Old redwood logging film

[wisewood]

Great old footage of US logging.[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcEto_Q8MlY]Redwood Lumber Industry, Northern California - 1947 - YouTube[/ame]

[ally2kn1]

You have to love the health and safety

[KingoftheRing]

Fantastic skill and strength to fell those trees with axes and saws.

[Pete Hart]

Really enjoyed watching - thanks for posting!!

[Big J]

What a great video - fascinating stuff! It would have been an exciting time to be alive.

[Jake Andrews]

And we moan about our "pinching" harnesses. imagine what that chain harness was doing to his gonads.......OUCH:001_tongue:

[dexta]

Great find. Hats off to the old boys

[skyhuck]

What a great video - fascinating stuff! It would have been an exciting time to be alive.

 

TBH, I think life back then was very hard a cruel.

[Big J]

TBH, I think life back then was very hard a cruel.

 

You are probably right, but the idealist in me pines for the frontier lifestyle. It's a very small world now, and a little less exciting for it.

[dervishcarving]

great old film and yes, we moan now but THEY were hard men! Thing that makes me sad is seeing such lovely old trees being cut down. especially as so many of the buildings that used this wood will also have been pulled down. There is somethign about the sequoia, amazing trees and it's kinda magical to walk among them