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e another good thing was a lit - thinning programs but the thin - g Originally Printed in time to sort out, stack and to load g tle pre planning in the landing. ning programs are going on and o this many logs. takes patience L May 1979 and skill and a level head to do get the ends even and the logs on. Usually all the logs produced it was just a year ago right the work. bunched together so the loader from this logging plan are small could take a good bite instead of logs. slow to get to the landing now that we put out an issue of i constantly see work go into doing all that swinging and fish - and slow to get loaded onto the loggers World devoted to the small logs that amazes me. one ing and grappling for just one log truck. business of loading logs. We dis - of the things that loggers take small log. cussed some of the odder and old - time enough to do well is to limb Maybe you were wise enough, er log loading systems and we the logs and square off the ends. the front end loaders were 20 years ago, to evaluate the showed action pictures of some of When it is a large log this is ex - making progress here at the same growth and improvements in hy - the newer and "modern as next pected. But to see a man take time and they were speeding up draulic log loading machines, week" loading machines. time enough to whittle half a their loading time with small logs wheel skidders, carriages, and it is time to take our annual hundred limbs off a small Hem - day by day. Better piles and big - other tools that are used in the squint at loading machines. We lock top that hasn't got 22 feet of ger bites. skidding and loading of smaller do that in this issue. scale in it is really something. the other loading machines timber. after our 'special log loader that same log has made the trip were also working toward quicker Maybe you guessed then that issue' came out last year we got from the brush to the landing loads. improvements in proce - alder logs would be bringing over many fine letters from interested with one logging method or an - dures with heel boom and grap - $150,000 per thousand. perhaps and interesting people that knew other and then it is limbed and ples were made. Heeling racks you visualized an investment of about logging. We have printed maybe bucked off square on one were made better to heel more over $300,000.00 to skid and load them once so won't do it again. or both ends. then maybe a cou - than one log. alder logs being made by loggers who were after the alder logs. When we are talking about ple of squirts of paint and a blow on and on it goes. get better, logging nowdays we are talking or two with the branding ham - get faster and whip the problems i must admit that i didn't about loading a lot of logs onto a mer. then the loader may pick it of handling and loading logs as have enough smarts to see things truck --- in many cases. Just a up and put it in a pile and even they come up. develop to the point they have to - short time ago i was on the land - handle it another tow or three if one backs up aways and day. i do know that what we are ing of Chapman Brothers logging times before it is loaded aboard a looks at today's happenings in doing and how we are doing it in Company. they were logging truck and sent to market. no one logging from the safe distance of 1979 is going to look pretty clum - alder and their main machine is going to make a nickel on that 20 years back he can quickly see sy and old fashioned in 1990. was a Madill 071 yarder. they log! many things happening that that is assuming that there are were skyline logging with it and in more and more areas log - would have never been guessed still loggers in action by then --- i one day they got 385 logs. they ging is getting to be a game of at. trust there will be. loaded all these logs out in five or handling more and more pieces as YUM yarding as a for in - i'd like to have a preview of six loads. the days march by. one of the big stance. Who would have believed conditions, machinery and meth - their log average per truck hang ups in handling small logs that logging would also mean ods that will be in use then so i load on this show ran between 60 was in the tortuous and time con - yarding in all the junk that has could tell you about it. But then and 70 logs. it takes a lot of time suming job of loading those no value? dumb as we were then you wouldn't believe me anyhow - to yard in that many logs, no mat - dozens upon dozens of small logs we thought that rotting wood -- why ponder it? ter the size. it also takes a lot of upon a logging truck. as the need would have a good effect upon the IN THIS ISSUE 2. RIGGING SHACK “Classic” From March 1979 by Finley Hays Loggers WorLd Published by Loggers WorLd LLc Founded in 1964 by Finley Hays 6. IN THE HEART OF IDAHO phone (360) 262-3376 JESSE HUNT LOGGING - KAMIAH, IDAHO.. by Brandon Hansen Member and Supporter of the American Loggers Council Since 1994
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