Another great video!..sure brings back memories of working up in T4R16 Elm pond camp back in the early 70's. i was running Husqvarna's then and they had not caught on very much yet. i liked them so much i became a dealer in '79 and i'm still sellin' them today. very nice retirement hobby. can't wait 'till your next video!👌
@@michaelbrash8843 Yes/!!..that's the only way you can give the EXACT location up in that part of maine. you take a wrong turn up there it will maybe take you a long time to make it back to town.
Thanks for posting these videos. People who go to the millinocket area now have no idea what a booming area it used to be before The paper and lumber industry died off , alot of it moved to mexico and overseas. I find it pretty ridiculous whats happened to the timber industry in maine, we have nothing but woods yet you will never see a new pulp or paper mill built here again. Companies would rather build them in china or mexico. And import the wood. I worked at the paper mill in jay as electric as a contractor and as soon as the mill closed in 2023 after the pulp mill explosion the company received the $330million insurance payout and chose to closed the mill instead of repairing it. then the paper machine and pulping equipment was removed and sent to mexico to be installed in a coated paper mill. Same thing happened with the paper machine in the madison mill . Probably the #11 machine from millinocket mill as well. This whole idea that no one uses paper anymore is over exaggerated, certain grades of paper have declined like publication and newsprint but specialty packageing and food grades are still growing.
The last job I worked before I went to Kennebec hardware in Bath as some call it, was working for AIC. Replacing the MCCs on the wet end of #2 what was the name for the #1 beside it, that was idled? Was it the Fitz? Been almost 12 years now.
Yes. That was the fitz. Not sure where the name came from #2 was removed and sent to mexico last year Pretty sad We are losing all the industry in maine
From what I remember from that job, the man the #1 machine named for was a great grandson/ engineer overseeing the shutdown. On #2 machine. Sucks out loud how the paper industry is dying. 11 years ago at least Westbrook, Jay, and Mad-Town was up and running. And folks trying to get lincoln after the explosion up again. Before the Jay explosion. I’m sure anyone wanting to know about the Jay explosion can find the video…
Remember working and staying in a camp up near st. Pamphile with french men. Lol they drank hard wed night and left thur noon. They had us bringing them cases of budwieser on sunday nights when we arrived. Monday afternoon was a line to grab their orders of beer and smokes. Good bunch of guys really
My father and brothers work for the great northern company and he work for Fernand madden,omer daigle,jim pelletier, at north maine woods and at west lake,it was the best years
Some Canadian Timberjack skidders there. Can tell by fenders on the back. The Canadians use to rebuild the back fenders to make them bigger plus they lengthened their frames in the back. See many skidders like that working for the GNP back in the day. No text book wood cutters back then, all on the job training with common sense. The way it should be.
Thank for posting this. These guys are demonstrating some serious skills. My family got their camp lot lease from Great Northern in the 1960s while this was still how logging was done & before the Golden Road was built. Is there any chance you filmed log drives on the Penobscot & the log tows on the log route to the GNP paper mills?
So many people watching this don’t understand the work into this. I miss it, but I don’t. The only down time is the amount of time a piece of equipment is down. If you had time to text your girlfriend, you were given all the time to do what ever your little heart desired. Back when the worthless workers were weeded out and not kept around because “we need the body”. If you were a minute late meeting the ride to the landing, DO NOT find your own way up there, as you are heading in to the biggest ass chewing of your life.
West Coast logging you use wedges to fall for direction of yard, no wedges used here and Jackstraw falling which ever way they lean , maybe that's East Coast Logging but not how it's done on the West Coast.
Another great video!..sure brings back memories of working up in T4R16 Elm pond camp back in the early 70's. i was running Husqvarna's then and they had not caught on very much yet. i liked them so much i became a dealer in '79 and i'm still sellin' them today. very nice retirement hobby. can't wait 'till your next video!👌
Elm pond above the golden road by sebommcook. Just went to my maine atlas
@@michaelbrash8843 Yes/!!..that's the only way you can give the EXACT location up in that part of maine. you take a wrong turn up there it will maybe take you a long time to make it back to town.
My back started to hurt about ten minutes into watching this one 😂
Thanks for posting these videos.
People who go to the millinocket area now have no idea what a booming area it used to be before
The paper and lumber industry died off , alot of it moved to mexico and overseas.
I find it pretty ridiculous whats happened to the timber industry in maine, we have nothing but woods yet you will never see a new pulp or paper mill built here again.
Companies would rather build them in china or mexico. And import the wood.
I worked at the paper mill in jay as electric as a contractor and as soon as the mill closed in 2023 after the pulp mill explosion the company received the $330million insurance payout and chose to closed the mill instead of repairing it.
then the paper machine and pulping equipment was removed and sent to mexico to be installed in a coated paper mill.
Same thing happened with the paper machine in the madison mill .
Probably the #11 machine from millinocket mill as well.
This whole idea that no one uses paper anymore is over exaggerated, certain grades of paper have declined like publication and newsprint but specialty packageing and food grades are still growing.
The last job I worked before I went to Kennebec hardware in Bath as some call it, was working for AIC. Replacing the MCCs on the wet end of #2 what was the name for the #1 beside it, that was idled? Was it the Fitz? Been almost 12 years now.
Yes. That was the fitz. Not sure where the name came from
#2 was removed and sent to mexico last year Pretty sad
We are losing all the industry in maine
From what I remember from that job, the man the #1 machine named for was a great grandson/ engineer overseeing the shutdown. On #2 machine. Sucks out loud how the paper industry is dying. 11 years ago at least Westbrook, Jay, and Mad-Town was up and running. And folks trying to get lincoln after the explosion up again. Before the Jay explosion. I’m sure anyone wanting to know about the Jay explosion can find the video…
Timber industry across North America has been in the toilet since Covid, costs went up 30% but timber didn’t
I grew up ridding dirt bikes on those skidder trails. The ever present sound of those saws brings back memories of an honest living. good memories.
Remember working and staying in a camp up near st. Pamphile with french men. Lol they drank hard wed night and left thur noon. They had us bringing them cases of budwieser on sunday nights when we arrived. Monday afternoon was a line to grab their orders of beer and smokes. Good bunch of guys really
Bernard griffind anciennement de degelis ?
Nice to see old school way. Those men can work a saw.
Nice old skidders with Detroits they sound awsome ! Thats hard work them guys earned their pay and were tuff as nails too!
I have been logging for over 45 years and we did a lot of that whole tree logging in the 1980,s and 90's.I did the chopping and an operator on my 240
People have no idea whats its like to wade through snow to your waist trying to have a hitch ready when he gets back.
Toughern a night in jail…I’ve slogged a couple ol eastern Ky mts.
I did it in the late seventies in NH north country I was young then and just thought it was fun!
I do, worked with Redlevske through the winter of '02 and '03. Crotch deep snow and 20 below.
@@maniachill3069 hey o
This is great. Thank you
Great old vids
Those guys are really good workers in the bush they really know how to put wood at the landing.
My father and brothers work for the great northern company and he work for Fernand madden,omer daigle,jim pelletier, at north maine woods and at west lake,it was the best years
Some Canadian Timberjack skidders there. Can tell by fenders on the back. The Canadians use to rebuild the back fenders to make them bigger plus they lengthened their frames in the back. See many skidders like that working for the GNP back in the day. No text book wood cutters back then, all on the job training with common sense. The way it should be.
Here in Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦 we still have Timberjack cable skidders in use.Mostly contractors on small blocks for private woodlot owners
Cool video….use to hunt up in those woods off those logging roads….they are straight as an arrow right to Canada.
My ol 394 and 288xp’s are from this era I think..both will work hard wfo allday just like these men.
Yep, my 266SE is also period correct for these times.
I got a 365
The way logging should have stayed 😢
If so, hope you like wiping with Corn Cobs in the Bathroom.
Cool to see this, I learned with a farm winch and a 35 hp tractor. Those machines are beasts! What rpms do those skidders run at?
Most of the 53 series Detroits which all these skidders had are governed at 2800 rpm factory. Some turned them up to 3200
Thank for posting this. These guys are demonstrating some serious skills.
My family got their camp lot lease from Great Northern in the 1960s while this was still how logging was done & before the Golden Road was built. Is there any chance you filmed log drives on the Penobscot & the log tows on the log route to the GNP paper mills?
No, unfortunately no log drives. If your interested in log drives check the University of Maine video called "From Stump to Ship".
I miss my old Tree Farmer, Mona.
Over 14 years, just me and Mona out there cutting and dragging.
What forest equipment is working now and what brands dominate?
So many people watching this don’t understand the work into this. I miss it, but I don’t. The only down time is the amount of time a piece of equipment is down. If you had time to text your girlfriend, you were given all the time to do what ever your little heart desired. Back when the worthless workers were weeded out and not kept around because “we need the body”. If you were a minute late meeting the ride to the landing, DO NOT find your own way up there, as you are heading in to the biggest ass chewing of your life.
Sounds like that skidder has a dirty old Detroit in it
Green dripper
West Coast logging you use wedges to fall for direction of yard, no wedges used here and Jackstraw falling which ever way they lean , maybe that's East Coast Logging but not how it's done on the West Coast.
Short trees
Skidders sure make a mess.
They don't make a mess they make progress.