getting into logging

[Dennis]

Ryan, with the right attitude and some hard work, you can get right into a couple aspects of logging...you can go in and get a job unhooking chokers (a chaser)...or a shoveller in the winter...(shovelling around the base of trees for the fellers)...from there, experience will be the factor....watch and learn...

 

[Ryan Willock]

where can i get info on The Game Of Logging i would be interested on taking the class if i can find out who to contact

 

[Nickrosis]

I just read this thread, then I looked up and saw the reigning champion for GOL sitting in the same computer lab - Mark Diesen. What do I do? I ask him, cuz he's a good friend of mine.

Mark says: For the national office of the Game of Logging, call June Sienko at (570) 879-5205 on Monday, Wednesday & Thrusday from 10-3. They'll tell you everything you need to know.

I hope that helps.

Nickrosis

 

[Ryan Willock]

thanks, thats a big help!

 

[JimL]

I started out when i was 15 shoveling around trees and carrying baroil and gas(swamper). When a friend of mine started working with us I moved on to pulling cable and hooking an unhooking chokers.

I am 18 now and I just started felling 6 months ago, or was responsable for felling. You can watch and learn alot but being in the tree is another story. I caught on fast.

Dad bought me an 011 with 1/4" chain when i was 13. He taught me the basics and we went together working on clearing 20 miles of fence row. Dad had his 028 and i had the 011. I had one close call and nipped my boot but that has been it.

Dad just bought the saw jsut for that fence row and some firewood. he worked at a factory, not with wood.
I told dad i wanted to work in the woods and always would. So he hooked me up with a friend of his and i went and worked with him.

 

[Ryan Willock]

cool how do you like it??? what size trees do ya'll usually fell? what type of saw are you running???

 

[Ryan Willock]

what do you have to do to get your class c fellers

 

[JimL]

Originally posted by Ryan Willock
cool how do you like it??? what size trees do ya'll usually fell? what type of saw are you running???

I use an 066 mag for everything.

I got a 28" bar with 3/8 chain for felling and another one with a 24" bar for bucking.

I take whatever needs taken, hickory, hard oaks, maples, walnuts, cherry, just about anything that i can make saw logs out of. Only thin however the customer wants, call sawmill and they come out and look at things...

 

[logcutter429]

Another aspect nobodys thought to tell is the danger, saw cuts, me i've cut for 23years only been cut once, knock on wood,but i do know guys whose arms and legs look like road maps,and we buried my Brother-inlaw last year who had been cutting 10 years, proves things can still happen to the best of us.