Oregon loggin just a "few" years ago

[talltimber]

Been lurking for a while and decided it was time to post something, good, bad or indifferent here are some photos of my loggin outfit from the OR coast just a "few" (honest it was just a few ) years back.

 

[Ancient One]

Ahh, NW Spruce!

In the "younger" old days (around 1975 to 1980) I recall a single spruce log on a lowboy trailer, hanging off on both sides. Still lots of the big trees here (NW Washington) but locked up in owl country or the National park. From way back, there is a big two cylinder Titan hanging off the ceiling in a little mom/pop general store not to far away, next time I am near I will take some pics and post. About a 8 ft bar.

 

[windthrown]

Been lurking for a while and decided it was time to post something, good, bad or indifferent here are some photos of my loggin outfit from the OR coast just a "few" (honest it was just a few ) years back.

Welcome aboard posting to AS! Sandy is one of my old stomping grounds. I used to live in Gresham, and spent a lot of time on Mt Hood (skiing, off-roading and mountain climbing). Also spent time on the Sandy River, fishing and kayaking.

We have a lot of those types of rigs around here still. Not as much logging now after the price of fir dropped. But I still hear and see yarding equipment around here more days than not.

 

[Gologit]

Thanks for the pictures. We helicopter-logged in your area back in the early 80's. You might remember when the hippies chained themselves to the gate just out of Sandy where you head up into the watershed. They were protesting the logging. We used the gate anyway, just kinda drug 'em back and forth across the road.
Beautiful country up there...nice timber, too.

 

[slowp]

Nice! 30 loads a day? Smiling loggers are rare these days.

 

[Adkpk]

just kinda drug 'em back and forth across the road.

Thanks, bob, that was me.


Talltimber, good photos. Don't hesitate to drum up some stories about these days for us here. This is what we like to see and read.

 

[slowp]

Hippies Chained to Water Trucks

So, anybody involved in the Happy Camp incident? There was a fire salvage sale being logged. Protestors jumping in and on log trucks, trying to dig up roads..they dug up the wrong roads. But the classic tale was of the water truck incident. A protestor chained himself to the back of the water truck (used to keep the dust down on the road). It was a frosty morning. The protestor would not unchain himself. The truck driver merely walked up and turned on the spigot...a very big spigot which emptied the entire 3000 gallon? tank on the guy. Shortly after, the drowned freezing hippy unchained himself. (I wasn't there but heard this story from a reliable source.) One guy got his foot broken when he jumped on a log truck but didn't quite make it and it got run over. My friend explained to the protestors that maybe they should be more careful because some of the drivers were getting up in age and their eyesight might not be so good. I was shown the pile of food stamps collected by the Somes Bar store. The Happy Camp stores wouldn't do business with the protestors. The Somes Bar stack was pretty thick that month. My friend got mad because every morning he would find a ditch dug across a road he needed to use. He, being a former Marine, rigged a booby trap using a bent over piece of vegetation. The road stayed put after that. All this over logging black trees!

 

[Burvol]

I'd say those pics were taken in 1984?

 

[Adkpk]

All this over logging black trees!

Black trees, I assume are trees burnt in a fire?

 

[windthrown]

Yah, fire salvage logging. I have been there to Happy Camp many times. Good kayaking there on the Klamath, though the water is warm and they churn it up with a lot of gold dredging. Good off-roading up there too, and Greyback Road (AKA: Jefferson Highway) is one of my all-time favorite areas to camp and off-road. Tame deer, and a lot of bears around there.

 

[Adkpk]

Yah, fire salvage logging. I have been there to Happy Camp many times. Good kayaking there on the Klamath, though the water is warm and they churn it up with a lot of gold dredging. Good off-roading up there too, and Greyback Road (AKA: Jefferson Highway) is one of my all-time favorite areas to camp and off-road. Tame deer, and a lot of bears around there.

Sound good. Got any pics of the river?

 

[Gologit]

Thanks, bob, that was me.


Talltimber, good photos. Don't hesitate to drum up some stories about these days for us here. This is what we like to see and read.

LOL...Hope all the skin grew back. Getting drug back and forth across an asphalt road while chained to a gate is kinda hard on the body.

 

[talltimber]

Black trees, I assume are trees burnt in a fire?

"Black trees, I assume are trees burnt in a fire?"

No its just the way i scanned the photos and don't know how to make them look like they should. They were good solid live trees. I don't know if I spelled Hyak (could Hyaik) Creek right. It flows into the little Nestucca River in NW Oregon.

"We helicopter-logged in your area back in the early 80's"

Don't supose that was for Columbia was it?

"LOL...Hope all the skin grew back. Getting drug back and forth across an asphalt road while chained to a gate is kinda hard on the body"

I remember that story, I think all the skin grew back as I recall the skin it was worn off an area of the body that seems to keep reproducing, getting larger each time!

one more spruce picture. This one is of a friend of mine (gone for 15 years now) and I falling a spruce for a friend in his front yard, so he could build a deck of the house and have the stump for a table. Location Drift Creek OR.

 

[Gologit]

"We helicopter-logged in your area back in the early 80's"

Don't supose that was for Columbia was it?

"LOL...Hope all the skin grew back. Getting drug back and forth across an asphalt road while chained to a gate is kinda hard on the body"

I remember that story, I think all the skin grew back as I recall the skin it was worn off an area of the body that seems to keep reproducing, getting larger each time!

When I was up there I was working for Siller Brothers on the S-64.
The protesters weren't hurt too badly. Mostly they were upset that we just didn't take them seriously, I guess. Besides, it was a Friday, it was payday, the crew had the weekend off and some of them were probably pretty thirsty.
It's never a good idea to get between the crew and their beer plans.

Thanks again for the pictures. I like the set-up on the big spruce...sure beats the hell out of spring-boards.

 

[slowp]

The market must have been good then!

 

[glenn31792]

Its pretty funny how just 1 loose dog can scatter protester's