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I had to re think that. In order: DED American elm, white (paper) birch, black spruce and white spruce.

Easier said then done.ha Loggers who got into mechanical harvesting had no choice. These guys started out many years earlier with the basics working their prime years with low operating cost chainsaws and line skidders and made a very good living at it. Times changed most areas in the late 80's...

I think what Pat's saying is your in better health in body and mind as a hand faller then getting out of shape trying to operate a mechanical harvester operation.

we had a natural gas pipeline explosion in southern Manitoba last winter. Thousands of homes were without heat for days and it was 40 below windchill .

Last summer on the way back from holidays up in the Black Hills of S.D. we passed through a few towns in the N.West corner of North Dakota and talk about booming with oil contractors.

I hear a lot of guys couldn't keep employees to run their equipment because they were lured off to the booming oil patch and mining. One logging contractor I know no longer works for the forestry companies but has found lots of work with the mining sector cutting and building roads and mine sites.

old irish, your right there young and inspired.:) A well oiled team of a handfaller and skidder operator can produce amazing results and their very fit and healthy to boot. Smallest timber my partner and I put in the landing was tree length spruce with 25 ft average length on the scale. We put...

By the late '80s all of our camps but one shut down . I was one of the commuters, but our company supplied a bus and picked us up at our front step at home and brought us back again also paying us travel time. I remember a Bell at our camp in the early '80s but couldn't compete with our cut and...

Justin well said, I didn't miss out on it seeing I started falling for Manfor at 16 in 1974. Even operated a tracked Drott 50 feller buncher in 1975 for 6 months cutting 1000 trees a day before I went back to the chainsaw. That buncher job was way too boring, I loved hand falling on a 2 man cut...

I miss logging too......so much I want to buy a small cable skidder for my tree service. Mount a grapple clam on top of the blade to make it more arb friendly.