"A Little History on this Tract"

[Music] [Music] [Music] well we're on the rise teen track and we knocked off on Friday and it was the Friday before Thanksgiving was we'll try to work Monday Tuesday and Wednesday didn't take off Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving and one of the truck drivers had called us and said that they would was crossing the road well the road they were going on the water there's one spot the water crosses all the time and I'm thinking the drivers talking about that it was actually monkey that called me and so I get up early Monday to make sure everything is good for the guys had to track all the way up there it's about an hour and a half from the house and turned the corner there at what we call the Ford which is just a place that the water normally crosses at and as far as I could see double water and I get up with David and come to find out they have released the water you know I guess it comes from fed bill and anyway I had to wait till the Sun got up on the floor I could see and I got on the motor grader and rode down through there and there were spots in the road that was going over the motor grader tires and the motor grader tires was about three and a half four feet high I said just you know the road wasn't that good it didn't also and this happens it kind of bummed me out cause I mean it's right here Thanksgiving to Christmas and you know the guys gonna be looking for bonuses and you know but anyway so I said well we'll just take off this week and come back the following Monday and hit it hard try to catch up well we get out there the following Monday and the water hardly had dropped any maybe a few feet so that messed everything up so we nm had to move out and luckily David name had a track not very far from us it's actually part of the oceanic track and it's a big big track if we cut on it years ago and it's probably six seven miles around there to it and so we're trying to get moods around here and of course Monday's or Mondays and monkey the first thing we move is the cutter so we get some wood on the ground and monkey loads to cut off humans metro they start coming around here and the new cutter I got the guys I bought it from they wasn't forthright with the weight of it and the old machines weighed you know around 73 74 thousand pounds well this new machine actually weighs eighty six thousand pounds quite a bit heavier than the old ones and of course my low boy you know I keep modern equipment so my love was in 1915 Rogers and monkey tries to get out with it and apparently that with the weight of the new cutter and going over the humps in the road it actually broke the axle not the spindle it actually broke the tube on the axle and so you know mold oh boy I gotta try to figure out how to fix that now and I told Justin the other day when we could get it broke down to fix that I'm go ahead put another axle under because we've got to have one anyway to move that new cutter but it's just been one thing after another but thank God we're we're on a good track now it's got rolling hills so the sloughs have still got water in it but we've got a lot of wood that we could access from the heels and that's what we're doing right now and we we rushed over here Monday took Justin all day long to get the stuff over here and they started home today so hopefully we keep everything going to get into some logs to keep the trucks on a fairly short haul so if we get some loads up before this week's over with this seem like a bad day here so far look like everything want to break down with us but we're gonna try to get it moved up you got to get out in this hole here cold sometimes we get raw fall last week so don't need another because we're gonna try to get down a little another little bossy can we get it move right now have y'all seen Justin a monkey they were trying to move the cutter back out of the Reinstein track got called in there with her pants down they opened up the floodgates in Jordan River and or Jordan lake and it all came down and flooded the South so we in the process of moving and Lord behold the last new tractor I bought was the feller buncher and my salesman and her clothes name said to way to 80,000 pounds well we found out that it weighs a little more than that and it broke dykes little my my vintage Rogers lowboy factor of 1950 and so you know the brand-new low board that idea for ISIL Lobos will be probably 80 90 100 thousand dollars so I'm go ahead and send it to a machine shop and deckle go ahead and cut it apart we haven't put before axes on them I have a tandem axle there to lift axles on it and we get that fixed I'll probably take the old white lowboys which is a 77 model and go ahead and get it fixed because the 80,000 pound tractor actually weighs 70 72,000 pounds on the back axle so you guys have got to have another axle and but hopefully we get it fixed and get it where we can move legally the track that we moved to a family owned it from the history that I've learned about it is back in the 30s and 40s this family the Marshall family actually was logging through this area and I'm not sure how it was arranged but it has some kind of deal made out with the landowner or the lumber company that if they would log it they would give him so much to the land and it's they're actually the track that him border from the Marshall family which we called oceanic track now but it's about 4,000 acres and it had been logged since the forties 30s and 40s and you know the Marshall they let they kill they cut it all clean up pretty much yeah well I know they cut all the logs out of it they probably had some smaller trees left but they had done anything with it up until pinballed it well I'll take that back we did cut some when a hurricane went through here probably in 99 there were several spots blow down and we were skipping around on the whole track cutting their truck their timber that was blowed down in Corbett September that was blow down but this is the first time the tracks actually been really cut on since the Marshalls had turned it loose and believe it or not they've actually left some of their old remnants out here used to what somebody's got it now used to be an old bulldozer done at this intersection that was called Norcom store believe it or not this place was the town back in the 30s and 40s because the Cape Fear River the Black River all that goes the Wilmington and people would float down the river sell their goods and I guess they would come back across the river stop by an Oakland store get their supplies and the dirt road which it ain't dirt now but part of it is but it actually went already back to fed bill and people would sell their goods by their supplies that Norcom store and they'd walk back home you know it ain't like that today but and I don't know why they did it but uh a lot of the old-timers did this kind of stuff when they got through logging wherever they just stuff for setting that they just left it there and now right behind us is an old we call of steamed donkeys I think it was a steam donkey at one time but it's got a gas motor on it now and but it's a rehaul a double entry hall and there was there with time to a stop and then they would let somebody pull the cable out in the woods and hook to a tree and wind it back in those guys those day those guys really logged I mean we set inside closed in caves with our mp3 players on and air-conditioned climate controls and all that but uh I think we can move a little bit more wood and they did but they did a little bit cheaper than we did but this place has got a lot of history and people always talk about logging well this track right here has really been a tree farm because they like I'm sure it was logged before the marshals got it and then the marshals cut it now we're back cutting it in there's some good timber on it's good good tree growing land simply for the fact that all that good red clay gets washed out there can't feel River once or twice a year I think it's three times this year and all that good nutrients gets washed up in there and makes the trees grow good but this interesting track it out thank God we got it [Music] here Sumitra is usually the first person on the ground because obviously nothing happens till you get the wood down and we had to move around on the oceanic track and this is this kind of what looks like when he's getting started we're working off of the edge the heels caused everything is flooded but he's making this oval road down the edge of the hill right now getting started and you know this is kind of what it looks like and hopefully we can get the ball rolling from here [Music] [Music] wait for the equipment they all take deploring so Rose bed 4 you know already can do nothing we forget now moves out here and we got some rain still unable to get in from last week this wood [Music] as you see we got a mess over here the water is non-stop running I guess they're gonna try to drain Jordan Lake so I got Justin got all the masks loaded up on a flatbed and I got an Abraham and John it's gonna run back up there thank you the flatbeds hooked up getting to the end of the road not sure if we're gonna need him on the new track more likely we will so we're going to get ready to go so we can get it moved over there but I'm not sure what's happening to Jordan Lake but the water has I haven't seen the water run this long you know and ever since I've been out here working and it's causing us a bunch of problems I wish dad had called me for letting water guy [Music] [Music] [Music] we got monkey he brought us Antonio's loader over here and after talking to some some two small guys that knows this track with the wheels actually kid to the marshals the woods might plug this time but I'm pretty sure this Hills not because this the highest hill this out here according to old man marshal and there's a whole law drum rehaul thing to prove it he said this is the highest hill out here so we were set up here the crew the woods my going to water but the clip is not this time hopefully [Music] [Music] hello my name is Harry Marshall my father Hayley Marshall his two brothers crawford marshall and miller marshall formed a Lumber Company in the 50s that is a throwback they were they were some of the original swamp loggers they actually worked with oxen and prior to that they did raft logs to Wilmington which is 20-some miles up and then later on when the conversion to gasoline came Corbett timber company had a barge called the baked wood and a barge the barge carrier itself was actually no bomb carrier from World War two and they loaded logs on it it carried about the equivalent of 250 trees to Wilmington every Friday it came in Wednesday about twelve o'clock tied up to the banks of the Cape Fear River we cleared out a bank enough to get the barge in there and it had a crane and a big set of tongs and the wood was cut and dragged to the river it was sold up there and loaded on the boards and then on Friday it was finished being loading usually around three o'clock something like that and then that barge would take off to Wilmington and I actually drove the board she went from one time when I was about 10 years old and I worked the log deck and drove the Franklin's logging machine for every summer from the time I was about 13 till I was 18 till I graduated high school one of the places down here is called the Norcom store and there was an actual store down here and an old man Norcom ran it everything at that time came up to Cape Fear and actually the mail that went to Kelley came by a river up to the Northland store it was loaded on mule back and it was a road that went from there to Kelly and the mail was carried to Kelly from there and this place was owned by the Hilton lumber companies the day from and there was a few other but Hilton was the biggest lumber company and how my daddy and his brothers obtained it was basically it was bought from lumber companies who went out of business some of it was later on brought out by train the date was a train that my daddy and them used to use it down in the woods there and the track actually went by my house that's only Kane took road I've still got a portion of the track you can actually see it's about the only portion of the track that you can actually see the indentation of where the train went you can't see any railroad ties or anything like that now but it was just the indentation and it wasn't a passenger train it was strictly for Commerce and that was how the trees got out and that was actually the trains came along after the rafting stopped and then the trains came and then when the Corbett lumber purchased the barge then we started loading the boards for Corbett and and that's how the trees made it to Wilmington to court package company you and totally totally told me how many more Tyler's three trailers heinous two o'clock he said long tarnish Friday main anti everybody the long way every Friday's saying take a take alimony in a nunnery go home every do every people he say only like on Fridays for taking money and anti on alway men but laughter Stowers we just got loaded go to Rick would you know good luck honestly I was backing up you try and run you know seven o'clock would be came up order for that clerk champagne her no talk we pull so we know what went wrong way to keep cool on taxes either that being work family he's a doctor trailer the ticketing shops in Little Rock rather more than a boarded-up review cool or lights back on the Wolverine so he had an overnight and she put that one in now guys the back in get the same thing so it's a well do it again fire going for the new one in here so we got a new video right now doctor put it in putting two axles new grease little powder bound hopefully tennis on problem right now just basic kind of putting in from waiting on one part to get here got it held up there's a little bit but it's not gonna stop won't go to that point and start we own the farm open this afternoon we have that road [Music] Ferdie hanging up there here it is Tuesday morning and we're at the shop Friday Justin had a bad day with trucks I mean he started that morning working out working on lanes truck put the fuel pump on it and didn't have to work on I think it was monkeys truck and then that eating in Wayne's truck got back to the woods to get his last load and heard a popping in the hurry of course they checked the axles that's usually what happened breaks Knoxville but it wasn't get it back to the shop here and uh Friday I think was Friday or Saturday Justin tore down in history Ryan and I made a run yesterday morning early to run to Concord to overdrive which is a great company that they made they got everything there and that's just unfortunate for me it's during a half hours away but would it be able got to run and we got it back and somehow forgot to get the through shaft and that's the main component in Terraria and what Justin's won't go ahead put the hog head in and we're trying to get ups to see where they are to get the three shaft but I'm gonna try to get Wayne into the truck running today he's been driving old Mike and that ain't the most comfortable truck to drive out to driving a w900 but anyway I'm gonna run to the woods and run the loader for just awhile he's working on this and I hope that we get it done and get everything squared away [Music] well good morning good morning good morning just getting here at the shop my trucks in the shop been driving the spirit truck though reliable match it's a good truck make you realize make you appreciate what you got when you're not in your truck but uh all in all it's a good truck yeah it beats being home can you make some money and lock guys don't like to drive it but uh hey I'll do what I got to do make that money can go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that's me coming out [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so earlier this week Wang's truck it have less than the rubber in get it to the shot get it out now we got to do one in got to put in today and all silicon demand there's no odds and ends up waiting on the the brew shaft it'll be here today so I'll have Wayne brother hard fix now the great anyway very smoothly you finally got the party yesterday I mean just working on it you know we finally got it going I hold it older dog town this morning if you do it pretty good so I go to Ridgewood Nancy half doing everything just good hoping it'll be all right for a while [Applause] [Music] kid Justin is repairing a brake booster on the spot trailers I told you know by law we gotta happen at least on one axle on the trailers I don't really like double brake boosters because whenever the spot truck looks cool we got hood air lines up you know like our old low boys and stuff the older equipment didn't have that stop on it and when you back under with the spot truck you didn't have to put their lives on because the brakes weren't locked on it but it makes a safety feature that they got on the newer equipment now I guess they've been on there for 25 years or more I don't know but what it's for is if the trucks going down the highway and he blows the air line out the brakes will automatically lock down and it's an it's a nice safety feature but they're also those double chambers are very dangerous if you're not aware of it you don't need to mess with it because there's a diaphragm in there called a pancake and they're easy to change but on those double boosters there's a cold spring in there that if you take that bag off without locking it down it will come apart and kill you so if you don't know what you mess with it don't mess with them throw it away and buy your new one but we've got to keep your truck safer on the roads [Music] you know we have been struggling of late with uh with the hurricane hitting and then getting run out on again a few weeks later cause of the gates opened up the Jordan River but finally finally we're hitting on all eight cylinders we've got a couple that your trucks helping us and we're hauling some wood now if we just keep it up don't know how long it's gonna last but we're gonna ride the horse to his dead [Music] [Music] [Music] more and everybody and leave in the oven for the city water came from the dead with rain working between three got out one night it up Saturday morning so it's feeldog got two at the back full of the day when it first started we got this truck ahead of me in the truck that had already went in that we did man monkey we didn't know the other trouble back then and month was stuck in the middle 202 rigid minded let's take the water in is rushing in so fast well he was scared he was scared to proceed but luckily the other truck was in there so it gave him carriers to go ahead on through the other truck they got through and we did get in there that morning and get our trailers out but end up having to move over there it's over here somewhere as a lot a lot drier so so now we just met calling down to us out here in the back of all hopefully we have better luck with this track than we did on the other sure that moon that water receded they gonna send us right back over there first load the nutria see y'all next time what you're looking at is uh they call it the Cape here lowlands and the tractor that we're set up on the hill is the Oceania track which used to be the Marshall track and the this particular partial that we're cutting down is about 500 acres but there's several different landowners in here there's actually a they called the Seven Mile Road but it's actually 11 miles long that surrounds door goes down the Cape Fear River down the whole back side of this track but it's about we different landowners in here there's probably seven 8,000 acres at least in here because I know the Marshalls on four thousand in Corbett owns probably that much and then there's two or three other landowners in here but it's a beautiful truck at ember and it's a good tree growing land here now I've been on and around the Marshall track a lot and it's great to hear the old stories about how the people used to log and matter of fact most of your equipment still left out here in different areas the CLE track the little drum rehaul thing to serve healing this heal it is it's neat and we've actually located one of the marshals who actually logged on this course he's I think it was as granddaddy that actually did it but but he remembers it and he was out here doing it and it's just it's neat to hear the old stories about how they used to do it and to think about the things that we complain about now and what does guys dealt with back then it's interesting all right this is a homemade basically a which the operator which for a few years was my father my father broke his neck in a logging accident and had to be carried out on a stretcher a homemade stretcher out of wood and jackets tied together actually and survived which was unusual but anyway he ran this skidder for about two years after he'd broken his neck and how they let him do it was they took a tree about this big and cut a seat out of it and they said it right back here and this is how he would operate it it has a gear shift donut you put it in gear what you had was basically a winch that ran to a block and tackle and what they would do is they would go and find it the highest tree which something like that one right there just kind of rotted down over there they were fighting this but it would be solid they would cut the top out of it they would attach a block and tackle to the top running the cable off the end and then from it you could run down the swamp what you would have is down into the swamp you would have a spotter and he would be on the edge as a swamp then there would be someone further in that would be and they would drag this cable all the way back there and went once the operator was told to engage he ever start winching the logs up pulling him out of the swamp and you had to have a spotter down there because the operator couldn't see what was going on and I know daddy had told me of several people that were killed one in particular I remember him telling me about was they were winching the log through and it was in this area they were winching the log through and the guy hid behind the tree because the cable was getting tight and there was I guess no spotter or whatever and the tree jammed and he looked from around the tree and the tree came undone and the tree hit him in his face and children I've known of about daddy telling me about three or four people getting killed in here and it was basically because of the way the operations was run there was no safety factors involved the spotter was the closest thing to any kind of station factors than they would have but basically get ran on a small engine and they winch the logs up here that's how they got him out in this world there was no machinery at that time actually like I said my father one time I've worked with oxen and he acts that thing preferred oxen he likes but you know modernization they ended up getting too cold 1:32 Al Franken former and they use that until they retire [Music] that that comes better back with books they want to build enough yeah that okay they want to have access tomorrow [Applause] well like I said if you ever see them why have you been around here and seen like a mound it's like 10 12 15 feet across just out of nowhere how difficult it was back to when they used to make curtain time okay if you ever see when it looks like a flying saucer leaning to do okay but what it is is they cleared out a place they put the storks in there they put pine strollers sit on top of me fly them all fine and if they're dirt on top of and it's motors install runs out and they resin stuff but you'll see you man you know I know y'all seen the footage were Justin goes back in the back of the Brian Steen track where we got ran out when the hurricane hit just was back in there with a with the truck to check it see what the equipment was like and how high the water was and you no doubt that transpired Friday we left everything was fine some of the truck drivers called Saturday and said the water that started crossing the road was there's a spot that it across all the time so that's what I'm thinking it was well a little behold we get there Monday and four mile and a half down the road the world's four feet deep and but anyway just went in there to check it out see how bad it was and obviously it wasn't going to leave no time soon so we had to pull out and anyway we're out of here we're actually moved to a track it's called the oceanic track which it actually joins that track that was on it's just about seven miles by the highway to get up your ass but you set up on a good high hill now [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] around so you would I would tear the whole grill up front of what tell metell whole grill up for my name is Daniel they ready to reel pretty good down there they send a battler get your log but they have a a bad heart in it the oceanic rap I moving it out pretty good [Music] right near where the battery is what that power trash is and goes across that hill for about a mile is that words out there now that's where he was going but I hand rode down there I didn't you pay attention to see you've been cutting what to say a little something about logging in general a lot of people have done the wrong idea well people that don't know have the wrong idea about us clear-cutting well again I said it before this track here is several thousand acres I mean I know though the moisture on by for over four thousand acres public bit more coordinates got a bunch of it but as far back as the 1900s this land here was set aside for what we're doing right now the Marshalls logged it and it's grown back since they logged it it's been at the end a couple times and now we're coming back to clear-cut it go ahead get a new force coming up because a lot of times if you if you cut the high value species out the hardwood trees have to say everything spreads out when the top gets bigger it shades out the bottom nothing no new ghost comes up so you end up with the inferior trees still growing but if you come in here clear cut it and let mother take take its course or hand plant it ever how you want to do it it just comes back better and it's a renewable resource the hardwood takes a little longer to grow up on but but at all you cut it it'll grow again Mother Nature has a way of fixing herself or the good Lord does well guys that's our video and we really want to thank Harry Marshall for actually coming out and telling us about his family the land and about how I used to do it is it's very interesting to hear the old school stories and remember to Like share and we'll keep the videos coming to you and please don't forget to hit the like and share button 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Length: 50min 17sec (3017 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 18 2018