1953greg
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LOGGING TECH tonite (wed) on History Channel 9p central.
probably a rerun but always fascinating.
good day 1953greg
probably a rerun but always fascinating.
good day 1953greg
LOGGING TECH on History Channel
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Is this the show with Scott and Robbie Melcher of Oregon??
They're working here in Sisters right now.
They run a quality operation.
They're working here in Sisters right now.
They run a quality operation.
I watched the show last night. They interviewed the Melcher brothers and showed quite a bit of their operation. If those guys weren't loggers they look like they could be NFL players; big dudes.
One of them said his record with the timberjack was 1250 trees in one day and his one hour record was something like 175 trees. They showed a computerized saw mill that processes 4000 trees a day. Those gang rip saws are cool. A mill foreman claimed that their bandsaws have a kerf less than .125". Actually, the way he said it was that it was significantly less than half the old bandsaws that had a .250" kerf.
It was a good look at an industry that I think most Americans take for granted. It seems almost like the meat processing industry; people just don't want to know what it takes to get a 2 x 10 or a pack of hamburger.
I still think the craziest guys in the old times were the river rats; the guys that drove the logs downstream. Totally nuts to see them running around on the logs.
One of them said his record with the timberjack was 1250 trees in one day and his one hour record was something like 175 trees. They showed a computerized saw mill that processes 4000 trees a day. Those gang rip saws are cool. A mill foreman claimed that their bandsaws have a kerf less than .125". Actually, the way he said it was that it was significantly less than half the old bandsaws that had a .250" kerf.
It was a good look at an industry that I think most Americans take for granted. It seems almost like the meat processing industry; people just don't want to know what it takes to get a 2 x 10 or a pack of hamburger.
I still think the craziest guys in the old times were the river rats; the guys that drove the logs downstream. Totally nuts to see them running around on the logs.
