I found this be a very rare B&W movie of a Class A Climax in action. Notice the peculiar jacks the men are using to roll the logs at the beginning of the movie. I have never seen these before…Aussie equivalents of Peaveys???
There is also some really good footage of the crew applying brakes on the disconnect trucks to avoid a run a way train.
I hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64RSnXNdDEs&feature=youtu.be
Doc Tom
I enjoyed that. A rare historical glimpse of forestry saw milling in N.S.W.
They are New Zealand ‘Maori’ jacks apparently.
The sawmill has a vertical frame saw to cut the logs.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12747/using-timber-jacks
(http://www.teara.govt.nz/files/p-12747-atl.jpg)
Andrew
That was a really cool video. Nice find Tom.
I don’t know what those jacks were but they worked very well.
The footage reminded me of Eric Shades’ railroad up in Maine.
Cool video
Nice find. I enjoyed that.
That was a great find.
Neat little video. I wondered why they had all those ropes hanging down, then later I figured they were brakes, and the ‘brakemen’ used them to control the train down the hill. Looked pretty steep.
That little loco sure ain’t hangin’ around either!
Great find, that.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Fascination video Tom, thanks for sharing … WOW! how hard our forebears worked and in frequently in such dangerous conditions.
Those brake ropes: I wondered, at first, whether they were for lassoing kangaroos. ha! ha!
Alan Lott said:
Fascination video Tom, thanks for sharing … WOW! how hard our forebears worked and in frequently in such dangerous conditions.
Those brake ropes: I wondered, at first, whether they were for lassoing kangaroos. ha! ha!
Even today the Timber Industry has the highest fatality rate of all occupations.
Here is a quote I found from the BLS:
"A recent report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics lists the job of timber cutters as the most dangerous occupation in America.
Reports showed a fatality rate nationwide of 117.8 per 100,000 workers, 26 times that of the average worker. Following that were commercial fishermen with only 71 per 100,000, pilots and navigators with 69 per 100,000, metal workers with 58 per 100,000 and driver-sales workers with 38 per 100,000.\par }{\plain While the logging industry may well be dangerous in other parts of the country where heavy equipment like feller bunchers can’t be used, in the south the fatality rate in the logging industry has fallen dramatically. Louisiana only had two fatalities in the year 2003."
DocTom
