Show about logging on History channel

[sprucebunny]

Just started....looks good ;D

[ksu_chainsaw]

Pretty cool from what I've seen so far

That big sawmill was pretty cool!!

Charles

[Greenskeeper]

Thanks I was sure it was on yesterday.

[sprucebunny]

I like the old picture of the huge log with the guys standing next to it. Must be 18' diameter. ;D

[UNCLEBUCK]

sprucebunny I watched all of them tonight back to back and it was the best shows I ever seen. Talk about wild and crazy riding that log floom . That all wheel drive train inventor was from michigan too. I wonder if he was a yooper ? It told how weyerhauser started as a night watchman at a mill in the midwest . I couldnt turn it off it was so good . 50,000 year old trees in the mud . Awesome stuff !  8)

[Cedarman]

Impressive that the southeast is sawing 4 times what the northwest is now.
Must be why I get all those auction notices about mills from the northwest.
Frank Pender, what you going to do with all those trees growing in your neck of the woods?

[Frank_Pender]

Don't ya know Cedarman, they are for the owls and huggers. >:( :'(

[thedeeredude]

 :(  I don't get the history channel and we have cable, too.  But I'd gladly trade oxygen, CNN or the Spanish channel(s) for History Channel.  But apparently even after you give the cable company $50+ a month, you still can't pick your own channels >:(

[OneWithWood]

It sure did look interesting from what little I got to see.  It seems there was a certain basketball game on that required my attention ;)


Cedarman, how is it you were watching the history channel and not espn?  :D

[woodhick]

Anyone know when the show will run again, I missed it? :'(

[Furby]

You can keep an eye on this link once a week or so to see when it will be on again.
http://www.historychannel.com/modernmarvels/?page=upcoming

[Cedarman]

One With Wood, the answer has something to do with the 4 years I spent at West Lafayette 8) 8)  I am giving up basketball this year. Maybe next year too.

[Sunfield Hardwood]

The all wheel drive locomotive was invented and built by a fellow who lived about 1 mile from my house, he lived in "Shaytown", where they finally bulldozed the last building about a year ago, oh yeah it's on Shaytown Rd. He designed the locomotive in shaytown, but moved near traverse city Mi. where he built them, or had them built. I check the history channel everyday hoping to catch that show and finally saw it :)Bailey's had the video of the show and I tried to order it but they are no longer in stock.I wanted to watch the show following the logging show, about lumber companys ,  but 4:00 am comes early and I had hit the sack. :-\

[thecfarm]

Was a nice program.Would of liked more pictures and less interviews.A whole differant way of logger that I've never seen.If you enjoyed the show get this book,Endless Tracks In The Woods by James A. Young and Jerry D. Budy.Not much about skidders,but lots about bulldozers,and the old way of getting logs out of the woods.Loads of pictures,really nice ones.I doubt any one could get through it in 2 days of reading and looking at the pictures.Probaly cost $40-$50 now.But it's worth it.

[Phorester]

Did you notice the spring pole segment, where they put up platforms of boards about head high around the large western trees, to get above the butt swell?  One feller put in his 6 inch wide spring pole above head height.  Immediately hopped up on it.  To readjust it, he simply hooked the toe of his right boot underneath it, jumped completely up off the board, and moved the spring pole with his right foot several inches to the right, landing back on it perfectly balanced and immediately began swinging his double bit axe all while balancing on this skinny bouncy board about 6 feet off the ground.  Amazing.

I was also glad that, even though they made mention several times of loggers harvesting all those acres and acres of trees, they usually added "to satisfy America's insatiable demand for lumber products", or something of that nature.  Whenever I hear someone complain about loggers "destroying" all the forests, I remind them pretty quick that loggers cut trees only because the public  buys the products made from those trees.   Even john Muir lived in a wooden house and wrote all his essays on preserving the forests on paper.

[sandmar]

oh man,I think that should be a regular series on The History Channel...it was great. After seeing how they did things,I won't be whining QUITE as much about moving logs anymore  ;D

Sandmar

[Dan_Shade]

I think it was a well done show, the envirnmental guy and the forestry guy admitted that both of them are important.

myself, I'm a conservationist.  I believe that God gave us things on this Earth to use to better ourselves, but at the same time we are responsible so that future generations have things too.  it upsets me how bad some of the old logging companies raped the forrests.  I have no problem with using it, just make sure some is there for tomorrow.

[logwalker]

Hey Dan,
I try to remember that it was done in a different time than we live in now and future generations will look back to judge the things we all feel comfortable doing everyday. Almost everyone is just trying to get along and make the fewest waves he can, avoid the sleeping dogs and stay within the lines. I seem to remember something about house made of glass. Old mother earth is going to take it all back someday anyway, that is one thing you can count. Be safe out there tomorrow. ;)

[Cedarman]

Everyone seems to think that as trees become more valuable, more of them will be cut down and we will run out of trees.  Back in the "good ole days" when trees were next to worthless they were cut down to make room for anything else and land was vast and cheap and who cared.  Now land is much more valuable and trees are worth a lot more money, so I expect we will have more trees growing.  If we didn't have a demand for corn, we wouldn't see corn fields.  I am happy that we are growing more trees than in the last hundred years and heading in the right direction.

I am a preservationist for old growth such as it can be defined. Anyway I like seeing big tracts of huge trees of any species.

But I am also a conservationist in that we must manage what we have.

[beenthere]

Cedarman
You have said it well and how I believe it 'happens'. 

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

The link below shows how you can order both "The Lumber Yard"
and "Logging Tech."

http://www.historychannel.com/modernmarvels/?page=archive

Phil L.

[Don K]

Cheapest I can find that book on the net is $85 if it can be located at all

[thecfarm]

The book may cost $85,but it would be still be worth it.Probaly I wouldn't want to spend that much without first looking at it.I saw the book after I bought it at a tractor show.I bought it sight unseen for $30.It's a very nice book with lots of pictures to enjoy.

[sprucebunny]

"The Lumberyard" is on again NOW ;D

[Tom]

I'd like to see it, but my TV is busy displaying stupid stuff.

[Buzz-sawyer]

Im watching it.really interesting............ 8)

[sprucebunny]

On Megamachines tonite NOW . The Ponnse Harvester will be on.

[jgoodhart]

Missed it again :'(