Heli-Logging Series on TLC

[adirondackhick]

"Much much better than AxMen and Saw 4 Hire.

I liked the guy puking in the tree. The amount of work he was doing came across. I certainly have never climbed anything that big. But I have puked in a tree at about the three hour mark."

smokechase II, I def. agree. Anytime your dry heavin' in a tree from the strain, your def. working. Where I am a big tree is 100ft, or such. 150ft and then topping 50 ft.............. AWESOME...... don't know if i'd have the balzzz for that height though, I'd love to just be able to even see them working on stuff that big. Well, maybe i'd want to drop a stick or two...:greenchainsaw:

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

When do they start the reruns? I looked at the weekly schedule and saw nothing.

 

[slowp]

I don't have high hopes for the rest of the series. The Greenhorn Theme returns. I hardly ever see any new to logging guys here. Nobody wants to deal with the training. But they seem to be common on the TV shows.

 

[adirondackhick]

I think the only re runs are later that night..... search the learning channel then heli loggers and then you can hit the tv schedules and veiw daily or weekly times for any show............

 

[smokechase II]

Training the Discovery Channel

"I don't have high hopes for the rest of the series. The Greenhorn Theme returns. I hardly ever see any new to logging guys here. Nobody wants to deal with the training. But they seem to be common on the TV shows."

The training of someone on the show is a good segway into teaching the viewer.
It also sets up a nice conflict/resolution script between the reckless young thinks he's a stud and the wise old alcoholic who has made every mistake in the book.

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I do have high hopes.
I think they did pretty well.
I've set up a flip chart in the living room to post my Excel spreadsheet results on cost per board foot / weight ratio with respect to species per Chinook haul. Allowing of course for fuel load variable determined payload and breakdowns but I just can't take waiting on the fog.
They've got me much deeper than Saw 4 Hire could ever hope to with just tipping cranes and screaming.

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I'm hoping for a poster of the grapple sinking its claws into some soft cedar for my garage tool area.

 

[HolmenTree]

15 yrs ago when I lost my falling job to a processor, I was almost lured to the BC west coast to heli-logging. A couple of my co-workers went and a year later they bragged of $1000 a day guaranteed as a cutter. They were taking smaller cedars, climb and top the tree, spray paint an X on top of the spar, come down and cut the base almost all the way through, leave a small hinge and drive 4 wooden wedges into each corner to support it and walk away leaving the spar standing. The chopper would come , grab the top with its grapple , snap the hinge off with a side pull and haul it away.

At this time BC Workers Compensation Board and Workplace Health and Safety tried numerous times to shut these operations down. I quess workers didn't have the proper certification and leaving the standing cut timber was probably another problem.
I didn't see the show but if they are falling the spars now then it must be for the safety reasons and of course they are cutting alot bigger trees too which have to be bucked up for the choppers to lift them.

 

[Tree Sling'r]

With lot's of experience cutting for the Chinook and Air Crane (F model) I enjoyed the show, primarily because as a cutter the weights, lengths and turn time have to gel. Those guys stapling tags and painting bucks and logs with his vis paint brought back lots of memories.
Those were excellent pilots too. The pilots make everyone look good or very bad.

 

[forestryworks]

When do they start the reruns? I looked at the weekly schedule and saw nothing.

looked at mine and the rerun of this week's episode is one hour after the original airs.