An oral history on land clearing in South-West Victoria, Australia, from axe and saw to bulldozers, which revolutionized the industry post World War Two. Full program 1 hour.
Absolutely great video!! Should be weekly compulsory viewing for Albo, Adam Bandt and Chris Bowen to remind them of what made Australia great- Hard work and perserverance- Not being woke and whinney!!
What a brilliant video,, At 13 in 1962 I was working for a neighbour and we were blowing stumps with Gelly A year later I saw my first Cat D8 , no low loader , he walked it 6 miles , to me it was huge and very impressive , the boss had a 10 or so stumps to dig out , he just tilted the blade and dug them out with the corner of the blade , a pretty decent gum to be dug out and a big heap of lantana ,, all in all it only took a few hours , but I was in awe,,
One of the best videos, on any subject that has been posed on TH-cam. It is too bad, that the majority of You Tube videos are pure crap, either with worthless, idiotic content, or "narrated' by hyperventilating, blowhards, with their sensationalist, over-dramatic commentary. That you were able to talk to the old-timers, WHO ACTUALLY DID the work, and took the pictures and the movies., put their words, and their memories into posterity. Thank YOU so much.
Great to see the historic components of this documentary. However, vast clearing of native bushland is what makes animal species go extinct ,so had to be stopped. In Australia, we have caused the extinction of more species than anywhere else in the world . It's now time we as a nation start programs to restore balance to the environment for the sake of our future, and our children's future, and for the future of life on earth .
@scouseaussie1638 Thanks for the speedy reply ,I love a deep thinker . Did it take that long to think up the reply ,or to read n digest the comment . The reality is , we have allowed over clearing. Now I don't blame the operators n workers .But clear felling native forest is a worldwide problem . It's is sad to think that successive governments have failed to plan for the reforestation of sensitive areas .Our riverbanks would be a good place to put dozers back to work ,this time to restoration work . Big machinery is great ,if it's used in the right way . The historic footage was very interesting , However ,it was more often used for totally clearing the bush , We know better now and corridors need to be left or re-establish for animal migration . If I could cry a river ,I'd be doing it . Respect....!
39 years old, did my apprenticeship in the forestry industry. Love operating and fixing machinery, but love nature more. Just got an old D3C-79U and want to make this thing pay its dues by becoming a machine of working with nature rather than destroying it. I have so much respect for these old timers, they are genuine. Unfortunately they were led up the garden path on the right way to do things. Thanks for reinforcing my passion for history, engineering, and looking after the land.
TRY ALL YOU WANT, WITH A D11 AND BIGGEST MINING LOGGING AND SHIPS YOU WILL.....NEVER DESTROY YER MUTHER'S, Skirt nor her toes or fish ner Chickens. The Hippie mountain climbers can come in with choppers and their picnic tables and grounds will grow over, but make nice TOURIST POSTER materials for sides of trucks and magazines. Even anti shot gun ads. Dirt bike tracks. Nuke em and more people will come. Maybee not so many,or as fast. Go visit the Amazon or Mt St Helen's. Hike around Hudson's Bay. You are going to enjoy your D3. Do some great landscaping and enjoy it. 😊 THANK you and God too.pl❤️💛🏕🐮🐮🌲🐮🎄🎄🎄🌲🎄🌲🌲🌲.
Awesome to see the development of Aussie agriculture. My grand father did the same in W.A. and so did my father on the fringes of the wheat belt. Well done crew!
Thanks for posting this oral history Gary very informative and beautifully presented. Although I have no family links to this area many family members were involved in similar activities in Tasmania. It is also interesting to note how attitudes have changed.
Left a few 8h 8k 7g7h7e in woods in neutral and wide open because of bees or ground wasps I'm retired first tractor was allis Chalmers hd6 cable blade think u for the adventure brought lot of good memories of my Florida life
What a fantastic documentary and narration. My grandfather and grand mother and his brothers and parents came to australia in the late 40s to a 200 acre bush block just outside of bairnsdale that they purchased. They cut the logs by hand and had contracts for telecom poles. He told me about a a bloke in the area that had a converted army tank with a bulldozer blade that they would get to clear some land for them also, i have been wanting to see a picture of this for years so thank you! They were vegetable farmers he had a brand new ferguson tea20.
Bloody hard work, the sight of the bloke using the monkey winch, my father bought one in 1965, we used to pull out stumps the local dozer couldn’t touch. We cleared house blocks as well, I was 9. My father went out in the wheatbelt, and was shocked by the lack of shelter belts, and the attitude of every stick off, very sad, the salinity is now the result, and some people still keep doing it.
Thanks for taking the time to tell your story - it wouldve been an Exciting Pioneering time with plenty of work for the Dozers. Fire Ash Clogs Air Filters Rapidly - needs knocking out every day or better still - fit new filter- though waay back then the Dozers may have had Oil Bath type Air Filters
What a wonderful documentary. I grew up in Gippsland, my family was involved in land clearing and farming. Every thing I saw in this video I can relate too.
Love hearing about history and admire the people that done the work. I have a bush block and I am doing some of the stump removal with a tractor with a back hoe.
@@Terraceview That's the beauty about different cultures, A Bush man in Africa would be a hunter and gatherer. Do you call fisherman only men that set up and preserve marine parks?.
Well remember going though the bush covered with ring barked trees followed by fires during winter big heaps of logs burning for weeks. I saw the forests disappear .
Late 1960s seen lots gumtrees' cleared glad the surrounding farmers did clearing back then less bushfires near our country town Was alway Malle stumps free firewood avail everywhere & rabbits kept us busy also The channels have stopped flowing from the 90s now all farm water piped tanks along roads to water livestock Fish & Yabbies dont get to migrate so less avail now . 1 good thing for the waterboard sold off foreign but chitouse for fishermen . They Make up new laws people pay for rainfall runoff that fill dams etc And on it goes Farmers make food yet cop all the tariffs transport to & from farms yet get low prices while supermarkets make a fortune
Well made production. I know this area and there is still a lot of bush between the SA border and Warrnambool. Not the devastation the Greenies make out.
Nowadays big corporations monopolized on all these peoples work taking away the common American small businesses leading to slaves for the corporations where the common people never gain wealth so being stuck living an existence without holiday trips makes the slow death of the American dream
I kind of picked that up pretty quickly from the accents. I do not exactly understand your comment about the location interest, as having dropped a few trees and burned out the stumps myself on a small property, would have found the landclearing methods interesting regardless of where it happened.
How dastardly of them to not acknowledge that America is the centre of the universe. The way they cunningly hid the fact that this film is about Australia in the description.
INCREDIBLE. Yet it was done in the Pacific Coast and West of our USA, During much of the same time period, only maybe more Powder was used.🏕📫🙏💛🐮🐂🪵🎄🎄🎄🌲🌲🌾🌾🌾🐄SHEEP HELPED as well. 😊
Absolutely great video!! Should be weekly compulsory viewing for Albo, Adam Bandt and Chris Bowen to remind them of what made Australia great- Hard work and perserverance- Not being woke and whinney!!
What a brilliant video,, At 13 in 1962 I was working for a neighbour and we were blowing stumps with Gelly
A year later I saw my first Cat D8 , no low loader , he walked it 6 miles , to me it was huge and very impressive , the boss had a 10 or so stumps to dig out , he just tilted the blade and dug them out with the corner of the blade , a pretty decent gum to be dug out and a big heap of lantana ,, all in all it only took a few hours , but I was in awe,,
One of the best videos, on any subject that has been posed on TH-cam. It is too bad, that the majority of You Tube videos are pure crap, either with worthless, idiotic content, or "narrated' by hyperventilating, blowhards, with their sensationalist, over-dramatic commentary.
That you were able to talk to the old-timers, WHO ACTUALLY DID the work, and took the pictures and the movies., put their words, and their memories into posterity.
Thank YOU so much.
Great to see the historic components of this documentary. However, vast clearing of native bushland is what makes animal species go extinct ,so had to be stopped.
In Australia, we have caused the extinction of more species than anywhere else in the world .
It's now time we as a nation start programs to restore balance to the environment for the sake of our future, and our children's future, and for the future of life on earth .
Cry me a river
@scouseaussie1638 Thanks for the speedy reply ,I love a deep thinker .
Did it take that long to think up the reply ,or to read n digest the comment .
The reality is , we have allowed over clearing.
Now I don't blame the operators n workers .But clear felling native forest is a worldwide problem .
It's is sad to think that successive governments have failed to plan for the reforestation of sensitive areas .Our riverbanks would be a good place to put dozers back to work ,this time to restoration work .
Big machinery is great ,if it's used in the right way . The historic footage was very interesting ,
However ,it was more often used for totally clearing the bush ,
We know better now and corridors need to be left or re-establish for animal migration .
If I could cry a river ,I'd be doing it .
Respect....!
39 years old, did my apprenticeship in the forestry industry. Love operating and fixing machinery, but love nature more. Just got an old D3C-79U and want to make this thing pay its dues by becoming a machine of working with nature rather than destroying it.
I have so much respect for these old timers, they are genuine. Unfortunately they were led up the garden path on the right way to do things.
Thanks for reinforcing my passion for history, engineering, and looking after the land.
Respect
they helped control the temperature of the Earth they just didn't realise what they were a part of
TRY ALL YOU WANT, WITH A D11 AND BIGGEST MINING LOGGING AND SHIPS YOU WILL.....NEVER DESTROY YER MUTHER'S, Skirt nor her toes or fish ner Chickens. The Hippie mountain climbers can come in with choppers and their picnic tables and grounds will grow over, but make nice TOURIST POSTER materials for sides of trucks and magazines. Even anti shot gun ads. Dirt bike tracks. Nuke em and more people will come. Maybee
not so many,or as fast.
Go visit the Amazon or Mt St Helen's. Hike around Hudson's Bay.
You are going to enjoy your D3. Do some great landscaping and enjoy it.
😊 THANK you and God too.pl❤️💛🏕🐮🐮🌲🐮🎄🎄🎄🌲🎄🌲🌲🌲.
@pakistaniraveasylum1396 been to Hawaii lately.
Pompeii? Hike through the Amazon. Tibet? Climb the Himalayas.
@@endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568 mpemba
Awesome to see the development of Aussie agriculture.
My grand father did the same in W.A. and so did my father on the fringes of the wheat belt.
Well done crew!
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Thanks to our Founders, and thanks to YOUR families and God with us since 1492 erso.
Thanks for the comment. Tell Our Kids now. Silver and gold can wait. We just need fertilizer seed and fuel.
Thanks for posting this oral history Gary very informative and beautifully presented. Although I have no family links to this area many family members were involved in similar activities in Tasmania. It is also interesting to note how attitudes have changed.
Left a few 8h 8k 7g7h7e in woods in neutral and wide open because of bees or ground wasps I'm retired first tractor was allis Chalmers hd6 cable blade think u for the adventure brought lot of good memories of my Florida life
Gees I loved that history lesson. Great character's telling snippets of there memories. Fantastic. Well done.
Thank you so much for this fantastic documentary. Absolutely loved this. So much information and interesting stories. Brilliant 👏
It would be great to see the same photos now with out the bush and a estimate of the tonnage of organic matter per acre compared to now
Great doco thanks so much, we will never see the likes of these Gentlemen again.
What a fantastic documentary and narration. My grandfather and grand mother and his brothers and parents came to australia in the late 40s to a 200 acre bush block just outside of bairnsdale that they purchased. They cut the logs by hand and had contracts for telecom poles. He told me about a a bloke in the area that had a converted army tank with a bulldozer blade that they would get to clear some land for them also, i have been wanting to see a picture of this for years so thank you! They were vegetable farmers he had a brand new ferguson tea20.
10:04 Big, older guy...but has a good eye, some heft, a sharp edge, and each blow counts. Wish I'd half that.
11:38 Look at him go.
Cuts left and right handed, too. Plenty of practice in that technique.
Thanks Garry for a great program i used to drive a dozer for Les Boyer of Portland many years ago
Complimenti per aver distrutto foreste......bei documentari....
Bloody hard work, the sight of the bloke using the monkey winch, my father bought one in 1965, we used to pull out stumps the local dozer couldn’t touch. We cleared house blocks as well, I was 9. My father went out in the wheatbelt, and was shocked by the lack of shelter belts, and the attitude of every stick off, very sad, the salinity is now the result, and some people still keep doing it.
Great doco guys. Capturing the memories, stories and history of how what we take for granted today was done. Thanks for making it and sharing 👍
Thank you, what a wonderful Docco. Many names I recognise I worked on the Heytesbury back in the 60s and 70s brought back many memories. Cheers😅
You put together a wonderful archive video, very well done!👍
My grandfather was given 100 acres at Karridale WA and cleared the lot by Bullocks and hard work
Truth matters.Thank You and the others who know how it was and did the hard work very few will do today.
Thanks for taking the time to tell your story - it wouldve been an Exciting Pioneering time with plenty of work for the Dozers.
Fire Ash Clogs Air Filters Rapidly - needs knocking out every day or better still - fit new filter- though waay back then the Dozers may have had Oil Bath type Air Filters
Very interesting - thank you!! Great to see where it all began!!
Great job fellas.😊
Great historical video.
What a wonderful documentary.
I grew up in Gippsland, my family was involved in land clearing and farming.
Every thing I saw in this video I can relate too.
Love hearing about history and admire the people that done the work.
I have a bush block and I am doing some of the stump removal with a tractor with a back hoe.
Wonderful, we need men like this today
Very good documentary. 👍🏻
absolutely brilliant doco
what wonderful history thank you
Beautiful scenery and sunset imagery.
Great movie thank
You
Thanks for posting ,really enjoyed the video !
Fantastic documentary 👏👏👏
What a Classic! True Aussie Bushmen.
Bushmen? You mean removers of all bush? Weird logic in Australia.
@@Terraceview That's the beauty about different cultures, A Bush man in Africa would be a hunter and gatherer. Do you call fisherman only men that set up and preserve marine parks?.
@@lumberjaxe8910 Why didn't they just use all that timber instead of burning it like Indonesians do?
@@Terraceview The Bulk of the timber is used, they only burn the crowns of the trees.
@@lumberjaxe8910 Thanks, I didn't know that.
Well remember going though the bush covered with ring barked trees followed by fires during winter big heaps of logs burning for weeks.
I saw the forests disappear .
THANK 😊 YOU, SO VERY MUCH ❤️🌲❗️❗️💸💸💸😊💛❤️📫🙏🙏📫
solid vid gazza really enjoyed it say hello to Denise would ya see you round
Late 1960s seen lots gumtrees' cleared glad the surrounding farmers did clearing back then less bushfires near our country town
Was alway Malle stumps free firewood avail everywhere & rabbits kept us busy also
The channels have stopped flowing from the 90s now all farm water piped tanks along roads to water livestock Fish & Yabbies dont get to migrate so less avail now .
1 good thing for the waterboard sold off foreign but chitouse for fishermen . They Make up new laws people pay for rainfall runoff that fill dams etc
And on it goes Farmers make food yet cop all the tariffs transport to & from farms yet get low prices while supermarkets make a fortune
Well made production. I know this area and there is still a lot of bush between the SA border and Warrnambool. Not the devastation the Greenies make out.
THANKS😍
Perseverance
Amazing
Where would you find such folk nowadays ? People today just haven't got a clue....It's as simple as that .
80 acres in a lifetime, 4 acres a year, how does that work out?
Loved seeing this history.
Have a D6 can relate somewhat.
The log was probably to catch the cable should it fail.
Non woke will always be a good thing.
No boy buns or skinny jeans in sight 😅
BRAVO SIR .....how well you destroyed a beautiful planet 👍
Imagine how many koalas pissed on these blokes!
Nowadays big corporations monopolized on all these peoples work taking away the common American small businesses leading to slaves for the corporations where the common people never gain wealth so being stuck living an existence without holiday trips makes the slow death of the American dream
What does this have to do with Australia?
Nothing to do with America or Americans champ.
So Ya want more Holiday Trips eh?
And we call Brazil
The destruction of the bush is a pity, we came ,we saw and we destroyed it. Meh, we gotta eat somehow. 😂
You mean you can't find any more anywhere ❓️😊🦧🎄🎄🎄
West Wast Won. - edit
Destroyed the land
Shame
Cleverly leaves out it's not about America so you'll keep watching
I kind of picked that up pretty quickly from the accents. I do not exactly understand your comment about the location interest, as having dropped a few trees and burned out the stumps myself on a small property, would have found the landclearing methods interesting regardless of where it happened.
How dastardly of them to not acknowledge that America is the centre of the universe. The way they cunningly hid the fact that this film is about Australia in the description.
They FILMED IT IN CUBA With Trudeau and Kamela Harris and Petuski, with Patty
Murray.
How the west was stolen
Ha!!
How the West was wrecked...
go cry about it
Thank goodness for men with big hearts, they gave us what we have now. We should never take that for granted.
@@nickerzzbell4811 Was this a good idea.?
LOST......
Great memories. Thanks.
West wast whus what
😊some people just do a lot of drugs and can't smell the coffee.
INCREDIBLE. Yet it was done in the Pacific Coast and West of our USA, During much of the same time period, only maybe more Powder was used.🏕📫🙏💛🐮🐂🪵🎄🎄🎄🌲🌲🌾🌾🌾🐄SHEEP HELPED as well. 😊