Love this old footage! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKpxCQx7Ioc&feature=youtube
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great stuff indeed. Those guys had muscles in their poop by the end of the season. That's working for a living!!
Check out a book called "The Lumberjacks" by Donald McKay. It is a bit of a history on logging in Eastern Canada in the glory days of the huge White Pine and the introduction of West Coast logging. Good book, very interesting read.
Check out a book called "The Lumberjacks" by Donald McKay. It is a bit of a history on logging in Eastern Canada in the glory days of the huge White Pine and the introduction of West Coast logging. Good book, very interesting read.
Nice film. Thanks for posting that.
It doesn't take too much imagination to understand why there were so many serious injuries in that work. Also there weren't too many old timers that worked out on the really hard jobs. Makes you tired just watching those guys with the axes and saws. If you've ever swung the axe like that or worked on a two man crosscut saw, you will understand just how hard that work was.
It doesn't take too much imagination to understand why there were so many serious injuries in that work. Also there weren't too many old timers that worked out on the really hard jobs. Makes you tired just watching those guys with the axes and saws. If you've ever swung the axe like that or worked on a two man crosscut saw, you will understand just how hard that work was.
Here's another one - Redwood Lumber Industry, 9+ minutes with narration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcEto_Q8MlY
Some books by Ralph W.Andrews detailing a history of logging in the PNW & British Columbia from the 1850's to the early 1930's. Hundreds of B & W pics some over 100 yrs old.He wrote 5 books total,from 1954 to 1968 first edition.Some if not all are still in print,I have all 5,3 are original.Still available on Amazon Used Book Sellers & elsewhere & you might get lucky at a local flea market,like I did with 1 of them.
This Was Logging -1954,160 pages
Glory Days Of Logging -1956 176 pages
This Was Sawmilling - 1957 ,182 pages
Redwood Classic -1958, 176 pages
Timber! Toil And Trouble In The Big Woods - 1968,190 pages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcEto_Q8MlY
Some books by Ralph W.Andrews detailing a history of logging in the PNW & British Columbia from the 1850's to the early 1930's. Hundreds of B & W pics some over 100 yrs old.He wrote 5 books total,from 1954 to 1968 first edition.Some if not all are still in print,I have all 5,3 are original.Still available on Amazon Used Book Sellers & elsewhere & you might get lucky at a local flea market,like I did with 1 of them.
This Was Logging -1954,160 pages
Glory Days Of Logging -1956 176 pages
This Was Sawmilling - 1957 ,182 pages
Redwood Classic -1958, 176 pages
Timber! Toil And Trouble In The Big Woods - 1968,190 pages
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Don't see much gray hair on the operators of those tools.
Strong men. Tough tendons, sinew & muscles in those arms.
Wages not real good, but honest work. Good Ole Days ??
Wow - the tree climbing was spectacular! My Pepere was a Canadian lumberjack - came to the states to help clear the timber after the hurricane of 1938. Remember a lot of stories about his work in Canada that just seem crazy - the ways these men worked makes normal complaining about modern 'work' difficulties definitely pale in comparison! Cheers!
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