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Silver Bay Logging Company at 25 Years - Overview of Alaska Operations
Video highlighting operations of the Silver Bay Logging Company in Alaska. This video was filmed in the 1990's and gives us a great overview of the company during that era. At the time of this production, Silver Bay Logging had been in business for 25 years.
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The Story of Ketchikan Pulp Company
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Early 1990's film about the operations of the Ketchikan Pulp Company, owned at that time by Louisiana Pacific Corporation. Sadly, in 1997, the mill was forced to close due to lack of available timber supply, brought about by political and environmental decisions made in places far away from Alaska, and by politicians who never bothered to visit the Tongass National Forest to see all the good th...
Simpson Timber Company and Camp Grisdale
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Scenes and clips from Simpson Timber Company and its Camp Grisdale operations in the days before the camp's closing in 1985. The camp, located in the rugged Olympic Mountains of Washington, produced timber for the Simpson mills at Shelton, some 50 miles away by railroad.
Valentine Logging - Coffman Cove Alaska - 1983
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A famous TV Anchor has the opportunity to visit an Alaska Logging Camp run by Mike and Leta Valentine- a very neat and informative piece of video. Filmed in August of 1983. This video is from the Archives of the Alaska Loggers Association and was given to my by that organization and is used with permission.
Washington 217D Yarder - High Country Move Through Steep Switchbacks
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Auburn Timber moving thier Washington 217D Slackline Yarder up through a series of switchbacks to the top of a mountain on Vancouver Island, B.C. The terrain was far to steep for the machine to navigate on its own power alone, so a very large HD-31 crawler (112,000 lbs) was used to pull while a Clark 880 skidder to push. In several places the machine had to be lifted with the jacks on greased p...
S. Madill Ltd - 1983 Promotional Sales Video - Yarders and Loaders
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S. Madill Ltd - 1983 Promotional Sales Video - Yarders and Loaders
I can't wait until the year 4000 when we can see those big trees again.
Spent yrs logging and fishing SE Alaska. Loved it
My guess is the bar was located at Point Baker back then? This was the first place I would begin my adult working career out of school staking the road to be built so they could log working for the US Forest Service. Coffman Cove was very small back in 1976.
That is an awesome story, I love to see this kind of history.
Good ole brush dragon !!!! 🐉
Ain’t no logg’n there now..
skidder 35 tons ????? maybe 17 tons and around 35000 pounds. A cat 527 is 45000 ish
This is the first logging camp i worked at in the 70s from there i went to Sitka and worked for Don brown mud bay logging. Out at rowan bay this was the best times of my life.
It just so happens I have a mint condition MUD BAY LOGGING ROWAN BAY ALASKA hat it's blue and white! Surely you had one?
Amazing how times and lives change. I arrived at Camp Grisdale in a Simpson crummy 50 years ago to learn to set chokers and work in the woods. What a great experience and better memory. Thank you.
Driving that equip up there would make me puckered!
Thank you for posting these older excellent videos.
Would be nice to see sealaska open their own mills
Maybee Our COMMENT that MIKE and Richard Valentines were not First, but Yes, they were known as Cadillac CAMP, besides Long Island when KlukWan Inc. Came in. To most of us, we said it was the OLD TIMERS, that helped us Kids🤠🪵🌾🎄🌲🦧🎵🐄🙏🎣™️🦧📞🐔stay SAFE, and WORK STEADY, BE Tough, Obedient to our Bosses, the Older Hook Tenders, shop bosses, Bull bucks, road bosses, truck bosses and Management was on the job more beside us. All INDUSTRIES go thru a Cycle. And: Sorry FOLKS: CHRIST CAME TO THE PILGRIMS OUT ON THE RANGES. THEN SODDIES, TENTS AND MINER LOGGER CABINS, HOLES WHERE THE WATERS WERE. NO BETTER than John, or Loggers World. They still Crucify, even some good bankers, owners, and accountants or butchers barbers and scales. Not even a parts .an, nor a weldor, mechanic or boom man, is safe.📫❗️🌲🈺️😳🪵🎣☃️☃️☃️☃️😊😊📉🎎🎶🎵
TRUTH ABOUT REGROWTH BUT TOTALLY LIES ABOUT SIMPSONS. THEY ABANDONED 660 MEN AND FAMILIES IN 1967 OR SO ALL RETIREMENTS LOST. AND A NEW MILL IN CALIFORNIA.
Hoot and Clee couldn't have built those roads without Harvey Miller welding up the AR plate. I sure wish I had that dinner bell that Harvey made from half inch plate. Mike Meske was a great side rod. Kenny...not so much. Chuck Watson and Monroe Sheffield were awesome. I bet Chuck remembers "Cowboy" letting all the bundles float out the bay. And Roper and I standing there at the waters edge as the boom boat drive unit fell off the Hughes 500 hook and sunk, LOL. Shout out to Turbo George Phillips. And eternal gratitude to Wally Ersland for teaching me how to fit in and not get run off. Adrej, I hope you're flying high! Dave, I miss your cooking @ Cube Cove!
Surprised to see myself in this video! Worked for Silver Bay Logging for two seasons at Cube Cove.
Why do they leave so much wood behind? Wouldn’t it be better to come in and clean up the logs that are not good lumber and use them for chips? It would make the forest look better.
We had several at Eve River Division for MacMillian Bloedel on Vancouver island in the early 1980s Great machines My Uncle and his son Worked for Madill in Nanimio building them
This mill gave cancer to many of its most dedicated long time employees
Thanks. It's hard to find footage of a choker crew working big wood on the steep hillsides of the Pacific Northwest. I started work in 1968, Vancouver Island, Canadian southwest coast. That world doesn't exist any more. But back then when I was young, the guys in their 40's said the same thing, that the world of their young days was gone. High riggers, tin pants, swede saws and steam donkeys. They were the real old-timers.
I logged hi lead from 91 to 99, got to work with men like yourself, that helped make me a man by showing me what real work was lol much respect brother , and your right those days are long gone.
@@leemackay888 I didn't say I was great at it or earned a lot of respect. I enjoyed the work and respected the competence of the men. But I was and still am a habitual daydreamer who can't shut the internal noise off and pay attention to what's going on around me. So I really shouldn't have been there. Couldn't move beyond chokerman because I didn't have the eyes in the back of my head that you need to work in the landing. I'll say this much for the job. It got me in good enough shape for a long enough time that for the rest of my life I've known what that feels like and when I don't have it. Before I got married I switched over to forestry work. Figured I should try to keep myself alive.
@@billjaxin lol ya I was a rigging rat my entire career, saw lots of close ones and a few bad accidents over my 8 seasons , pulled rigging and chased as well. Have a good one man!! Beep beep beep!
Nice medium size trucks. ua-cam.com/video/Z3cQjuWXGlU/v-deo.html /b.c. truck chauvinism!
This video makes me sad, I moved to Mason county when I left my parents house and lived there until two years ago when I moved to LA. I have driven by the camp grisdale site many times and it is hard to imagine what it must’ve been like
snow plow blade on skidder
nosebleed country
They would never air something like this a positive light today.
What happened to USA no 2022 our kids can’t decide what bathroom they should use
Skools Forced to CONCOLLIDATE. Much of that started with GRANGE BIG MGMT. FUEL and transportation Markets.
I went to Simpson elementary in Montesano, WA.
I grew up in the Aberdeen area in Washington. My dad was a log scaler. This was beautiful to watch.
Yer DAD KNEW MY DAD OR MOST OF HIS FRIENDS, From Buzz Munn, to the Gladsjo families, Dustin Sanders's DAD was a Scaler as my DAD: Wm. And Greta ♥️ "Bill Wolfe/Turner families. The Scaler from P.A. iMet at Whitestone, huna Pacific, Tyler bros. About 1987 knew DAD and most of you could really put on a very interesting Saturday or Sunday BASEBALL GAME, in any Park, or Episcopal Church yard in Bellevue. Dustin and DeeDee are aBout the happiest Busted up sons and daughters of a log Scaler, live iHope STIHL at: VALENTINE COURT, SHELTON. GOD BLESS Y'all. Buzz Martin passed away FISHING THE EVENING TIDE AT OUR CAMP. thank God for Tyler's Bud and Shirley Stewart families and the Fincher Beatty families and many MOORE. Sam and Tammy Smith ❤️ finally taught em how to shot gun, or SCOOTER log. Just Always REMEMBER To un hook, the Extension and grab THE RIGGING CHAIN, when you go to SwaP it into the next road. Russ Sullivan, of Sullivan log was our Shop boss, And The KIETH and CONCHITA, MATT and Tana, Cliffie, WALKER FAMILY Was there from the Start of. HT, HUNA TOTEM, Skip Bradley, Log Scaler, Arlington and Mister and Missus Bob HILD FAMILIES Pacific LOG, Marysville were the START❗️🎶❗️😊🎄🎄🎄🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌾🌾🌾⛳️The Rest of the Eley,Families from Polson, Dave Owens families, Mike and Cathy Carroll, ON on on and on Mike O'Brian and Karen, Her DAD, Loren and wife were Road Grader and most Ladies helped with the Cookhouse, bunkhouses, SUNDAY SKOOL, and teachers.
iTHINK i Met you at Whitestone Cookhouse about 1987 or 90 or❓️
Very cool Video 💪 greetings from Austria 💪💪💪
Worked a couple of years working at the cornerbay camp for silver bay as a hooktender
Loghard. Thank you for the great footage
I truly miss those good ole days and the music too !
Awesome!!
I remember moving the 208 on the Woods Road is pretty much rebuild the road after you went through it
Worked here two summers…1980-81. Helped me pay for college.
Hope your college was worth destroying prince of wales island. Rot in the pit.
Hard work 💪💪
Wish it was still like that, SE Alaska is about dead anymore, they choked off the logging industry way too much
AMEN, CHEAPOS LABOR DOWN SOUTH GEORGIA AND ANTEBELLUM. PLASTIC HOUSES
The first shelters humans made were likely made from hides, not wood.
I was in 2nd grade when this was produced....here in Florida we don't do logging like this, but boy the 80's and 90's were the greatest years for yarding equipment.
Profits over community. The pulp industry is terrible.
Profits over community, nature, everything. Good riddance.
I thought this was a video about timber not about this family telling me how great they are and all their accomplishments hero worship!
A lot of yer non Corporate FRIENDS, who are familiar with POLITICLY correct and Um.... sorta Legalistic, Who Moooved our Cheese and Kids like John Deere, Boeing and msnHTTPS, Egg head Software, um, Propaganda by COMPLYING with the Dum people, doesn't usually 🙄Work, forever. Zero Tolerance, TURN KEY BUSINESSes, usually fade and break up, and eventually, MAYBE COME BACK REVIVED BY PEOPLE WHO REALLY CARE.....but sometimes we don't live to see it.☺YOUR COMMENT IS PRETTY FUNNY. .... They tryed to be the best.
Many would agree. ☺🤠
The narrator of this film is so full of shit cornball crap I’m true Cowboys and timberman I just about threw up!
Grandorff
My Great Grandfather drove log trucks on the Olympic Peninsula, this industry is nothing what it used to be.
I remember it well ... fly-in gypo camp Friell Lake Logging, Henderson Lake, Kildonan ol' Pal 'hydro pole' Smith with his D-4, swear it was a D-2 it was so tiny. through 70s to 82ish, then I was done, had enough.
Beautiful I learned something today
that song sounds like jorma
Thanks for sharing the video.had some of best times of my life in those logging camps
This video never gets old. I still love it just as much today as I did when I first watched it nine years ago
This is a great video ! Good days long gone .