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Just got my DVD and a book about the fallers that worked in the Old Growth. Looks like great reading and watching ahead!

You bet Jer that I haven't forgotten about Finley as my avatar shows :) As a matter of fact, I have quite a few stories from Finley's 'Rigging Shack' where he talks about his days as a High Climber. A few years back (after Finley had passed), I contacted his son-in-law and others who had taken...

My pleasure guys/gals. Enjoy. Great stuff on that DVD. Yes he did. But what I am looking to do is focus on 1-2 old time high climbers from the 1950-1960's, with a focus on their daily life as both climbers and loggers. It is extremely hard to gather enough material on them to print a biography...

For those of you who would like to see more of Hap Johnson and other old-time High Climbers, the tape "When Loggers Climbed Trees" is now available in DVD. For $10 bucks, you can't go wrong. Here's the ordering info...

Bump for this thread. Still haven't given up my goal of writing a book about the life and times of the old high climbers, but boy I never knew how difficult it can be! I've accumulated reams of material, but putting it together will be daunting for sure, not to mention that as a full-time...

John T Labbe & Lynwood Carranco's "A logger's lexicon" I was able to purchase this great book when it first came out, and it is one of my main sources for research in the book that I am writing on the life of the old time High Climber. Boy, I take my hat off to Jerry B. and his book writing...

Thank you so much Jer, I REALLY appreciate it.

Wow Jer, 14' on the butt is a huge tree to be flip lining! You are definitely one of the people that I will be contacting with questions on high climbing when I get to writing the story about Hap and the old time high climbers. I'd love to hear more on your reasons why some of the small ones...

No relation, but I sure wish that I had known him.

Yeah Cory, Hap was an incredible logger, climber and rigger. My goal is to gather enough info about his life and times and write a story about him someday.

Same place that I found the picture of Hap in the tree.

It's an old time topping saw. Just like a cross cut saw, only smaller. Butch, where did you find that pic?

Amen to that!

I agree Butch. I've always wondered about the climbing ways of the old high climbers. The first Gibbs Ascenders were made in 1965 I believe, and by then the glory days for high lead logging and the climbers that worked on them were for the most part, behind them. Would they have embraced other...

I know that I've posted about Hap Johnson before, but I just recently found this picture of him climbing this giant Spruce. Hard, hard work for sure...