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[paccity]

i know it's short notice but goin to camp 18 to do some volunteering for the logging memorial and timber sports demonstration. will be fun. starts at 10 am sat morn. so if your close enough come on up.

 

[nw axe man]

i know it's short notice but goin to camp 18 to do some volunteering for the logging memorial and timber sports demonstration. will be fun. starts at 10 am sat morn. so if your close enough come on up.

If I didn't already have my weekend mapped out I'd have loved to haul down there and join you. Sounds like fun. Have a good time.

 

[paccity]

well it was a good day at camp 18, the logger memorial dedication went good. its pretty nice if you get a chance to go see it you should. they even had a jr jogging rodeo, some of thoughs kids were pretty good. wish i had more pics but my camara craped, these are cell pics.View attachment 184073View attachment 184074View attachment 184075View attachment 184076View attachment 184077

 

[nw axe man]

well it was a good day at camp 18, the logger memorial dedication went good. its pretty nice if you get a chance to go see it you should. they even had a jr jogging rodeo, some of thoughs kids were pretty good. wish i had more pics but my camara craped, these are cell pics.View attachment 184073View attachment 184074View attachment 184075View attachment 184076View attachment 184077

Good pics. Is that on Hwy 26 east of Portland? I seem to remember seeing some sort of logging museum there years ago. We used to go that way to Seaside but now come down the river from Longview. I'll have to make a special trip if that's where it is. Got rain?

 

[Joe46]

Yup, on Hwy 26. There is also another good one on Hwy 97 in southern Or.I stopped there a couple of years ago, but can't remember what town it was by?

 

[paccity]

ya west hwy 26. the only bad thing about 26 is all the the tourist driving with there heads up there ####. started raining about 6. hers some kids doin some handy crafts.View attachment 184101View attachment 184102

 

[nw axe man]

Yup, on Hwy 26. There is also another good one on Hwy 97 in southern Or.I stopped there a couple of years ago, but can't remember what town it was by?

Would that be the high desert museum? If so, that's a good one also. They used equipment quite different from what we're used to over here on the west side. Have you ever stopped by that saw museum in Amboy? I think it's owned by Wayne Sutton. He used to be a Stihl dealer years ago. He still might be. He's got about everything you can imagine. He's got a pic on Madsens website under "photo album."

 

[hammerlogging]

I think ya'll are fortunate to have a logging community and culture out there.

 

[Gologit]

Yup, on Hwy 26. There is also another good one on Hwy 97 in southern Or.I stopped there a couple of years ago, but can't remember what town it was by?

Would that be Collier State Park? It's north of Klamath Falls on 97.

They have a lot of old logging machinery on display. Most of it isn't all prettied up for the tourists. It looks like real ,logging machinery should look.

They also have a good selection of logging and logging history books in the gift shop.

 

[Gologit]

I think ya'll are fortunate to have a logging community and culture out there.

Yes we are. I used to laugh at people who did volunteer work but, like paccity, I've started doing some myself. Too much of the old time history, especially as it pertains to how we've made our living, would be lost forever if nobody took the time to help preserve it.

Two guys I work with a lot on our gold mine restoration are in their 70s and 80s. Makes me feel like a kid again. :msp_wink:

 

[Joe46]

Would that be the high desert museum? If so, that's a good one also. They used equipment quite different from what we're used to over here on the west side. Have you ever stopped by that saw museum in Amboy? I think it's owned by Wayne Sutton. He used to be a Stihl dealer years ago. He still might be. He's got about everything you can imagine. He's got a pic on Madsens website under "photo album."

I've not stopped at the one in Amboy. Another one on the list. I think Gologit answered my question on the on the one in Southern Or. I do believe it was north of Klamath Falls. I just saw in the paper this last week that they closed Camp 6 at Pt Defiance Park in Tacoma.

 

[nw axe man]

I think ya'll are fortunate to have a logging community and culture out there.

Yes, we are. Unfortunately most people don't understand the importance of what the logging community has done for the Pacific NW. This country was founded on the timber industry and now people just want to forget that it existed and that's it's not important.
Gologit is right, is we don't volunteer our services and our knowledge of how things were done it will be lost. Most of us don't have a soapbox that we can climb up on and tell people en masse the truth of the timber industry. We have to be diligent to speak to people more on the one on one platform. I've found that this works, especially if we speak intelligently and don't go off on the emotional end. Loggers have emotions, too, and we as a group have a tendancy to fly off the handle rather than give people reasons to respect us and our industry.
So, yes, we have community and culture out here but it comes with a bit of a cost in todays societies liberal environmental bias. We are a strong people and we will not give up. We can be proud of what we do and never lower our head to anyone.
Sorry, guys. Sometimes my passion for our industry gets the better of me and I have to vent a bit.

 

[madhatte]

Won't hear a word of disagreement out of me. I talk to a lot of people who are curious about what I do but suspicious, too -- even loggers! ("You the guys hang ribbons all over the place?") -- and it always means more to be able to show through effort and care how important what we do is than it is to stand on the opposite side of the picket line from well-intentioned but poorly-informed citizens who don't understand the whole picture of what they're protesting. Volunteer work and earnest conversation count for way more than bluster and draconian policy.

EDIT: dinged on a word filter! "Distrus.t.f.u.l" has "S.T.F.U." in it in sequence and filters to "Distru####l"!

 

[056kid]

I think ya'll are fortunate to have a logging community and culture out there.

Yea, there is virtually nothing back east. It's messed up because we have been logging back there since the late 1400s.

 

[paccity]

I've not stopped at the one in Amboy. Another one on the list. I think Gologit answered my question on the on the one in Southern Or. I do believe it was north of Klamath Falls. I just saw in the paper this last week that they closed Camp 6 at Pt Defiance Park in Tacoma.

just got notice that camp6 is for sale. will be going up to look at it for some ideas and maybe some other things for a in the work's progect .

 

[cowtipper]

Camp 6 Logging Museum

...The owners of Camp 6 have been unable to find a buyer or investor to keep the historic logging museum open in Point Defiance Park, Tacoma. Consequently, Camp 6 is now permanently closed. The historic logging museum had operated for 47 years, but now remains closed following its usual winter break....