timber is a renewable resource. I own a timber farm and we manage the trees like anyone in business manages their assets and resources. When a section is harvested it is quickly replanted and then managed until ready for harvest again. America is a wood hungry country with a very large appetite. The timber forest produces wood for many, many items used daily that would be difficult to live without.
lol, then you’ve never spent time around Percherons or Belgian Draughts…. Some horses get stoked on pulling or working. It’s generally noise that bothers them.
I have owned logging horses and a skidder for years, in my area most woodland owners simply don't want machinery in their woods. On the shorter skid trails you can not beat horses for speed.
Problem viewers respond to in this vid is that the trees hauled by horses in the woods were at most 20" in diameter. The wood on the semi at the end could not be pulled by those beasts. They had to be twice that. All machine clearcut timber headed to be processed into what?
After seeing what clear cutting looks like I'm not thrilled at all. Then I hear the trees are replanted. Often with the same kind of tree throughout. That's nothing more than a glorified tree farm, And loggers tried to get some of the last stands of VIRGIN redwood forest and were justifiably defeated. So I think they ARE greedy. Whining because they can't get to stands of trees is on dead ears with me. By the way folks, the fiber in old growth trees is best for making that soft toilet paper you wipe your butts with. Is that really necessary? And why isn't anyone discussing the huge population growth going on? We wouldn't have to cut the forests until they were dead if people took a look at the effect they have on forests. Plenty of examples already where the watershed had to be protected by the military in one country because the rivers were so adversely affected. The loggers didn't say anything about watershed either. Short sighted and self serving.
I've done it all . Horses are the way to go. It's the best job in the world! Thanks for the upload.
timber is a renewable resource. I own a timber farm and we manage the trees like anyone in business manages their assets and resources. When a section is harvested it is quickly replanted and then managed until ready for harvest again. America is a wood hungry country with a very large appetite. The timber forest produces wood for many, many items used daily that would be difficult to live without.
I've used horses a lot in my life time, but I never had one telling me that they enjoyed having a harness put on them and pulling a plow all day
lol, then you’ve never spent time around Percherons or Belgian Draughts…. Some horses get stoked on pulling or working. It’s generally noise that bothers them.
Fantástico maestro😀
that is a beautiful sight, i had a bush logged with horses, very small foot print the beasts of burden left.
Dang heck fire. That marmon truck 👍
I have owned logging horses and a skidder for years, in my area most woodland owners simply don't want machinery in their woods. On the shorter skid trails you can not beat horses for speed.
I've worked For Jim Bower he is a great guy just turned 78 yrs old.
now he’s in his90s I am his granddaughter
One of those horses is Bill but he has it passed away
Do you know what his favorite horse breed is? for logging
Problem viewers respond to in this vid is that the trees hauled by horses in the woods were at most 20" in diameter. The wood on the semi at the end could not be pulled by those beasts. They had to be twice that. All machine clearcut timber headed to be processed into what?
Funny how cutting down the trees in the first place doesn't bother the land owners but only the destruction caused by machinery is the issue
After seeing what clear cutting looks like I'm not thrilled at all. Then I hear the trees are replanted. Often with the same kind of tree throughout. That's nothing more than a glorified tree farm, And loggers tried to get some of the last stands of VIRGIN redwood forest and were justifiably defeated. So I think they ARE greedy. Whining because they can't get to stands of trees is on dead ears with me.
By the way folks, the fiber in old growth trees is best for making that soft toilet paper you wipe your butts with. Is that really necessary?
And why isn't anyone discussing the huge population growth going on? We wouldn't have to cut the forests until they were dead if people took a look at the effect they have on forests. Plenty of examples already where the watershed had to be protected by the military in one country because the rivers were so adversely affected. The loggers didn't say anything about watershed either. Short sighted and self serving.