Cool redwood video from 1947
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kmcinms
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Wow
Now that's a days work. Thanks for posting
Now that's a days work. Thanks for posting
That was interesting. I have been to the park where alot of the big redwoods still stand.
04titanse
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pretty amazing. Can't imagine climbing a tree that large in diameter and height and then topping it with an axe.
Holy chopping a giant redwood down with an ax Batman!!!!! Don't you wish you could go back in time and show up on site with a ported 880/3120 or some other monster saw? Cool video thread starter, thanks for posting. Anybody here want to put down the saw and do it old school?
04titanse
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Seriously..I think I feel like a bada** when I run my 460 for 10 hours cannot imagine swinging an axe for that kind of time. I feel like I need to go fell a tree with an axe tomorrow haha.
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Nice video...
I have been to the states a few years ago on a roadtrip i CA. I have seen both the Coast Redwood ad SF and the Giant Sequoia in Sierra Nevada. The most beautiful trees I have ever seen!!!
Thanks for not cutting down them all
I have been to the states a few years ago on a roadtrip i CA. I have seen both the Coast Redwood ad SF and the Giant Sequoia in Sierra Nevada. The most beautiful trees I have ever seen!!!
Thanks for not cutting down them all
RandyMac
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It is said that 96% of the Old Growth Redwoods have been harvested. I believe that number is wrong, not that it matters much now.
That old film was made in Humboldt County, probably Pacific Lumber lands, some did seem familiar to me, the mill was PL's Mill "B" in Scotia. I was born across the street from it in the mid 1950s. My Father was a sawfiler working over the headrig, my Grandfather was the Production Superintendent and a few other family members were scattered around the company. I worked the woods, but because of family pressure I got stuck on landings doing an old man's job. I got around that by getting hired on as a faller's second saw, a job that I lucked into and was set-up by my other Grandfather.
Us kids, dog and cat, Scotia 1959.
I grew up thinking that air was always filled with smoke and ash, that time was measured with steam whistles, that nearly overwhelming machinery noise was normal. My brother and I went all over the mill, following Grampa or playing in the Filing-room, with our little matching orange hardhats. yep, we were mill brats.
That old film was made in Humboldt County, probably Pacific Lumber lands, some did seem familiar to me, the mill was PL's Mill "B" in Scotia. I was born across the street from it in the mid 1950s. My Father was a sawfiler working over the headrig, my Grandfather was the Production Superintendent and a few other family members were scattered around the company. I worked the woods, but because of family pressure I got stuck on landings doing an old man's job. I got around that by getting hired on as a faller's second saw, a job that I lucked into and was set-up by my other Grandfather.
Us kids, dog and cat, Scotia 1959.
I grew up thinking that air was always filled with smoke and ash, that time was measured with steam whistles, that nearly overwhelming machinery noise was normal. My brother and I went all over the mill, following Grampa or playing in the Filing-room, with our little matching orange hardhats. yep, we were mill brats.
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It is said that 96% of the Old Growth Redwoods have been harvested. I believe that number is wrong, not that it matters much now.
That old film was made in Humboldt County, probably Pacific Lumber lands, some did seem familiar to me, the mill was PL's Mill "B" in Scotia. I was born across the street from it in the mid 1950s. My Father was a sawfiler working over the headrig, my Grandfather was the Production Superintendent and a few other family members were scattered around the company. I worked the woods, but because of family pressure I got stuck on landings doing an old man's job. I got around that by getting hired on as a faller's second saw, a job that I lucked into and was set-up by my other Grandfather.
Us kids, dog and cat, Scotia 1959.
I grew up thinking that air was always filled with smoke and ash, that time was measured with steam whistles, that nearly overwhelming machinery noise was normal. My brother and I went all over the mill, following Grampa or playing in the Filing-room, with our little matching orange hardhats. yep, we were mill brats.
You got that book written, yet?
Right now we're keeping him busy running up and down the coast, cutting hazard trees and showing us all the best ways to bbq hamburgers over a camp fire that didn't want to burn.
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That's definitely when "men were men."
Not having grown around any of that, I always look at the large logging operations in awe.
I wonder what the OSHA folks think when they see a film clip of the old logging operations?
Not having grown around any of that, I always look at the large logging operations in awe.
I wonder what the OSHA folks think when they see a film clip of the old logging operations?
OLD MAN GRINDER
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Amazing video,,,thx for posting...
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Still a good film. It is often available on ebay by itself or or with other old logging shorts for a very cheap price.
Still a good film. It is often available on ebay by itself or or with other old logging shorts for a very cheap price.
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