Grandfather. Part I. Winter - Horse Logging
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2018
- This is the first part of short documentary series about Grandfather. The movie uncovers one day in his life that has been shown in 15 minutes. It talks about his daily routine and dedication to his down to earth lifestyle his fathers lived. His passion and love is horses. He is an old and experienced horse logger and is doing all the farm work all year round using only horse power. He is a hard worker and fully self-sufficient and independent. He has been living off the grid, before there even was a grid. More series about him will come in Spring, Summer and Autumn. Honour the elders! Stay tuned.
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Someone said we may needs these skills again one day. But we need them again right now today, for our spirit and for our future.
Well said ❤
His life calls to my heart...I was made for more than the life I'm living.
So strange that what we would consider as so little (what this man has) would be so much more than what we have...
I can relate to that longing too. We were 'all' made for something more. Our Creator made us in His own image and put eternity in our hearts. That's why we long to create, but it's also why nothing fully satisfies us here. Through Christ all peoples from every tribe and nation who personally trust Him will one day "live the dream". There's more to life than this one, but like in the video of Grandfather, we catch glimpses of it here and there.
No unnecessary words,no music,just the sounds of the Mother Nature !!! What a great video, Northmen. Thank you !!!
This man gets more done before the sun comes up then most people do all day.
of course sun up where he lives in winter is noon and sunset not long after...
@Jerry Andersen that's how farms work
Well, that's because we invented technology so we can do less. 🤷♂️
4:56 - There's nothing more relaxing that looking into a warm fire. I used to sit with my grandad many Sundays beside the range (stove) just watching the fire
My grandfather farmed till he was 74, and is by far the manliest man I've ever met. But my grandpa fell to the temptations of technology. Your grandfather is a true man in every respect. Not only has he earned my respect, but also my love.
Bless them all for doing their best 🌱🌻🌲💚
what a guy this his to do all the tasks with the calm approach to nature he's a real human being no doubt from mother nature herself inspirational thank you
Have to love and respect the old ways. Wish I'd learned a few more. You never know we may need them again
Start with something small like growing an herb garden. 🤗
i'm not a horse guy but man that's a beautiful one.
Listened to the news the drank his coffee, looking at the fire. He knows what is important and what is not.
One statement I have to make have we lost it in the modern world this is the life thank you for this it reminds me of my own grandparents.
My utmost respect for this man! He truly lives a life worth living.
Honour to your Grandfather, from a mountain village in Greece! 🇬🇷
απο που εισαι πατριωτακι;
ChillakoC92 - Γειά σου, φίλε μου. Ορεινή Δωρίδα, νομός Φωκίδος της Στερεάς Ελλάδος. Εσύ;
@@dorianphilotheates3769 Ωραια τα μερη σου. Εγω καταγομαι απο Νεδουσα στον Μεσσηνιακο Ταυγετο οπου και θα επιστρεψω, αλλα μενω στο Ντουμπαι αρκετα χρονια. Να εισαι παντα γερος!
ChillakoC92 - Ντουμπάϊ, ε; Ωραία! Η Μεσσηνία γενικά είναι πανέμορφη. Εργάστηκα για ένα διάστημα στην Πύλο το 2012. Κάναμε έρευνα στην θέση Επάνω Εγκλιανός στην αρχαία Πύλο (ανάκτορο του Νέστορος). Τώρα βρίσκομαι στο Τορόντο του Καναδά• άντε μια μέρα να γυρίσουμε όλοι στην Πατρίδα. Σου εύχομαι ο,τι το καλύτερο, φίλε μου. Με πατριωτικούς χαιρετισμούς από το χιονισμένο Τορόντο!
I lived in a small village in Ukraine when I was a child. Now I live in a big city in another country far away from my family. All these sounds bring me the best memories I've got. That snow cracking, the breath of a horse, pigs eating, the man milking the cow.. This is really nostalgic and is just wonderful to remember where do I come from and why I must stay humble as I always was
8:10 the creaking and cracking of the wooden sleigh and harness was like music to my ears for some reason
I wish I would have filmed my grandparents when they were still alive. There is great wisdom in living with the land, and it is getting lost in this generation if we don't stop it. Keep it up, and thank you for sharing this.
Thanks to your grandfather to let you film him and his work. Thanks for sharing this beautiful life. God bless his days and his descendants.
I remember my grandfather living this very lifestyle. Up long before light to do chores and then heading out with his horses to do farming or logging. It may have been a hard life but, he and my grandmother were very happy people and I never heard them complain.
Great respect for this man.
My grandfather done the same work.
Real real hard work up at all hours in the morning till late at night .
No days off.
Greetings from Ireland.
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What an immense joy it was to watch this video! Just to see the routine of an old farmer of the Northland is amazing, if you could PLEASE make more videos just like this, I will watch them over and over again...
This Northland is my lovely country- Latvia. Granfather speaks Latvian, radio in kitchen speaks Latvian, too.
ME TOO!!!
Hello Sir when I see this move I remember my father to you. I pray to God give u more strength and long life. Please take good care of yourself always
It's in the heart of a true logger, to always be doing something .never meet a lazy logger. We are a special kind of people it usually is breed into ya.. My whole family and most of our kin all work in the woods.my grandfather raised 11 kids on cutting firewood , he had a contract to supply the school all 240 cords of wood per year. It's how they cooked and heated the school back then ..They actually heated water for showers with the wood. Every day they fell dead trees in the forest and horse logged it to a landing where they cut split and loaded a old truck that held 5 cords when it was full it went to town to the school , re stock and back to the woods. The big old flat bed was the family car also, only rig he had for a while . He moved his family here for the work. Came from Colorado. To a hole in the wall called paisley ore. This is a great video brought back loads of memories. Thanks
What a squeaky video, and a legendary man. I love the noises he makes to the horse to tell it when to stop and start.
This man is the "Salt of the Earth"
Still my favorite videos on TH-cam!! Thank you for this.
It warms my heart and restores my faith in some of humanity when I see people, even only on video on this occasion, happily keeping the old ways alive!!
Why? 🤔
Thank you for this. Your grandfather is an amazing man.
Grandpa is in better shape than many 20-year-olds. Today's progress completely eradicates good physical fitness. Here's an example of how we can preserve our physical strength. I can only congratulate your grandfather. God bless you !!!
"Grandfather" seems to be a remarkable man. There is so much to be said about learning to live life independently and on your own terms - something I never realized until too late.
It is never too late! :) Thank God that you did realize this truth and now even if you cannnot make this your own reality you can pass the realization and advice on to someone who can.
May God bless you and keep you!
Jesus Saves John 3 :16-18 KJB
respect for a man whose work has become a lifestyle. Everything in harmony with nature. Greetings from Poland
First thing i noticed, The stock was fed before he ate.
My father was the same way and we are from USA my father would not eat until he fed his animals
I was taught that growing up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, we fed and milked the cows before we even had coffee. Same rule still applies on my farm now, animals get fed before we eat
“Grandpa tell me about the good old days”
Reminds me of my father. Salute for Serbia!
My childhood. Thank you for the movie
as a logger myself.i can tell you that horse is a badass stud..is is grandpa..
My great grandfather lived like this back in 1850 .
Dear Sir,
This was just wonderful to watch Honourable Grandfather doing everything independently. There is a certain serenity & even a spiritual feeling about his lifestyle. Sometimes I wonder if humanity has truly made any progress with all this new technology that seems to rob us of our own humane side. Kind regards.
We have all just learned a lesson of the simplicity off life, he is the wise man we are the fools. Great video,.
Indeed I do concur dear Sir. We seem to gravitate towards ever & ever more complex lives when quite frankly, there is no need. Kind regards.
ToolsConsumables I well remember these days! It's what we call " the good old days"!
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you very much for your comment. If I may, I partially do concur with your good self however were it not for the "good modern days", you & I would not have this wonderful opportunity to reminisce. On the other hand in the good old days we had more humanity than we do today but less technology which is suppose to alleviate all the laborious suffering & improve our quality of life. What is one to deduce??? As we find new means of "improving" our existence, we become less caring towards one another? I leave you with this ponder. Kind regards.
I reckon there's someone around, most of the time. They tried to keep it about Grandpa, but you don't want to do much of that kind of work, alone. Just too easy to get sideways and get disabled, no matter how careful you are. When he was manhandling the log, he was pretty careful, but that's enough weight, you want somebody at least within earshot.
So many creakings, I wasn't sure if the snow was telling me it was severely cold, or if it was just the equipment. It doesn't look like it was super-cold, though.
Love the shaggy draft horse. That's an animal that can work in the severe cold! Big, thick animal, built for the cold, for sure!
I'd love to see them falling and trimming the trees. You can really see, though, how the primitive ways limit how much you can take out in one day. And especially in winter, I'd be more concerned about safety than production rate. Just kinda cool to think one guy with those methods building his own house from scratch, although I'd be OK with his buying his nails rather than make him go dig up some iron ore and smelt it, himself. LOL! But there are ways to build wood-frame without metal fasteners, too.
Excellent video! I worked with a gentleman like this man snaking logs off the side of the mountain with a huge belgian horse...sometimes he used two horses. Thanks!
You sir, are a testament to what it means to be a man living right! God bless you and the humble, happy and simple life you live. I am truly envious, God Bless!
I am at peace when I watch these and am connected to my father.
Brings tears to my eyes reading that his wife is gone. And this man keep on going with such positive view of his surroundings. Life is just such a random and cruel mistress for sure. Good day.
You can sense the respect between grandfather an the horse. You can tell they have done a lot of work together.
Thank you SO MUCH for filming this and then sharing it with the world.
While watching this video, I suddenly began to remember the names and uses of various parts of the draft-horse harness. This is something I have not seen or done for the last 40 years. Somehow this made me both happy and sad at the same time.
Beautiful and amazing person. Thank you Soo much for sharing. Nature and hard work. Not much if that anymore. Bless you and your grandfather
Like watching my childhood! I was lucky enough to have grandparents, parents and neighbors who still worked in the old ways. Blessings upon your house and also Grandfather's house!
a thought for poor orphans who do not have parents and grandparents of their own. It's one of the most cruel fate for any animal or human.
Nick Spittler im only 52 yet when i was small my parents and grandparents did most things like in this film
Emma Ziegler , i won't be 50 till August. I live in the Allegheny mountains, part of the Appalachian chain. The old ways are hanging on here. Although it is less evident than when I was young.
Absolutely love how in such a short video, without a word spoken, it can tell so much. The traditional ways of human beings are truely something to cherish.
This is traditional hard work,hard life - Respect .
"Stop filming and help me with these logs! Damn kids..." Grandfather, probably
Those logs are veneer. He would get top dollar for those. My Uncle is a logger, though he uses all the available power tools and large trucks to distribute them throughout the US now. However, we were all taught how to choose trees, keep it sustainable for the future generations, and how to keep the original ways alive in case we ever have to return to them.
Hard life, hard work - but I envy him.
Piękny film jak powrót do czasów dzieciństwa i dziadków na wsi 😂👍pozdrawiam z Polski 🇵🇱
This man has my respect and envy.
Animals and trees as friends. I understand this very well.
This was the lifestyle of my grandparents too. And it also was the last point in time when people lived a sustainable life by all means.
I LOVE the quiet. No sounds but the leather, horse breathing, the log dragging..thanks
Truly inspirational. This man is really tough - unlike those who usually think they are.
Love the sounds...
Only natural sounds brother.. Why would you think that we would spend time making fake sounds while we have a good stereo microphone on our camera? It would not make sense then to create documentary movies with foley fake sounds. We are recording sound in uncompressed 24bit 48 000 hz .wav format and later post processing in Logic.
Totally agree! Great sounds!
Which is exactly the microphone that you use? Congrats for the work!
@@neemantools I dont think he meant it that way :)
I love the sounds too ALL of them my favourite for some reason is grandfathers footsteps....there is sometbing so blessed about what you are doing. God bless you and be with you alway.
Jesus saves! John 3:16-18 KJB
Much respect from south Brazil, Northmen!
That great film remainds my childhood late 60-ies ,70-ies when winter was real winter with -30 C long time before global warming,Latvia...
greeting from Australia; when i lived in out back South Australia, life had this repetitive but rewarding joy to it, 10 years of life, now back in the big city of Melbourne, and I'm not as happy as when i lived in the farmlands of south Australia, that was life......... This shows life.....
All I can say is "Wow" ..... What a fantastic job of capturing the sights and sounds. Thank you for sharing.
So refreshing to see fortitude, strength, simplicity, yet great skill in this fine man.
Something to be very proud, yet humble about.
Thank you for this! God Bless
This to me is WOW!! I can sit and watch video's like this for days... Glad you shared!
Greetings from Russia ! My Ancestors lived the same life, but it is a pity that I have not filmed anything. Now there are only memories.
Amazing docuumentary he remeber me my grandfather may God bless him with health and many many years Greetings from Italy Rody
15 minutes well spent, for once I didn't have any problems in focusing and I didn't skip from your video to others.
Send my regards to your grandfather.
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I hope one day to be like this excellent old man.
You have just restored my hope in youth. Don't forget what you said as it is a wonderful life. I lived something like that only I worked my farm and logged with mules. I milked a cow until a couple of years ago and I still keep calves, pigs and chickens; I do still keep saddle horses because my daughter and grandkids likes to ride. As an old man and crippled I am no longer able to follow the mules so I just read, watch videos and think about my memories.
Big props to Northmen.com for the quality of their filming.
I was lucky enough to have been told stories of yarding lumber this way, this made me smile...great lessons to be learned by the old ways. Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth. Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world. Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
so good to see.. it makes one, me, think that not so long ago most people lived this way.. there was no other way then a self sustaineble way for most people. good to honour that and help keep it alive.
Enjoyed watching that immensely. It helps me visualize how my own grandfather's grew up. You can't quite relate to it until you see it. Well done.
God bless old man He is Grandfather for every of us in every country
Can do everything this wonderful grandpa is doing and all that I know from my grandfather as well ☝️
there's not a lot like this left (if anything) in england, shame because it'd be great to be able to live like this, this man is happier than 99.9% of people living right now, I can guarantee it.
It is Latvia. Grandfather speaks Latvian.
England is big coorporation. The land of finance, white collars and free masons. The root of all evil is England.
We actually have no idea how happy he is. I can assure you he isn’t obsessed with getting likes on social media or bothered by trolls on the internet though.
Thank you kinda teared up there at the end.
Great video, the best I've watched in a while. Thanks for posting, and thanks to 'grandfather' for sharing an experience most of us would not have otherwise seen.
Jūsu video liek man atcerēties manu nu jau aizgājušo vectēvu. Liels jums paldies par to.
Прекрасный канал. Рад что встретил вас на просторах интернета. Сам вырос в деревне, в 18 лет уехал. Леса такого там не было- степь. Но в тех местах в свое время прожил 11 лет своей жизни Лев Толстой. Долгих лет жизни и крепкого здоровья всем!
И ВАМ, КРЕПКОГО ЗДОРОВЬЯ И СЧАСТЬЯ !!!!!!!
Dude... This is a wonderful work... No words!
Good Old horse and man. Thats good life💖
One of the true essences of a life worth living.
Simply, a beautiful life.
I logged with chainsaws and cable skidders with my father for over 20 years before being replaced by bigger grapple skidders and feller bunchers. We didn’t make a whole lot of money, but we loved the work. My father often talked about his younger days of working in the logging camps with teams of horses in northern Quebec and later on in Northern Ontario. He started working at 14 years old and from then on made his way in the world with hard work and his two hands. When he’d tell me his stories from back then, I could see he looked back on those times with fondness even though they worked long and hard. I don’t want to take anything away from anyone, but those men were really men back then. I look back on the time spent working in the bush with him as some of the best years of my life.
A very rich man indeed, and a very big Alaskan Thank You for another great video!
I appreciate this film more than I can express... Thank you... and especially thanks to your Grandfather.
Best thing I watched all night.
he certainly is amazing, my dad was like him.
Сразу подумала, что снимали в Прибалтике. Домики похожие и хозяин с хозяйством добротный, правильный. Везде чистота и порядок. Здоровья крепкого и удачи в делах!
Ты неверное видео без звука смотрела
Das wertvollste Format von TH-cam - Danke! :)
thank-you so much....one of the best things we have watched on u-tube...so glad we found them....
74 years and what a damn hard day. i would'nt last.
Laaabs !Tāds pats ,kā manējais !Super!
Thank you sir fr sharing your Grandfather with us. He really makesme miss mine today!
Fantastic! Amazing details like glimses of a no-joke mousetrap and possible uniform sweater peaked my curiousity. I could feel the cold from the 'styrofoamy' sounding snow underfoot. The transparency of seeing you briefly help made all the independent tasks that much more genuine (great editing.) Looking forward to more. Greetings and subscription from Canada.
Yes, it is uniform sweater from Zemessardze- the voluntiers «land guard» military organisations in Latvia.
Anyone, who wants to train to be voluntier military guard of our country, can become a member of «Zemessardze».
Always enjoying Northmen art! Showing this lifestyle and meaningful way to live that everybody appear to forgot..
Amazing. Thank god for tradition
I hope the old fella is content with his animal companions. I wish him all the happiness there is!
Hello from Texas! Truly an incredible and inspiring video as always. Better than anything on TV
Cody so true. Tv today is all this trashy reality show junk. This surpasses it in both content and quality.
Will K Can you imagine watching these videos at a theater?!!
Cody that would be amazing!