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John's an old logging buddy of mine from here in Manitoba in the late '70's. He took off out west and scored a job falling on the coast. Here I ran into him later in 1988 dropping a 15 ft diameter red cedar north west of Campbell River. Low stumps on these valuable trees, he estimated 48,000 ft...

Back in the '80s when I was competing at a timber sport meet at Sayward up in northern Vancouver Island I was offered a job to start work as a faller apprentice. This big forestry company manager from MacMillan Bloedel came down from the crowd during my break and we had a good talk over it. Full...

Yeah I find their longer then I thought sometimes too when I estimate their height with the "stick trick" while standing down hill from the tree.....just have to hold that extended thumb horizontal to where I'm standing below the tree to get the correct compensation. Sometimes hard when a good...

Reg make sure the property down the slope is clear of liabilty from other owners or municipalities if your to drop it there. Back in the 80's I was doing some contract falling for a contractor and dropped a big spruce down a slope near a lake shore. We skidded it out to the landing but a few...