackay888
5 ай бұрын
Good ole brush dragon !!!! 🐉
@plt903
6 ай бұрын
Ain’t no logg’n there now..
@kevinkinsey6985
6 ай бұрын
skidder 35 tons ????? maybe 17 tons and around 35000 pounds. A cat 527 is 45000 ish
@ricknelson9150
6 ай бұрын
This is the first logging camp i worked at in the 70s from there i went to Sitka and worked for Don brown mud bay logging. Out at rowan bay this was the best times of my life.
@noahdupray2388
5 ай бұрын
It just so happens I have a mint condition MUD BAY LOGGING ROWAN BAY ALASKA hat it's blue and white! Surely you had one?
@user-vm3hn8zm9o
6 ай бұрын
Amazing how times and lives change. I arrived at Camp Grisdale in a Simpson crummy 50 years ago to learn to set chokers and work in the woods. What a great experience and better memory. Thank you.
@treydogg77
8 ай бұрын
Driving that equip up there would make me puckered!
@aklaunch
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting these older excellent videos.
@Northwoods208
11 ай бұрын
Would be nice to see sealaska open their own mills
@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
Жыл бұрын
Maybee Our COMMENT that MIKE and Richard Valentines were not First, but Yes, they were known as Cadillac CAMP, besides Long Island when KlukWan Inc. Came in. To most of us, we said it was the OLD TIMERS, that helped us Kids🤠🪵🌾🎄🌲🦧🎵🐄🙏🎣™️🦧📞🐔stay SAFE, and WORK STEADY, BE Tough, Obedient to our Bosses, the Older Hook Tenders, shop bosses, Bull bucks, road bosses, truck bosses and Management was on the job more beside us. All INDUSTRIES go thru a Cycle. And: Sorry FOLKS: CHRIST CAME TO THE PILGRIMS OUT ON THE RANGES. THEN SODDIES, TENTS AND MINER LOGGER CABINS, HOLES WHERE THE WATERS WERE. NO BETTER than John, or Loggers World. They still Crucify, even some good bankers, owners, and accountants or butchers barbers and scales. Not even a parts .an, nor a weldor, mechanic or boom man, is safe.📫❗️🌲🈺️😳🪵🎣☃️☃️☃️☃️😊😊📉🎎🎶🎵
@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
Жыл бұрын
TRUTH ABOUT REGROWTH BUT TOTALLY LIES ABOUT SIMPSONS. THEY ABANDONED 660 MEN AND FAMILIES IN 1967 OR SO ALL RETIREMENTS LOST. AND A NEW MILL IN CALIFORNIA.
@hunt2alaska399
Жыл бұрын
Hoot and Clee couldn't have built those roads without Harvey Miller welding up the AR plate. I sure wish I had that dinner bell that Harvey made from half inch plate. Mike Meske was a great side rod. Kenny...not so much. Chuck Watson and Monroe Sheffield were awesome. I bet Chuck remembers "Cowboy" letting all the bundles float out the bay. And Roper and I standing there at the waters edge as the boom boat drive unit fell off the Hughes 500 hook and sunk, LOL. Shout out to Turbo George Phillips. And eternal gratitude to Wally Ersland for teaching me how to fit in and not get run off. Adrej, I hope you're flying high! Dave, I miss your cooking @ Cube Cove!
@jameswiddifield2482
Жыл бұрын
Surprised to see myself in this video! Worked for Silver Bay Logging for two seasons at Cube Cove.
@kenclark0619
Жыл бұрын
Why do they leave so much wood behind? Wouldn’t it be better to come in and clean up the logs that are not good lumber and use them for chips? It would make the forest look better.
@christuttle3980
Жыл бұрын
We had several at Eve River Division for MacMillian Bloedel on Vancouver island in the early 1980s Great machines My Uncle and his son Worked for Madill in Nanimio building them
@aerialcombat
Жыл бұрын
This mill gave cancer to many of its most dedicated long time employees
@billjaxin
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. It's hard to find footage of a choker crew working big wood on the steep hillsides of the Pacific Northwest. I started work in 1968, Vancouver Island, Canadian southwest coast. That world doesn't exist any more. But back then when I was young, the guys in their 40's said the same thing, that the world of their young days was gone. High riggers, tin pants, swede saws and steam donkeys. They were the real old-timers.
@leemackay888
5 ай бұрын
I logged hi lead from 91 to 99, got to work with men like yourself, that helped make me a man by showing me what real work was lol much respect brother , and your right those days are long gone.
@billjaxin
5 ай бұрын
@@leemackay888 I didn't say I was great at it or earned a lot of respect. I enjoyed the work and respected the competence of the men. But I was and still am a habitual daydreamer who can't shut the internal noise off and pay attention to what's going on around me. So I really shouldn't have been there. Couldn't move beyond chokerman because I didn't have the eyes in the back of my head that you need to work in the landing. I'll say this much for the job. It got me in good enough shape for a long enough time that for the rest of my life I've known what that feels like and when I don't have it. Before I got married I switched over to forestry work. Figured I should try to keep myself alive.
@leemackay888
5 ай бұрын
@@billjaxin lol ya I was a rigging rat my entire career, saw lots of close ones and a few bad accidents over my 8 seasons , pulled rigging and chased as well. Have a good one man!! Beep beep beep!
@citetez
Жыл бұрын
Nice medium size trucks. kzitem.info/news/bejne/u2mZt56rkIp4n4o /b.c. truck chauvinism!
@eriknervik9003
Жыл бұрын
This video makes me sad, I moved to Mason county when I left my parents house and lived there until two years ago when I moved to LA. I have driven by the camp grisdale site many times and it is hard to imagine what it must’ve been like
@francinefootoo
Жыл бұрын
snow plow blade on skidder
@francinefootoo
Жыл бұрын
nosebleed country
@pallmall5495
Жыл бұрын
They would never air something like this a positive light today.
@valqueenofValhalla
Жыл бұрын
What happened to USA no 2022 our kids can’t decide what bathroom they should use
@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
Жыл бұрын
Skools Forced to CONCOLLIDATE. Much of that started with GRANGE BIG MGMT. FUEL and transportation Markets.
@michaelpaulholmes9667
Жыл бұрын
I went to Simpson elementary in Montesano, WA.
@michaelpaulholmes9667
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in the Aberdeen area in Washington. My dad was a log scaler. This was beautiful to watch.
@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
Жыл бұрын
Yer DAD KNEW MY DAD OR MOST OF HIS FRIENDS, From Buzz Munn, to the Gladsjo families, Dustin Sanders's DAD was a Scaler as my DAD: Wm. And Greta ♥️ "Bill Wolfe/Turner families. The Scaler from P.A. iMet at Whitestone, huna Pacific, Tyler bros. About 1987 knew DAD and most of you could really put on a very interesting Saturday or Sunday BASEBALL GAME, in any Park, or Episcopal Church yard in Bellevue. Dustin and DeeDee are aBout the happiest Busted up sons and daughters of a log Scaler, live iHope STIHL at: VALENTINE COURT, SHELTON. GOD BLESS Y'all. Buzz Martin passed away FISHING THE EVENING TIDE AT OUR CAMP. thank God for Tyler's Bud and Shirley Stewart families and the Fincher Beatty families and many MOORE. Sam and Tammy Smith ❤️ finally taught em how to shot gun, or SCOOTER log. Just Always REMEMBER To un hook, the Extension and grab THE RIGGING CHAIN, when you go to SwaP it into the next road. Russ Sullivan, of Sullivan log was our Shop boss, And The KIETH and CONCHITA, MATT and Tana, Cliffie, WALKER FAMILY Was there from the Start of. HT, HUNA TOTEM, Skip Bradley, Log Scaler, Arlington and Mister and Missus Bob HILD FAMILIES Pacific LOG, Marysville were the START❗️🎶❗️😊🎄🎄🎄🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌾🌾🌾⛳️The Rest of the Eley,Families from Polson, Dave Owens families, Mike and Cathy Carroll, ON on on and on Mike O'Brian and Karen, Her DAD, Loren and wife were Road Grader and most Ladies helped with the Cookhouse, bunkhouses, SUNDAY SKOOL, and teachers.
@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
Жыл бұрын
iTHINK i Met you at Whitestone Cookhouse about 1987 or 90 or❓️
@John-ff6pn
Жыл бұрын
Very cool Video 💪 greetings from Austria 💪💪💪
@charlesortwein8093
Жыл бұрын
Worked a couple of years working at the cornerbay camp for silver bay as a hooktender
@denniswaggoner8056
Жыл бұрын
Loghard. Thank you for the great footage
@deliverybryan1138
2 жыл бұрын
I truly miss those good ole days and the music too !
@bobmartin6055
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!
@floydlivingston6762
2 жыл бұрын
I remember moving the 208 on the Woods Road is pretty much rebuild the road after you went through it
@clarkandsharonmondich6062
2 жыл бұрын
Worked here two summers…1980-81. Helped me pay for college.
@sirskateify
2 жыл бұрын
Hope your college was worth destroying prince of wales island. Rot in the pit.
@kiefekiefe9542
2 жыл бұрын
Hard work 💪💪
@Northwoods208
2 жыл бұрын
Wish it was still like that, SE Alaska is about dead anymore, they choked off the logging industry way too much
@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
Жыл бұрын
AMEN, CHEAPOS LABOR DOWN SOUTH GEORGIA AND ANTEBELLUM. PLASTIC HOUSES
@jimhere1
2 жыл бұрын
The first shelters humans made were likely made from hides, not wood.
@nikerailfanningttm9046
2 жыл бұрын
I was in 2nd grade when this was produced....here in Florida we don't do logging like this, but boy the 80's and 90's were the greatest years for yarding equipment.
@greystar9052
2 жыл бұрын
Profits over community. The pulp industry is terrible.
@sirskateify
2 жыл бұрын
Profits over community, nature, everything. Good riddance.
@staceysherman247
2 жыл бұрын
I thought this was a video about timber not about this family telling me how great they are and all their accomplishments hero worship!
@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of yer non Corporate FRIENDS, who are familiar with POLITICLY correct and Um.... sorta Legalistic, Who Moooved our Cheese and Kids like John Deere, Boeing and msnHTTPS, Egg head Software, um, Propaganda by COMPLYING with the Dum people, doesn't usually 🙄Work, forever. Zero Tolerance, TURN KEY BUSINESSes, usually fade and break up, and eventually, MAYBE COME BACK REVIVED BY PEOPLE WHO REALLY CARE.....but sometimes we don't live to see it.☺YOUR COMMENT IS PRETTY FUNNY. .... They tryed to be the best.
@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
2 жыл бұрын
Many would agree. ☺🤠
@staceysherman247
2 жыл бұрын
The narrator of this film is so full of shit cornball crap I’m true Cowboys and timberman I just about threw up!
@brandongrandorff9539
2 жыл бұрын
Grandorff
@cascadiantrekker
2 жыл бұрын
My Great Grandfather drove log trucks on the Olympic Peninsula, this industry is nothing what it used to be.
@dantkachuk8764
2 жыл бұрын
I remember it well ... fly-in gypo camp Friell Lake Logging, Henderson Lake, Kildonan ol' Pal 'hydro pole' Smith with his D-4, swear it was a D-2 it was so tiny. through 70s to 82ish, then I was done, had enough.
@addd7669
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful I learned something today
@heididecourcy5240
2 жыл бұрын
that song sounds like jorma
@trefallerhighline2152
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing the video.had some of best times of my life in those logging camps
@DanielBoonesloggingvideos
2 жыл бұрын
This video never gets old. I still love it just as much today as I did when I first watched it nine years ago
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