Extreme Logging Discover Canada

[Rowan]

Heli-logging in BC is on Discovery Channel Canada right now. Looks interesting.

 

[Rowan]

Extremem Logging series

This show seems to be pretty good, so far they've had Swamp-Logging, Mule-Logging, now Helli-logging.


I guess Helli-Loggers is coming to Discovery Canada soon so they say.... Its annoying how the shows are released in the US first most times. Oh well, as long as we get it.

Cheers.

 

[Roy M]

Rats, I hope they run the segment again. I am very interested as I was involved in it for a few years.

 

[Zackman1801]

Im wondering why all of a sudden all of these logging shows are popping up all of a sudden? really a few years ago no one knew what we did, i imagine that some people still thought we dressed in flannel shirts and chopped trees down with an axe. Now all of a sudden everyone knows what we do and they make tv shows about it, strange, right at the times when the wood markets smashed into the ground.

 

[Roy M]

We just watched an episode involving mule logging in Tennessee. Four guys (if everyone showed up) cut and delivered three loads of veneer ash to a mill on an old beat up GMC single axle. Took four days. :hmm3grin2orange: The truck mounted loader was a work of art.
Falling was something else, not a wedge in sight. The highlight was a hanger. After due deliberation and jaw jackin', he went under the hanger and started on the offending tree. When it didn't move and he ran out of nerve, he dropped a third tree across the first. When everything came unglued, a butt clipped the camera man but he apparently was not seriously hurt.
They nursed the severely overloaded jimmy to the mill and watching them deal with the scaler, the owner's wife, was hilarious. Is this typical of small scale operations in the area?