Hey...this is pretty cool. I logged for Jorge back in 1985...ish. Ceasar and Jesus. Jeesh those guys worked hard. Whenever my saw ran out of gas...I had to take a fifteen minute break and sit down...those guys saws would start up again in 3 minutes. I doubt they even took a knee to fill up the tank before firing up again. Jorge just got his first Rotne's then. I love the mechanization of the woods...heated cabs, no swingin a chainsaw, no freezin butt wading through snow, no pullin chokers off the skidder. Back then, there were a couple deaths a year in the BH's from timber falling with saws...now, I haven't heard of a death in ages. I love "whole tree harvesting"...no slash left in the woods and thus no fire hazard. It literally looks like a park when you guys are done. Beautiful work. Uh...not seein the waste here guys!! I like seeing the old gray "high stump" in the foreground at the beginning...the "crosscut" stump from a hundred years ago. All that fine timber the feller buncher was cutting were seedlings then...if even sprouted yet. the Black HIlls NF harvests more timber than ANY national forest in the country! Not cause we over cut...but because the BH's are the last vestige of forest management left. And yes, now California is begging to bring back the logging industry...just like the hippees in the ski counties of Colorado begged them to come back after the pine beetle "whacked" their lodegpole forests. The Forest Service is salvage clearcutting 5,000 acres around Breckinridge Colorado for fire hazard...and this is a town that gave Obama 80% of their vote LOL. And not a peep of protest.
My father and I fell timber for Jorge in 1985. Loved working there. We were shut down for the winter in Colorado. Cesar and Jesus were working then. A great bunch of guys.
Well, too bad the Black Elk Wilderness is a total PoS and all of the trees will either be destroyed by fire or insects, since the 1964 Wilderness Act was all emotion and no logic.
This is actually very healthy for the black hills. If this wasn't being done, any wildfires in the area would grow to look like those currently going on in the western states.
Hey...this is pretty cool. I logged for Jorge back in 1985...ish. Ceasar and Jesus. Jeesh those guys worked hard. Whenever my saw ran out of gas...I had to take a fifteen minute break and sit down...those guys saws would start up again in 3 minutes. I doubt they even took a knee to fill up the tank before firing up again. Jorge just got his first Rotne's then. I love the mechanization of the woods...heated cabs, no swingin a chainsaw, no freezin butt wading through snow, no pullin chokers off the skidder. Back then, there were a couple deaths a year in the BH's from timber falling with saws...now, I haven't heard of a death in ages. I love "whole tree harvesting"...no slash left in the woods and thus no fire hazard. It literally looks like a park when you guys are done. Beautiful work. Uh...not seein the waste here guys!! I like seeing the old gray "high stump" in the foreground at the beginning...the "crosscut" stump from a hundred years ago. All that fine timber the feller buncher was cutting were seedlings then...if even sprouted yet. the Black HIlls NF harvests more timber than ANY national forest in the country! Not cause we over cut...but because the BH's are the last vestige of forest management left. And yes, now California is begging to bring back the logging industry...just like the hippees in the ski counties of Colorado begged them to come back after the pine beetle "whacked" their lodegpole forests. The Forest Service is salvage clearcutting 5,000 acres around Breckinridge Colorado for fire hazard...and this is a town that gave Obama 80% of their vote LOL. And not a peep of protest.
Thanks. Are you still in the hills? Cesar is my dad.
My father and I fell timber for Jorge in 1985. Loved working there. We were shut down for the winter in Colorado. Cesar and Jesus were working then. A great bunch of guys.
Impressive ! Quite the machines ! I like
Impressive ! Quite the machines !
What is that for a machine at 11:25?
It is a lot better to harvest the timber than to let it burn like they do in Ca
Well, too bad the Black Elk Wilderness is a total PoS and all of the trees will either be destroyed by fire or insects, since the 1964 Wilderness Act was all emotion and no logic.
right on, good looking operation here !
Guy on the processor is way to wastefu, couldn't use him if it we're mine
Foe the love of God close the grapple when you're empty and put the chain back on
Rough on your buncher
Very wasteful operation, these are the kind of guys you do NOT want cutting your timber
Of course cat skidder pulling Girly drags
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Desecrating the Paha Sapa
This is actually very healthy for the black hills. If this wasn't being done, any wildfires in the area would grow to look like those currently going on in the western states.
Some of those trees were too small and should have been left for a later generation.
Don’t let the literalistic Democrats see this they would close every logging company down
Tell me why it’s necessary to take a great video and corrupt it with stupid anti democrat and subtly bigoted ignorance?
Because dems are like trudeau liberals in Canada trying to screw all resourse based jobs