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Cool job you guys. After working on that steep ground and brush this is probably a dream job.

And what a wrap, too. Nice vid, Matt. Thanks for sharing. Time for you and Kate to snuggle up at home.

Agreed, Cory. Thank you for posting that Katelyn. Says a lot.

It was so presumptuous of me to ask Katelyn if she was double-jacking with Matt. That is, working together sharing the falling and bucking on the same strip, splitting scale. But I was corrected when told, "No, I have my own strip, Jer." Now I feel like a male chauvinist pig. But I'll get...

Cutting bushel is hard! The harder you work the more money you make. Terri and I had visitors today. Of all things Matt and Kaitlyn showed up. A meeting that's been in the works for a couple of years actually, and today the stars aligned. Not withstanding usual formalities... breaking...

Good to hear other stories. Worlds apart we may be, but it's still the same everywhere, bushel work is hard.

I worked right along side Mexican families. Their kids, ages 2 years and up, were picking, too. Every prune counted. Farm labor was good summer work for kids. Yeah, today almost all of it is mechanized. In 1972 and 73, while schooling at S.R.J.C., I was pruning grapes (cane-pruning) and...

In the early 1960s I was picking prunes by the lug, and peaches and apples by the bin. On a good day, from sun up to sun down, I could make $20, but averaged more like $12 to $15. By the end of the season I could save up a few hundred dollars and buy a new set of school clothes. Levi's cost...

On good ground you can mechanize the operations, totally. Most of the ground where I live is too steep for that. In small timber / steep ground; yarder log tree lengths and process on the landing. Big trees / steep ground: you got to buck.

Sometimes the Busheler has sorts. That is a strip may have multiple species, and bucking instructions may be different for each species according to their size / diameter and quality. Sorts can be confusing and slow down a fallers production, but generally the rate of pay is the same for all...

Same here, Matt. I strive to do top end work. But sometimes, bad strips back to back, it just don't pay. My friend Andy Dockham once said, "If the logger isn't complaining about your work then you're doing to good of a job." In which case you "Test the waters" to see what you can get away...

It's the bane of the busheler. When you get paid for how much you produce (board feet) your mindset is a whole lot different than getting paid by the hour or day wage. The busheler mindset can bring out the absolute worst in some people. That's why policies are set to limit fallers to...

I can chime in on that. All depending the company / forester, in select-cuts, a timber faller may be granted permission to cut other trees in lieu of the ones marked for harvest. For many practical reasons you can't always fall the trees that are marked for harvest. So you trade for...

Yeah, that was Mike.

Yeah, Mike and John. Different breed of humanity there. Incredibly strong workers.

Yeah, it really stands out in the Sat-maps. Contiguous old-growth forest. Big dark patch. Same with Prairie Creek and Jedidiah Smith.

Yep, just above Shively Road, South Fork of the Eel. Right across the river from the Avenue of the Giants, Pepperwood area. see the map (upper left hand corner).

Before heli's it was all yarder ground. I know most of that area. What watershed / creek are you in?

Boy he worked pretty hard getting that clump down. Looked painful.

That don't look bad. Laid out real nice, Matt. Almost a truckload in itself.