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Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! 58 years old, and happily still production climbing every day.

I definitely agree with you! What they thought was safe in the 1950's would for sure be considered unsafe in this day and age.

That's really cool!

Today was one of those rare days where the temps in NH are in the 90's range AND the dew point is oppressive. Those of us living and working with coronary heart disease find this weather horrible! Climbed and wrecked out a huge Pine today and wanted to puke the whole time. Just a nasty day.

Holy crap, that's some scary stuff right there!

My avatar is actually one of these old-time high lead climbers from that era, Finley Hays. Those of you who know about Loggers World Magazine, know who Finley was. Definitely someone who I would have loved to have met.

I know, right!?

I had the VHS tapes back in the '90's but lost them in a move.

OK, for those of you that want to see some docs from the 1950's here's a good one. Shows some good climbing and spar tree setup work.

Came across this old US Logger video from 1983 that I haven't seen in years. It's about working in the blast zone of Mt. St. Helens after it erupted in 1980 and how the loggers spent 3 years daily trying to salvage the wood. They did a hell of a job too, if you ask me.

I know right!?

Hell yeah, I would love that! I feel so many of us back in the day if we were there, would have been high climbers/riggers working on those massive spars.

Just surfing the internet this morning and found this awesome newsletter. Like so many others, I'm fascinated with logging history and this newsletter looks great! I will definitely be reading these back issues...

I still don't trust the sizwheel in an urban environment by itself.

The only time that I use an ax these days is when I am driving wedges.

No doubt about it, those guys were skilled with an axe.

Does Dan still do that every year? I haven't been down for it in over 10 years.

So I wonder, how many of you guys still splice 3-strand? It's still one of my favorite ropes to splice and there's so many cool rope tools that you can make with it. The late Brion Toss and the late Norm Hall were my splicing mentors and I owe them both so much for the time and effort that...

Just getting back into welding myself these days. Looking to get a Miller mig/tig combo.

God, I miss Jed and not having him here. He was the first one to show me and post about the sizwheel cut here way back in 2013 (I can't believe it's been 11 years). I am still trying to find the origins of this cut! @wiley_p I think that we can all agree that the sizwheel is more than just a...