Logging

[babalu87]

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[Homefire]

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There is a wonderful film on PBS in New York
that covers the boom times of the Adirondack
and the first chain saws and dozers.

It is made from the home movies of the Chaplin for the logging camps
of the 30's and 40's I believe it is called Sky Pilot

 

[adrpga498]

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Great post.
Back after the show.

 

[Jake]

interesting show. its neat how the computer scans the log and figures out the best yield

 

[precaud]

Cool show - thanks for the tip! I could hear the Dolmar feathers ruffling when they pronounced Stihl as the inventor of the chainsaw...

 

[MichaelS]

Very cool, thanks for the heads up.

 

[Eric Johnson]

History channel 7PM (NOW) EST

There is a wonderful film on PBS in New York
that covers the boom times of the Adirondack
and the first chain saws and dozers.

It is made from the home movies of the Chaplin for the logging camps
of the 30's and 40's I believe it is called Sky Pilot

That was the Rev. Frank Reed from Old Forge, NY. He started the magazine that I edit, back in 1950. He was known as the "Lumberjack Sky Pilot" and authored a book by the same name. He traveled around to the lumbercamps around the Northeast laying the good word on the workers. Eventually, he started publishing a newsletter called "Lumbercamp News," later to become "The Northeastern Logger" and today known as "The Northern Logger." Today we're a regional trade pub. No more "Lumberjack's Prayer." No more "Lumber Camp Recipe of the Month." But we still publish a lot of good information relating to modern logging and sawmilling.

 

[babalu87]

No more “Lumber Camp Recipe of the Month.”

Awwwwwwwwwwe

That was an hour of TV well spent.

 

[Corie]

Agreed. We alreayd had it on over here when we saw the post though! I knew one of you guys would start a thread about i!

 

[restorer]

History channel 7PM (NOW) EST

There is a wonderful film on PBS in New York
that covers the boom times of the Adirondack
and the first chain saws and dozers.

It is made from the home movies of the Chaplin for the logging camps
of the 30's and 40's I believe it is called Sky Pilot

That was the Rev. Frank Reed from Old Forge, NY. He started the magazine that I edit, back in 1950. He was known as the "Lumberjack Sky Pilot" and authored a book by the same name. He traveled around to the lumbercamps around the Northeast laying the good word on the workers. Eventually, he started publishing a newsletter called "Lumbercamp News," later to become "The Northeastern Logger" and today known as "The Northern Logger." Today we're a regional trade pub. No more "Lumberjack's Prayer." No more "Lumber Camp Recipe of the Month." But we still publish a lot of good information relating to modern logging and sawmilling.

Damn.(second today). What a diverse and knowledgeable group we have. Do you have the paper online, or maybe a link to see the paper? There's a tavern near Missoula, Montana where you can have a beer, eat a hot wing and chat with an old timer who logged the tall trees. Took a lot of telephone poles and utility poles from that area, besides the run of the mill lumbering.