How many loggers are in the TreeHouse?

[MasterBlaster]

Just curious. :drink:

I picked climber cuz I never rely on board feet or trees felled orrrrrrr whatnot to get my dinero.

[Bodean]

I'm definetly a climber.

As a logger, I dunno, We produce 18' logs that go to market.

A faller, sure. I'll cut it.


As a logger, I dunno, We produce 18' logs that go to market. A faller, sure. I'll cut it.


Heck, same here but I don't think I'm a logger.

[MasterBlaster]

Who picked both? Come on, don't vote w/o a comment! :(

[Bodean]

I thought you could see results


I thought you could see results

I can, but I gotta go all Admin and shit... MB

[wiley_p]

I voted both, though due to the confusion about what a logger is, I get lumped into be called a "logger". I am a journeyman faller/climber, I don't know s%@# about logging, nor do I desire to be involved in such savage activity.:D

[Blinky]

I picked climber. Sometimes I sell logs to a local mill but they have to be primo or he won't touch'em... big pine mostly. The mills around here are leery of residential wood.

I do some precision felling but it's more about missing targets rather than getting the wood on the ground in good condition.

[stehansen]

I picked climber. Lumber biz is pretty much gone here.

[Dave Shepard]

I guess I am all alone in the logger department so far. Any climbing I have done has been recreational, or on my own land. I will be starting a small logging job next week using these two enormous hunks of iron.:roll: :lol: I will be cutting a mix of oak, cherry, and hard maple.


Dave

[MasterBlaster]

That's cool, Dave. Bring it on! :beer:

[Jamin Mayer]

Now, I don't fall trees that are being processed for lumber. Can I call myself a "urban logger"? After all, I have taken down hundreds of trees in my "urban forest.":/:

FYI. I clicked on climber.;)

[sotc]

i picked both even though im a climber now, your never an ex logger, it stays in your blood:D

[squisher]

I picked both, I haven't logged for four years now but when I did I was a climbing logger so that's gotta be both. And I figure because everytime I talk to my old boss he nearly begs me to come out and rig some spars for him I musta been doing something right. I miss highleading, just wish I coulda made better money doing it locally. Ha anyone on here who has done highlead logging is gonna think I'm mental for my last comment but I do actually miss it, highleading is hardcore logging, not for the faint of heart.

[sotc]

like i said, it stays in your blood!

[Paul B]

neither.

just being honest.

[Thor's Hammer]

Both. Although I've always been a climber, I've also cut, harvested and hauled a lot of this -

[Old Monkey]

They do a brisk trade in tooth picks over Wales I guess.

[gf beranek]

Even though I haven't work in 7 months I click on both. No reason for explanations on why. Heh, Heh.

[Big A]

Hmmm, not sure if I'm qualified to vote, I aint a climber, per se, and the felling/thinning work I do is only a small percentage of my income. I do enjoy felling work, but then I enjoy all aspects of tree work. I'm just lucky I suppose. :D

[Stumper]

Dad blame it Butch. Thar ain't no "pick pruner of shrubs" choice.
I clicked both because I have done both professionally but logging isn't a significant part of what I do now.
In truth "Climb occassionally and dink around in the shrubberry" encapsulates it best.

[Reddog]

Logger/Contract Cutter here. Not much for logging work here this winter.

I guess my pics are over in the old tree house.

[Jonseredbred]

I'm feeling pretty left out on the choices here.

[sawinredneck]

Me to!!!!
I'm neither either!!
I can kinda climb, KINDA.
I cut down trees when I have time, for fun and money, and most of what I cut is for firewood.
So what is that?

[pantheraba]

Me to!!!!
I'm neither either!!
I can kinda climb, KINDA.
I cut down trees when I have time, for fun and money, and most of what I cut is for firewood.
So what is that?

It means you're a friggin' sawin-REDNECK!!!! :lol:

[pantheraba]

Ha, just playin' with you...you are really a sawin' - friggin' redneck.

Is that nicer??? Oh, man, I might be in trouble...... :D

[sawinredneck]

You must not know me that well Gary, I all but spit out my drink on that one:lol:

[Newfie]

I'm a licensed harvester (loggah) in mass, but rarely get to exercise my skills on a true logging job. Mostly lot clearing with some residential work mixed in. Me no climb.

[GASoline71]

Worked in the woods when I was a snot nosed punk kid...

So I voted logger. :)

Set chokes and bucked logs on the landing...

Knocked a few big trees down with some of the old timers that were on the job. I loved it... I was only 16-18 years old though... so of course I knew everything.

I tried the climbing gig... might do it again someday... but my back will prolly keep me on the ground.

Gary

[boboak]

Logger. I set chokers, bumped knots on the landing, and ran Cat when I was a kid. Bucked behind my uncle for a couple of years and he taught me to fall. Or tried to... LOL. I worked at that for quite a few years until a log rolled on me and I had to have repairs on both knees and hips. I still get out there pretty often and help out some friends when they get behind but I can't pack the tools on steep ground all day anymore.
Most of the time I drive logging truck. It keeps me in the woods and out of my wife's way. It's an easy job if you don't take it too seriously.

[stig]

I run a small gypo outfit, so I'll have to say I am a little of both. During logging season, which is winter-spring around here we fall trees full time. The rest of the year we alternate between climbing and falling, depending on what jobs we pick up.

[Paul B]

Welcome Stig

[MasterBlaster]

Welcome to the TreeHouse, Stig! Good to see you posting. :beer:

[sawinredneck]

Welcome Stig!!! And good to see Bob back in the house!!

[Swe#kipp]

A bit of both :)
But can hardly call myself a climber in your company but i'm learning it (slowly)!!
And welcome Stig !!

[Ax-Man]

I did some climbing today removing a small Maple so I checked climber :/: I guess that qualifies me as a climber. It started to snow today at the tail end of the day as I was chunking down the spar. I looked like the abominal sawdust man when I hit the ground.

I have flirted with logging a little and have done some custom felling for others to have logs milled because they didn't have big enough saws. That timber cutting is a whole different ball game than doing custom tree service, timber work can be more dangerious to me than doing tree service.

[MasterBlaster]

And pound for pound, I don't believe it pays as well.

[Bounce]

Climber here. Where I live (WA) though, there's not a big difference between climbing and logging. I like to think of myself as an urban logger.

[GASoline71]

Sean... I'm here in WA too... trust me, there is a BIG difference between climbing and logging.


And pound for pound, I don't believe it pays as well.

If someone actually wants to make decent money logging... then being a machinery operator or log trucker is where it's at.

Gary

[sotc]

or company owner;)

[squisher]

Or a handfaller. My buddie in Pemberton is raking it in as a bullbuck.

[log-ologist]

I voted for both. I started in the woods and ended up off the ground most of the time.
Its like the wheel of evolution is turning full circle and we are going back to climbing trees. Darwin didn't see that did he.

[NeTree]

I guess I fell somewhere in the middle. Done both, loved both.

[Al Smith]

I can't honestly say either one in the true sense.I've done both but in a rather limited amount.At the moment I have around 8,000 bdf of saw logs in my field to be milled if that accounts for anything.

If there was a catagory of a glorified firewood cutter I suppose that would be me.

[Bounce]

there is a BIG difference between climbing and logging.

I just meant that it seems like even if I'm climbing I usually have to get the stuff on the ground in 12 or 16 ft lengths to maintain lumber value because it's such a waste to turn a 36" diameter log into firewood. Every once in a while I get a job setting chokers up high for a lot clearing operation around here, and that's about as close to being a real logger as I'd like to get.

[Rotax Robert]

I picked logger as I do very little climbing.

[pete mctree]

Both here, as every year I manage to get back into the woods for at least a few weeks

[countryboypa31]

Straight climber here, nothing logger about me. But i do love to climb!

[xtremetrees]

Just climb, today I climbed one tree 3 times!

[Skwerl]

Welcome back Robert. I thought you were enlisting and off to fight a war?

[MasterBlaster]

It's been three months since you left on walkabout. Welcome back!

[Emilio]

I guess I voted climber but heck im not even doing much of that anymore.

[Old Monkey]

This thread is bringing out a lot of folks.

Hi Robert.

Hi Emilio.

What are you gents up to these days?

[Emilio]

Hey Darin I have been gone some time it kinda nice being back at the treehouse.I have been very busy with a project that has nothing to do with trees but it is fun I have been managing the airport here in my home town it is good but takes alot of my time so my dad has been running the tree biz all by alone but hey he is very capable so it all good here how is your biz doing.

[MasterBlaster]

What, something like "Wings?"

[Emilio]

Hey Butch, yeah kinda something like wings but without the hot sandwich lady, Helen,

[MasterBlaster]

As obscure, the location?

[Paul B]

wasnt it nantucket or something?

[Emilio]

You mean my location, You know im kinda slow.

[Emilio]

Oh yeah wings yeah it was nantucket yep cool show.

[Angus]

I'm neither.
I've been involved in both my whole life... but that doesn't make me a climber or a faller. Yet.
groundie category for me maybe.

[cory]

Just saw this..

I'll go with both, started out logging for about 5 years, doing treework since. Less travel!

[Altissimus]

If there was better money in Logging I'd be content to chop in the woods my whole career ... I have grown to LOVE the climb/rig/remove....

[squisher]

I loved logging, born a generation late. It's a forked up industry up here now.

[Newfie]

I loved logging, born a generation late. It's a forked up industry up here now.

I think pretty much everywhere in US and Canada.

[cory]

Logging anecdote from the memory banks: When I was logging for Future Logging in Springfield, OR, when we would leave for the woods on Monday AM, we would get up at 2 freakin AM to get to the shop and into the crummys (pick ups) and drive to the woods so we could be in the brush working by the time there was enough light to see. Tues-Thurs we would stay in cabins (not logging camps or anything) closer to the work, only hadda get up at 4:30 those mornings.

[thattreeguy]

i picked climber, i do residential logging, but i employ fallers to do the big bottom cuts, i feel comfy up to 3ft dia, and sometimes a fuzz bigger
i can send it where i want in the tree, but its a different game on the ground, i feel slightly out of place on the ground, my guys are all older fallers and dont want to climb anymore so i climb for them.

i looked at 44 redwoods for removal today the biggest is close to 5 ft on the stump all regrowths, about 2 wks work, we'll do it all from cuttin to truckin,

i love to climb, i love to do big take downs, .. i guess im just a tree guy

[CurSedVoyce]

I picked climber even though I am pretty much a newbie at it professionally. I have been felling trees longer, but I can't say I am a logger. I do mostly brushing, and that's ground work for the most part. Shat, I was working that saw like a machette today ... LOL Tangled nasty mess that was!

[cory]

i looked at 44 redwoods for removal today the biggest is close to 5 ft on the stump all regrowths, about 2 wks work, we'll do it all from cuttin to truckin,

i love to climb, i love to do big take downs, .. i guess im just a tree guy

Awesome, did you get the job?

[cutitup]

I didn't vote 'cause I guess I'm a jack of all trades master of none.
Worked as a climber for several years back in the 80's (dang I'm gettin old!) Did my fair share of land clearing. No 'real' logging here in NEPA just mostly pulp wood. Did a climbing removal of a Maple last Sat. But I just love tree work.
But for my real money I'm a machinist and welder.
......and besides there's no where to pick hack:P

[boboak]

I think pretty much everywhere in US and Canada.

True that. But...I can remember my great grandfather, grandfather, and dad all saying the same thing. It just goes with the territory. It's what we do. It's who we are.

[squisher]

It's worse now. Big machines and big business have ruined logging. Felller bunchers are the scurge of the bush imo. Big payments to big banks and big equipment manufacturers so mills can get more wood for less money.

[thattreeguy]

Awesome, did you get the job?

we'll find out friday night or mon mornin, sure hope so

[ptptree]

I'm a climber no doubt. I guess i like being closer to home also. I think there's work (seasonal at best) if you don't mind travelling all over the province and living out of a suitcase.

[fishhuntcutwood]

Just saw this thread because I was on a boat off of Colombia this time last year when this thread started.

I'll let y'all guess how I voted....:D

[Bermy]

Climber...
(with a little bit of felling, not logging, thrown in, or dismantling windblow... wood gets cut and left on site, doesn't have to be pretty.)

[inztrees]

I was a logger for 1 day. I pinched my saw so I had to walk all the way back to the landing to get the skidder to push the tree. Grabbed a hitch and took it to the landing where I stayed and I was back on tree crew the next day

[Knotahippie]

Jobless right now...

Climber.