From northwest Michigan myself. This is a way of life for some us. The few that's left are almost gone. Soon I'll be the patriarch of the family and as of lately my two sons could seem to care less where they came from and what it took to get to where they are. The world I knew as a kid seems like we were still living with dirt floors compared to the world today. Everything you could want and need is at the tip of your fingers. Just click and it's on its way. Smh. Can't say I like where things are headed. God be with us all.

@joeschmidt664

3 ай бұрын

@@Joe-qv6jh sad but true

My grandfather did exactly this, in northern Ontario also, up until the early 1960s, most of the time as a teamster. Even after his logging days were over, he always had work horses until he died in the '70s. He was the toughest man I've ever known.

@JohnWest-zq5gs

6 ай бұрын

Yeah my granddad worked in the logging woods. I never asked him but is that true about not being allowed to talk at breakfast or meals I mean what right did they cook have to tell them they could' not talk I mean it wasn't like there was some kind of top government secret mission good god

@sid7088

6 ай бұрын

@@JohnWest-zq5gs it's absolutely true, and they brought the habit home. My grandfather had that rule at home and my father had this tradition in our family. Only this new generation is talking at mealtime in my family. The reason, originally was so the men didn't grumble their way into a fistfight and ruin everyone's meal, because eating well was essential to keep the men working hard.

@JohnWest-zq5gs

6 ай бұрын

@@sid7088 yeah that's true eat and go to work but did the guy know he was not supposed to talk if he knows that then the cook was right

@JohnWest-zq5gs

6 ай бұрын

@@sid7088 yeah and by night time they were too tired to talk lol

@JohnWest-zq5gs

6 ай бұрын

@@sid7088 yeah logging separated the men from the boys

played this video so much in Marten River we literally began to tell time by the length of the video "Two more Winter Camps until we close!" we'd say, lol

@_sn0wbl00d

3 ай бұрын

Nice to see someone here in 2024.

I grew up in Blind River Ontario not too far from Michigan and it was a logging town.

My great grandpa used to be a Logger but it was in Arizona and logged in sunrise in Arizona and worked at that logging camp till the day that more industrial logging companies had made the logging camp shut down and my uncle say that they also follow rules while eating supper or breakfast.

@johnwest7463

Жыл бұрын

they didn't want you talking your purpose for being there was get to work I guess if they were allowed to talk at breakfast they would do more talking than eating they want them to eat and get to work no BS they didn't play in those days I'm a logger I cut timber sometimes I'll cut up on the landing but nowadays they pay a timber cutter pretty good money Logging has sure changed from those days but they would never get away with that now not letting a man finish his meal they would be slept with so many lawsuits they would bankrupt the company another interesting point this guy the other day was saying there's going to be a civil War in this country I said you're full of it I said are you kidding me this generation fight a civil war they couldn't put their iPhones down long enough or they're Nintendo games or get their lazy butts off the couch very weak generation he said well they fought a revolution in 1776 I said there's a hell of a big difference then and now I said those men have bought in the revolutionary War were tough as nails today they're just little rubbermen lol

Very cool love the history

I owed a timber cutting outfit three of us one on the skidder one cutter one on the landing sure a lot different from them days

So if the naration sounds familiar, it's because that is the actor who plays Oscar(Brent's Dad) on Corner Gas.

They would have had power saws in them days wouldn't have been no timber left they had cut it off been a desert

Is there any way someone could fix the audio?

@shipharbour

Жыл бұрын

It was the film it was old and missing little spots on audio track

I remember sleeping in those cabins in boy scouts. We would use the same kitchen rules. If you missed the sound if the iron triangle while you were off in the bush you didnt eat :p (I'm sure they would have given us something lol)

they right your boots is your main thing in the logging woods I would pay over $200 for a pair of shoes when I worked in the woods

Where is it???

I was a timber cutter for a while I would have hate to have done it this way

Them guys would have had power saws they wouldn't have been no timber left they would have cut it all

@Hankbhomeless

2 жыл бұрын

What the fuck dude?! I just had a goddamn stroke reading this. Can you use better English please? I would think you said “Had these guys had power tools then, they have cut down everything to where there was no timber at all.” See how easy that is dude. Im no English major, but I do have quite an extensive background in Agriculture Communication and you have to speak and talk professionally.

Wow this is real crazy. At 17:10 are they depicting that the boy had to take the horse out and kill it with some kind of explosive. Yikes

100 logs a day? It would take a fair sized crew with hand saws to get out that much in big timber. I log with horses by myself with chainsaws and If I get 2000 bd ft in a day It calls for celebration. Maybe if it was small stuff, cedar or something 100 logs might be conceivable.

100 pieces per day? hand fall? really? That's a herd day with a power saw.

@darrenturcotte7799

Жыл бұрын

I know an old timer who did 100-150 per day handfalling so those are accurate numbers. Hard workin.

My Uncle plays the cook.

@zoevien2277

4 жыл бұрын

My dad is the fiddler from Chantal Roussy :)

@johnwest7463

3 жыл бұрын

The guy he put out the door for talking he was new he should have just gave him a warning

@steveparis2634

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnwest7463 You know that it is just a fictional representation of how things were. This was filmed in Martin River area. My Uncle wasn't an actor. He was a Provincial Park Ranger in that park.

@johnwest7463

3 жыл бұрын

@@steveparis2634 yeah it's fictional my granddad worked in logging in the 1920s and the 1930s it made a Man out of you that's for sure

@johnwest7463

3 жыл бұрын

@@steveparis2634 I worked in timber for a long time made a pretty good living at it

So the horse doesn't take orders anymore we'll just blow it up with dynamite??

Where was this filmed ? I can hear some brayon in the talking. Maine? NB?

@steveparis2634

3 жыл бұрын

Marten River, ON. That is just north of North Bay, ON. There is a Provincial Park there.

The Old Time timber cutters Make a Man out of you

I have 0 problem working a horse and it doing its chores around the farm. But if I owned the team pulling the load of logs and he swiped at my team like that. He'd have a problem right now and that would be me! Seriously!!!

4 months only make $150 bucks they would have had to paid me more than that I know that wasn't quite a bit of money in that day but still not enough today a good timber cutter can cut 10,000 feet A day make $500 a day

Can’t believe he kicked him Out at least give a first time warning how’s he supposed to know if it’s his first time

@JohnWest-zq5gs

7 ай бұрын

He would have had to have fought me it was not up to him to say you couldn't talk he wasn't the boss he was just a cook

Not right not letting the man finish his meal he should have at least one warning God I would have just told him look I'm finishing my my meal won't happen again and don't put your hands on me

@JohnWest-zq5gs

3 ай бұрын

@@Joe-qv6jh maybe maybe not

@JohnWest-zq5gs

3 ай бұрын

@@Joe-qv6jh I wouldn't have worked there anyway because I would have had a better job making way more money we got lots of land with lots of timber on it they would have probably work for us and I will probably fired the cook and say you don't send a man out without eating it dangerous

Tobacco addicts! 😢