Pure Americans working and maintaining American values. Great video, Thanks!

I’ve watched this video 3or 4 times now. It puts a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes to see businesses like this shut down. What really got me was the sign, “ wear a smile, one size fits all”. If everyone did that, the world would be a much better place. God bless all the past employees to this company

@NorthWoodsVideo

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you John! Simpson was a Pacific Northwest icon. All great people.

@valeriebassett3107

2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Families like these did a lot of great things for our country and even the world. God bless everyone that was and is involved. Thank you for sharing this video. May we never forget. ❤️

Really appreciated the history of the Simpson Logging Company and the families that started and grew the company over many decades. What impressed me so much was that these families not only cut down trees but were so involved in improving each community they lived in.The personal testimonies of loyalty expressed by the many employees who worked for this company tells us a lot about one of the pioneering companies of the Northwest.

Last year on a trip down to Shasta County where I grew up in 60s. I stopped at a Yard sale. Bought a vintage axe from a old Guy in his 80s. Got to talking. He was a Timber faller in the 1950s up in Oregon. He told me it was all AXE and Two Man Saws when he started. Most people don’t realize the Chainsaw did not really become the norm until 1960s. Great Video👍 love the History 🇺🇸

Shelton is my home town. I was born there at the old General Hospital downtown. I worked in Mill One (the Reed mill) for a time but left at age twenty to work at Boeing. Now that I am seventy-nine, I am seriously considering moving back.

I am proud of the history of the Simpson Logging Company and the family that started and grew the company for decades. What impresses me greatly is that these families not only cut down trees but also maintain the balance of nature and foster the development of the surrounding community. it is marked by the loyalty of all its employees.

I could not watch the last log. Timber dollars gave me a good life. Thank you

God bless and good luck to all of those who work for the Simpson family...

Wish they would have touched on their Oregon operations of the past. They made best marine grade plywood in world used to build PT boats for the Navy in ww2. My father worked in their Albany Oregon plant for 19 years until he died at 38 years old they were a top notch outfit. Great video.

@NorthWoodsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out Jeff. Yes the executive producer who I worked under wanted most the emphasis on Shelton, WA operations. Simpson was all over the Northwest and Northern California.

To anyone who thinks mill closures help the environment, do some research. China, Brazil, Africa, and Indonesia have no environmental laws. So yes you may not be buying timber from U.S. forestlads, which is unfortunate at least in America we have rules that protect the environment.

@BolsonaroPresidente22

3 жыл бұрын

in brazil respect

Me an my wife both work at a sawmill operation in arkansas its a mini mill operation producing pallet lumber we would hate to see it close we enjoy the work an the people we work with our hearts our with the families

Great video. First class company.

Shelton is my home town, actually lived above Matlock. I worked at mill three in the 70s and 80s, started out setting chokers up at camp Grizdale. didnt live there, but road the krummy.

Really inspiring video, thanks for sharing!!!

My Grandfather logged in the 30's and 40's in Forks Wa. he had the best stories , nice video thank you

@NorthWoodsVideo

6 жыл бұрын

Good for him. He was probably a real working man, providing for his family. My dad and uncles logged as young men and started with the crosscut saw, before chainsaws were common, as probably did your gramps. God bless and keep him.

@lindamcentaffer5969

6 жыл бұрын

He said there was a recession in the 80's! No, it was a boom in the 80's, Reagan era.

@retiree1033

6 жыл бұрын

There was a steep recession in the early eighties. In December '82 the US unemployment rate was around 11%, the highest since the time of the Great Depression.

@brucelanier7403

6 жыл бұрын

jay vee i

@MrThenry1988

4 жыл бұрын

@@lindamcentaffer5969 After Carter? Yes.

Good video of Simpson Lumber Company. My wife's uncle was one of the Vice Presidents of Simpson back in the '70s and '80s.

Really Really interesting thank you for sharing this with us 🤩🎉

Employed a lot people and earned an honest living for a long time,a hard worker ,more than most tree hungers will ever accomplish!God bless! The government regulated us out of business.

@WJack97224

6 жыл бұрын

@Mike, it is Triffin's Dilemma: Industry is destroyed at the source of money creation. The gd government/politicians created the fiat currency Fed Banking System that has inflated to the point that it is as you and others have observed cheaper to send the logs off shore to be processed by cheaper labor. Politics is violence. We need to terminate political government and give organizational government based on voluntary contracting a chance. We live on a plantation state run by masters/politicians and their overseers/enforcers/judges.

@michiganusapontiac7206

4 жыл бұрын

@@WJack97224 sad just sad

RIP George " Sunny " Miller. Camp Govey

A little-bitty tear let me down -- Burl Ives

Yup, awesome, had lots of fun and hard work in the timber industry. Hope the United States gets it's shit together stop the lumber importing.

@incontruth4116

4 жыл бұрын

AEI Automation Group just like oil we have all the wood we need here in America if done correctly.

Red Emmerson is president of Sierra Pacific Industries, a family-run lumber manufacturing business that ranks as California's largest private landowner. He owns just under two million acres of forestland in California and Washington, and added 20,000 acres in 2012. The Reed Family owns 730,000 acres. Since the turn of the 20th century, when Mark Reed married the daughter of Sol Simpson, the Reed family has operated the privately-owned Simpson Investment Company, one of the oldest forest-products companies in the Pacific Northwest. They own 730,000 acres of timber across California, Oregon, and Washington.

Bring back the factories& the working man...and job Security.

@lukewarmwater6412

3 жыл бұрын

sometimes companies just get too big. they cant handle a small fluctuation in the market then, let alone a big one. and thats just what happened with alot of these lumber mills. we lost dozens here in montana. either too small to make it any more or too big to react quickly enough. if you want job security, we need to get rid of mechanisation... remember pensilvania in the 80's? all the steel mills that got shut down? that wasnt competition from overseas, that was new steel mills being built that didnt need as many people to run them.we were in fact lied to about that. the unions lied throught thier teeth.

I bought hundreds of thousands of Simpson Raincote 2x4's best 2x4 ever cut.

@michiganusapontiac7206

4 жыл бұрын

That's for sure

It didn’t mention Albany OR Simpson Plywood Plant. I worked 2 summers there and it really helped me pay for college. My Grandfather and father Dale Morrissette retired from Simpson. It was like a family and most employees were skilled and dedicated

I saw way more than one log lol awesome vid

My grandfather and my uncle's work for this company his name was Robert George grimbot.

I use to haul hogfuel out to the old Simpson mill on Portland ave in Tacoma WA . guess they sold the mill to a company named west rock .

Used to run Simpson pulp rolls down to Customers in California from Simpson in Tacoma. They may of treated their employees great but they treated the drivers who drove their products to the customer like crap. The lady who ran the shipping dept in Tacoma was called the wicked witch of the west and looked the part. I now do export rolls to Asia out of Nippon in Longview Wa , WOW what a difference. Younger workforce with pep in their step. Not these old grizzled union lifers who act like their entitled to a fat check & pension just for showing up or because their relative worked there.

@Ma_Deuce_338

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting observation "Younger workforce with pep in their step." After 42 years in I can tell you that unless you die young, aging will catch you too. Keep that pep in your step Jr. I suspect you will be slowing down some directly.

@martinsimpson6526

Жыл бұрын

@@Ma_Deuce_338 That and he wont be able to retire because he isn't Union.

@Ma_Deuce_338

Жыл бұрын

@@martinsimpson6526 He isn't Union because he can't make the cut

@SuperBigblue19

Жыл бұрын

@@Ma_Deuce_338 I was a teamster for 18yrs before I became an independent trucker. I'm also about 3mths from my 60th birthday so, I know about ageing. Join the union & watch your job disappear like they did in Shelton.

I vote you make Tammy President...She will get it going again...

@arborist460

5 жыл бұрын

I'd buy anything she's selling

ive got a picture of Sheltons fleet of tall ships i think all at anchor in the harbor

Hey...I did not see that last log get cut!

I wonder if Simpson logging company is related to Simpson door. I noticed the sign on Simpson logging company building and it is the same character font as Simpson door company.

@NorthWoodsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, one of the Simpson Companies, the last remaining of their forest products companies.

These where the days when men where men and I'm glad that I worked for them, and when fights brock out our blood flew and they became friends, and I have stories to tell, but thats for later times.

@aflockofbeagles8219

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh please, you’re killing me 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this idea of “men being men” 🤣🤣 when most of you act like four year olds, especially if someone tells you, “No” or points out the obvious that you are completely blind to, like, how most of you act like a four year old in a grown mans body. Just FYI, you sound really stupid and old when you say say stuff like that. Have a nice day 🥂

I have a 1950s solid gold Hamilton watch, automatic, with a 390 Rolex movement; Swiss made! It has the original Simpson logo in the dial. The watch was gifted to a Simpson employee for his 25 years with the co. If anyone is interested, I will sell it. Contact me. Thank you!

I find it odd there is no mention of James Dempsey. He was 51% owner of Dempsey Simpson, the name of this outfit prior to Simpson.

Did it shut down from lack of timber, timber rights for volumetric efficiency or timber unit price competition? Without mention, it's like Forest Gump who just …stopped.

What happens to the equipment?

Why don’t we get nice lumber like that at the local Home Depot😂?

No doubt that early lumbering practices had significant negative impact on the ecology of rivers resulting in changes in Pacific Northwest wild salmon stocks. Then dams were built that compounded the negative impact. Thankfully the lumber industry has evolved and considerations are made when harvesting trees to reduce the negative impact that harvesting trees can have on surrounding rivers. Replantation and avoidance of clear cutting could have been done in the early years but no one knew what impact harvesting trees would have without those considerations. We need lumber and we need paper.

@NorthWoodsVideo

6 жыл бұрын

A good balanced view. We can see how ignorant we were in some areas. But it was us against an unlimited wilderness, or so it seemed in the early days. The old timers also had many skills, layers of wisdom and character that are different from ours today.

@pinkpriss

5 жыл бұрын

Without question the best raw material for making paper is the hurd of the hemp plant.

@aflockofbeagles8219

3 жыл бұрын

@@pinkpriss THANK YOU!!! FINALLY SOMEONE HERE WITH A BRAIN!!!

My dad worked in the pulp mill at Simpson Paper in Anderson, CA for 35 years anyone know if there’s a connection? I think it was initially Kimberly Clark.

@mattduane7239

4 жыл бұрын

Never mind just saw the mill I’m an idiot haha

any aluminium helmets?

In 1978 a Werhaueser logging truck had a bumper sticker that read "We don't care ,we don't have to ! Werhaueser

@NorthWoodsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

Those were the days, ha ha.

@NorthWoodsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

You're not related to the McFarlands of McFarland Pole Company? Big operation in Sandpoint, Idaho where I grew up.

@jillsmcfarland2001

5 жыл бұрын

@@NorthWoodsVideo No, We were just walking up a logging road around Enumclaw,WA.

@jillsmcfarland2001

5 жыл бұрын

@@NorthWoodsVideo I pretty sure My Grandfather worked at the Idaho Mill.Left a few fingers behind.

So what happened? The Union demanded more & more, company went broke?

No jobs, make us dependent on the government.

@mrbakerskatz

5 жыл бұрын

Merlin Just exactly ....WWG1WGA !

The demise of a great country these videos like this a really sad why are we buying plywood from Indonesia now and 2 x 4‘s from Canada and China I really miss the country I grew up in It just doesn’t seem like the same place anymore

@NorthWoodsVideo

6 жыл бұрын

There are also citizens who don't want to do the hard physical and repetitive work that is manufacturing. It takes a tough buzzard to do it. Automation can make the work more attractive but requires a lot less people. Thanks for watching.

@GlobalistJuice

4 жыл бұрын

@@NorthWoodsVideo Nice video, thanks for posting it. I feel I must interject here to say: We've been fed a string of lies when we're told "citizens don't want to do hard physical repetitive work that is manufacturing", that is just simply not true. Manufacturing in America is gone not because people won't do the work, it's because the work isn't there. Not one single person in this video looked like they didn't want to be there, or despised the work they did, and I think you'd find 1,000x's more "tough buzzard" Americans throughout our nation, more than one could possibly imagine. One recent example is when a chicken manufacturing plant was caught with hundreds of illegal Mexicans on its payroll, the place was gutted of those workers, immediately the place was flooded with Americans (White, and black) pounding down the door to take-up those jobs, they received hundreds more applications than they could fill ... all of them ready willing and able to do the work you describe as "hard physical and repetitive work that is manufacturing". Modern technology and automation didn't dissolve the manufacturing in America, outsourcing and purchasing from other countries at rates where no American company can compete is the issue for Simpson Lumber, and it's proved to be the gravest of one-sided blunders made by our own careless and self-serving government via bad-one-sided trade deals all those years ago - they sold out America's future for personal wealth and power, nobody else is to blame, and the American citizen worker is most certainly "not wanting to do the work" to blame for the end of Simpson Lumber.

@curtdenson2360

4 жыл бұрын

This whole industry loss is directly due to COMMUNIST influence and DUMOCRATS, unions and the EPA ended most of the lumber industry, now undocumented ALIENS start and put out fires in our forests, think before you vote for Democrats, or RINOS, what cant find toilet paper go to CANADA the EPA UNDER the shepherded from KENYA killed of 90 percent of that industry too. Nice job DUMOCRATS at killing most middle-class jobs.

Anybody know the opening song?

@aflockofbeagles8219

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, yeah. It’s called, “Hillbilly Hell” 😂😂😂😂

I didn't hear why they shut down.

Tammy Williams is hot!

They talk about at one point the company splitting into separate wood and paper companies, the paper company being called Craft paper, Bob Craft that owns the Patriots made his in money in paper, I assume there's a connection?

@curtdenson2360

4 жыл бұрын

This whole industry loss is directly due to COMMUNIST influence and DUMOCRATS, unions and the EPA ended most of the lumber industry, now undocumented ALIENS start and put out fires in our forests, think before you vote for Democrats, or RINOS, what cant find toilet paper go to CANADA the EPA UNDER the shepherded from KENYA killed of 90 percent of that industry too. Nice job DUMOCRATS at killing most middle-class jobs.

Благословенная Богом Америка .

Skip to 1:52 to hear someone finally start talking.

Why did they shut down? There’s no end to the need for lumber and paper. And the resource is constantly renewed. I know they didn’t run out of trees. This must hurt a tremendous number of families. Not to mention the effect on the price of the commodities they produced. I hate to see these things happen. I wish nothing but the best for all those displaced workers. I’m sure they didn’t choose to close the business if things were going well. So I wonder what could cause this? Over regulation? Competition from overseas? Really curious.

@lindamcentaffer5969

6 жыл бұрын

Eeeh, they don't make paper from Evergreen trees. Fast-Growing Hybrid Poplar & Cottonwood types.

@Mercmad

6 жыл бұрын

The Mills were still viable but both were sold off to Sierra pacific,another big milling operation .They fired all the workers,not Simpsons. And, are building a new mill in the area,employing less people . Asset stripping i guess.

@srrings

6 жыл бұрын

we send logs to outside mills japan ect.they mill the logs we buy them back and thats why we get 2x4s for 2 or 3 bucks WTO i have also heard that they have lumber processing ships offshore.....so at the top its wayway cheaper to send them out

@pnwRC.

6 жыл бұрын

Acgtually, YES they Do make paper from Evergreen types of trees! The wood waste is trucked to pulp mills to be turned into paper.

@matthewchurch1320

6 жыл бұрын

well all the old kings have gone down from what use to be

Engineer Gaming

A time when men were men and sheep were nervous

@41magfan

6 жыл бұрын

And some men

@boomer_bob6493

5 жыл бұрын

More a case of a time when men were men and greens were something you ate with your steak and potatoes

@aflockofbeagles8219

3 жыл бұрын

🙄

not the north woods

is this how they became billionaires?

They shut down all the mills because japan can do it cheaper we give japan raw logs they give us 2x4s and so on and that is why we can buy a 2x4 for 2 bucks....Oh and don't forget the WTO

@lifeingeneral9111

5 жыл бұрын

yea right, that junk lumber warps something terrible when it drys. no kiln dry any longer. the democrats want chinese people to have more us less!!!

@turning5462

4 жыл бұрын

@@lifeingeneral9111 incorrect. For many decades it was the Repubs who pushed "free trade" much more then Dems.

@HubertofLiege

4 жыл бұрын

The export market for logs has been declining every year for several. The markets are domestic now

@curtdenson2360

4 жыл бұрын

This whole industry loss is directly due to COMMUNIST influence and DUMOCRATS, unions and the EPA ended most of the lumber industry, now undocumented ALIENS start and put out fires in our forests, think before you vote for Democrats, or RINOS, what cant find toilet paper go to CANADA the EPA UNDER the shepherded from KENYA killed of 90 percent of that industry too. Nice job DUMOCRATS at killing most middle-class jobs.

@jowhite8446

Жыл бұрын

@@curtdenson2360 I definitely agree with you!!

Not true, I make a log every night at around 7pm

seems like all the employees were devoted to the company. But the company was not devoted to them. They did not state why they were closing. Want to bet they are moving off shore.And yes Tammy was very hot

@michaeltravis786

6 жыл бұрын

Kent C. Reed 7

Been nice if they had slowed it down so we could see some of the operation. One second of everything is poor editing.

These people would cut down every tree in the world if someone didn't stop them...

@aflockofbeagles8219

3 жыл бұрын

It’s disgusting. What’s more disgusting is the hillbillies that worship this crap.

@martinsimpson6526

Жыл бұрын

watch it again, sustainable logging was brought about by Simpson Timber Co

That is what happens when yopu cut all the trees down and you are in the lumber bussiness

@NorthWoodsVideo

6 жыл бұрын

Actually trees are a renewable resource we harvest and replant. Simpson Lumber was the first logging company in the West to replant logged over lands. Now it is a universal practice in the USA. There are actually more trees in America than there were 100 years ago. And that's a fact Steve. Maybe the house that keeps you warm and dry is made from lumber by Simpson. Beats a hole in the ground.

@ssoma151

6 жыл бұрын

Save it for those that dont know, you guys have KILLED the forest, silted the water shed, killed the fish runs, and made the forest all tree farms, good for very little things but grow trees, the greed of your farther and grandfarthter and people like him will follow this land for many years. This company and companys like this have killed the oldest living things on earth in less then 100 years, with out even a thank you. AND YOU ARE PROUD OF THIS? Karma is a bitch and your family will know this, no one gets away from it.

@NorthWoodsVideo

6 жыл бұрын

There was gross mismanagement in the old days. But times have changed, and like I said, Simpson was a leader in doing things responsibly. Responsible outfits like Simpson follow best practices with certification from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative which is very progressive. Simpson voluntarily removed a 35 foot dam on Goldborough Creek to restored salmon runs, earning praise of environmentalists and local tribes for their work. None of us like to all be lumped into the same category with the broad brush of accusation, which is what you are doing. By the way if all lumber companies are evil, I assume you never enter, let alone eat and sleep in a building made with 2 x4 studs, douglas fir beams, hardwood floors or cedar siding, because of your principles. Then again, steel and concrete buildings probably impact the environment as much as wooden ones. You could go au natural and live in a tee-pee, like the Indians, but then you'd have to kill a buffalo. Maybe you're a sod-buster. The pioneers on the prairie lived in sod houses, but that probably silted the creeks also. I bet you are a sodbuster. Hundreds of earth worms have died at your hands. How can you live with that?

@cyrilparsons8632

6 жыл бұрын

Steve Soma iiiiinnuo

@MrLaz0rz

6 жыл бұрын

fuck off hippie

This whole industry loss is directly due to COMMUNIST influence and DUMOCRATS, unions and the EPA ended most of the lumber industry, now undocumented ALIENS start and put out fires in our forests, think before you vote for Democrats, or RINOS, what cant find toilet paper go to CANADA the EPA UNDER the shepherded from KENYA killed of 90 percent of that industry too. Nice job DUMOCRATS at killing most middle-class jobs.

Downsize and keep going. Lazy.

Greed! Shut the lumber company. Trees are not going to last forever,

@NorthWoodsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

In today's socialist circles, I guess pay for an honest day's work is greed. Thank you for educating me.

I bet this company closed and made billions of dollars. Oh my that's just terrible.... LMAO It's like thanks for busting your asses all your life and making us billionaires. Here's your severence pay. See ya!!!! Good luck finding new employment now you are 25 years older and wore out.lol......

@edwardbergen5189

4 жыл бұрын

That was mostly to Government Regulations