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We still got it, but we are selling it. The State forests got hit by a " Give it back to nature" thing, that means lots of forests are being taken out of production and turned into "nature", so we've lost our biggest client.

I take it that the McGuire family are a machinized operation.

Same here. Which is why we'll be going to the southern island Møn for 2 months this summer.

I managed to keep my mouth shut about that. Thanks for stepping up.

Being both, I''l say no. Climbers are part of a team, relying to some extent on their ground crew. Fallers work on their own and rely only on themself. Makes for a different mind set IMO.

It is the same way here when we have a forwarder on our tail, unless it is hired in by us. Hustle, hustle, hustle. Fortunately 3 good loggers can keep a forwarder occupied even in good terrain, but it still means no taking time out for an occasional arbo job.

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A large beet swung by the top packs quite a wallop.

That is actually the one vegetable I'm not fond of.

Nice. I logged some burnt forest in Idaho 33 years ago, down near Mountain Home. Sweating and cutting that charred bark sure makes you dirtier than anything else I can think of..

Thanks. Apart from the twist, it is a prime log. It was a second generation tree in that stand, so I guess it was actually a "Son of a Beech"

Yep! But somehow less of one than my eyes are. Ed, it is snaps, here. Schnapps is what they drink south of us. Tastes way better, actually. Danish snaps comes from a time of bad alcohol, where you needed something with a lot of taste to cover the flavour of the different alcohols that were...

Sadly no, Ed. It is a pair of gloves. The "Waiscoat" is a 25 year old Helly Hansen fleece vest. Not so dapper after all. But being one of ( most likely) the two only loggers in the country to wear hickory shirts, adds a little something, I suppose:D

Last beech tree of the season:

Cutting board works fine. I like mine a bit thicker, so I buy a sheet of nylon at a local plastic manufacturer every 4-5 years or so, then cut it up. Thereason it doesn't look cluttered with under brush is that I'm standing on one of the skidder trails the apprentice cut before we started...

No different from what I normally do.

Just work hard:) I love logging in the cold. We have auxillary oil heaters in the trucks, we set them to start about 15 minutes before lunch break, then the truck is nice and toasty.

We're clear cutting an area of nice size beech. Big enough to make some fine saw logs, not so big that they take too much work to limb and buck. Trick is to get them all on the ground without crushing the next generation of trees. That takes some planning.

When the first mechanized logging machine, the Logma, made it debut it obviously made a lot of us pulp fallers scared. We were told to chill, Denmark was too small for it ever to be rational to do mechanized logging here. Now, 40 years later, manual logging is going the way of the dinosaurs and...

You are absolutely right, Chris. But, monday mrning quarterbackng is one of the joys of the internet. That way, even though I'm laid up with a bum knee and can't work, I can still feel superior to a bunch of dumb Canadian loggers:lol: