Had a buddy over in shelton wa. started out highclimbin for simpson timber co. for 12 dollars day, he passed away at 74 from liver cancer just 5 weeks after his last climbin job

As a arborist I can say these dudes back then we’re insane & built completely different💪🏽 RESPECT

Imagine the stamina and toughness of these men. 💪 No chainsaws back then

I'm proud to be able to say I'm an arborist. Love these men. Skills on another level

@MalbackHendrix

4 жыл бұрын

don't compare these men to arborists! no rope, no prussik, only a lanyard and balls

@gunzoutnodoubt6627

4 жыл бұрын

@@MalbackHendrix damn right. I climb just like those guys axe and a hand saw. fun but dangerous ha.

@BTS-gu4iz

3 жыл бұрын

@@MalbackHendrix lol, tree loppers regularly just spur up a tree and tip the head out. I have done 4 just this week. The are honestly some of the easiest jobs. Only difference is that I use a chainsaw. If someone wants to pay me more to do it with an axe and crosscut i gladly would

@HabeasJ

2 жыл бұрын

@@MalbackHendrix the didn't use a rope back then? Man, I guess that rope they always tossed around the tree was for show...

@cgfitnessandarboriculture

2 жыл бұрын

No crane? Forget it. Lol just kidding. Always interesting to watch this kind of stuff and compare it to the industry today.

When boys were men and men were monsters!!

@tylerwatrouse8602

3 жыл бұрын

and black people were properly opressed!

My twin Uncles, Albert and Clark Dayton were loggers back when it was virgin timberland up in Ashland Wisconsin. I remember when my Dad took us up to Ashland, to visit and site see the tremendous huge floating islands of logs on Lake Superior, waiting to be towed to the saw mills. It is impossible to describe how it looked, it was unbelievable to see such a huge amount of floating logs ready for the saw mills.

@ceruleanangel2364

Жыл бұрын

dang bruh ty for the imagery ur description was pretty cool that sounds crazy

As a line clearance arborist, I enjoy these.

Prussic loop is pretty revolutionary for those old fellers. I'm pretty happy with my spider lift.

My Dad's donkey is still in the back 40 with lines still in a tree, unless it's rotted off and fell, I haven't walked up there since the mid 70s. Isn't in the hills above Chilliwack BC Canada.

Proud to say that my brother and I are arborist's, carrying on the loggin' family tradition out of Southern WA (he owns a tree service on the big island of Hawaii). Uncle has owned his logging company for years with a great reputation. Grandpa would be proud.

I watched this a couple days ago and had to come back and say that the song in this video has been stuck in my head ever since! I woke up this morning and my first thought was “Let’s go springboard choppinnnn’”. I absolutely LOVE this song and this video as well! Cheers!’

@SuzyAtwood

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's a very catchy tune! We listened to it a lot on our roadtrip to the World Lumberjack Championships one year! Glad you liked the video, my partner put it all together. Be sure to check out his channel at Wild Axe TV!

@lucassaueressig1411

Жыл бұрын

Buzz? Lol

Oregon family since 1840. My great grandfather Logged the Siuslaw, the Smith, the Umpqua, the Alsea, and the Coquille, serious Timber.

@samuelluria4744

2 жыл бұрын

And now you're a barista?

@BushyHairedStranger

Жыл бұрын

@@samuelluria4744 Nope, I own & run a highly successful family Forestry Business here in Oregon. Why do you ask if I’m employed as a Barista? do you need a job again?

@samuelluria4744

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, 🤣 I was just breaking your horns, because you mentioned your Grandfather, and not yourself...which is totally cool and humble, but left you open for a "Portlandia"-type jab... Stay safe! Just stay clear of anybody that smells like a double-caramel-raspberry-mocha-lat'cha'tino!! 😜

That's what I would of been drawn too back then. I love climbing big old trees

Brilliant , thanks very much 👍😎

I would crack - up when I would ask Jerry-Paul,,”which way you gonna fall it”? He’d smile and say “DOWN”

Love the music 👍👍👍👍👍

I love this video!!!

Thank you thank you for posting this!

my great grandpa did that when he came to america

@jessecollin3184

2 жыл бұрын

I bet he lived longer than mine. Went straight to west va. Strip mining 🤦‍♂️

@kallekilo5978

2 жыл бұрын

Finnish loggers, the greatest of all

@samuelluria4744

2 жыл бұрын

@@kallekilo5978 - Right. Cause there's a way to guage that. My Grandfather came over to Montana from the Basque country and proceeded to bite the nuts off of several thousand sheep....but, there was no record keeping back then, and so his sheep-nut-biting exploits will be forgotten to history....

Lived and logged out of Gray's Harbor Washington. Third generation. Those were good days. Hard and dangerous work, used to be a saying about fatalities and accidents "a man a day". Still have allot of those old tools Grandpa handed down. I can still smell the shake rats in my mind. EPA came in to our rough and tumble town and shut it down. Still a bunch of gypos still at it though. Towns full of gays and druggies now... Seattle needs to stay home and leave the rest of us alone.

Nicely done 😁

Real though dudes, now we're softies haha. Good video, thank you for sharing.

@ronburke

3 жыл бұрын

can you imagine chunkin a big fir down with an axe and swede fiddle even in 6 to 10 footers thats alot of choppin and sawin!

real cool!!! to see Ed Smith from Eatonville and Hap Johnson from Castle Rock

@davidadams6544

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Treadwell DOES ANYONE REMEMBER JOE FLORI?

@bradjohnson2849

4 жыл бұрын

Nice to see some old video floating around of great uncle Hap.

My niece once asked me if I had a death wish. I retired at 32 from crab fishing /pot cod / salmon tendering, and I joined the Ironworkers Union. I told her 'no, you're thinking of a logger'. Those guys have a dozen ways to get killed, and that's before they even climb a tree !

And we think logging and climbing dangerous today how about back then

My uncle worked on the Clearwater River logging in the summer, log floats down river in the fall and tending bar during the winter in Moscow, ID.

Saw Danny Sailor in Vancouver BC many time at the PNE.

Crazy.

them old timers were nuts omg

Buenos para el trabajo esos viejos me hubiera gustado estar con ellos

Tree climber here 💪🏼✊🏻

Nice🙏🏼👍

We have those two poles guy ed together, so the guy still climbing rocks both poles inter rupting knot tieing for the other person... not like cutting trees, either fully guy them or not at all, I'm thinking... Great work

@samuelluria4744

2 жыл бұрын

Keep on thinkin'... ........best thing ferr'ya!

I climbed trees for 20 years....then past year i had a top split and take my climbing loop 50 ft...melted my knot and threw me off....i got really hurt

@SuzyAtwood

2 жыл бұрын

It's a dangerous job! Hope you are okay now Ken!

@msvtrees4615

2 жыл бұрын

I am sorry to hear. How are you now?

Ive got AXE DISEASE ! And I LOVE this video :) Who is performing that great logging, foot stop'n song ???? :)

@ertreeservice9558

3 жыл бұрын

I’d like to know the song too!?

@SuzyAtwood

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN

I did that for two months every fukin day rain or snow only time you got to stay on the ground was when the wind would be a danger

One of those voices at the beginning sounds like Oiva Wirkkala

Just thinking if you had to do that today

Tenino wa

💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳

My dad is rolin mentioned in the song! At 6:23:)❤

66. still climbing

I'm 53......still climbing

@SuzyAtwood

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Lee!

Albany, Oregon Timber Carnival.

I pay my climber $300-$450 a day. They deserve every $🙏

@beatmycarne9021

2 жыл бұрын

Where you at?

@turdferguson2982

2 жыл бұрын

Hiring?

@samuelluria4744

2 жыл бұрын

I would do whatever your climber is doing, for $250/day, and I have ALL my own gear, and I drag brush, shoulder wood, repair equipment, buy cold drinks for the young bums, don't ask anyone else to sharpen my saw, or gas it up.... Too bad I'm in Jersey, competing with hundreds of illegals...

Song credits please, I love the song, who sings it?

@SuzyAtwood

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN

whats the song on the end?

It is too done everyday just not the way they did it in 1900 like this competition. Things have come a long.way

dont get to see ol Hap much anymore, I heard there was some kind of legal copyright jargon goin on so they removed his coffee break video.Do you know anything about that?

whats the name of song

@SuzyAtwood

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN

What's the source material for the black & white footage?

the average life of a man then was only 45 to 50 years back then.

highest paid job in the woods(tree Topping) 40's=50's=60's

@miketreadwell5654

4 жыл бұрын

I have no idea where you got $21.50 hr.Cutters Make $200=$400 per day in the NW

@py2724

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaredmercer7043 we ain’t talking bucket cutters, or suburban yards here cowboy This is the industrial side of what you are imaging (aka logging not suburban tree care)

@py2724

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaredmercer7043 I started out of jail at 20 cutting trees with a refurbished saw I was given by a local scrapper

@py2724

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaredmercer7043 I don’t put anything above two stories down for under 200 bucks That doesn’t include clean up & break down Go get started on your own Didn’t even have ropes or a ladder Made tree house stairs out of a board to climb up my first job for neighbors

@py2724

2 жыл бұрын

I own 5 companies now It just takes determination… sometimes balls of steel help

Well, one thing is for sure, you cannot find a two hundred foot fir tree anymore.

@HubertofLiege

4 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Moline yes you can I cut a fir down not too long ago that was close to two fifty and over five foot in diameter at the base. I took it at eighty feet to fit it into the lot it was on .

@Gabriel_Moline

4 жыл бұрын

Lorric Logging Well, that is excellent. Good work. As soon as you get them down, the fires will come and take the rest. Just like Brazil and Australia. Looking forward to the entire content of North America to be nothing but smoldering coals and soot and concrete. Just hope I live long enough to see the fear and anguish on the faces of all the humans finally realizing it’s too far gone. Just a few more years.

@HubertofLiege

4 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Moline don’t believe the hype, dude, I walk in timber like this occasionally it still exists, and grows back to this height. You are letting the media manipulate you.

@Gabriel_Moline

4 жыл бұрын

Lorric Logging I have removed thousands of trees. It’s my job. Residential almost exclusively. Unlike you, I know there is a limit.

@Gabriel_Moline

4 жыл бұрын

Lorric Logging You should upload more vidz. I put up a bunch. None good, but still.

Would have been much better without the music lol

@funwithcreativity7484

3 жыл бұрын

Prepperjon yes