Logging & Lumberjacks: Trees and Men: Timber is a Crop circa 1945 Weyerhaeuser

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Good look at 1940s logging and sawmill operations.

Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.

In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard. However, in common usage, the term may be used to indicate a range of forestry or silviculture activities.

Illegal logging refers to what in forestry might be called timber theft by the timber mafia. It can also refer to the harvest, transportation, purchase or sale of timber in violation of laws. The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, including using corrupt means to gain access to forests; extraction without permission or from a protected area; the cutting of protected species; or the extraction of timber in excess of agreed limits.

Clearcut logging is not necessarily considered a type of logging but a harvest or silviculture method and is simply called clearcutting or block cutting. In the forest products industry logging companies may be referred to as logging contractors, with the smaller, non-union crews referred to as "gyppo loggers."

Cutting trees with the highest value and leaving those with lower value, often diseased or malformed trees, is referred to as high grading. It is sometimes called selective logging, and confused with selection cutting, the practice of managing stands by harvesting a proportion of trees.

Logging usually refers to above-ground forestry logging. Submerged forests exist on land that has been flooded by damming to create reservoirs. Such trees are logged using underwater logging or by the lowering of the reservoirs in question. Ootsa Lake and Williston Lake in British Columbia, Canada, are notable examples where timber recovery has been needed to remove inundated forests...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber

Lumber (American English) or timber (British English, Hiberno-English, New Zealand English, and Australian English) is a general term for wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

Lumber may be supplied either rough-sawn, or surfaced on one or more of its faces. Besides pulpwood, rough lumber is the raw material for furniture-making and other items requiring additional cutting and shaping. It is available in many species, usually hardwoods, but it is also readily available in softwoods such as white pine and red pine because of their low cost. Finished lumber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry, primarily softwood from coniferous species including pine, fir and spruce (collectively known as Spruce-pine-fir), cedar, and hemlock, but also some hardwood, for high-grade flooring.

Lumber is predominantly used for structural purposes but has many other uses as well. Lumber is classified as hardwood or softwood...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberjack

Lumberjacks are workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to a bygone era (before 1945 in the United States) when hand tools were used in harvesting trees...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyerhae...

Weyerhaeuser is one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands. It owns or controls more than 6 million acres of timberlands, primarily in the U.S., and manages another 14 million acres under long-term licenses in Canada...

History

In January 1900, Frederick Weyerhaeuser founded Weyerhaeuser Timber Company with 15 partners and 900,000 acres (3,600 km²) of Washington timberland purchased from James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway. In 1929, the company built what was then the world's largest sawmill in Longview, Washington. Weyerhaeuser's pulp mill in Longview, which began production in 1931, sustained the company financially during the Great Depression... Weyerhaeuser implemented its High Yield Forestry Plan in 1967 which drew upon 30 years of forestry research and field experience. It called for the planting of seedlings within one year of a harvest, soil fertilization, thinning, rehabilitation of brushlands, and, eventually, genetic improvement of trees...

Weyerhaeuser converted into a real estate investment trust when it filed its 2010 tax return...

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the early settlers were surrounded with
a fence drop of timber these trees had
to be cut down to clear the land for
farms and to supply the great demand for
lumber
water power was first harnessed in
America by sawmill men shipbuilding
became a leading industry and American
clipper ships transported the product to
the colonists far and wide
the settlers and found their claims far
from roads and towns unsuited for
farming and heartbreaking when it came
to building home the whole job of
subduing a comment was tough for
everyone who had anything to do with it
but they faced the conquest of the
combination to the west was a vast
public domain
written resource the people who were
eager for home
the natural thing to do was to make it
possible for men of courage and
ingenuity to settle the untamed
territories and bring them in state the
drama of resting a nation from a
frontier of wilderness left on heroic
women with their children backed up
there man
every step of the way the frontier wheel
Western over the Apple actions across
the plains up the Rockies and beyond
these were the men and women who first
built America
pounds of wood sprang up with the
Pioneers pushed dogged Lee ever West
thousands of men were staking out and
buying and selling farm and timber land
there was speculation on every hand many
suffered staggering losses but the
market domination across a continent
continued and destiny was fulfilled
each of the millions of settlers needed
lumber for his home his furniture his
barn clouds and fences the eastern
cities were being built largely of wood
loggers in the forests of michigan and
wisconsin and in the pine region to the
South work from daylight to dark to meet
the ever-increasing try for more and
more lumber Sox teams and horses gave
way to steam and at a rapid rate
the cheapest lumber the world has ever
known went into the building of homes
town
cities and industries
with the signing of the Homestead Act
500 million acres of public land passed
into private ownership and more and more
covered wagons fought their way westward
public opinion demanded that the Empire
of the West be subdued and developed
not only did the Pioneers have to
struggle against the forces of nature
but they were blocked at every step by
hostile tribes of marauding Indians who
are desperate in their efforts to stop
the light mint
I'll by mile the frontier was beaten
back by the way clear for the great
recession of america on
the construction of railroad was
imperative requiring lumber but the
train mode
there was no money in the federal
treasury and yet the assets of the
growing Republic must some way the
unlocked the railroads were in a bad way
they needed money for the extension of
their lives their land at that
particular moment was valuable to the
only is it could be turned into cash
there were in those during times 50 men
of foresight and organizing ability
naturally thought this or just to make
some money by buying this land from the
railroad with millions of acres of idle
public land it was natural for President
Lincoln to sign a bill providing for the
encouragement of railroad construction
with that land but the chance these men
had to take with full of risks
the forest my brought up mounting taxes
my bankrupt them before there was a
market for the lump
maybe as their vision pierce the veil in
the future they caught a glimpse of
their sons and grandsons of you and me
at work and the sons and grandsons of
thousands of other men at work and they
took the risk they bought this timber
the railroads extended their lines with
the money and the westwood mark
germination preceded the voice of the
people was calling for Speed more and
more speed and the conquest of the
frontier
we must unlock the wealth of America
give us lumber for the monumental task
of bringing the top here the land of far
an answer
the loggers cut ruthlessly and moved on
cut them moved again
abandoned mills in town rusting rails
and equipment cast aside stand as mute
evidence of the race of the loggers to
satisfy the driving urge for penetrating
of vast wilderness
most people thought that the supply of
trees with endless absorbed in opening
up a rich domain that the husky young
nation might grow to manhood it was
natural for them not to listen to the
voices of a few men who thought that
sometime the trees would all be cut down
on the steps were taken to stem the tie
the small company of conservationists
became sufficiently large so that during
the administration's of President
Harrison and Cleveland 34 million acres
of public land were set aside and called
federal forest reserves more areas were
soon added President Theodore Roosevelt
further increase the area of these
federal reserve to over 100 million
acres
he did not believe that these forests
should be locked up and not used at all
but that they should be why is that we
used for all the people he changed the
name of forest reserves to national
forests
and put them in charge of trained men to
administer and protected
he said the fundamental idea of forestry
is the perpetuation of forests are yous
forest protection is not an end of
itself
it is a means to increase and sustain
the resources of our country and the
industries which depend on them today
are 172 million six hundred thousand
acres in the national forests the
American people are in the lumber
business in the big way
having come down winding roads through
cathedral aisles of majestic trees
we are appalled at the site of the
disfigured groove slopes of a recently
logged area
the desolation looks so complete we
become indignant
it just does not seem right that such
glorious mountain slopes
should this become scarred and barrel it
is a shabby-looking site we loggers have
lost a lot of time in getting it through
our heads that timber is a crop
of the farmer reserves a portion of his
grain crop for seed for the next crop we
too are leaving part of the trees as we
harvest the timber supply seed for the
next crop we have begun to leave see
Derek para trees which will shed seeds
which the wind will scatter rainforest
is cooperate with the managers of the
logging operations in making plans for
leading seat area we have not left
enough but we are leaving more each year
we are leaving some seed areas forever
at least as far as we men of today are
concerned we're leaving other strips of
seat please long enough to give them a
chance
the procede on the surrounding logged
off area we will go back and cut these
major when their job of being a parent
to the next forest is done
the hurrying tourists does not see the
young seedlings bringing up often 50,000
to the acre on land which has been
locked and formed in which looks
desperately bad it takes several years
barring fires for with rain some seed
cooperating starting the new cars
here they are 30 little burrs and
tempers pushing their way upward through
the brush in the fire we another crop of
timber to be harvested by our sons and
our grants
what it would have been better if we
learned our lesson four years ago
we believe that we have caught the
situation in top there need be no future
. of denver found between the cutting of
the last old growth trees and the
harvesting of the first new crop
trees like any other crop rotor maturity
and eventually decay and die if they are
not harvested in time
they're useful as to mankind has lost
many of the trees in the Pacific
Northwest will mature and ready for
harvesting when the pilgrims landed
these overripe trees standing next to
sound mature trees
look no different but when we cut them
we find the k if you will watch closely
as this particular over I've tree starts
to fall you will see how the left
portion is done troubles with the k
many of these forests the decay accede
to the growth and the volume of good
woman is rapidly decreasing much of the
waste wood left on the ground is made up
of trees which were over I've and
decayed at the time of coming there is
not enough good wood left in these
pieces to make it economically possible
to hold them to them
our laboratories are continually
experimenting to find new uses for this
material and the amount of wood wasted
is decreasing the first men who go into
the forest before logging operations
star called cruisers to accurately
estimate the amount of lumber in the
area is about to be locked in this
mountainous country locking engineers
require specialized technical knowledge
plan the location of the railroad so
that all of the timber can
reach with the aid of modern excavating
machine large construction crews are
continuously at work
extending the roads into the timber
ahead of the longer
many types of men each killed in his own
work are required for the successful
handling of a large logging operation
the high climber probably has more nerve
than any other man in the woods when the
timber is being cut down a certain few
trees are left as far trees which play
an important part in lodging
the high climber ascend to a height of
often 200 feet into one of these trees
and cuts off 75 feet or more on the top
and sticks close
while the trees ways often 20 feet each
way later
steel cables are fastened to the top to
make the work of hauling logs to the
railroad tracks easier
the top is cut off as a safety measure
for the man working below
and to make this part 3
more wind resistance
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the kind of 204 shaft often way more
than 40 tongue into the path children
for it in rough country and dense timber
requires a lot of experience the
followers must be able to choose a place
for the tree the land where there will
be the least waste from break it by
cutting all of these trees with the
exception of parent trees which are left
to start a vigorous young forest
national wealth is increased
natural beauty is not over love
continuous employment is provided and
adequate supplies of forest products are
produced
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fuckers got the volunteer ease into logs
they must know not only how to use their
saws
but where to cut the trees so the
greatest amount of high-quality lumber
will be produced it just happens that
this particular man is the world
champion for tree bucker
after the work of the followers and
butters is completed the men of the
logging crew puts team to work for the
task of collecting the large of the
railroad track and loading them on cars
for shipment to the mills choker setters
and hook tenders fast and cables around
the logs and the engines steam donkeys
or Skinner's at the railroad tracks
reel in the cable which the logs are
attached
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in some of the forest there are cedar
trees of the type and size suitable for
telephone and power line pole growing
under the giant furs hemlocks and cedar
to prevent these smaller trees from
being broken as the large trees come
down they are removed from the woods
before the larger trees are cut this
practice reduces waste from breakage and
a larger portion of the forest crop is
this utilized
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railroads are the arteries of the
logging operation they branch out from
one main line to reach all parts of the
woods expert railroad men assembled
allotted cars in the long trains and to
the aid of powerful locomotives take the
logs down steep grades and round sharper
well which are often 40 miles away
state laws require that the debris left
on the ground after logging be burned at
specified times under closely controlled
supervision
this makes it easier to prevent fires
after the new crop of trees and started
the burning of these cut over areas
require great care to prevent seed trees
which have been left from being
destroyed private owners and federal and
state governments are spending millions
of dollars annually to protect both the
old and the new crop
the number of fires caused by logging
operations have been reduced to less
than ten percent of the total and today
the forest using public is the greatest
fire for these forests to the future
the public enjoy the privilege of
hunting fishing berry picking and
camping in the forest area and the right
he should assume their share of the
responsibility of protecting them
fire without their cooperation there
will be less hunting and fishing and the
forest with all their benefits will
suffer
lookouts on high points are maintained
by private owners and the by the
government but close watch is kept by
man whose only job is to spot fire the
moment they start and to get fire
fighting equipment onto the fire with
the greatest possible speed leaders
bring the men down out of the woods -
they're waiting
we know today that it is natural for men
to want study our jobs
a higher annual weight greater security
against life's major risks for home
ownership more time for the enjoyment of
family life and for recreation and
absolutely free to to join constructive
organizations of their own choosing
better schools and finer churches there
are towns in the pacific northwest where
lumbering has been the backbone of the
life of the community for many years
saturdays and sundays and holidays find
the men working their gardens their
ranches and their small farm almost
three-fourths of the homes in some of
these towns are owned by the people who
live in them
the manner of yesterday and today in
words
males and artisans have helped a very
great deal to bring these desirable
things
the past
we are not saying that these towns of
the ultimate the paradise of the loggers
and the sawmill
perhaps they are along the great trail
of life
we're men will want to stop and pitch
their tents for a long time
harvesting their temporizing problem and
really enjoy life everyday
they are forerunners maybe I've even
better town that you roll with the
passion of the year
situated to the sustain you management
of the forest around them
loggers and sawmill men and office
employees work hard when they work but
they also play hard when they play
especially when they're on a picnic
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most bills are located near the water
the brilliancy of water has no
substitute for easing the past of
sorting transporting your story month a
crew of trained mechanics and machinist
keep blogging and construction machinery
and the railroad equipment in good
running order so that lost time from
breakdown is reduced to a minimum
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boom and start the laws they separate
them according to species guiding it
into a separate place
4m lock screws research and the
utilization of work has developed by
work and match
lumber would freak ads number patches
fabricated beams and trusses and
preservatives improved finishes
fireproofing at chemical pulping process
all of these developments have resulted
in less waste to the forest products and
by improving the quality and
desirability of wood products their use
has been greatly extended cocoa
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and now we arrived at the threshold of
the mills here men begin the many
different processes through which trees
are put to shape them for the thousands
of permanent uses which mankind has four
would time unfortunately does not
provide us to go through all these
interesting operations intricate
machines in the hands of highly skilled
men and women turn out fine
finished match number of all sizes and
shapes
these products are out of the finished
durability to the life of America the
very existence of the men of yesterday
dependent upon their ability to win a
tough struggle against the forces of
nature are a distance today
depends upon our ability
cooperate with the nature
each other
1 million three hundred thousand men and
women are normally employed in the
forest industry they together with their
dependents number close to six million
people a permanent long-range program
the objective of the vast majority of us
in forest industry
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the head sire nose of the glass just how
the log should be cut to produce the
greatest amount of high grade lumber
with steam and electric power of his
fingertips
he rolls and turns the big logs in
position so that the star cuts through
them at exactly the right place
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the term and has a number of sources at
his command as an endless procession of
boards passage before him he cuts out
the defective for you
higher grade of lumber is a result
it is natural for the men we have seen
in woods and mills to have pretty solid
ideas about industry they cooperate with
natural forces and this leads them to
think sanely about matters which affect
their lives and the lives of their
families
the vast majority of loggers and
middlemen in common with most men
everywhere want peace in industry
quiet on the world
together with progressive modern
management they want to work out the
continuing program of genuine benefits
to themselves and therefore
their companies and their industries
through the cooperation of management
management certain forms of security are
growing greater well other bombs are
being built up to their cooperation with
state and federal governments
the men and management of our own
company are pretty generally agree that
our policy should be to operate the
properties and trusted to mama
in such a way as to provide a permanent
and profitable investment for capital to
bring about continuous profitable and
enjoyable employment for men and a very
society with on interrupted supplies of
forest products
using a forest and the best to manage
most of the hemlock quality go to the
pump milk these hemlock blogs are broken
down in the sawmills into pieces which
can be handled convenient
after the park has been removed the
operators in the wood for out the knots
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the pieces then go through shipping
machines where they are cut into chips
each precisely the same length
they are then screened and pour into a
huge digesters where they are cooked
with acid and steam which reduces them
to pulp
this pulp carried in water is clean and
screen
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the final process of drying and pressing
the pulp into sheets takes place
in this form it is shipped to many males
be utilized in an ever increasing number
of ways
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remember years across
seedlings increased inside by using the
forests in such a way that they were
largely with you themselves
many of the benefits which President
Theodore rose
have in mind and which President
Franklin Roosevelt has helped to realize
can be enjoyed by an ever increasing
number of people
fine stand of second-growth begin to
cover wide areas the forests of the
future development
forests which will be harvested by the
men of tomorrow
warm currents of air draw copious water
from the passing clouds great storage
reservoirs of moisture are held back in
the shape of eternal snow and ice on the
summits and slopes and magnificent
mountain
Nature has fashioned the Pacific
Northwest to make it America's
fastest-growing three-part trees have
sheltered shaded warm house and rested
the souls of men since man was man a
tree which has its conception its birth
and its growth to maturity
in the natural environment of warm soil
grain from the passing cloud the song of
words from the roar of a walking ball
must inherently bear within itself in
whatever shape it may finally take that
indefinable something which is the
embodiment of natural beauty of
satisfaction of personality which is
peculiar to a tree
the setting aside by the people
of adequate recreational areas amid the
great trees national parks that shall
forever be a place of beauty and
inspiration for the men and women of
America is a policy which appeals to all
men of the forest industry we enjoy
these regions as much as anybody
and so
having spent a short time with trees and
Men
we feel the dynamic power of comradeship
that's something among men which we call
understanding
one smaller setting sun and colors the
water infused south
the mountains are aglow with the glory
more than Earth and tomorrow the men you
have seen and other men in the
tomorrow's to come
go out to work among the trees you have
seen and other trees and the
conservation of men and the conservation
of trees will not stop
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