British Columbia Logging Equipment

[WesternSaw]

Well here's a ray of sunshine in the logging sector in British Columbia on the equipment side of things. The unfortunate turn of events in Japan looks like some mills are opening up again in the B.C. interior after major shutdowns.Here's a link to a story in the Vancouver Sun newspaper.
Hope in forestry helps venerable firm resurrect Madill name
Lawrence

 

[Joe46]

That's really good news. Lets hope it has a ripple effect all down the west coast!

 

[SWE#Kipp]

Best of luck to the BC-Logging industry, the BC loggers are the most impressive loggers out there, very professional it seems !!

 

[paccity]

come on,don't lump us togather down here with the so called axe men.

 

[madhatte]

Told you guys a year ago I smelled log prices rising... hope things keep going this way.

Meanwhile, US Federal employees are on notice about a possible furlough while Congress figures out how to pay us. It could go into effect as early as this coming Monday, and would last who-knows-how-long. Looks like Slowp picked the right day to retire!

 

[slowp]

Told you guys a year ago I smelled log prices rising... hope things keep going this way.

Meanwhile, US Federal employees are on notice about a possible furlough while Congress figures out how to pay us. It could go into effect as early as this coming Monday, and would last who-knows-how-long. Looks like Slowp picked the right day to retire!

During the last shutdowns, I worked. If we had contracts going, we were told that we had to work and would get paid eventually. The ranger also wanted all 2 of us to drive around the woods, and "show the flag." So we did. As much as we could in the snow. The little bit of time spent at the office, was interupted by irate people wanting woodcutting permits. They woud wander around peering into windows till they found us. There were signs on the front door about the closure. We had to explain the closure to them. Maybe they couldn't read?

I actually wanted to have some time off. The loggers, and I think they did it out of ornryness, made up a reason each day that I HAD to get up to their sales. One had assured me prior to the closure that they would keep me working.

Everybody got paid, whether they worked or not.

Madill's old building by Kalama? is now turning out some other kind of product.

I passed a shop truck today that had flames painted on it. :msp_smile:

 

[2dogs]

Just a heads up, this is a good website to subscribe to. forestnet.com

Forestnet-Home of North America's Leading Forestry Magazines

 

[RPM]

During the last shutdowns, I worked. If we had contracts going, we were told that we had to work and would get paid eventually. The ranger also wanted all 2 of us to drive around the woods, and "show the flag." So we did. As much as we could in the snow. The little bit of time spent at the office, was interupted by irate people wanting woodcutting permits. They woud wander around peering into windows till they found us. There were signs on the front door about the closure. We had to explain the closure to them. Maybe they couldn't read?

I actually wanted to have some time off. The loggers, and I think they did it out of ornryness, made up a reason each day that I HAD to get up to their sales. One had assured me prior to the closure that they would keep me working.

Everybody got paid, whether they worked or not.

Madill's old building by Kalama? is now turning out some other kind of product.

I passed a shop truck today that had flames painted on it. :msp_smile:

Slowp now that you no longer a civil servent are there any juicy gov't secrets that you can divulge? Could make for an entertaining thread.

 

[slowp]

Slowp now that you no longer a civil servent are there any juicy gov't secrets that you can divulge? Could make for an entertaining thread.

I believe the loggers and private foresters probably know more juicy secrets than I do. They have a very efficient goss-- oops-- information system which originates from the log scalers. Log scalers know everything.

 

[madhatte]

Log scalers know everything.

You can take that one to the bank for sure.

 

[RPM]

You can take that one to the bank for sure.

Log truck drivers too!