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That was in 1972 or 73. I forgot exactly. But I do remember I gave Wes a set of Buckingham spurs and a ny-buck leg saddle. In a matter of hours he had mastered the basic climbing knots, and the flip-line and spurs. First tree, 200 foot old-growth redwood in his back yard. The second...

70 years and still going at it. Wes said he had a climbing job this weekend. Doing it for the logs. Gotta keep the mill going. Gotta love work ethic. Wes is a real prize.

That's why I put off doing it until I retired, Chris. Never had the time to devote before. I'll keep you all posted on the goings with Wes Burns.

Today Terri and I delivered books to the Humboldt Redwoods gift shop, up on the Avenue of the Giants. Nice ride up and back, but the price of gas was a major distraction. On the way back we stopped and talked to Wes Burns. He was milling (Mighty-mite Mill) some Douglas fir for his cousin...

Lot of yarder tooting in that one.

It should have always been yarder logging. Cat logging the slopes in this region gave logging a black eye. Rightfully so. Cutting roads indiscriminently across the loose slopes. Erosion filling rivers. Between 1940 and latter 1970s Cat logging in the redwood region laid ruin. Logged...

Thanks for posting that, Matt. You guys were having a good time. I made a video about yarder logging you might enjoy. Featuring the Washington model 88. Logging virgin second-growth redwood on the Mendocino Coast If you don't know much about yarder logging, and the machines doing it...

Yeah, but I'm not sure which ones I have anymore. I'll have to check the list. Some titles were lost.

I first met David and Matt Driver at the TCI Trade Shows in Baltimore. Around 2010. Later spending a few days at their home and meeting their parents in the original family home, which was built of hand made brick and lumber. Strong family bonds there. I'm a lucky man to have met so many...

It has been document, in the Tree House Forums, exposure to the Working Climber Video Series can cure insomnia.

Road dust is bad ju ju, that's for sure. It is documented, locally, in the good ol' days of old-growth redwood logging here, among the fallers some were diagnosed with "redwood lung disease." I knew a couple even. I did a search of the term with piss results. But is is real. Locally...

Road dust. Oh baby. I recall many a skid road covered over a foot deep in road dust. It looked like a liquid. waves pushed ahead by track and wheel machines. And it makes breathing difficult besides. On cool morning the dust hangs low in the air and it settles fast. But in the heat of...

Always glad to help. Most of my old videos I converted to mp4 files. Which play better, less glitches, that the dvds. Either off the hard drives or thumb drives. I even put the Working Climber Series on thumb drives. Much better than dvds. Though some vids, not all, the audio is out...

Some one name GP was going to help me with getting that web site back up and running properly, but that never happened. Guess I'll have to try someone else.

Crack me up. It's true, I go tot fix that site. It's a road kill on the super information highway.