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Older log-rider navigates a rapid stream. This is a different skill.
You gotta let the river know who's in charge
I think it was more of a kinky smack……so Yh you’re right I guess
To be fair it was soaking wet already
That's the best time to give the ol soaker a stick slap
'Tis a divine sound that buoys the heart for a lifetime to come! 😊
I couldn’t make that ride sitting in a flat bottom boat. This guy is amazing!j
Going Xerxes on the river
‘The smack’ is necessary to get an anchor to stabilize yourself.
Source: standup paddle experience
Sup with that?
We call it a brace in kayaking
What do you mean? Like, you use it to check your balance?
if you’re listing off balance, and you just lean into the pole on the water, your weight just pushes the pole down. if you lift the pole and slap the water, the change in resistance has a sort of recoil effect that you can use to right your balance
(i think)
It’s playing with inertia of the stick and water resistance. Leaning too much to the? Lift the stick quickly will pull you to the left a little. Then you need to smack that stick into the water which in turn push you a little to the right.
Rather, it's using newton's third law of motion,every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
smack "Who's your daddy?"
-Old man log rider
Somebody's been a naughty little river..
More who's your grandpappy?
How can he slap??
That's a paddlin'.
"Spank that water"
oh my god, he actually did it. he killed the river
I like when he rides down a river on a log
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9mo
birches*
He may be old, but has no problem showing up with the wood
Beeches**
*britches
Surfin' down the river, navigatin' the rocks
On my way to your girl to deliver this cock
When I row it, they know it, that I'm coming to town
Make em wetter than the river when I start to go down
A great poet of our generation
This is even better if I imagine Red Green singing it with Harold on the spoon
I remember The Logdrivers Waltz going differently...
I heard that the log drivers waltz pleases girls completely
The attire really seals the deal
RIP this log rider’s…physical mailbox I assume?
A log driver’s waltz pleases girls completely.
He is the one who discovered the new foundland, no one talks about it
*britches
Whirling down and down the white water, the log-driver’s waltz pleases girls completely.
The way he slapped that water like it’s his bitch
For he goes birling down and down white water
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly
Yes, birling down and down white water
The log driver's waltz pleases girls completely
For anyone wondering, this is what us Canucks are talking aboot!
So this is what you raise your youngins on.
Spent many of lunch hours seeing this after my shows. It was usually used as a time filler I believe.
usually after an episode of You Can't Do That on Television because YTV didn't have much programming, yet!
This, house hippos, and people having strokes (I SMELL BURNT TOAST) are all indelibly marked on our collective psyche
War amps, body break, don't put it in your mouth, stay alert stay safe, "mom Aiden cut me in half again"
Canada was all about the PSAs in the 90s
Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod!
Keep fit, and have fun!
My god. Simpler times. I miss the early 90s.
I can put my arm back on, but you can't so play safe!
Astar was animation ahead of it's time. Loved that commercial!
The Halifax explosion. The media is the message. Don't trust me I'm just a TV.
Cheese! Cheese and crackers. Cheese and broccoli. Cheese and apples. Cheese and grapes. Cheese.. and cheese!
Ah, Mr Prime Minister, and Mr Diefenbaker. Are we all going to the same party?
They also tell us not to put things in our mouth, and how people can think you eat too many chocolate bars, or you don't wash your face.
And you get to see heritage moments like basketball being invented and an exposed brain and a lady going I SMELL BURNT TOAST as it gets poked.
This WAS our Saturday morning cartoons on CBC North
I came hoping this would be posted, my first thought on watching this video.
Every single time it gets posted, I watch the whole thing with the exact glee as I did as a kid.
Me too! this and the house hippos.
I wonder if house hippos are the reason why it's a teensy tinsy bit harder for people to get Canadians to join their cults. Not like we're impervious to it, but it seems to happen a scooch less.
That is actually a really good point, we were taught media literacy and critical thinking skills at an early age.
Conservatives hate this one simple trick
My childhood favourite. Always played during Camp Cariboo!
Oh yeah. Always reminds me of lunch from school.
What about...
BLACK FLY, LITTLE BLACK. ALWAYS A BLACK FLY NO MATTER WHERE I GO, ILL DIE WITH A BLACK FLY PICKING MY BONES, IN NORTH ONTARIO-IO-IO NORTH ONTARIO.
I've got a head like a ping pong ball!!!
My hat is off, on, locked!
CBC finished its broadcasts every evening with it. You knew you were up late when this was on.
Yup, after an evening of Danger Bay, Degrassi High and The Beachcombers.
I got it in the morning after the National Anthem and before the kids shows started.
There you are Log Driver!
Can I go one god damned year without getting this song stuck in my head. I'll be humming this for weeks now. Argh
This and The Sweater are canonical Canadiana.
Haven’t thought about the sweater in years. Thanks for the nostalgia trip! 🇨🇦
That’s for posting. Now I know why Canadian women aren’t interested in me. I drive a BMW, not a log!
Might instead be due to an underdeveloped index finger?
Log rider's waltz pleases girls "completely"
This has to mean orgasm. Someone please explain the orgasm.
Did you watch OPs video? There's your explanation.
They're used to being wet and deftly handling their wood, what's there to explain?
Y'ever hear that dancing is akin to sex for a lot of women?
Well, the log driver's is that good at dancing.
yah beat me to posting this!
Not sure how you watch that without smiling.
Total nostalgia.
Came looking for this comment!
So odd, yesterday there was a post on r/hockey about one of these animations. I had never heard of them and now i've seen 2 in as many days.
Hello, fellow Canadian!
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9mo
Hundreds! If not tens of us!
Thank you. Expected comment was found.
Doctor. I smelled burned toast.
My wicker baskets!
But I need these baskets back!
So the people will know we were here
It's night time in a kitchen just like yours. All is quiet... or is it? The North American House Hippo is found throughout Canada and the Eastern United States. House Hippos are very timid creatures and are rarely seen, but will defend their territory if provoked. They come out at night to search for food, water and materials for their nests. The favourite foods of the house hippo are chips, raisins and the crumbs from peanut butter on toast. They build their nests in bedroom closets using lost mittens, dryer lint and bits of string. The nests have to be very soft and warm, since house hippos sleep about 16 hours a day.
Came here to say this.
Came here for this
both of you know i cannot read a word
Came to check for this comment. Was not disappointed.
1) I know what birling is. 2) I've heard that song a thousand times.
But I've always thought the song said "whirling", until now.
Flashbacks, thanks for the reminder
This is my childhood
Reddit is like the spider-man pointing meme, except they're all Canadians.
This and "Blackfly" echo in my heart forever.
This is what I came here to see. Thanks.
Instantly entered my head.
🇨🇦 Glad I’m not the only one that heard the song as soon as the video started!
Such a wonderful slice of Canadiana :)
The National film board of Canada approves this message.
That's how my grandpa got to school every morning. He said paddling home was a bitch. But he also lied a lot.
You just take the OTHER SIDE of the river back home. Rivers always flow in both directions at the same time. Gotta be careful of the riptides right in the middle...
And if it was a dry summer you carried your log to school
You definitely don't want to be stuck on a two way river using a one way log. That's just asking for trouble.
My grandpa had to travel by log up stream and up hill both ways in the snow, in July, while barefoot
The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!
Here’s your days wages a shiny nickel.
The exact joke I came for. Thank you.
When is he shooting his Old Spice commercial? Massive BDE right there!
If you told me that was Dick Van Dyke and this was a scene from an older Disney movie, I would absolutely believe you.
Burling down, down the white water, Logdriver's waltz pleases girls com-plete-ly!
I vaguely recall watching an old film (fictional) about loggers making and riding rafts down rapids, with a real deadly risk of falling into the water and getting squished between logs or pinned beneath and drowning. However, I don't recall being aware of "riding one log" so this is pretty amazing!
The log rafts they’d build to float timber down the river were pretty common back in the day. Twain wrote about it quite a bit, both fiction (Huck Finn) and “non-fiction” (Life on the Mississippi).
They still do it Patagonia. There’s a good documentary on YouTube about life down there.
Possibly Sometimes a Great Notion with Henry Fonda and Paul Newman, from the novel by Ken Kesey?
What did I just witness, and why am I hard?
That's normal for men who like to watch other men ride hardwood.
Hahahaha this is golden
Log recognizes log
My great-grandfather actually did this every day (except sundays) from the age of 14 until he was 60. When my grandmother told me about what he did for a living I genuinely thought she was joking. It wasn’t until recently I found out it was actually a real job that people did. Now I’m just amazed he survived doing that for almost 50 years…
Imagine waking up every day to do that instead of going into an office.
Wait where does the profit come from in riding logs? Or did he cruise on down to the lumber mill on them? Please elaborate.
Basically they'd float felled tree trunks down the river with the current to the mills, and the log drivers would clear log jams so they didn't get stuck on the way.
My grandfather rafted them to Pittsburgh lumber mills along the Allegheny and walked home. Apparently he made a lot of money as the trees were from our land.
OBLIGATORY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srp7k-9oCkw
Thanks, Saved me the work.
It's a Canadian responsibility to spread this Art.
sick transition
So this is where the concept of paddle boarding came from
I think the Polynesians made that actually.
I was being sarcastic lol
That's a misunderstood piece of history. The inventor of the paddleboard was in fact a log rider whose wife's name was Polly. Around town she was known as "Polly Knees-Ya-in-the-Balls" due to her propensity to knee men in the balls during an argument. It was actually this trait of Polly's that caused him to discover log riding in the first place. He often needed to make a quick getaway during an argument before she started kneeing, and sometimes all he had at his disposal was a log and a river.
Anyway, as time went on, her nickname around town became so well known that people kind of shortened it and turned it into slang. "Polly Knees-Ya-in-the-Balls" turned into "Polly Knees-Ya-in-Them" and finally "Polly Knees-Ya'n".
When her husband invented the paddleboard years later, he credited the inspiration as coming from Polly Knees-Ya'n. As this history was passed down through the generations, Polly Knees-Ya'n became misinterpreted as Polynesian due to the nearly identical sound when spoken out loud.
I'm not sure how common riding a single log like that was. Maybe something they did for fun after work.
The real job involved driving large rafts of logs loosely bundled together which was stupid dangerous.
Here I am struggling to stand on a paddle board on calm water….
LOGG-RIDARRRR
That Bloke is all, “I’ll take your X-Games and raise you Ten!” 😂
Log rolling and log boom running are pretty phenomenal competitive sports — ESPN used to televise the lumberjack championships, don’t know if they still do.
They do. It was on fairly recently.
XX games.
Getting av Scandinavian vibe (even Swedish) from this. Where is it from?
Most definitely Finland. I saw this in local paper.
The bridge, the jackets people are wearing in summer, the birches, the view... that spells FINLAND so loud. Can't hear what they're saying, but it sounds Finnish more than any other Nordics.
**edit, found this, the end looks like the same area
Obligatory reminder, Finland is not part of Scandinavia
Depends on what you mean by Scandinavia. Geologically part of Finland is in Scandinavia.
"Scandinavia is a subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. Scandinavia most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In English usage, it can sometimes also refer more narrowly to the Scandinavian Peninsula (which excludes Denmark but includes part of Finland), or more broadly to all of the Nordic countries, also including Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia
"The term Scandinavia (sometimes specified in English as Continental Scandinavia or mainland Scandinavia) is ordinarily used locally for Denmark, Norway and Sweden as a subset of the Nordic countries (known in Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish as Norden; Finnish: Pohjoismaat, Icelandic: Norðurlöndin, Faroese: Norðurlond).[29]
However, in English usage, the term Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym or near-synonym for what are known locally as Nordic countries."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia#Use_of_Nordic_countries_vs._Scandinavia
But you're part of our Scandinavia!
I think it is Finnish. Looks like the lumberjack race thing they do sometimes.
🎵 Jag var ung en gång för länge sen
En flottare med färg 🎵
Dunno, but this used to be how they transported lumber here in Norway (and I assume in the rest of the Nordic countries) before trucks were a thing. Mind you, there'd be rather more than one at a time.
a Canadian Heritage Moment
That dude is so old hes in black and white
I can barely navigate a glasslike calm lake with a paddleboard.
As cool as it is it’s not nearly the same without the song…
Who else is waiting for this to turn into a cartoon!??
But why? Is it just for fun - because it does look kinda fun, or was there a genuine purpose to this difficult as hell looking thing?
He's not in control of the direction of the trunk, is he? It looks like he's just riding it because he can. I don't think the lumberjacks had a lot of free time to just fuck around log surfing in between felling the huge number of trees that they did. I thought they just sent all the logs in a big logjam down the river and they all went where the current took them.
I don't know, maybe my whole head picture of how ye olde tyme lumberjacks functioned is all bogus and they all weren't all pancake eating giants with a trusty blue oxen companion.
In the old days, they'd send massive collections of logs down the river, and log drivers would ride with them, breaking up blockages and keeping the whole thing flowing smoothly.
This famous NFB video starts with archival footage of real log drivers clearing jams while running across bunches of logs, and has a little bit of log riding, too.
nice! and what a banger of a tune!
Yeah, it's a beloved classic. If you've heard of Rufus or Martha Wainwright, it's their mom and aunt singing this song.
https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/rufus-wainwright-kate-anna-mcgarrigle/
Every Canadian kid grew up with this video.
We used to swim in the Gatineau River, in Farrellton, now called La Pêche.
There would be hundreds of logs going down the river. It was so cool to watch.
We'd climb on them when they were close to shore.
They eventually closed the mill and that stopped. This was the late 1960s-early 1970s.
There used to be a job where a dude basically rode with the log jam with a big pole like this to keep the logs from essentially getting stuck. This was 100% a thing before they used power boats to do it.
If you're a Canadian then you know what song is blaring in my head right now.
"For he goes birling down and down white water
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly"
May I introduce y’all’s to the Log Driver’s Waltz?
old school is the best
Grandkids: Grandpa, how did you get to work?
Grandpa: Hold my beer!
This is how seasoned Canadians get logs to give up the best syrup. Once she's ridden down a good stream and wrastled into obedience, a log will provide the sweetest syrup for harvest.
Canadians know what's up.
Reminds me of my grandfather.
My grandfather was an Appalachian man, from Johnson County, KY. At 80 years old he climbed straight up a mountain to the top and blazed a trail with a machete for me and my cousin when we were ten. He had been climbing mountains for probably 75 years at that point and practically sprinted up that motherfucker. Old Appalachian men also say about 5 words a day, but when they talk, ieveryone shuts up because it is important. I remember sitting in his living room and he goes in a real calm way "Damn house is on farre" And we look up to see black smoke pouring out of the kitchen. lol RIP Papaw
Can anyone provide some more context for this? Is this his job? Why do people ride logs? What part of the world is this commonplace? So many questions.
Their task is to break up log jams and in so doing, they have to get from their starting point on the shore to out where the logs are jammed in the river. Using a long pole with a hook, they push and redirect the tangled logs one by one so that the logs can continue down river.
At the end of the log run, the logs are collected in huge rafts so that they can be picked up for processing in a saw mill or a pulp mill. In the saw mill, the logs are either put on shore, dried, and then cut up to make lumber, or they are fed into a pulp mill where the pulp that is used to make paper is produced.
This activity of freeing up the logs takes place wherever there are logging operations and there are rivers with enough flow to make river transport viable. Typically, trees are felled, their branches are cut off, they are cut into suitable lengths, and they are delivered to a holding area in large stacks on the river side. At some point, the stacks of logs are tipped over into the river and that is when the the log drivers go to work.
Wow, something actually next level for once
This looks like somewhere in Norway
Or Finland
It's Finland, based on riders clothes, scenery and the language spoken
Now this is some real nfl shit
The log driver waltz
LOG RIDAAAAH
still got that dog in him
We all sang the song, right?
And he knows exactly how many times he has done this.... He kept a log
This was very common in Sweden 120 years ago to transport logs from forest to mills. Many died doing this, but the technique this guy uses is probably most for showing off his skills
And I fell off my stand up paddle board yesterday 🤦
For he goes birling down and down white water That's where the log driver learns to step lightly Yes, birling down and down white water The log driver's waltz pleases girls completely
Log drivers waltz https://youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8&feature=share8
There is a video on YouTube, I think it’s called the log riders Waltz log riders waltz watch and enjoy
I like the part where he gives the water a good a smack for trying to throw him off