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how many professional loggers do we have here??

Started by MEloggah, May 22, 2013, 02:47:52 PM

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MEloggah

this post isn't intended to offend anyone but im just curious.

I read a lot of posts/threads about ppl taking their saws to local dealers or hardware stores to have chains sharpened or ground. I also watched a video on you tube with some bozo cutting a tree down and explained not to try to sharpen your own chain. (he actually called it the blade) he recommended a professional dealer do it or just toss it out and buy a new one!

to me, being able to free hand file your saw is logger 101.  isn't it?? ive never used a grinder or a jig or a template and never will. its not uncommon to dink a rock while chopping and have to pull up on a stump or the skidder blade and touch up real quick. takes about 4 minutes. a file a saw wrench and a couple wedges in the back pocket is a neccessity in the woods business. I dunno, just things I think about that's all.

-Brandon

snowstorm

bought my first skidder in '' 77'' do i count? now ctl. the rottne is together the head is on. everything seems to work well. the new ac unit came today still waiting on the lexan windows

MEloggah

ide say so lol

what did your buy in 77? my dad was 17 in 1977 and bought his first skidder to go on his own that year out of high school and get out from under my grandpas loggin out fit. he bought a brand spankin new c5d that year. we have had 5 or 6 since. he grew up on jd crawlers in 60's then my grandfather bought two brand new jd 440's, 1 in 66 and one in 67. then a brand new c4d with a perkins in 71. what an up grade the tree farmers were! although when I was young we did switch over to buys skidders with e  thduetz instead of the detroits. havnt looked back. the 640d I used all winter was the first jd ive been on in a while and when it was time to do some wrenching all the night mares returned although still not as bad as the first ones that gramp had. those sucked!

1270d

I run a jd harvester.   Five years.

Have you been able to cut much with the rottne yet snowstorm?
  I just mounted my first Iggisund bar today.  Hopefully start cutting again next week.  Been off since April 2.  Roads are still restricted.

James Arsenault

I am.

I work alone, no crew. I've been deeper into the business in years past, but today, it's just me and my old skidder. Skidder is an '81 IH S8A.

Autocar

Been at it sence 77 handfile all my chains, repair or rebuild all my saws work on everything from skidder to tri axle. I take pride in working hard and being honest.
Bill

Woodhauler

I turned 50 this year,started driving skidder every summer from the 3 grade on! Did it everyday in the summer and when school was out! Bought my first truck in 85, for 80,000! Been trucking since!
2013 westernstar tri-axle with 2015 rotobec elite 80 loader!Sold 2000 westernstar tractor with stairs air ride trailer and a 1985 huskybrute 175 T/L loader!

beenthere

Member lumberjack48 was a pro logger. He had some good accounts of his glory days of logging.
I miss reading about his exploits.
south central Wisconsin
It may be that my sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others

logger79

This is my fourth year logging full time. I also work by myself. Its very tough at times but I love it.

Corley5

Burnt Gunpowder is the Smell Of Freedom

MEloggah

wood hauler, your up bringing sounds a lot like mine. ill be 30 in august and im a 5th gen logger. im also a one man band now that mom made the ol man get a 'real' job. didn't play sports in the summer, just worked every day. started out driving skidder about 7-8 years old then was slowly groomed into a chopper starting when I was 12. I love it and wouldn't change a thing!

Kemper

Quote from: beenthere on May 22, 2013, 07:33:49 PM
Member lumberjack48 was a pro logger. He had some good accounts of his glory days of logging.
I miss reading about his exploits.

I enjoy reading his posts as well. Where has he been?

Logging is how I make my living, not sure I would use the word professional with it. Never carried a wedge a day in my life.

Dave Shepard

I personally think if you are using a saw professionally, then you should be able to maintain your chain. Part time users, do what you have to to survive. :D

lumberjack48 was on yesterday, but hasn't posted since 4/27, then before that, 4/02.
Wood-Mizer LT40HDD51-WR Wireless, Kubota L48, Honda Rincon 650, TJ208 G-S, and a 60"LogRite!

thecfarm

professional logger,I would not call myself. I did work with my Father on this land cutting wood and selling to sawmills and paper mills. We only used a tractor with a 3 pt hinge.I do sharpen by hand,no guides,just freehand. Took some hard coaching from my father to drive it through my thick head. Now if I had to change or use a guide I would have to re learn all over again. I would also think that might of been a few loggers,when chainsaw was more in use,that might of not sharpen by hand much. Some might of had a sharpener and just set it up and go do something else and let it grind. Sharpening by hand is a next to impossible thing to teach on a keyboard. But it is easy to do,once someone can stand there and show you how to do it.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

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Timbco 475E

CTL logger

I hope to be a professional logger someday, I'm on my way been sharpening my own saw since I had my first saw, got my dad's old 041 farm boss cut a lot of firewood with it still cuts wood but gathers dust these days. I logged as a kid with my aunt and uncle they had a JD 350 crawler with a pull behind log arch, she usually outworked all of us. I wonder what they would think if they saw how I was logging these days. CTL is completely different than how I grew up but wouldn't change it for the world someday I'll be a pro only have 25 years experience so far and a few of my friends say if I don't cut down trees with a saw I'm not a "real" logger so I might not be able to count the last 5 years.

Nemologger

I been logging since 1977, full time... Skidded for my dad in the summer since 1972 before that. Lost dad in a logging accident in 86, but its a labor of love. Nothing else  Id rather do.
Clean and Sober

giant splinter

Does it matter if I cant make a living at it in this economy ..... if so deal me out <grin>
Count me in on touching up my own chain and maintaining my saws myself, I always know where I stand on dependability and enjoy keeping them up.
roll with it

newstick

Pro here! Ive been filing my own saws since about 14 years old. 40 now. ;D
Im am owner operator of Newberg Forest Products.We are a convental logging company with a Timbco feller buncher, two John Deere skidders , a strokeboom delimber, and a Serco log loader with circle slasher saw.
In the summer time my other company builds Handcrafted Log Homes. I love the woods!

240b

20 years full time. seasonal now: cable skidder and loader.

Forrest277

I'm not strictly a "logger", but I use my saw professionally for my work - its what puts food on our table...  all kinds of tree work including logging sometimes, one-off tricky felling jobs, plot clearance, climb and cuts and also firewood prep.
all i know is that my file and my saw travel together _ if it dont cut it dont work !

always by hand, sometimes on a job, mostly the evening before.

for me the most important thing is to handle the saw well on the job, so it stays sharp,for example_ never touching the ground while cutting, i also carry a wire brush so if I have to cut low to the ground I scrub out the grit on the bark beforehand... when not running always keep the cover on the bar so not to pick up grit etc

If i could fell full time I would, but in these parts those bloody feller-bunchers have taken alot of the work... I stopped by a crew just last month _ to see if they needed another hand, but with the boss driving that huge machine they cleared the plot in a day and dissapeared ... i know time is money and all that but I just feel the over mechanisation is killing our jobs... i could rant but i wont...

so... i keep in work by specialising _ doing the jobs the machines cant get to, or are too big, or simply not required climb and cuts for example... 

oh and dont forget the guides !

GF
==
Love my Husky ...

Ken

Dad started dragging me to the bush when I was 11.  Worked for a logging company for a few years after high school before going to university to get a forestry degree.  Started offering woodlot management services before I finished my degree and that still pays the bills.  I hand file my chain saw chains but have a grinder for the harvester chain. 

Still love what I do but it has certainly been a struggle the last few years.  Now off to slay some trees.
Lots of toys for working in the bush

snowstorm

Quote from: 1270d on May 22, 2013, 05:48:44 PM
I run a jd harvester.   Five years.

Have you been able to cut much with the rottne yet snowstorm?
  I just mounted my first Iggisund bar today.  Hopefully start cutting again next week.  Been off since April 2.  Roads are still restricted.
yesterday was the trial run only cut 3 trees. it dose feed  faster along with sawing. the crane will take some getting used to. going from a telle boom to a parrerall.is quite fast and will lift the head at full boom with ease. now to come up with a way to rotate the head with the joystick (it works with the buttons) rottne is 12volts electric joystick the head computer is 24v. anybody got any ideas?











snowstorm

Quote from: 1270d on May 22, 2013, 05:48:44 PM
I run a jd harvester.   Five years.

Have you been able to cut much with the rottne yet snowstorm?
  I just mounted my first Iggisund bar today.  Hopefully start cutting again next week.  Been off since April 2.  Roads are still restricted.
you will like the bars. i was told they are made by olofsfors the track co. so any dealer that sells the tracks can get the bars

loggah

I was up untill a few years back, now in just part time !! ;D Don
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