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Yeah big shot everyday at 3 when day shift is over. We log in front of them so the timber isn’t wasted after the coal is loaded they keep dumping that dirt and rock behind them so it looks the same.

Very good timber cutter, it’s all he’d ever done was log his whole life.

Thanks so much it with definitely test yourself like if he brings in two big ones sometimes by the time I have them shoveled and turned for the loader man he’s back again. They fly Sunday too so I’d get there some early and just stockpiled it. But very fun, trucks from all around to come help keep it hauled off some days we moved 17 couple days 23 tractor trailers. I’d load the back with the shovel why he got the front.

The tree wasn’t worth the money it took too get it out. What tree huggers don’t understand is that once they get to be sizes smaller than that they almost stop producing air, the tree has wind shake in it so the lumber isn’t worth what you think we are getting out of each load. And that was about three years ago and you can’t walk through it now because of the stumps sprouting back a young healthy stand of hardwood. Everyone thinks the logger is getting rich yeah with equipment payments, payroll with worker’s comp, not to mention the up keep and fuel. When the truth is if the company isn’t good and established and have machines instead of men on the ground and work at least 45 hours a week they’d never make it. We’d quit if it was chainsaw and cable skidding like the old times. BIG risk with you’re life everyday hopefully you don’t have to get packed out that day and risk with millions tied up in equipment and trucks and trailers with small rewards.

​@daltonhorton3366 yup, Maple, Oak, Hickory, all in the shitter unless it holds veneer value, which you won't know until it's off the stump. We could stop cutting, but Oak regen needs alot of sunlight, and that stand has too much shade, so if you don't do anything now, then the stand won't be worth anything when the market improves. We log in Hard Maple, Soft Maple stands with scattered Ash, Beech and Black Cherry, Maple likes sun but needs shade aswell, so we do a selective cut to help the regen establish. Unfortunatly, we're fighting the Ash bore, beech bark disease and Dutch elm disease. Chiba is taking our Ash, but our bread and butter used to be Hard Maple. With only value in the veneer, it's hard to into a stand and hope to find some or loss our shirt because it wasn't logged soon enough and the trees a deteriorating from the inside out. Mechanical equipment has been very helpful, but payments and insurance take a good bite of the bottom line. Keep on keeping g on sir! Our next generation depends on it!

This is a selective cut if you seen how bad that tree was wind shook you’d maybe understand this ground isn’t flat wind blows up the hollows everyday. Just like in 2012 around here we cut a track had the biggest and best cheery on it but it wasn’t bringing a lot so we pasted it up and you don’t think them limbs ripped off didn’t hurt it cause I can show you. Columbia marked everything cut it’s ok to cut for wood if you can’t swing by it or wildlife tree. A lot of times we had to cut it into a 23 foot get it in the road then get the rest and I’ve got pictures of huge logs with half inch wind shake and hard to winch out cause rocks big as trucks in there and it’s protected ground and time to harvest what are we supposed to do here in Virginia let it grow up and burn for weeks into months ruining all that Timbers life. No let a logger that knows how to get the big old junk out and those young trees will grow then and produce air somehow some of you think these big trees produce air. But the answer is let the working men work and we’ll protect the wildlife and watershed manger just as the about says. Get to the mill with the log truck almost all of the ones over 2 and a half a cross are wind shook so back it won’t saw a board and the other half of them are blue for fence and moonshine remains. So you now have a load of wind shook and mineral filled log grade. Respectively do the research. You realize snow season brings so many that size down instead the land owner got paid over 7.5 million and that is on top at MECC can’t tell we was there. Go top high knob both sides cut about three years ago timber already coming back strong. You don’t have to show everyone your dumb about the forest industry millions of workers including me. Research timber growth, hopefully you’ll learn more your school did awful job. You do know it’s our only renewable resource, didn’t have time to think about that did you.

@daltonhorton3366 ummm I was agreeing with you...... I'm pretty sure I wasn't saying anything against what you were doing lol, every location has their different management prescriptions based on lots of factors, example here is that we clear cut white cedar because if you cut it selectively, it would blow down in the next winter storm. You have your reasons for doing what your doing and I'm sure your doing a good job. I also agree that the naysayers are out of touch with reality. Cut safe and don't let huggers rile you up, you don't need that kind d of stress 😆

Guys come on now it was a joke,,

What do you mean you logging for one or just riding one? Because this company owns and operates 14 year around logging, some on fires, some setting heavy light poles. Only the best of the best get the job. He was and old army pilot not like the other helicopters have to have a skidder to bring them to the loader I use a shovel and turn them and just swing them to the loader man.

Yes the light inside the cab comes on when door is open. Just showing how steep it was. Have shoveled and cut steeper.

Glad you liked it. Was eating lunch just showing how steep it was.

White oak, red oak, black oak, chestnut oak, walnut, hickory, maple (hard and soft) , poplar, buckeye, sycamore goes for ply board not sawn peeled.

Not even close that chopper had 3 logs could you imagine the amount of trips it would have to take? Not to mention the fuel it would consume running all day long...wear and tear not to mention the couple mill for the copter itself this is ridiculous

Maybe for choice trees but operation and post operation on that heli has to be $$$

Way more feasible where roads can’t be built, couldn’t land right beside a four lane highway on this job. But yes it’s very efficient would average 20 and 22 loads a day. Take a skidder would take 12 minutes on short pull on this job this thing dropping them every 90 seconds. Worked me hard shoveling them to the loader. Plus lots of money logs on this job. If you look in the background you can see where we roaded what we could with excavator until hitting that cliff. Got to have a loader man that usually saws up 15 loads a day and I sawed up with the grapple saw too that was hand marked made 20 loads a day you and the trucks have to keep up and move to the next one when they do or you’ll already be behind.

Yeah the old ones were pretty crude but if you could get used to it they were reliable and strong.

In the northeast j.d. took over because the hydrolics worked the same idling or reving

I would guess that smaller companies like Timberjack, Franklin and Tree Farmer did not have the resources to develop new machines to compete in the modern world. It is tremendously expensive to meet safety and emissions standards

Let us not forget Clark, and Athey. Skidded, both Champs in the cable division .

Great machines along with Prentice loaders both hard to beat.

That is fantastic Tomw, you would have a wealth of knowledge about the Detroits👍

Virginia

StumpjumperVideos Hey thinks a lot stump.

Daniel Boone's Logging videos No it has a winch on it.

This is round my area db….good to see ya here

@@charlesmullins3238 right on buddy !

Daniel Boone's Logging videos Yes they are I need to get a video of the 555D I run now.

Yeah me too.

Timberjack 480T?

I just saw what you were talking about. It's a 1990 Timberjack 480DPG. How I ran acrossed it was I Googled "Timberjack 560C" Click on the tab for images and scroll down and you should see it.

The 225 timber jack had a 353detroit diesel two stroke that you could hear for miles

I produced this video for the 50th Anniversary. New Horizon Productions Ltd.

The history is Lokomo --> Rauma-Repola --> Metso --> acquires Timberjack --> is acquired by John Deere. The actual factory was/is in Joensuu Finland.

Do not forget about ÖsA…