Canadian Lumberjack Hard Life
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2022
- Here is an original journey, a journey that tells the story of British Columbia: the journey of a log from the forest to the sawmill. We come across a lumberjack who cuts down thousand-year-old trees in perilous conditions. A tugboat captain dragging behind him a raft of 30,000 tons of wood. A beachcomber, a sort of sea scrap merchant, who lives off the logs he harvests on the shore. Operators who operate sort of tumbling boats to bring the wood to the sawmill. And there is the ocean everywhere. Because in British Columbia, wood and sea are intimately linked…
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I logged up near Meziaden which is near Stewart turn right at the junction you head up to dease lake and the Alaskan highway. I logged there and lived at camp Meziaden for 6 years and made whops of money to take back to Ontario and buy my beatiful log home just east of Rossport on the north shore of Lake Superior. Im still here 50 years later,kids all grown up and my wife and I enjoy inland fishing for Pickerel and blueberry picking and awesome sunsets...Thank you for the great video and the memories cheers from Ontario.
Living the dream Woody! Good for you friend...sounds like paradise
It's amazing what hard work can give you congratulations you earned it
I am a retired arborist from the northeast 35yrs. I’ve earned respect, these MEN ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! GREAT DOCUMENTARY 👏👏👏👍👍👍
What a shame.
Doing the task at hand
That “beachcomber” Cat is straight up Bada---! A family too , a damn good Man .
As a northern British Columbian who lives in a small forestry town, I understand the importance of the forest industry. People have to make a living. But at the same time I sure hope that we're managing our forests such that we don't cut more than a 1,000th of 1,000 year old trees each year. I'm not sure that's the case. We can't get too greedy. It's a renewable resource but only if we manage it wisely.
I totally agree. I'm a conservative BUT don't cut old-growth trees, please. I live in a cedar forest and in my county 100 years ago they would cut 1 tree that would take one logging truck to carry. We have rotten stumps on our property that are 6 or maybe 6.5 feet wide from logging old growth. These trees are nearly gone in America and we should preserve what we have left. We can log 50 year old trees and be just fine re-planting.
America doesn’t have shit left for old growth trees, not sure how out west and the northwest is but out here in the northeast we ain’t got shit it’s all new growth we’re cutting
@@marc2638 That select places they will clear cut plant new growth then leave. There is places they only select cut .
Some they will never touch.
Instead of living a life beyond our means maybe get an education and get a regular job. Or stop letting millions of migrants in and to stop electing assholes like Trudeau and Newsom. So tired of the "gotta make a living" bullshit excuse.
@@marc2638 : So, you think you have the right to tell people what to do with their own property?
Fantastic documentary! I'm from an Oregon logging family - all of whom moved on from logging decades ago. (RIP Dad and Grandpa.🌲🌲🌲)
I started my logging career in 1978. I have done every job depicted in this video. Cheers to all my fellow loggers.
My ancestors were loggers in Maine and New Brunswick, CA from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. I love watching logging videos.
favourite saw?
Is it difficult to get a lumberjack job in Canada? and where to find
What a hardworking bloke Eric the log beachcomber is ,as well he has a beautiful family which he supports, a different side of logging which as an Aussie I did not imagine existed, the smaller 1 to 2 person company's work unbelievably hard yet the efforts are greatly underestimated and ignored, overall a great video, thank you very much for sharing 👍💯
Go look up a series called The Beachcombers. Lovely fun show about the characters in a small town like these guys.
This video is sooo interesting! Sorry that I am just now finding this channel! I know that logging is one of the most dangerous (if not the most dangerous) jobs there is! My respect to all who work in this industry!
Think I ts tow truck operators.
Now I want to watch some episodes of Beachcombers!
Great show..were probably the same age
I lived on the Sunshine Coast in the "BeachCombers era! Worked on the mountain sides harvesting the timber, later on when I lived in Vacouver I worked on the pond at a sawmill on the North shore ... I had a B Lic. troller caught salmon, ling cod, red snapper and rock cod and occasionaly in the '70s would haul a few beached logs off the rocks ... watching this production was very emotional for me, Im 74 now and won't be doing anymore logging thats for sure.
I really enjoyed this. I love watching guys who actually work, unlike the local Walmart. I'm a construction worker, day in, day out!
@@williamjones7851 HECK YEAH👊
Not many people actually work in the outdoors anymore as compared to offices or road warriors. Their is something uniquely satisfying about working outdoors, being dirty and taking a hot shower after work. I grew up on Lake George and logging was a proffessional up there. Think International paper and their paper mills in Ticonderoga. I grew up working for a dock builder and did it my self all the way through college. They were all crib docks made of logs and filled with stone. If a new one we built them on the ice I. The winter and chainsawed the ice dropping them in. If not, built them on the water.
Still have two chain saws out of three!
Trees and wood construction are more sustainable and less polluting to the environment. When you think metal studs, think acid rain which started to kill the Great Lakes, finger lakes and poison the Adirondack lakes.
Great documentary!
What incredible work by these men! Incredible documentary
Respect for that dangerous work,well done boys!
Awesome that the beachcomber guy makes a living salvaging wood lost from the giant log rafts.
Dear Greg V.
Nevertheless they mentioned, that the Beachcombers don't get paid well. So it's hard to make a living like that.
Best regards luck and health.
@@Chr.U.Cas1622 lol. Yea I was a bit premature with my post. He made a living, just not the one I had hoped he would because the work is hard and he gets my respect for doing it. Of course they did at one time make a better living, like most everyone else
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Держава мусить доплатити пляжному хлопцю за очищення берегів.
Yeah, 18 dollars a log is a joke (6500 divided by 370 pieces) and a pine 2x4 at the store is 10.00. Somebody’s making money of it
I went to school for Forestry Management, I worked for Rough and Ready lumber company, O'Brian Oregon for 6 years as the head of the logging team. Before I went to college I routinely cut down 200 ft plus trees, I know exectly what im talking about. I taught myself, Cutting 200 ft firs and cedars in the Illinois valley, Oregon. There waas a large burn outside of takilma... also other places of 100 year old trees. I cut fire wood... Thats how I got into a retraining program for displaced forestry workers
Glad to hear that you went through boot camp. Before spending time in college to pursue a collage degree. Perhaps forestry related -???
Great job Andy & Crew's.
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Imagine the world without trees?😊
Imagine the world without humans? which do you think will arrive first?
My hope 💜 is that Canada & B.C. think of the future for our children & grandchildren who will have the need for lumber as well 🤠
Через 100 років люди також захочуть побачити таких велетнів, але ці жадібні нелюди не дадуть такої можливості.
Most logging companies have a replanting system curriculum.
I am deeply saddened every time a thousand year old tree is felled. It is a symbol of our lack of creativity as humans.
We no longer steward the earth- call me a "tree hugger" but the effort it took to grow those giants will not come again.
Sustainable commercial foresting is a necessary task for humanity to develop and we ignore it at our peril.
Don't fret, the trees and this planet will still be here way after we humans are gone.
Don't worry we are going thrue a heat period and when that period is over we will go thru a new ice age again. Just like the earth has done many times before. Its a way of the earth to start over again
I heard them say they plant them again
@@collinskorir9517 They plant a tree that will take 1000 years to match that old growth....so what
Would have been interesting to see how the logs are skidded off the mountains. Otherwise an excellent documentary. Thanks.
Probably with skidders or maybe a yarder,hard to say. Was my question to.
Perhaps Eric could make some moves to add value to what he salvages and remain self employed. Maybe his own milling set up, sell seasoned wood, make stuff etc
I love the job like a Beachcomber 👍👍👍
I started in the woods at 9 yrs old for a life-long cutter, Frank K. Up Deadwood Cr. western Oregon and broke in as his marker. A log tape, markin axe, shirt,loggin cutoffs, suspenders, socks, boots, and hard hat. The dress code of the job for the day. I jumped in his truck at 4am. Made it to the show by daybreak. First tree i ever marked was 11 foot at the butt, and old Frank had to springboard the tree to make the undercut. Five fuel-ups and 4hrs later ,tree still standing Frank pulled his saw out shut it off and said "Lets eat lunch" I asked him, "What about the tree" He just said, " Keep your eyes on the top. It'll be coming down as soon as the wind shifts." Well 20 minutes passed before I heard the first snap of wood, 5 minutes later the second. And then all hell broke loose. It sounded like a freight train twenty feet from us going by. When that tree hit the ground i bounced a good half a foot in the air. From that day on i was hooked on cutting timber. I'm 72 now and have left cutting trees to the younger bucks. Have to say i enjoyed the video.
The Lumber is worth gold now days.
Big trees are pretty rare now. Imagine waiting even 100 years to harvest the next growth.
What a fascinating documentary. Thank you.
Looks a fabulous life. I would have loved that before I became disabled.
The thought of getting home ! Priceless words after a stretch of time
Thanks for those straight boards all perfect 👌 only i e ever seen so perfect 💯
Going back to the 1800s, these are the guys who have stories of Sasquatch, along with indigenous peoples and their Totem poles.
A thousand year old tree, I could not cut down.
Amazing mirrored piece! I enjoy seeing your work develop into nice pieces.
Casino's yes I get it... My Grandmother was Mic Mac just tred lightly !!! 🤔
Eric loving his work. That’s the key. Love what you do
Brave Men 👍🏼🪵 Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
cool vid..been there done it all...lol..sad so much goes to china from mahatta,,west coast actually. now so few flat booms now pretty hard to make a livin beachcombing..good video though..74 years young born and raised british columbia west coast..many of us started logging very young...lol..
Unfortunately like other occupations. Beachcombing became a bye gone era. Not totally forgotten due to documentary presentations.
Excellent. I have mixed feelings about industries like these which are shadows of their former selves. I understand the reality of "progress" but lately it seems we're losing more than we're gaining. I want to live in an analog world.
Huh? You want to live in an analogue world? Did you mean you don't but left out a word? The new world order is has an evil agenda and the deindustrialization of the former first world of creative inventors giving all their industry and technology to the third world making us artificially dependant upon them for all our necessities is no accident while at the same time flooding military age third world males into our aging homelands and cities where they are wreaking havoc on our dying cities and aging populations. In a KJV the christ himself names the common enemy in revelations 2:9 and 3:9. Check it out before it is too late. The new world order is evil and their agenda very real.
I saw this display of over 1,000. Drones making real decorations in the sky and not ever hitting one another. Kind of Scared me to see
this level of technology just for entertainment. I also would be happy to go forward to an Analog world and lose all the division and lack of Love the
people of the world have for one another now. I Agree. We are going backwards in so many ways.
All those Guitars.
There was this Dirty Cop, thank God it was my Mother & a Few Eagle Members that have kept me grounded. 🤔
Jangan biarkan hutan sampai gundul , sebaiknya tanam kembali bibit baru supaya alam tetap terjaga dengan baik 🌲🌲🌲
Looks like a demanding job but well worth the effort and what a beautiful place to work and live your life.
It doesn't look like its a vary beautiful place after they get done with it!
What a great documentary B.C. Is so beautiful
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to veteran lumber jack guest speakers. Sharing personal knowledge/experiences pertaining to the tree 🌲🌲 harvesting industry. Making this documentary more authentic and possible -!!!😉. Not an occupation for the faint of hearted -!!!.😲
Thank you for sharing this great documentary!
Fantastic watch very educational.
When I worked off Vancouver Island on a salmon fishing boat we had to look out for 'dead heads' logs that floated vertically. I always wondered where they went at night...
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👍👌👏 A really well done documentation/documentary!
Best regards luck and health to all involved people.
they missed the lumber jack quite a bit. Loggers barely get a sniff here and they missed most of the most dangerous part. Guess its not pretty enough to see men doing high lead logging . They missed a big step kind of went from the tree fall to the water .
@@Sachin-vr4ms there is no greater sound or sight than a giant fir tumbling over. Such a sight . The deep crack then squeal as the last wedge is driven in. You walk away admire the thunder as it hits the side hill. TIMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful documentary, well done. Learned quite a bit about logging and moving them via the river.
Draft away with chopped lumbers along clean river streams from heavy mountain forests. Big guys works building temples and fresh scented lumber timber houses.
Amazing Documentary loved it.
Interesting and super pro production.. thank you.
Such seamless automation, impressive!
It must be the patriarchy I don’t see any women doing this job. Much respect for these men.
:D
Great Video Sidewinder different from a boom boat
Stay safe Eric .
Lumber is the other product that other countries want ! Even those they have there own supply of lumber but rather use the lumber from say another country remember it takes say 25 to 50 years to regrow the supply of lumber you cut down in your own country ! True the cut lumber can be sold for a profit But remember that you can’t regrow the old growth lumber that you sold to say China or Europe can’t be replaced in a few years ! Use it at home ! Not miles or days away !
😮 It's pretty intense to think that that one tree saw you be born and die over 1200 life times. Pretty incredible. It's done its job. Now it needs to be removed to thin out the Forrest and let new light in areas that haven't seen the sun for hundreds of years. This will start a whole new echo system in this area now.. Pretty cool to see what happens in the Forrest.
Removing dead and old trees is true green policy.. ..therefore veganism and electric vehicles are just business policies
Relic!!!!! Jessie!!!!! Nick!!!!!!!!
thanks and love this video,,,,❤❤From Sri lanka,,,
These guys are amazing subjects of the queen. work hard and don't forget.. pay your taxes..
At 28:40 the captain caught a Ling cod which despite its creepy mug is a delicious fish.
A shame the saw mills are disappearing and logs are sawn overseas
This is no accident. The new world order is real and they have a real evil agenda against the former creative, inventive western first world. In a KJV revelations 2:9 and 3:9 the christ himself names our common enemy. Their agenda has successfully deindustrialized the aging, dying western, first world and gave all of our industry and technology to the third world making us artificially dependant upon the third world for our necessities while flooding our former aging, dying homelands and cities with third world aliens of military age to wreak havoc upon our cities and aging populations. Read and learn before it is too late. The new world order is real and their evil agenda very real and no accident.
Your a hard working man keep it work always for yourself you the man great famley
Thats a big tree holy cow
I hope They replant new trees after felling is done otherwise its a waste of time, much respect to these guys dam hard and dangerous job
I here the Paper work is telling...
An interesting clip. The overseas market must pay top dollar.
Percy Logging Knight Inlet Early 80's 22 yrs old Setting Beads Toughest Job Ever Had
And The Best Men You can Have As A Crew Plus The Best Food You Can Eat
(you can take as much as you can eat) and you better eat it throwing food away
IS A NO NO. My Rigging Slinger his name was Eskamo 56yrs old Native Indian from
Campbell River Tougher than a D-9 Could take 2 120# Block and tackle Through the
Bush on the side of a Moutian when we were switching "ROADS".
Once I was Trained on the Radio (Traffic) And first aid was working the "Road Crew"
Swampier Following A Cat Skinner in a D-9 Driving a Support Truck
Kudos to the logers for their hsrd work😊
Boom boats were called “log broncos” also, there was a manufacturer in Coos Bay Oregon. They were widely used throughout Pacific Northwest.
There just called Boom Boats in BC. The style of the ones at the mill are called Sidewinders, These ones are made in BC
Love it , grew up in the logging industry
cutting trees and plant more trees after several years you can cutting again ang plant 💯🇵🇭
I use to be a logger in the Sahara forest !
My grandpa and great grandpa were B.C. lumbermen in late 1800’s-early 1900’s.
They skipped over the bucking & yarding steps, both of which are interesting & dangerous.
awesome view like from Cambodia
I just want to say, I miss the woods. i was in a motorcycle accident in 2003, ended my forestry career...
I'm sorry to hear about that
@@heisenberg3099 I miss that work, I was a Supervisor and lead the Public Lease surveys required to be approved before acceptance of the Bid. I was good at it. I have a deep love of the land God Gave Us. USED TO BE AN ENVIRONMENTALIST Until I went to School. Malcolm X was correct, the biggest threat to Humanity is the White Liberal Woman...(He actually said "The Black Community") but he is correct, White Liberal Woman are the biggest Threat to all Humans who want to live free. And the biggest threat to the American Republic...
And to think... Up until about the early/mid Middle Ages (500A.D. - 1000A.D.) most of the upper Northern hemisphere was nothing but unbroken forest pretty much!
the Romans and Vikings managed to change most of that apparently(?)... With their building of homes, carts and ships, as well as the need for fuel too. Unbroken forests and woodlands until the planting of crops and grass for modern agriculture...
These jobs are not for everybody. Takes a certain kind of person to do these jobs.
Very interesting
what a shame that 90% of that wood goes somewhere else
im sure canada can spare some wood considering the fact that canada is like 90% uninhabited
All the best wood is exported .Canada keeps only b grade lumber
The issue is that we the Canuks have to pay premium prices for the wood that the BIG LUMBER CONGLOMERATES charge. Take Douglas Fir and Yellow Cedar lumber as examples ...for the average home builder, those two species are most sought after, on the west coast they grow to be forest giants .... but in the very province they are harvested, on the domestic market they are rare, and very expensive commodities. Japan, China are the recipients of our best raw timber, the conglomerates collect big payments for ship loads of our best wood ... we are left with inferior species at high prices for lumber that came from "Crown Land"...land owned by the people via their government. A bad situation that needs to be more balanced.
Our governments sold us out to globalism just like every other Western country. They are in a big hurry to disappear that middle class.
V V Heard job indeed and v expensive log in the world 🌎🌎🌎 thanx laley. Lala Pakistani
I enjoyed logging.. I tried it all.. Tree planting too Carpentry.. Too bad the industry was shut down..
😭. Along with a few other industries unfortunately.
Amazing
I envy the job satisfaction.
I live right here in B.C. . I search for wood that can be made into a guitar or cello, instrument building materials of suitable age. Dammed shame the good stuff if always overlooked then exported 😢.
Sissies. My older sister would teach these guys something… she’s a chiropractor. Lol😂
Где ж она тяжелая. Если б он березки в пустыне сажал другое дело. Рискованная да, но насчет тяжелее есть другие варианты.
Seharusnya semua video diberikan subtitle sesuai negara mereka
Sehingga akan lebih banyak orang tertarik untuk menonton
🤔👍
Yes, subtitled to their countries with the affordability of other languages. How many other languages is a tough call as they won't/can't put all languages up. There's always going to be some who loses out.
Very hardworking people 👍💪
Well done. I enjoyed this
This guy should take some of his logs, cut them up and make custom furniture and sell them for a ton of money to these rich people in the big mansions me myself that’s what I would do that would compensate for the loss money and I’ll guarantee you you won’t be wanting to sell the wood. Specially, if it’s seasoned wood a lot of people like the grain of that wood it’s been sitting in the water.
Good call, cherry pick the good stuff, work in the shop when the weather is bad, start as a sideline see how it goes.
Stop selling to foreign companies.. sell only to North American Companies, & locally owned sawmills inland...
Not always possible.. lumber is a world wide commodity. And scale of economics dictates its price.. the biggest problem with lumber is it's a labour intensive job.
Lol... K
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If the only sold local there would be no market I mean think about it it’s up north there is big timber everywhere lol😅
Wish they wouldn't take the ancient trees. I don't know a lot about the logging Industry, but it seems to me that once the huge trees, the 300 and 400 year old trees, are gone....whole habitats will be gone. Then the 100 year old trees get taken, then the 50 year old.......
Story of Oregon. logging gone and the towns they rode in on.
People should make farms were the trees are cut down.
Anyway, I love you guys and Gals Savages....
good work...nice video
How do you have a video of Tug, log tow through Seymour narrows and not mention anything of. Ripple Rock in the Seymour Narrows being exploded.
Believe at one time it was the worlds largest Dynamite explosion.
That could be another documentary in itself.
Amazing😱
If you are falling redwood sized cedars then they should be milled in British Columbia sawmills
Un trabajo muy duro