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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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!
Thanks so much,this is just wonderful.The mid seventies to mid eighties,would have been a great time to be involved with the logging.Big timber,big iron,wish I was my age at these times then.
This looks like one of your deals, just longer. MERCY to hear those V-12's and V-8's humming. I need to save this and rewatch it about 50 times. Looking forward to another from you, Pal!
You are bang on the money skadill The mid seventies to mid eighties, were a great time. We still had the GREAT Old Timers to learn common sense from, the Logging know how they retained and were proud to pass on was priceless.
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.
I'd pay to listen to them. I know this is 4yrs old, he isnt still around is he? I wish people would record them like war stories, once they're gone, its unwritten history.
***** now ad days they prefer that Chinese shit stuff, low cost garbage..and people became numbers just like those serial numbers written on \Chinese throw away stuff
The gentleman doing the voiceover/narration work certainly sounds like the late Phil Harper. Those of us in the PNW (Seattle/Tacoma area) and other fans of old-time radio were fortunate to hear him regularly as the voice of the titular character in "The Adventures of Harry Nile" radio dramas.
Wow! Powerful stuff! I never worked in this field, but it's interesting to watch and I can appreciate the skill of the operator loading those trucks; Not to mention all the crew involved.
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.
Thanks for this one. Moved these machines around the bc coast by equipment barge. Amazing were they could take those heavy machines. There's one up the road from me about a mile. not quite as shiney now. A yard nearby has been buying up these old rigs and reselling them to asia someplace.
I was a choker setter under one of these when the tower broke in the middle and crashed down on the loader and chaser. Both came out alive but it sure stopped production in a hurry. Kuiu Alaska late 70's or early 80.s.
I just watched the whole video. Very interesting stuff. That's some big timber! I had never seen one of those cable grapple loader things. I don't think that anyone uses them anymore, do they? Great vid!
I believe and seem to remember a news piece where the CEO Pat Madill of S. Madill Equipment was killed in a helicopter or airplane crash several years ago (December 1990) which forced the eventual sale of the company. Yep, here it is: www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1990-12-04-9012040853-story.html
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.
Grapple yarders ruined logging as far as I am concerned, lots of times I was on my own just hanging on a stump and walking when I finished the road I was on. I believe the logging should focus on getting more people working than profit being the only focus. Natural resources should be for citizens. Use to be 21 men on a old slack line, now one or two are getting more production benefiting very few .
And now there's those feller bunchers taking over from grapple yarders and to blow off all the sawmill and pulp & paper mills are shutting down, logs are virtually all heading straight to tide-water and off to Indo-Asia. No wonder we got so many damn homeless ..... they are the jobless that industry has cut out we forest workers and all the mom&pop stores and dinrrs that kept those mill towns running.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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!
Thanks so much,this is just wonderful.The mid seventies to mid eighties,would have been a great time to be involved with the logging.Big timber,big iron,wish I was my age at these times then.
This looks like one of your deals, just longer. MERCY to hear those V-12's and V-8's humming. I need to save this and rewatch it about 50 times. Looking forward to another from you, Pal!
You are bang on the money skadill The mid seventies to mid eighties, were a great time. We still had the GREAT Old Timers to learn common sense from, the Logging know how they retained and were proud to pass on was priceless.
This video never gets old. I still love it just as much today as I did when I first watched it nine years ago
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.
My old man was engineer for Madill back in those days. He grew up in the steam days. He has some pretty damn good stories
your Dad has a lot of forgotten knowledge.
I'd pay to listen to them. I know this is 4yrs old, he isnt still around is he? I wish people would record them like war stories, once they're gone, its unwritten history.
Back when you could spend a season on the same block, miss those days!
Great piece of film history here. True testament of engineering to see a lot of this equipment still at work in the timber today.
i still sell parts for these 046 Madill yarders. many of them still running today, and even more in NewZeland
no job security in quality now days
***** now ad days they prefer that Chinese shit stuff, low cost garbage..and people became numbers just like those serial numbers written on \Chinese throw away stuff
The gentleman doing the voiceover/narration work certainly sounds like the late Phil Harper. Those of us in the PNW (Seattle/Tacoma area) and other fans of old-time radio were fortunate to hear him regularly as the voice of the titular character in "The Adventures of Harry Nile" radio dramas.
Wow! Powerful stuff! I never worked in this field, but it's interesting to watch and I can appreciate the skill of the operator loading those trucks; Not to mention all the crew involved.
I operated a madill loader in Philips Arm. It was rated to lift 101 thousand pounds with am empty drum, was probably the nicest log loader I ever ran.
That's a pretty neat promo film. Stuff most of us civilians never see. Thanks for saving and sharing it.
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.
The music makes me want to go logging!
MERCY this is GOOD! THANKS ever so much!
Dam straight, I run a madill 3800 butt n top, she's gettn houred up but still such a champ!!
Thanks for this one. Moved these machines around the bc coast by equipment barge. Amazing were they could take those heavy machines. There's one up the road from me about a mile. not quite as shiney now. A yard nearby has been buying up these old rigs and reselling them to asia someplace.
I was a choker setter under one of these when the tower broke in the middle and crashed down on the loader and chaser. Both came out alive but it sure stopped production in a hurry. Kuiu Alaska late 70's or early 80.s.
Interesting video, those days are gone for sure.
I just watched the whole video. Very interesting stuff. That's some big timber! I had never seen one of those cable grapple loader things. I don't think that anyone uses them anymore, do they? Great vid!
Good ole brush dragon !!!! 🐉
Awesome!!
I believe and seem to remember a news piece where the CEO Pat Madill of S. Madill Equipment was killed in a helicopter or airplane crash several years ago (December 1990) which forced the eventual sale of the company. Yep, here it is:
www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1990-12-04-9012040853-story.html
Good stuff Eric me likey....
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.
Wow Great VIdeo!
Yeah buddy
Grapple yarders ruined logging as far as I am concerned, lots of times I was on my own just hanging on a stump and walking when I finished the road I was on. I believe the logging should focus on getting more people working than profit being the only focus. Natural resources should be for citizens. Use to be 21 men on a old slack line, now one or two are getting more production benefiting very few .
L&I killed cable logging. The grapple yarders are a way to get boots off the ground to avoid paying.
And now there's those feller bunchers taking over from grapple yarders and to blow off all the sawmill and pulp & paper mills are shutting down, logs are virtually all heading straight to tide-water and off to Indo-Asia. No wonder we got so many damn homeless ..... they are the jobless that industry has cut out we forest workers and all the mom&pop stores and dinrrs that kept those mill towns running.
Washington 20
"Its is not a converted crane or excavator". Translated: Its just a converted crane or excavator shhhhh....
Their completion was.
Washington I Ron Works 158,208 208D and 217s interlocks were a way better yarders
took me a minute to figure out brand you were talking about. Washington Iron Works