It's one thing to see old worn out equipment lost deep in the woods. Then to see the same equipment being used with not very many hours on them. Great video ty
Guessing this was about 1960 as a lot of the equipment looks the same as when I started BC coast logging in 64. Definitely a man's world in those days. A very high pucker factor in all the logging jobs. Logging killed 70 men a year in BC in those days and nary a word about it on the TV news. I saw two killed in one day on one job site.
Maybe I missed it, but looked like butt rigging downhill to me. Shot gunning was all uphill only. I ran shot gun carriages on quite a few different yarders for years.
actually that's just a recording of an old projector I added to give it a more authentic feel. I had all my Dad's old 8mm footage converted to DVD so there is no sound on the footage to start with.
I worked for Hayes Trucks, 2nd Ave Vancouver BC, just after Mac Trucks took them over in 1970/71 ten years after this footage was shot. I worked on the cab over line, we made a few highway loggers [best built frames anywhere], but Hayes was known for there off road rigid frame loggers. These were huge in every respect, some had V12 Cat engines, and lots of Cummings. For perspective, the drive line universal joints were as big as pumpkins. Sadly, Hayes went out of business shortly after Mac took over. I believe the rigid frame design was taken over by Pacific Trucks in North Vancouver.
Mechanized logging appeared very early in north america... At the same time when this was recorded, my father and grand-father were logging with bulls and two-man saws in French back country. They would have been amazed to see this was going on on the other side of the ocean!
Yes it was the nw and ne of North America where mech logging first started. (And mech mining as well) BC, Washington state, Oregon, Alaska, North California on the west coast. then Quebec, Ontario, New England, Upstate NY, PA a bit too on the east coast....the rest of the world seems did it the old fashioned way for a long Long time. In the Catskill and Adirondacks we do it q bit different, no yarders, most everything is drug to q landing by cable skidder and put on trucks there,, (because the remoteness of the nw doesn't exist here lol). It's q family tradition for him, his family has been logging the Catskill for over 200years. His greatgrandfather was the first to own mech loging machines in the Catskill. That was the 20s lololol! ....my other half n I owned a selective timber harvesting Co in the Catskill mountains of New York in the early 2000s. We mostly custom cut special order veneer logs for KeystoneVeneers. Bottom fell outta hard woods with the morgage crisis of 08 put us under pretty quick. Timber prices bout cut in half same time diesel fuel price doubled. Unsustainable to say the least....
Loved this! The Hayes and Brockway trucks were awesome! We hauled with off-highway Kenworths to Wewyerhauser's mill in Klamath Falls, sometimes grossing 240,000 pounds. I miss those days! Thanks for the memories!
Did you spend any time in the sycan Marsh? 500 reload? I haul around Klamath falls quite a bit. I would be really interested in some stories and maybe pictures if you have any.
@@stevejake4316, yes, 500 reload and the 700 reload, which was just three or four miles west of the Camp 9 pad, and the Camp 6 reload was still active then. The reload in the Bly yard was active then too. It was a busy time. I have one or two pics of my truck on the 700 reload scales somewhere. I'll try to find them.
Some very interesting footage. Looks like a 50's Euclid log hauler was just moving out in a brief section of this film. Bet it was pretty hairy driving down some of those logging roads.
aaahhhh the good old day's when men wore men an equipment was equipment an job's like this wore done in a week . not like to day it would take months to get this done , fucking OSHA.
The Hayes that shows up around 3:12 was the Demidoff's - a couple brothers, as I recall. They did some contract hauling for Pretty's Ltd. at Hope when my Dad was manager, between 1960 - '66. I actually remember the trucks, they were pretty cool for Hope at the time, and a lot more blue than shows up on this old film.
the first equipment was known as a "heel boom" used for loading logs onto truck. Note the distinct angle on the boom. The second is a "skid cat" which brought logs down to the landing.
After reading all the comments, glad you have the courage to leave up with all the hatters that know little of which they speak. We worked for anywheres from ten dollars a day to some of us making fifteen a day and a day was ten hours. You could rent a nice place for twenty five dollars and up to I heard almost sixty a month and forty dollars would feed a family for a month. We worked a six day week and it was twenty five cents for a bottle of beer or draft for ten cents except happy hour when you could buy two at a time for five cents!! No one stayed long as work to be done but a couple was fine. We worked real hard in bad weather and all, provided for our wife and kids, when we couldn't push snow no more in november early december then we waited for spring and that could come late as may and we all had tabs at the grocery store of a hundred or so
wow i remember these kinds od logging machines like it was yesterday. we lived in bostonbar and know the area .so beautiful .time sure waits for no one .loved the old logging video .:))
oh no im all for new and better im very eco friendly. my father was a faller when i was little and clear cut then went to a processer and select falling wich im all for just brought back good memories.
I'm a 70 year ex logger an hauled logs into marysville via the bostonbar area. I worked for Greenleaf logging in early sixties and bostonbar had a tavern that my girlfriend danced in. Funny how we went from imagination to leaving nothing for the imagination in these times. That was as close to heaven as it got right where you live
Bergred oh, they were out there, just never heard about it! My old boss told me a story about having some equipment sabotaged by a group of greenies, so once they found out where they were they went into they’re camp with 2x4s and taught each guy a lesson
Glen Stromquist well I sure liked it that little truck hauling that monster down the road was something else and it was before the big diesel power too
they had big diesel engines back then but it was more common to have a truck with up to 400 horse trucks also had more torque back then than the standard highway truck
Hi, I would like to know wether the video is taken by you? If yes, is it possible for me to use part of your video for my project about eco-friendly? I will definitely cite you youtube account at the end of my video ! I look forward to seeing your reply. Thank you so much ;)
It makes me rather sad to think of how much of the old growth forests has been destroyed. At least in the US they are using tree farms now for wood and paper, but Asia, South America, Madagascar - still just clear cutting.
Good video, glad some one had a movie camera back then and that you put it up here for us to view. Like the old Hayes trucks. thanks for posting
It's one thing to see old worn out equipment lost deep in the woods. Then to see the same equipment being used with not very many hours on them. Great video ty
I feel real smart. I thought, wow that crawler sounds really quiet and well tuned then I figured out I was hearing the projector.🙄
that's back when operating equipment took real skill
This is the first footage of a skid row I've seen; very neat. Hard work, good pay, good times..
Good to see the old "HAYES" trucks,built ion Vancouver,BC.
Guessing this was about 1960 as a lot of the equipment looks the same as when I started BC coast logging in 64. Definitely a man's world in those days. A very high pucker factor in all the logging jobs. Logging killed 70 men a year in BC in those days and nary a word about it on the TV news. I saw two killed in one day on one job site.
Wow! so much I forgot to remember! Wish I had a camera back then
👍 Thank you
That's pretty awesome thanks for sharing!
I remember the days, I remember the equipment. LOL I spent many days out there. LOL
Awesome video!
Shot gun logging... love it
Maybe I missed it, but looked like butt rigging downhill to me. Shot gunning was all uphill only. I ran shot gun carriages on quite a few different yarders for years.
@@jimlambrick4642 yeah ground pounding downhill high leading.
Really fuckin’ amazing
Keep the VIDEOS COMING BROTHER old or new?? Love it
Sounds like a gas powered movie camera
Severe grampa gears
i think the sound is a gas powered air compressor kicking in and out.
thats the sound of the film on the roll.
actually that's just a recording of an old projector I added to give it a more authentic feel. I had all my Dad's old 8mm footage converted to DVD so there is no sound on the footage to start with.
so then I was half correct!
If its not steam powered.. its not old.
hey lets rip the earth apart for some money we will be rich and left without a forest but hey we were rich
Trucks look overloaded like in a third world country.
These are “off highway” trucks. They are designed to haul loads like this.
These trucks are twice as big as modern
I worked for Hayes Trucks, 2nd Ave Vancouver BC, just after Mac Trucks took them over in 1970/71 ten years after this footage was shot. I worked on the cab over line, we made a few highway loggers [best built frames anywhere], but Hayes was known for there off road rigid frame loggers. These were huge in every respect, some had V12 Cat engines, and lots of Cummings.
For perspective, the drive line universal joints were as big as pumpkins.
Sadly, Hayes went out of business shortly after Mac took over. I believe the rigid frame design was taken over by Pacific Trucks in North Vancouver.
At first I thought about that sound was the sound of the engines then I realized it was just the sound of the movie projector🤣😁
Mechanized logging appeared very early in north america... At the same time when this was recorded, my father and grand-father were logging with bulls and two-man saws in French back country. They would have been amazed to see this was going on on the other side of the ocean!
Sorry I know your comment is from long ago But my great grandfather used to use bulls and large wagons in the 1920-1940 period here in north Georgia
Yes it was the nw and ne of North America where mech logging first started. (And mech mining as well)
BC, Washington state, Oregon, Alaska, North California on the west coast.
then Quebec, Ontario, New England, Upstate NY, PA a bit too on the east coast....the rest of the world seems did it the old fashioned way for a long Long time. In the Catskill and Adirondacks we do it q bit different, no yarders, most everything is drug to q landing by cable skidder and put on trucks there,, (because the remoteness of the nw doesn't exist here lol). It's q family tradition for him, his family has been logging the Catskill for over 200years.
His greatgrandfather was the first to own mech loging machines in the Catskill. That was the 20s lololol! ....my other half n I owned a selective timber harvesting Co in the Catskill mountains of New York in the early 2000s. We mostly custom cut special order veneer logs for KeystoneVeneers. Bottom fell outta hard woods with the morgage crisis of 08 put us under pretty quick. Timber prices bout cut in half same time diesel fuel price doubled. Unsustainable to say the least....
The size of the wood those guys logged was huge, that's why it was mechanized, you'd need an ox team of a dozen on a corduroy greased trail.
Loved this! The Hayes and Brockway trucks were awesome! We hauled with off-highway Kenworths to Wewyerhauser's mill in Klamath Falls, sometimes grossing 240,000 pounds. I miss those days! Thanks for the memories!
i live in the oregon area, would love to hear some stories and see photos if ya have any!
Did you spend any time in the sycan Marsh? 500 reload? I haul around Klamath falls quite a bit. I would be really interested in some stories and maybe pictures if you have any.
@@stevejake4316, yes, 500 reload and the 700 reload, which was just three or four miles west of the Camp 9 pad, and the Camp 6 reload was still active then. The reload in the Bly yard was active then too. It was a busy time. I have one or two pics of my truck on the 700 reload scales somewhere. I'll try to find them.
Some very interesting footage. Looks like a 50's Euclid log hauler was just moving out in a brief section of this film. Bet it was pretty hairy driving down some of those logging roads.
aaahhhh the good old day's when men wore men an equipment was equipment an job's like this wore done in a week . not like to day it would take months to get this done , fucking OSHA.
I don't even think those men were confused about there gender either huh !!!!
The Hayes that shows up around 3:12 was the Demidoff's - a couple brothers, as I recall. They did some contract hauling for Pretty's Ltd. at Hope when my Dad was manager, between 1960 - '66. I actually remember the trucks, they were pretty cool for Hope at the time, and a lot more blue than shows up on this old film.
important british columbia history depicted here: the history of truck logging has yet to be carefully studied. thanks for sharing!
Some people think modern logging is dangerous! Well it is but today it’s watered down a ton.
It's amazing the amount of timber that single dually pulled out of there!! The power of people and machinery never ceases to amaze me
Old fat trucks do whatever they damn well please. They could pull a mountain off its base and turn the earth the wrong way round!
AND THE DESTRUCTION TO THE ENVIRONMENT WAS ASTRONOMICAL THE SALMON SPAWNING GROUNDS , WE REALLY JUST DIDN'T KNOW AND THE COMPANIES JUST DIDN'T CARE ,
the first equipment was known as a "heel boom" used for loading logs onto truck. Note the distinct angle on the boom. The second is a "skid cat" which brought logs down to the landing.
Also called a jamer
@@kimmoore4857 Haven't heard that term in a looonng time.
Back in the day when trees were trees, equipment was equipment, and men were men. Those days are gone forever unfortunately.
Well all the old growth is almost gone. Look at the major destruction. Makes ya proud huh?
@@mikeravenelle7073 yes, mike
After reading all the comments, glad you have the courage to leave up with all the hatters that know little of which they speak. We worked for anywheres from ten dollars a day to some of us making fifteen a day and a day was ten hours. You could rent a nice place for twenty five dollars and up to I heard almost sixty a month and forty dollars would feed a family for a month. We worked a six day week and it was twenty five cents for a bottle of beer or draft for ten cents except happy hour when you could buy two at a time for five cents!! No one stayed long as work to be done but a couple was fine. We worked real hard in bad weather and all, provided for our wife and kids, when we couldn't push snow no more in november early december then we waited for spring and that could come late as may and we all had tabs at the grocery store of a hundred or so
wow i remember these kinds od logging machines like it was yesterday. we lived in bostonbar and know the area .so beautiful .time sure waits for no one .loved the old logging video .:))
oh no im all for new and better im very eco friendly. my father was a faller when i was little and clear cut then went to a processer and select falling wich im all for just brought back good memories.
I'm a 70 year ex logger an hauled logs into marysville via the bostonbar area. I worked for Greenleaf logging in early sixties and bostonbar had a tavern that my girlfriend danced in. Funny how we went from imagination to leaving nothing for the imagination in these times. That was as close to heaven as it got right where you live
There was Some Big Old Growth Timber in this film . Thanks for Sharing ..
thank you for sharing that awesome footage of the golden years of logging.
Hey look those machines ran ! Without God dam computer s & Def huh marine that !
the era before treehuggers went up in trees, blocked roads, sabotaged equipment.you didn't even seem them at all...boy them were the days.
Bergred oh, they were out there, just never heard about it! My old boss told me a story about having some equipment sabotaged by a group of greenies, so once they found out where they were they went into they’re camp with 2x4s and taught each guy a lesson
I grew up making messes just like this ,maybe even bigger messes ! But when the chips were down we won every damn time
I remembered those days, I logged up by Sprit Lake before St Hellen blew its top.
Wholly crap, at 6.00 in tape, that truck was crazy dangerous overloaded, or just me?
fuckin DOT approved
Back when men where men, and women knew it!
This is why there is a supposed wage gap.
Gee they loaded those trucks up
I wonder how many people died making this movie.
gutsy skilled operators I take my hat off to these men
Check out the 65 2 door GMC Carryall
Great old machine.
That DeHavilland is a much better ride, though.
That's right ! I was thinking Suburban sedan, but that was Chevy...
great colour good old video's, my dad was a timber getter south east QLD Australia late 50s to late 70's hard wood timber's.
I guess it's all dangerously overloaded!
That's when trucks were trucks.
6:10 holy shit massive old growth
Film sounds like a lawnmower running
What's that 57 Chev doing up there LOL?
Looks like stillwater near powell river
at 0:47 is that sasquatch
Sure looks like a hairy man to me crossing the dirt road. Awesome footage of how things were done.
Great footage, thanks for sharing!
Awesome thanks for sharing
This is so cool.
Awesome vid. Back when men were men and sheep were scared.
+Dee O. Gee They still are in BC. Well at least the sheep part.
You can just see all that male privilege oozing out :)
Hell yea!! ty for this!
Wow what a cool bunch of vintage logging videos , nothing like the ones on my channel! Real cool share
Nice shot of that De Havilland Beaver aircraft.
Not a beaver, it's an Otter.
7:30 no thanks
this was done in the early 1960's
Glen Stromquist well I sure liked it that little truck hauling that monster down the road was something else and it was before the big diesel power too
they had big diesel engines back then but it was more common to have a truck with up to 400 horse trucks also had more torque back then than the standard highway truck
@@farmallskittle bigger then V12 Detroit's ?
@@killingoldgrowthsince they had v16 detroits just not in semis as far as i know
@@farmallskittle can't say I've seen a V16 in a logging truck.
Thanks for posting. Looks like BC.
timber_beast It is British Columbia. Looks like the mainland though.
Logging in the snow...I'd hate to be the choker setter on that job.
That's so awesome to see old school logging
What year was this taken. And where?
I would love to own that old IH Scout 80 or that Hayes.
Old logging,🔔👍👍
Would to have that scout at 3:04
Is this the 50s
Sweet video, thanks for sharing
Looked like good goin for those guys!
What a great video thanks much
Old boom swing loader..
صناعة متينة
Luv yellow iron!
great video! I love old logging videos!
O.nosso.pais.e.uma.piada.mesmo.
what years this video recorded ?
the good ole days...
Wun feather or..the wood old days 🤪
some nice timber !!
Is this in southeast B.C.?
Southwest, around the Hope area, and some of it I believe is MacKenzie BC before they flooded Williston Lake
+PolkRidgeAesthete
No --------- NW sahara region of Algeria.
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6:18 lordy lordy
Dylan McCarty That was normal.
awesome footage! love it!
Svenskättling?
Korrekt
Nice! Old friction cranes...now all quiet hydro easy to run stuff..
Those old friction cranes had asbestos brake shoes, many operators died of lung cancer, stuck in the cab mere feet away from the draw works.
@@felixmbright bullshit you idiot
Hi, I would like to know wether the video is taken by you? If yes, is it possible for me to use part of your video for my project about eco-friendly? I will definitely cite you youtube account at the end of my video ! I look forward to seeing your reply. Thank you so much ;)
Good movies
is this vancouver island?
Is this Huaskin?
It makes me rather sad to think of how much of the old growth forests has been destroyed. At least in the US they are using tree farms now for wood and paper, but Asia, South America, Madagascar - still just clear cutting.
This is Clear-cutting; that's grieving! And the places you named, THAT is grieving!!
They get old and fall down anyway
That's awful
Destroying forest how sad
Cry more
Stop deforestacion
Stop despellification
Cry more