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All else fails, bombs away.

I like working with skid hands that, when they come back from a turn, they try to make eye contact, they look for me i look for them, works good.

This is a wide spread thing, Mills have shut down here in arkansas due to the lumber market, anybody think its caused by the high cost of shiping, fuel is so out of control they have to compensate somehow. Our mill is still taking logs full bore but its got to catch up to them eventually.

This time of the year you won't have to worry about snakes, or chiggers, or alligators, leaches? yes, and the weathers about like out west, unlike the summer hot and hummid. good luck.

whats the high stumps about, looks like a skidder drivers nightmare, and all that bore plunge stuff in that size stuff is kinda overkill, what to ya work by the hour.

Nice pic guys, Sweet Home Ore., My old home town.

The American Loggers Council and Louisana Forestry Association has a toll free number to get help from loggers everywhere for the timber recovery, for anyone interested its 1-866-706-8869, this is a three state recovery mostly in Mississippi, but Louisiana and Alabama too.

Reminds me of the tree i cut last winter, nice 20' pine, cut it bucked it, went to the landing, when i got to the landing they had it set out, some deer hunter had spiked a later about ten foot up the tree, it was kinda viney so i didnt see them, got lucky didnt hit them

Saw head for obvious reasons, the 460 does good in the mud but has limitations, last winter we had two on the job the one i was running has 35s the other had flotations, he could go where i could'nt even begin and if i did he could'nt get back thru it.

Hey Brian, If your going ouy west, Columbia Helicopter is worth checking into, there out of Portland Oregon, and work all over the west coast. They have their own cutters and their own training program, i know people that work for them they do pretty well. just a little info.

Hey Rob, talking about the 460, normally it pulls5 and 6 good size log trees and thats with tops and limbs cause we have a delimber but these trees are honkers, no taper within the first 30 foot or so, i bet they go 8 or 10 ton by themself, real logs just wish i was cutting with a saw instead of...

Pine blues fast in the heat, during the ice storm in 2000 the us forest service did all the red tape the government usually does and most of it was left to rot, and were talking hundreds of loads.

Ok. tell ya about our latest adventure, They moved us to a Arkansas state forest tract out of Camden Ar. there is 30'' dbh trees everywhere , not cutting anymore but have to go out and buck 16s and trim em cause the 460 wont pull em with the top and anyways the delimber cant handle em , nice...

Don't know about the the sixties, but when i started cutting in Northern Cal. around 77 Mac 125 were still around, but the Husky 2100 explosion was underway, they were lighter and you could do more in big timber.

My hats off at what pantheraba is doing, this the south, the southern pine beetle just looks for sap before they attack, and its just about cycle time again, about every 10 years they run amuck deadening hundreds of acres all across the south, the weakened state of the trees might cause it...

Hey 12 guns, where at in Northern Ark., if your serious about logging, contact Berlie Bess @501 208 3990; this guy is a timber buyer for Ridgeway timber.

Dust, we just finished a job down around Shrevport La. that the dust was so deep we had to push the trucks up the haul road, a foot and a half maybe. got to get me a digital cam.

Does anyone going down, need a top saw hand, have my own saws and a 4x4 please respond for more info.

Well cutting was getting too slow and the money was'nt their anymore and after 26 years full time cutting it was time for a change. I'm running a 380 timberjack grapple, its different but not bad.

Hey Rob, congrads on getting to be a dad, Still logging but quit cutting about a year ago, been skidding behind a hydro-axe , longer hours but the money good.