219_BillEarl-created-2009.mp3

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28.01.2024

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Unknown Speaker 00:00
I just thought I'd give you a brief little outline before we get into them, the end of the movie about myself, so you'd have some questions or before we get into it, or couldn't have it after two. I was 15. When I, my uncle, his name was our Dallas and he had a logging camp. With two other brothers, they owned it and a sawmill. And so I use my uncle, so I got a chance to start 15. And in the summer, of course, I was going to school, and I think yeah, to be 60 in in this was in Bella Coola, he had a camp going up in there. And so I started off as a scalar. And we're going to mention scaling on this program, you'll see two different types of scaling, or, you know, with scaling, and then scaling in the water scaling is just to fill you in briefly is is a measurement that's required by the government to measure the quantity of wood that's coming off, say a Crown land or a TfL. And they measure the log by scaling the law. And then you can use that scale to sell the logs, you know, you'll have the logs are graded. And I became a scalar. When I was 19, official scalar and worked with the Forest Service for about three years and fought well actually four or five because I was going to university at the same time. But they love me because they like guys in the summer because logging is high in the summer and spring and fall and then dwindles down. So they don't want too many staff so I could have, I had a job as soon as I finished my last exam. But vice scaling, they measure, as I say, the logs and they come up when my day was FBM or feet. And then this is going to refer to board feature, they're going to say 42 million board feet. So it's a lot of wood. For a board foot, you get per 1000 board feet is about 450 cubic feet of logs. And now we're on cubic feet. We don't do board feet anymore all although some people still use it. But they don't have to, they can have they can have see their timber scaled FBM if somebody wanted to find out all the pillars and different crates. Okay, so anyways, I was scaling with a scaling license at 15 for the Forest Service. And but since then I've worked at various logging jobs and log brokering, and selling lumber and custom cutting logs for different clients like the Japanese. So I've been involved in forestry ever since and retired in 95. Just a few years ago, but that's basically it. Let me see, oh, one thing about scaling, the government requires scaling. And they're stumped each and royalty are charges. So you if you have Crown land that you bid on to do a login contract and you pay so much per cubic meter, it has to be scaled. And the so the government will appoint scalars that are registered. And my day was scaling all in the water. Now, of course, it's all yard scaling, it's all taken into trucked in into the log yards graded, spread out all scale there. And then on that scale, they could use that information either to sell the logs or and also submitted to the government, they're able to charge the stumpage and royalty. So that's basically why I'm doing this talk on here. So I'd like to start the movie, I'm going to start it or DVD or whatever it's called. I'm going to stop it a couple times and make some comments on it. This was this was taken with a wind up Kodak in the early started in the early 30s. He takes some pictures in that. And I don't know if you know what I've sort of seen it sort of boxy sort of thing. And you'd wind this up and you could take some pictures. And it was taken by my uncle's father. That was AP Allison, and the he was a big time logger. In fact, he did a lot of logging in the Charlotte's and that'll bring another subject I'll talk about narrow spruce The Charlotte there were three companies involved in that but I will come after the film