1940’s Lumberjacks
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They certainly were.
Somehow, It always kinda makes me sad to see those massive old trees being cut down.
Very cool!!
I grew up in a logging town. You are right, toughest guys I've ever been around.
Friday afternoons (payday) got kinda wild in our little town.
They made GOOD money, and spent it. At the Taverns, on cars, trucks, motorcycles & girls.
And had no problem wrecking all of them........
In the pic attached are two friends of mine.
The one on the stump, George, was nearly killed in the woods, was retrained, and now is
my chiropractor.
The guy on the ground, Roy, was felling a tree on a job, and woke up in Harborview, the premier
trauma center on the west coast. Wore a halo on his head for 6 months.
His wife made him quit the woods.
He just died this past May at 73 from cancer.
Miss him.
Cool video hitman.
Thanks
I grew up in a logging town. You are right, toughest guys I've ever been around.
Friday afternoons (payday) got kinda wild in our little town.
They made GOOD money, and spent it. At the Taverns, on cars, trucks, motorcycles & girls.
And had no problem wrecking all of them........
In the pic attached are two friends of mine.
The one on the stump, George, was nearly killed in the woods, was retrained, and now is
my chiropractor.
The guy on the ground, Roy, was felling a tree on a job, and woke up in Harborview, the premier
trauma center on the west coast. Wore a halo on his head for 6 months.
His wife made him quit the woods.
He just died this past May at 73 from cancer.
Miss him.
Cool video hitman.
Thanks
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eveled
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My Grandmother bought my parents a red wood picnic table. It was never brought indoors or even covered. It lasted over 40 years with out rotting, but the places with fasteners became soft and impossible to rebuild.
It is amazing how hard those guys worked and with so little technology.
It is amazing how hard those guys worked and with so little technology.
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
Very cool!!
I grew up in a logging town. You are right, toughest guys I've ever been around.
Friday afternoons (payday) got kinda wild in our little town.
They made GOOD money, and spent it. At the Taverns, on cars, trucks, motorcycles & girls.
And had no problem wrecking all of them........
In the pic attached are two friends of mine.
The one on the stump, George, was nearly killed in the woods, was retrained, and now is
my chiropractor.
The guy on the ground, Roy, was felling a tree on a job, and woke up in Harborview, the premier
trauma center on the west coast. Wore a halo on his head for 6 months.
His wife made him quit the woods.
He just died this past May at 73 from cancer.
Miss him.
Cool video hitman.
Thanks
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I was born in Aberdeen in 1944. A couple of my uncles were lumberjacks, and my grandmother lost 3 fingers when she worked the mill there.
As an aside, I learned how to use a clam gun by the time I was 6yo. I doubt many here even know what a clam gun is.
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I was born in Aberdeen in 1944. A couple of my uncles were lumberjacks, and my grandmother lost 3 fingers when she worked the mill there.
As an aside, I learned how to use a clam gun by the time I was 6yo. I doubt many here even know what a clam gun is.
Ya,
Aberdeen was a wild logging town, back in the day!
We had Razor Clam chowder on Christmas eve, it's tradition at our house.
I'm a surf digger with my True Temper shovel with a Westport Hook.
Don't leave it outside the camper, the locals will steal it!
And who doesn't love a granny missing 3 fingers!!!!
Cheers,
JAYDAWG
My dad had a sawmill for years and we built sawmills for sale. My grandpa used to skid logs with a Farmall F-12 with steel wheels and a homemade logging arch. I hauled thousands of board feet of logs and rough sawed lumber on a 1947 International KB-5 with a 14 foot flatbed dump body. Grandpa also had a 2 man Mall chainsaw and a bow bar chainsaw for limbing. He and my dad could drop a tree by using wedges to make it go where they wanted.
Dad came up with an old Oliver OC-3 sideboom crawler tractor with 2 Tulsa winches on it that we used to skid logs and yard them up. He also came up with a homemade forklift to load the logs on the skidway and load piles of sawed lumber on trucks or wagons.
We sawed for farmers and construction companies and woodworkers and even the county and several townships. Someone tried to make a stink to the zoning officials and there was a contentious townhall meeting packed with farmers on our side.
It was nothing like the scale of logging in the video but it was all hard bull work that gave me a good work ethic.
Dad came up with an old Oliver OC-3 sideboom crawler tractor with 2 Tulsa winches on it that we used to skid logs and yard them up. He also came up with a homemade forklift to load the logs on the skidway and load piles of sawed lumber on trucks or wagons.
We sawed for farmers and construction companies and woodworkers and even the county and several townships. Someone tried to make a stink to the zoning officials and there was a contentious townhall meeting packed with farmers on our side.
It was nothing like the scale of logging in the video but it was all hard bull work that gave me a good work ethic.
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GunnyGene
Hawkeye
She worked for Simpson back in the day.Ya,
Aberdeen was a wild logging town, back in the day!
We had Razor Clam chowder on Christmas eve, it's tradition at our house.
I'm a surf digger with my True Temper shovel with a Westport Hook.
Don't leave it outside the camper, the locals will steal it!
And who doesn't love a granny missing 3 fingers!!!!
Cheers,
JAYDAWG
Grays Harbor History: The Simpson Logging Company - GraysHarborTalk
The Simpson Logging Company – now called Green Diamond Resource Company – is a six-generation family company that has managed forests from Grays Harbor County to Mason County and beyond the west coast.
www.graysharbortalk.com
And some history of Billy's Bar and Grill. Which wasn't what some folks today would call a fine restaurant. The building was still there last time I was up that way, but with a new name and owners. You probably know all about this.
Intrigue at Billy's Bar & Grill: Separating Truth from Tall Tales of Grays Harbor's Billy Gohl - GraysHarborTalk
Early 1900s residents knew Billy Gohl as a respected secretary of the local sailor’s union, but later headlines would transform him into the stuff of nightmares. And though its been proven reports of his alleged crimes have been greatly exaggerated, Gohl’s infamy endures, captivating Grays...
www.graysharbortalk.com
Off topic, but this is a picture of my Uncle Jim when he was in Korea - yes a Marine. Which greatly influenced me as a kid Wounded there, but still alive at 97. Talked to him on the phone just a few days ago. Lives with his wife Rita on 101 a few miles outside of Hoquiam.
John Hughes is Helping Record Local History with Legacy Washington - GraysHarborTalk
John Hughes is helping record our states history through the Legacy Washington, a project by the Washington State Secretary of State’s office.
www.graysharbortalk.com
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Yaworski
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I doubt many here even know what a clam gun is.
Well it follows that if a deer rifle is for hunting deer and a squirrel gun is for hunting squirrels that a clam gun is for hunting wild clams.
Now I'm wondering what a police shotgun is for . . .
When she lost the fingers she asked the doctor if she could use the hand for drawing. He said 'maybe but I wouldn't count on it'Ya,
Aberdeen was a wild logging town, back in the day!
We had Razor Clam chowder on Christmas eve, it's tradition at our house.
I'm a surf digger with my True Temper shovel with a Westport Hook.
Don't leave it outside the camper, the locals will steal it!
And who doesn't love a granny missing 3 fingers!!!!
Cheers,
JAYDAWG
Lumberjacks..big burly tyyps....
Or a revolving door
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
Clam guns don't use ammo.
Yaworski
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Clam guns don't use ammo.
But I'm not wrong. A clam gun is for hunting wild clams.
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
Not really. The gun is for catching them. Hunting them requires that you know what to look for. You should try it some time if you make the trip to the WA coast.
Yaworski
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Not really. The gun is for catching them. Hunting them requires that you know what to look for. You should try it some time if you make the trip to the WA coast.
Don't you have to hunt them to catch them? Similarly, you don't use a hunting rifle to hunt. Maybe we need to rethink our terminology.
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
Razors are very sneaky. Precision is required to avoid killing them. You'd have a good time on the beach with a nice fire, friends, beer, and good eats, if you get some.
And if you go after geoducks (pronounced 'gooey duck') on the mud flats at low tide, they get pretty big and are liable to shoot you before you even know what's happening. Not lethal tho.
Seasons, dig dates, etc. It's a lot more regulated than when I was kid up there.
Razor clam seasons and beaches
The Pacific razor clam is one of the most sought after shellfish in the state of Washington. Better roads and more leisure time have brought increasing numbers of diggers to the ocean beaches. It is not unusual to have as many as a thousand people per mile during a nice spring weekend day.
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