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Bonuses were far and few between that I ever saw logging. :(

I worked for a 4-6 man outfit for my last five years. By the end it was three owners and me. It wasn't so great. Highlead outfit so never a shortage of really hard work to be done. Guess who pulled the short straw......always.

Similar up here. I took a nearly 50% pay cut to work local and sleep in my own bed every night. After five years of that I was like, damn. This isn't worth it for these rates. I hope to never work camp/hotel again.

Hot damn! Logging!! Cool pics of the destruction.

I thought it looked like you were digging into a pack of smokes, looking to get fired on the last day.

I figured it was faced normal, bored, then tripped. Awesome pics, nice sticks!

Highlead still lives on as the most kick ass form of logging. Handfalling, climbing, rigging, giant winches and super long and strong wire rope.

Yah logging like that is all the rage. And those machines are going steeper and bigger all the time.

I must be missing something for sure than because both of those vids look painfully slow to me. The mill/s that a company like 4 leaf work for and possibly even a outfit that size have full-time optimization guys. Like Dave had alluded too the whole operation from stump to wrapped lumber is...

Well maybe you should contact them and fill them in. One machine doing all that you say would be nowhere close to as fast. Also I know you love to hear it Stig, but. It's not flat here. Far from it in most places. My logging experience starts where the guys in these vids ends. Highlead. So...

Sure and slowed up too.

That set-up is the ruination of the woods imo. Huge equipment payments so huge volumes of wood must be moved. Big business feeding big business and the logger just deals with more and more pressure to produce more and buy more/newer/bigger/faster and more expensive equipment.

I think so the feller/buncher could not waste time bunching/forwarding to where the skidder could easily get at it. Just keep it straight out knocking down timber, bunch what's convenient but not waste time.

Yup. Nelson, BC.

I didn't see if it said or not but that's gotta be BC right? Seven axle logging trucks.

That's really cool Willard.

True enough. I still hate feller bunchers though.

That would be a good question. Feller/bunchers get bigger and able to handle steeper country all the time. Coastal camps still have plenty of hand falling for the yarder shows. Camps are no longer for me though. I worked the logging camps on the BC coast for seven years while younger. I could...

It's all good brother. I get heated around logging. I feel robbed of my chance to have been a real highball handfaller. The industry has changed so much here in just one generation I can't even begin to explain it. Big machines, big production. Lever pulling jobs where one man can do the work of...

No offense but up here that would be considered propaganda fed to the USA citizens by your lumber producers. Up here most of the land is public owned. When logging it you log to strict standards. It's all replanted, you pay stumpage to the government, the crown inspects how it's done and how...