I was raised just like that. My Dad always hauled pulpwood, sometimes it had to be peeled. Very hard work. We were very poor, but extremely happy. My Dad was the best Buck Patterson 🤗
These were the days when men was men and boys were men. Tough as they come. Thank you for posting and thank you for the memories. Mrs Hunter reminds me so much of my mum. Humble, strong, the back bone of the family. Oh i could tell you stories about my mum. I also remember the days when everything was still covered in plastics when purchased new. Look at that lamp on the table, still in plastic wrap. What memories, how we appreciate things back then. Thank you.
I was once that young man pulp wooding with my dad after school and on weekends. Kids now don't know how good they have it. They don't know what real work is
Thank you for posting these old films. I was moved by this story of a cooperative family and their helpful neighbors. So unlike what we see too often these days. I hope they all continued to prosper and grow.
"Thank you for posting these old films"? Dude, those old films are apart of the propoganda to sanitize the image of America in the ninety fifties. Whew....
@@michaelbentt3018 I swear to God you would think we were at a full blown race war in the 50's. There was segregation back then but this gives me hope it wasn't that crazy
My dad did logging in Alabama during the 80s. He taught me how to load a truck, and use a chain saw. I was a young girl. He was a hard working man and worked until he got old. R.I.P daddy.
Great video! It's a far cry from 2022 media depictions of Georgia in the 40s. There has always been good and bad, both in past, and present. I believe we should focus on the good, as that is how we continue moving forward in a positive way. Mama's sewing machine made me cry!
THISSSSS MADE ME CRY 😢 TOO ACTUALLY SEE A BLACK FAMILY NOT BE SEEN AS POOR AND HAVE A HORRIBLE DEPICTION OF THEM AS A FAMILY. THIS MOVIE RESPRENTS HOW I WAS RAISED. WE WHERE A FAMILY FIRST, GOD FEARING, ALWAYS WORKING AND LOVING OUR MOTHER AND FATHER. RESPECTING OUR NEIGHBORS AND BEING KIND TO OTHERS. NO RACIST TEACHINGS IN OUR HOME EITHER. ALSO LETTING THE CHILD MAKE HIS DREAM CAME TRUE. THIS IS WHY I'M SELF EMPLOYED TODAY BECAUSE MY PARENTS DIDN'T SHOOT ME DOWN BUT LISTENED AND SUPPORTED ME. III LLLOOOVVVEEE THISSSSSS MOVIE MUCH. THX
I agree with you. It all starts at home. I'm Georgia born and raised and we were never taught that we were better than anyone. My daddy was my hero and he never judged anyone by the color of their skin. We never lived in a big city so maybe that makes a difference. I don't know but the state of the world worries me and makes me sad. I know that your family is proud of you and I am proud for you as we say down south! Never stop passing those lessons down. By saving one you might save us all!
I cried about half through that movie. A pulpwood as we call them is the hardest working job a man can do. It was very heartwarming how they worked as a family and how their neighbors come together in time of need.
This film reminded me of the sixties when I was a kid. I remember seeing my parents and neighbors always socializing at our home, talking, listening to music, talking about how their day went Ect.There was universal love in the black community, we as children played and stayed in a child’s place,. Seeing this film had me reflecting on times of old, we wasn’t rich or wealthy, but we had all the essentials that bonded a black community. This film bought tears to my eyes
I enjoyed that a lot. Thank you. I am just old enough to remember Loggers that didn't have enough money for a tractor, that still used horses to drag. I have a high amount of respect for loggers, because I know how hard the work is.
Very similar to my family's history.!!! My family did cement construction & my mother got her sowing machine She made some beautiful things aound our home & my father & my 11 siblings got a lot more out of life & time with the help of the air compressor ,Dump truck trailer & Bobcat machine the hard & team work it was very similar to this story ( i love this ) Unity / peace / prosperity / & Love to all families that work together for a good common cause... 🙏🇺🇸✊
So awsome friend great to hear that I grew up on farm and I noticed I never have hard time keeping job employers love me it's the way we where tought to work
That's what I did for 20 years. Concrete is extremely hard work, but because of it, my wife was able to stay home and raise both our boys. Both turn out fine young men. I'll agree that it starts in the home.
Thanks for the memories, l grew up in the Australian bush where we made a living cutting railway sleeper's from river Red Gum's with swing saws, much the same in this movie but bigger and heavier with car engins driving them. Many men were injured using them and some were killed, the cut sleeper's were loaded on the truck by hand this was an International KB 5 ex 2nd WW lend lease. and the sleeper's were delivered for cash. Petrol was one shilling and sixpence a gallon then and a packet of smokes was the same price. All this was in 1950's The old truck is still in the yard behind the shed, the swing saw is in the back corner of the shed where the old man left it with an old ragged tarp covering it, the tyres are flat and cracked. He bought two new chainsaws before he died, and we carried on for a while and it was no longer profitable to cut sleeper's so we went professional fishing and done well until the government stopped that because the recreational fishermen said we took too many fish. I joined the army, my brother worked for Good Year Tyers, after l was discharged l went into mining for a long time and now retired l have a pine plantation and cut pine posts for treatment and some lumber, l seem to have come full cycle. Still living on my own in the bush and happy as l can ever be. Thanks again for up loading this video.
This was excellent!!! The pulpwood cutters were very respected in my are growing up. There was no other job near as tough as this and the men who did this for a living were hard core tougher than nails!
When I was growing up in late 40's early 50's my Mom used to make my shirts on a Singer trundle sewing machine similar to that, I remember doing the trundle by hand once in a while to help her out. We had a two bedroom house with one bathroom. I remember when we bought a new house that had sheetrock we wondered what kind of cheap stuff was this, our hold house had lath and plaster. My, my have things changed, the whole world has changed, I'm not sure if it was for the better or not? I can remember my sister and I used to listen to the "Shadow" on the radio. Life was a lot simpler back then! Thanks for the video, there were a lot of good values in there.
My dad was raised with a cross cut saw in his hand and timber man. I cut a few cap wedges in my day but we had chain saws by my time. This is great video showing some American heritage.
Maybe, in the most technical sense, you’re correct. I’ll grant you that. But of course many men, and indeed women, have been killed while _engaging_ in hard work, in their thousands of thousands. Of course many of the poor souls who give up the ghost at work do so through no fault of their own. Be that from a coworkers malfeasance or an equipment failure that they couldn’t have prevented with routine maintenance.
Great family dynamic. Thank God for the people who work hard, make necessary sacrifices for shared goals, respect whatever contribution/s each family member makes and never begrudge a prospect of more effort to succeed than ever before. God bless them every one.
I remember my dad having this job. He also farmed. My mom didn’t work anywhere because Shane had asthma. I loved my childhood seeing my day use the chainsaw . I’m 65 years old now and these were some of the best memories of my life. He also wore overalls also. He had 40 acres after the war, so we grew. everything. My dad had 2 mules. I loved it
This documentary reminds me when I was in the country as a boy with my family. After a hard weeks work chopping cotton or picking cotton and doing my chores, I thoroughly enjoyed eating breakfast with the Family on the weekend. If my daddy ate a dozen eggs Mom would give me six, Just one of the fun things I remember. My Dad with the help of the Lord took care of the Family. For that I will always and forever be grateful. My Mom and Dad was the greatest.
This would be excellent for young boys to watch - that was some hard work back then. Kids today can't come close to working this hard. This was very enjoyable to watch and you have give the filmmaker a lot of credit for putting this together in the 50's.
Yes sir your spot on 100% I used to split wood after school from first grade until twelfth grade graduation and to this day split chunks like no one's bizniss the last 4 years working for a logging co. and before that 14 years in residential tree work even still have climbing gear but seeing this was my blessing tonight!!
My great-grandfather & my great uncles all did this job in Ga during the 50’s, they lived near Macon. It was hard work. One day a woman they knew (a black woman that had 8 or 9 kids. Her name was Mrs. Penniman.) She asked my GGF if he’d let one of her sons go out in the woods to help, to fetch water, etc. & feed him lunch, cause she couldn’t afford food for her whole family.The boys name was Richard, & he’d ride on back of the log truck & sing songs. They called him “little” cause his Daddy’s name was also Richard. He used that name the rest of his life, became a big star, & the actual originator of rock n roll, Little Richard. My GGF’s name was Gordon Hall.
Just watching those guys work gave me back spasms. The one good thing about brush fires in relatively clear land like was depicted in this film, is that they typically move very quickly and don’t damage the standing trees. The fire also adds the bonus of making the soil more fertile and clearing underbrush that makes logging in these circumstances more difficult.
I was born and raised in Georgia, I've lived in many other places and state's around the country, but I've come full circle. I'm living in the same county I grew up in, not far from my grandparents farm here, where I spent a lot of time. Life on that farm is one of my fondest memories... This film brings back so many great memories, some bittersweet, but presious... Journey Well Brother's and Sister's 🙏
Me too Don Bell, Been all over the place and now in the middle part of the country. Thinking two years from now we should be back in the deep. I’d go to Montana but the cold has convinced me not too.
Very enjoyable. Growing up in Georgia I can remember when much of middle and South Georgia looked like that. A different time before the cohesiveness of family began to unravel. This documentary made me smile and brought back memories.
@@swakks I live Georgia, I'm 56 now and I can remember my grandfather and uncle's doing this job, My grandmother would always be up early in the morning making them breakfast and lunch some morning the neighbors Mr.Shine would come over and have a cup coffee before they all went to the woods, those really were hard happy times.This flim brought back many good memories 😊
Michelle Obama said something that is very true. America has seen her best days. Here in Texas it is hard to assemble a road construction crew. All Mexicans. No whites or blacks working building roads. Some white supervisors.
That was a Tidewater Wheel Saw. My Dad said they used them on the pole yard to trim utility poles to length before chainsaws were used. They were also used in the woods then. South Mississippi.
If we look at what they're actually doing, it is pretty hard work. Can you imagine how strong you have to be to pick up a log that size, hold it steady while walking on top of other logs, the balance you need is very impressive. Very few men would dare do this job.
Watching this film brings back memories in Alabama where my grandmother raised me. We were poor but hard working people. My grandmother use to make a full meal out of nothing in the cabinets. She made me get get out of bed every morning and start a fire in the wood burning stove to heat the house. I had to chop wood and learn to repair anything that operated in and around the house since we had very little money. I only had four pairs of pants and four shirts to go to school for the entire year. The mental toughness my grandmother instilled in me allowed me to become successful in life and excel in everything I did. I thank God and my grandmother for allowing me to live a life of my dreams.
Always Wondered how people watch these old movies all the way through couldn't ever get into them....yet here I was absolutely glued to this movie...I think it's cause it reminds me of my grandpa and his old soul of hard work is only to be proud of...loved it
My family were sharecroppers in Selma Alabama during the Great Depression. So poor in fact someone had to tell them there was a nation wide depression..
This is my like 4th time watching this dcs. just something about it warms my heart. I Pulp wooded for a couple years when I was young. Difference being, we had chainsaw, powered cable to pull the logs and a load arm to load them. It was back breaking work still. I just couldn't imagine having to hand saw & load like these hard working people did. I would love to know what county in GA this was filmed. I also live in central GA.
Momma getting the sowing machine made me drop a tear. I remember my granny and mom making clothes, and other stuff. The only bad part, and even that seems good now, was being dragged to the shop waiting for them to pick out material lol.
I was raised in the upper south, in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, THE REAL VIRGINIA, around folk just like these. Some were Black , some were white. All were friends that helped each other. Color of each others skin wasn't a issue. Till city folks and the government made it one. Anyway, I love country, hard working, southern folk!! How i wish people today could have half of their character. I pray God blessed every person in this film back then. God bless the working folk of the South and all over America!!
Amen brotha North GA. Pickens county born and raised outdoorsman since knee high to a 🦗 lol nice to meet you and all who commented and felt the warmest righteous feelings definitely a God send!
I'm taken with this time of respect, hard work, kinship and love for each other in a family setting such as this one. Money can buy many things, but it can't buy love. Thanks for the memory of that.
This was awesome to watch. Being someone that did that work for a long time up until recently I can appreciate their work ethic and dedication to their craft. Seeing the boy stand in front of the tree while they were felling made me nervous as all hell, that can go bad very quickly along with their exit strategy after the hinge was cut Good thing osha wasn’t a thing then lol
I saw the same and though the same thing lol I actually shared this because I still work logging trees @ 50yrs old I've been doing residential climbing pruning for 13-14 years been logging now for around 4-5 years and always loved outdoors in north ga. mtns. born and raised. Loved seeing this!!
The town is Guyton Ga. The paper mill is the Weyerhaeuser mill (used to be Union Camp) in Port Wentworth. Gilman in St.Marys was still taking "short wood" till 2002. Mr. Hunter was around 55 when this was filmed!! Camdyn county looked just like this then.
Accidentally found this on UA-cam, watch the entire thing with fascination and enjoying it so much, too bad we couldn't go back to a little simpler times
Well not necessarily if things are passed down from generation to generation but very little of family togetherness not like that now back then the moral fiber was stronger I think the ruination or at least part of it is the the TV in the cell phones it made people get away from work ethics
@@johnwest7463 You are right! Todays youngsters don't have a clue about what it means to actually work, let alone hard work requiring one to sweat. Oh they might think that by working out in a jim constitutes hard work. Video games, cell phones and TV's ruinned a whole generation. Before I sold my business I found it very hard to find anyone that new how to work or even know what tools were. These young kids now days don't know how to do anything that requires working with hand tools. They are spoiled and expect everything to be given to them. They are jealous of those who do work and do have more than them. When all they have to do it get out go to work and make it on their own. But that might reguire them to sweat a little bit and they are not going to do it.
@@ajdogcurr1 I remember my Grand Parents Logged and had one of those saws in the Barn because but it was replaced with the Smaller and lighter Chainsaw. I too sold my business a couple years back and for mostly the same reason. So hard to find young people with a good work ethic today. Most are raised by a nanny because their parents are so busy with their own private and personal pleasures...Golf, Tennis, other sporting games that they just forget about the Family Unit. It's like they are just so wrapped up with having their FUN and don't know how to make their Family first. Sad and shameful if you ask me. I have kids with their own Families and they are doing like everyone else because it is a KEEP UP WITH THE JONE'S world now. I have to BLAME COLLEGE for their New Found Attitudes because when they came home it was never a consideration to "Help ol' Dad that was paying ALL their bills for College" but off to have FUN with their buddies...Mom when right along with it and gave me "THE LOOK" otherwise. I liked this show because it reminded me of how i grew up on our Ranch...Dad sold the Ranch when I HAD to go off to Vietnam because he wasn't able to keep up with things by himself...no hired hands lasted more than a month or two.....TOO HARD ON THEM........I say BUNK, they just didn't know HOW TO WORK for a living and why it was so important so the stores had MEAT to put on their shelves. Today people just don't even know where their Meat comes from other than the Super Market Shelf..........SAD state of affairs we are in. I wish it was like those days where the FAMILY UNIT meant EVERYTHING.
As I watch this it brings to life all the stories my grandparents told me about farming and pulping wood in Georgia in the 50s. It's like now I can see exactly what they were talking about. And I remember as a little kid seeing those pulp wood trucks driving around rural Georgia. You don't see them anymore.
Because most of the forests have been decimated/destroyed. We need a serious large scale reforestation plan for the U.S. and most of the whole world before we end up with a desert planet....
@@Praxeus514 I'm in South Ga. alot. I don't see the pulp wood trucks like the ones on this film there anymore. Used to see them as a kid back in the 80's. Now all I see is the big lumber trucks. Those aren't carrying pulp wood though.
Just finished this with my 9 yr old. She loved it and worked splitting better after watching. 🤠 We just today discovered that spitting Birch wood at -7F is the best, as it pops apart being frozen. We cut wood as a family for 13 years in Fairbanks Alaska to heat our home as the primary source of heat. It was good but not as sweet and caring as the Hunter family. 8 to 10 cords from the woods to the house, cut, spit, stack and then dried was alot of work. But dry wood takes time to dry. Wet wood starts house fires. Wood heat beats the $2-3000 dollars in yearly winter heat bills most paid to heat with diesel. We doted over our chainsaws, chains, trailers and trk to make it all go smoothly and we got better each year. Now after years of savings we have a tractor and large lot to laydown logs and we lift and handle wood less by hand and more by machine. Cheers
A time long gone. Kids nowadays will never know the struggles that their grandparents faced on a daily basis. May God continue to bless this loving, caring, hard working family.
My brother and I growing up had to cut much of our firewood with a two man saw because our father had bought a McCulloch chain saw... if you get my drift.. and it was all New York State hardwoods- including a lot of elm by the way. So I can tell you that bending way over and sawing that hard yellow pine loaded with sap to fell those trees is no minor thing.
My dad did Logan in the 70s and 80s also My dad had 5 boys it made all of us better men we all helped everyday when we got out of school That's how we ate dinner Cutting wood Thank god for cutting wood
My grandmother raised thirteen kids and one day in the 1980s she was making me breakfast and I noticed the spoon was flat on one side nearly a third gone and when asked she replied she had worn it away stirring stuff in old cast iron pans over her lifetime could you imagine wearing a spoon out?
I can´t tell about THAT sewing machine, but up north, Thurso a small town in province of Québec, Canada the Singer Company had a sawmill making wood cabinets for these sewing machines. Eventually the mill closed. For 60 years (1926 to 1986) logs were carryed by their own railroad, The Thurso & Nation Valley to sawmill and pulp mill. South of Montréal always in Québec, at St Jean sur Richelieu, the Singer manufacturing had a sewing machine plant. So may be mamma was happy with the wood cabinet and her sewing machine coming from up north.... Excellent doc !
the dad and the two boys played their roles extremely well and very admirable. that video was a great reminder of norman rockwell's 'breaking home ties.'
I was raised just like that. My Dad always hauled pulpwood, sometimes it had to be peeled. Very hard work. We were very poor, but extremely happy. My Dad was the best Buck Patterson 🤗
Same here. Grew up dirt poor but happy and loved.
Yes I was rise like that to smile 😃
Same here.
Hard work and PERCERVERANCE
We were poor but we worked very hard and made a living and we were a happy family
These were the days when men was men and boys were men. Tough as they come. Thank you for posting and thank you for the memories. Mrs Hunter reminds me so much of my mum. Humble, strong, the back bone of the family. Oh i could tell you stories about my mum. I also remember the days when everything was still covered in plastics when purchased new. Look at that lamp on the table, still in plastic wrap. What memories, how we appreciate things back then. Thank you.
Thank you for these good old memories of good old days.👍👍👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰🥰
I was once that young man pulp wooding with my dad after school and on weekends. Kids now don't know how good they have it. They don't know what real work is
Thank you for posting these old films. I was moved by this story of a cooperative family and their helpful neighbors. So unlike what we see too often these days. I hope they all continued to prosper and grow.
You are welcome, gryphonshire. Thank you for watching. :)
HART WORK AND FAITH IN THE LORD WILL PAY OFF.
@@benjaminmorrispittman2665 That's what i took from this and be respectful to your neighbors.
"Thank you for posting these old films"? Dude, those old films are apart of the propoganda to sanitize the image of America in the ninety fifties.
Whew....
@@michaelbentt3018 I swear to God you would think we were at a full blown race war in the 50's. There was segregation back then but this gives me hope it wasn't that crazy
My dad did logging in Alabama during the 80s. He taught me how to load a truck, and use a chain saw. I was a young girl. He was a hard working man and worked until he got old. R.I.P daddy.
Great video! It's a far cry from 2022 media depictions of Georgia in the 40s. There has always been good and bad, both in past, and present. I believe we should focus on the good, as that is how we continue moving forward in a positive way. Mama's sewing machine made me cry!
THISSSSS MADE ME CRY 😢 TOO ACTUALLY SEE A BLACK FAMILY NOT BE SEEN AS POOR AND HAVE A HORRIBLE DEPICTION OF THEM AS A FAMILY. THIS MOVIE RESPRENTS HOW I WAS RAISED. WE WHERE A FAMILY FIRST, GOD FEARING, ALWAYS WORKING AND LOVING OUR MOTHER AND FATHER. RESPECTING OUR NEIGHBORS AND BEING KIND TO OTHERS. NO RACIST TEACHINGS IN OUR HOME EITHER. ALSO LETTING THE CHILD MAKE HIS DREAM CAME TRUE. THIS IS WHY I'M SELF EMPLOYED TODAY BECAUSE MY PARENTS DIDN'T SHOOT ME DOWN BUT LISTENED AND SUPPORTED ME. III LLLOOOVVVEEE THISSSSSS MOVIE MUCH. THX
I agree with you. It all starts at home. I'm Georgia born and raised and we were never taught that we were better than anyone. My daddy was my hero and he never judged anyone by the color of their skin. We never lived in a big city so maybe that makes a difference. I don't know but the state of the world worries me and makes me sad. I know that your family is proud of you and I am proud for you as we say down south! Never stop passing those lessons down. By saving one you might save us all!
My daughter of 9 liked it and worked much better all day because of it.
Cheers from Alaska
I cried about half through that movie. A pulpwood as we call them is the hardest working job a man can do. It was very heartwarming how they worked as a family and how their neighbors come together in time of need.
Good documentary: hard working salt of the earth family!
Your comment made me cry.
I haven't seen such a wonderful documentary in a very long time. This is the face and life of true Americans. Thank you...
This film reminded me of the sixties when I was a kid. I remember seeing my parents and neighbors always socializing at our home, talking, listening to music, talking about how their day went Ect.There was universal love in the black community, we as children played and stayed in a child’s place,. Seeing this film had me reflecting on times of old, we wasn’t rich or wealthy, but we had all the essentials that bonded a black community. This film bought tears to my eyes
I enjoyed that a lot. Thank you.
I am just old enough to remember Loggers that didn't have enough money for a tractor, that still used horses to drag.
I have a high amount of respect for loggers, because I know how hard the work is.
Just reminded me of my Dad. Looking up to him and wanting to be just like him.
And it brought a tear to my eye when they got momma the sewing machine.
Same here
Same here and someone needs to stop cutting these onions.
Very similar to my family's history.!!! My family did cement construction & my mother got her sowing machine She made some beautiful things aound our home & my father & my 11 siblings got a lot more out of life & time with the help of the air compressor ,Dump truck trailer & Bobcat machine the hard & team work it was very similar to this story ( i love this ) Unity / peace / prosperity / & Love to all families that work together for a good common cause... 🙏🇺🇸✊
So awsome friend great to hear that I grew up on farm and I noticed I never have hard time keeping job employers love me it's the way we where tought to work
That's what I did for 20 years. Concrete is extremely hard work, but because of it, my wife was able to stay home and raise both our boys. Both turn out fine young men. I'll agree that it starts in the home.
Thanks for the memories, l grew up in the Australian bush where we made a living cutting railway sleeper's from river Red Gum's with swing saws, much the same in this movie but bigger and heavier with car engins driving them.
Many men were injured using them and some were killed, the cut sleeper's were loaded on the truck by hand this was an International
KB 5 ex 2nd WW lend lease.
and the sleeper's were delivered for cash.
Petrol was one shilling and sixpence a gallon then and a packet of smokes was the same price.
All this was in 1950's
The old truck is still in the yard behind the shed, the swing saw is in the back corner of the shed where the old man left it with an old ragged tarp covering it, the tyres are flat and cracked.
He bought two new chainsaws before he died, and we carried on for a while and it was no longer profitable to cut sleeper's so we went professional fishing and done well until the government stopped that because the recreational fishermen said we took too many fish.
I joined the army, my brother worked for Good Year Tyers, after l was discharged l went into mining for a long time and now retired l have a pine plantation and cut pine posts for treatment and some lumber, l seem to have come full cycle.
Still living on my own in the bush and happy as l can ever be.
Thanks again for up loading this video.
My daughter of 9 liked it and worked much better all day because of it.
Cheers from Alaska
This was excellent!!! The pulpwood cutters were very respected in my are growing up. There was no other job near as tough as this and the men who did this for a living were hard core tougher than nails!
When I was growing up in late 40's early 50's my Mom used to make my shirts on a Singer trundle sewing machine similar to that, I remember doing the trundle by hand once in a while to help her out. We had a two bedroom house with one bathroom. I remember when we bought a new house that had sheetrock we wondered what kind of cheap stuff was this, our hold house had lath and plaster. My, my have things changed, the whole world has changed, I'm not sure if it was for the better or not? I can remember my sister and I used to listen to the "Shadow" on the radio. Life was a lot simpler back then! Thanks for the video, there were a lot of good values in there.
My dad was raised with a cross cut saw in his hand and timber man. I cut a few cap wedges in my day but we had chain saws by my time. This is great video showing some American heritage.
A really good no nonsense document, hard work ain't never killed anybody.
Maybe, in the most technical sense, you’re correct. I’ll grant you that. But of course many men, and indeed women, have been killed while _engaging_ in hard work, in their thousands of thousands. Of course many of the poor souls who give up the ghost at work do so through no fault of their own. Be that from a coworkers malfeasance or an equipment failure that they couldn’t have prevented with routine maintenance.
I really loved this documentary!! The narrator's voice is awesome but the story of an American family that's told is the best part!!
This is a heartwarming and delightful movie! The spirit of neighborliness and care shown by all in this movie was truly exemplary.
we overpopulated and made too much technology and now the planet is heII
Hard time make you strong and humble,I salute this amazing family
Wonderful family teaching there children a work ethic ! Bless there precious souls!,!
All people need to watch this. Learn how spoiled we've become.
Alexa, cut tree down 😊
Great family dynamic. Thank God for the people who work hard, make necessary sacrifices for shared goals, respect whatever contribution/s each family member makes and never begrudge a prospect of more effort to succeed than ever before. God bless them every one.
I remember my dad having this job. He also farmed. My mom didn’t work anywhere because Shane had asthma. I loved my childhood seeing my day use the chainsaw . I’m 65 years old now and these were some of the best memories of my life. He also wore overalls also. He had 40 acres after the war, so we grew. everything. My dad had 2 mules. I loved it
Everyone should have to work like this at least once in there life
This is how family is supposed to be!
This documentary reminds me when I was in the country as a boy with my family. After a hard weeks work chopping cotton or picking cotton and doing my chores, I thoroughly enjoyed eating breakfast with the Family on the weekend. If my daddy ate a dozen eggs Mom would give me six, Just one of the fun things I remember. My Dad with the help of the Lord took care of the Family. For that I will always and forever be grateful. My Mom and Dad was the greatest.
My daughter of 9 liked it and worked much better all day because of it.
Cheers from Alaska
AMEN
This would be excellent for young boys to watch - that was some hard work back then. Kids today can't come close to working this hard. This was very enjoyable to watch and you have give the filmmaker a lot of credit for putting this together in the 50's.
My daughter of 9 liked it and worked much better all day because of it.
Cheers from Alaska
Cellphones and PlayStations and fat kids nowadays.
GET OUT THER AND GO FLIP BURGERS THEN.
Yes sir your spot on 100% I used to split wood after school from first grade until twelfth grade graduation and to this day split chunks like no one's bizniss the last 4 years working for a logging co. and before that 14 years in residential tree work even still have climbing gear but seeing this was my blessing tonight!!
My great-grandfather & my great uncles all did this job in Ga during the 50’s, they lived near Macon. It was hard work. One day a woman they knew (a black woman that had 8 or 9 kids. Her name was Mrs. Penniman.) She asked my GGF if he’d let one of her sons go out in the woods to help, to fetch water, etc. & feed him lunch, cause she couldn’t afford food for her whole family.The boys name was Richard, & he’d ride on back of the log truck & sing songs. They called him “little” cause his Daddy’s name was also Richard. He used that name the rest of his life, became a big star, & the actual originator of rock n roll, Little Richard. My GGF’s name was Gordon Hall.
Wow!!!!!!
Just watching those guys work gave me back spasms.
The one good thing about brush fires in relatively clear land like was depicted in this film, is that they typically move very quickly and don’t damage the standing trees. The fire also adds the bonus of making the soil more fertile and clearing underbrush that makes logging in these circumstances more difficult.
Those fires actually helped the white pine.
I was born and raised in Georgia, I've lived in many other places and state's around the country, but I've come full circle.
I'm living in the same county I grew up in, not far from my grandparents farm here, where I spent a lot of time.
Life on that farm is one of my fondest memories...
This film brings back so many great memories, some bittersweet, but presious...
Journey Well Brother's and Sister's 🙏
Me too Don Bell, Been all over the place and now in the middle part of the country. Thinking two years from now we should be back in the deep. I’d go to Montana but the cold has convinced me not too.
I went through south Georgia to Jacksonville bout a month ago . Those swamps and pine Forrest are majestic.
yah please don cut them down
Very enjoyable. Growing up in Georgia I can remember when much of middle and South Georgia looked like that. A different time before the cohesiveness of family began to unravel. This documentary made me smile and brought back memories.
Me too. Good ole days for sure
@@swakks I live Georgia, I'm 56 now and I can remember my grandfather and uncle's doing this job, My grandmother would always be up early in the morning making them breakfast and lunch some morning the neighbors Mr.Shine would come over and have a cup coffee before they all went to the woods, those really were hard happy times.This flim brought back many good memories 😊
Michelle Obama said something that is very true. America has seen her best days. Here in Texas it is hard to assemble a road construction crew. All Mexicans. No whites or blacks working building roads. Some white supervisors.
That was a Tidewater Wheel Saw. My Dad said they used them on the pole yard to trim utility poles to length before chainsaws were used. They were also used in the woods then. South Mississippi.
What a beautiful clean life
I saw this film over a year ago ,and I have thought of it often . Such a wonderful story of a great America family . Thankyou for posting it .
If we look at what they're actually doing, it is pretty hard work. Can you imagine how strong you have to be to pick up a log that size, hold it steady while walking on top of other logs, the balance you need is very impressive. Very few men would dare do this job.
Watching this film brings back memories in Alabama where my grandmother raised me. We were poor but hard working people. My grandmother use to make a full meal out of nothing in the cabinets. She made me get get out of bed every morning and start a fire in the wood burning stove to heat the house. I had to chop wood and learn to repair anything that operated in and around the house since we had very little money. I only had four pairs of pants and four shirts to go to school for the entire year. The mental toughness my grandmother instilled in me allowed me to become successful in life and excel in everything I did. I thank God and my grandmother for allowing me to live a life of my dreams.
Always Wondered how people watch these old movies all the way through couldn't ever get into them....yet here I was absolutely glued to this movie...I think it's cause it reminds me of my grandpa and his old soul of hard work is only to be proud of...loved it
This IS the American dream. You work hard. You can get things you want and need. Great reminder.
This was a very moving film. Tell’s the story of a hard working family that set a goal 👍👍❤️❤️🤠
My daughter of 9 liked it and worked much better all day because of it.
Cheers from Alaska
My family were sharecroppers in Selma Alabama during the Great Depression. So poor in fact someone had to tell them there was a nation wide depression..
This is my like 4th time watching this dcs. just something about it warms my heart. I Pulp wooded for a couple years when I was young. Difference being, we had chainsaw, powered cable to pull the logs and a load arm to load them. It was back breaking work still. I just couldn't imagine having to hand saw & load like these hard working people did. I would love to know what county in GA this was filmed. I also live in central GA.
Me too, in north ga. Pickens county!! 1971
This was filmed in Effingham County Guyton ,Ga
You all just do not know where this dock took me back to. Love you all for this.
I love the old ways , and yes hard work pays off
Momma getting the sowing machine made me drop a tear. I remember my granny and mom making clothes, and other stuff. The only bad part, and even that seems good now, was being dragged to the shop waiting for them to pick out material lol.
Well done ! So glad ma got her sewing machine !
I was raised in the upper south, in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, THE REAL VIRGINIA, around folk just like these. Some were Black , some were white. All were friends that helped each other. Color of each others skin wasn't a issue. Till city folks and the government made it one. Anyway, I love country, hard working, southern folk!! How i wish people today could have half of their character. I pray God blessed every person in this film back then. God bless the working folk of the South and all over America!!
Amen brotha North GA. Pickens county born and raised outdoorsman since knee high to a 🦗 lol nice to meet you and all who commented and felt the warmest righteous feelings definitely a God send!
Thank you for posting this movie. This is the way people should be treat today but it's not.
A value that once kept our families together hope all the young people today appreciate this documentary.
I'm taken with this time of respect, hard work, kinship and love for each other in a family setting such as this one. Money can buy many things, but it can't buy love. Thanks for the memory of that.
Opening scene = Nice American family......I wish more families were like this.
Exists in many other countries.
A family that works together as a team can and will over come anything they put their goals to achieve period. Not a question if, but when.
That was the way of life back then and everything was so good, just beautiful
I enjoyed this so much. This is what families do, help each other get to goals that benefit them all.
Haha, how can anyone give this a thumbs down? It's history, it just is what it is!
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Close minded hick!!
@@tracymesser296 😅🤣😂
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This was awesome to watch. Being someone that did that work for a long time up until recently I can appreciate their work ethic and dedication to their craft. Seeing the boy stand in front of the tree while they were felling made me nervous as all hell, that can go bad very quickly along with their exit strategy after the hinge was cut Good thing osha wasn’t a thing then lol
I saw the same and though the same thing lol I actually shared this because I still work logging trees @ 50yrs old I've been doing residential climbing pruning for 13-14 years been logging now for around 4-5 years and always loved outdoors in north ga. mtns. born and raised. Loved seeing this!!
@@caseyhowell7341 hell yeah brother! I actually just started back commercially today with same company
I had a friend lived near us, his Dad was WW2 veteran who worked at Georgia Pacific for 30 years.
Now this what you call hard labor work,may they rest easy in peace
The town is Guyton Ga. The paper mill is the Weyerhaeuser mill (used to be Union Camp) in Port Wentworth. Gilman in St.Marys was still taking "short wood" till 2002. Mr. Hunter was around 55 when this was filmed!! Camdyn county looked just like this then.
I think the saw was made by KutKwik in Brunswick, they're still in business.
This movie is mostly likely about my family
SAWING THOSE TREES WAS HARD WORK. THANK GOD FOR THE CHAIN SAW.
Accidentally found this on UA-cam, watch the entire thing with fascination and enjoying it so much, too bad we couldn't go back to a little simpler times
thank you....i was raised much like this and yes its a very real representation of the rural america way of life...now for the progress we are today
Forest conservation and management is a very real current issue that needs to be handled with judicious responsibility.
What a great look at the years gone by. Got to be a hard life. I tip my hat to that family and their way of life, gone now I'm sure.
Well not necessarily if things are passed down from generation to generation but very little of family togetherness not like that now back then the moral fiber was stronger I think the ruination or at least part of it is the the TV in the cell phones it made people get away from work ethics
@@johnwest7463 You are right! Todays youngsters don't have a clue about what it means to actually work, let alone hard work requiring one to sweat. Oh they might think that by working out in a jim constitutes hard work. Video games, cell phones and TV's ruinned a whole generation. Before I sold my business I found it very hard to find anyone that new how to work or even know what tools were. These young kids now days don't know how to do anything that requires working with hand tools. They are spoiled and expect everything to be given to them. They are jealous of those who do work and do have more than them. When all they have to do it get out go to work and make it on their own. But that might reguire them to sweat a little bit and they are not going to do it.
@@ajdogcurr1 I remember my Grand Parents Logged and had one of those saws in the Barn because but it was replaced with the Smaller and lighter Chainsaw.
I too sold my business a couple years back and for mostly the same reason. So hard to find young people with a good work ethic today. Most are raised by a nanny because their parents are so busy with their own private and personal pleasures...Golf, Tennis, other sporting games that they just forget about the Family Unit. It's like they are just so wrapped up with having their FUN and don't know how to make their Family first. Sad and shameful if you ask me.
I have kids with their own Families and they are doing like everyone else because it is a KEEP UP WITH THE JONE'S world now. I have to BLAME COLLEGE for their New Found Attitudes because when they came home it was never a consideration to "Help ol' Dad that was paying ALL their bills for College" but off to have FUN with their buddies...Mom when right along with it and gave me "THE LOOK" otherwise.
I liked this show because it reminded me of how i grew up on our Ranch...Dad sold the Ranch when I HAD to go off to Vietnam because he wasn't able to keep up with things by himself...no hired hands lasted more than a month or two.....TOO HARD ON THEM........I say BUNK, they just didn't know HOW TO WORK for a living and why it was so important so the stores had MEAT to put on their shelves.
Today people just don't even know where their Meat comes from other than the Super Market Shelf..........SAD state of affairs we are in.
I wish it was like those days where the FAMILY UNIT meant EVERYTHING.
@@ajdogcurr1 Uh huh. You can't even spell gym. See. You should have got more education instead of working like an adult in your youth lol.
@@tealtazmanian966 You probably wanted to work them for nothing.
love it really move by this !! being raised by grandmother & old school , can't help but enjoy every moment
I Loved It And Finished The Whole Video!
God Bless Them Wherever They Are!
One of the most heart felt movies ever that's how family should be love in action
As I watch this it brings to life all the stories my grandparents told me about farming and pulping wood in Georgia in the 50s. It's like now I can see exactly what they were talking about.
And I remember as a little kid seeing those pulp wood trucks driving around rural Georgia. You don't see them anymore.
Because most of the forests have been decimated/destroyed. We need a serious large scale reforestation plan for the U.S. and most of the whole world before we end up with a desert planet....
Come to South Georgia. Pulp wood trucks are everywhere.
@@Praxeus514 I'm in South Ga. alot. I don't see the pulp wood trucks like the ones on this film there anymore. Used to see them as a kid back in the 80's. Now all I see is the big lumber trucks. Those aren't carrying pulp wood though.
@@gacaptain south west or south east?
@@Praxeus514 Southwest.
The kind of people I grew up with in BC in the late '40's including the axe & misery whip.
Just finished this with my 9 yr old. She loved it and worked splitting better after watching. 🤠 We just today discovered that spitting Birch wood at -7F is the best, as it pops apart being frozen.
We cut wood as a family for 13 years in Fairbanks Alaska to heat our home as the primary source of heat. It was good but not as sweet and caring as the Hunter family. 8 to 10 cords from the woods to the house, cut, spit, stack and then dried was alot of work. But dry wood takes time to dry. Wet wood starts house fires.
Wood heat beats the $2-3000 dollars in yearly winter heat bills most paid to heat with diesel. We doted over our chainsaws, chains, trailers and trk to make it all go smoothly and we got better each year.
Now after years of savings we have a tractor and large lot to laydown logs and we lift and handle wood less by hand and more by machine.
Cheers
Man I wanted to go help them with my Stihl 391 when that second Hodges truck came roaring by
This was as good as watching an old movie if not better.
A time long gone. Kids nowadays will never know the struggles that their grandparents faced on a daily basis. May God continue to bless this loving, caring, hard working family.
My brother and I growing up had to cut much of our firewood with a two man saw because our father had bought a McCulloch chain saw... if you get my drift.. and it was all New York State hardwoods- including a lot of elm by the way. So I can tell you that bending way over and sawing that hard yellow pine loaded with sap to fell those trees is no minor thing.
Your shit out of luck when you buy a McCulloch chainsaw. They were almost impossible to start.
That older boy almost looks white or Hispanic.
And after watching this, I would like a term paper about “family values” written by you viewers. Due on my desk by tomorrow…….
Wonderful story, enjoyed the background and old buildings.
Wonderful film! These folks sure knew hard work! Amazing.
Best thing I’ve watched all day. God bless. Kansas
This family encourage me too work on my land and raised a good garden and fruit 🍑 trees
My dad did Logan in the 70s and 80s also My dad had 5 boys it made all of us better men we all helped everyday when we got out of school That's how we ate dinner Cutting wood Thank god for cutting wood
This is a beautiful documentary.
Brings back rich memories of my childhood. FAMILY. A willingness to work and to work together ❤
What a heart-melting and wonderful story of efforts and rewards.
My grandmother raised thirteen kids and one day in the 1980s she was making me breakfast and I noticed the spoon was flat on one side nearly a third gone and when asked she replied she had worn it away stirring stuff in old cast iron pans over her lifetime could you imagine wearing a spoon out?
This should be shown in all schools
An inspiration to dream and go for it no matter what comes your way. It reminds me of where I came from. Thank you for this great movie/documentary!
I can´t tell about THAT sewing machine, but up north, Thurso a small town in province of Québec, Canada the Singer Company had a sawmill making wood cabinets for these sewing machines. Eventually the mill closed. For 60 years
(1926 to 1986) logs were carryed by their own railroad, The Thurso & Nation Valley to sawmill and pulp mill.
South of Montréal always in Québec, at St Jean sur Richelieu, the Singer manufacturing had a sewing machine plant.
So may be mamma was happy with the wood cabinet and her sewing machine coming from up north....
Excellent doc !
This is very different than life today, but does seem to emphasize a thinking young guy who appears to be trying to be ready for the future.
FANTASTIC GREAT ENDING
the dad and the two boys played their roles extremely well and very admirable. that video was a great reminder of norman rockwell's 'breaking home ties.'
This movie warms my heart. Perfect way to live. God bless us all.
Wonderful video……from the time of strong families and hard workers who were self sufficient and proud.
Excellent movie thanks so much for sharing, this movie reminded me of my childhood, only we were poorer, yet very happy!
*Boy am I glad they make chainsaws now. These men really worked their asses off back then.*
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this was a very moving and well done film, and the transfer to videos excellent....thank you so much
I grew up in south East GA around the generation right after this kids
Great movie enjoyed it alot
Wonderful movie! Loved it.
One of the coolest channels on UA-cam imo thanks for uploading all this wonderful interesting content.
Thank you very much blueridger28.
What a pleasure to watch