Timber faller article

[forestryworks]

Cutting it in the woods

TILLAMOOK - On a crisp November morning with the sun still asleep behind a curtain of stars, timber faller Scott Whitehead drives up the Trask River Valley with his partner Chris Bugger and dogs Lucky and Shadow.

In the rugged and dangerous world of logging one job stands out like the bull rider at the rodeo - and that's the timber faller.
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Cutting it in the woods - Tillamook Headlight-Herald: News

 

[ChrisF]

I might not know much, but I quite liked that article.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[teatersroad]

My old haunts. Not so much in Timber, just lent a hand now and then. Actually worked in the print shop for the Headlight Herald for a few years in the 80's. In helping.. no shortage of Cedar Salvage out there. That's bucking dead and down into shake bolts, slinging it, then being groundman while the heli drops a hook to you - all the while limbs are crashing down around you from rotor wash (cedar salvage typically in under a canopy). Like I said, I only helped friends on occasion - but they regaled me in stories of 'riding out on the hook' and crazy 'Nam pilots that are no longer with us. Steep country. and wet.

The Tillamook State Forest is in the "Tillamook Burn" - only just started logging that again in the last few years. cheers.

 

[Cedarkerf]

My old haunts. Not so much in Timber, just lent a hand now and then. Actually worked in the print shop for the Headlight Herald for a few years in the 80's. In helping.. no shortage of Cedar Salvage out there. That's bucking dead and down into shake bolts, slinging it, then being groundman while the heli drops a hook to you - all the while limbs are crashing down around you from rotor wash (cedar salvage typically in under a canopy). Like I said, I only helped friends on occasion - but they regaled me in stories of 'riding out on the hook' and crazy 'Nam pilots that are no longer with us. Steep country. and wet.

The Tillamook State Forest is in the "Tillamook Burn" - only just started logging that again in the last few years. cheers.

Spent 5 years up here makin shingle and shake bolts outa salvage Cedar cept we skid it out.
Nice article wasnt an out to getcha story.

 

[mdavlee]

Pretty good article for a newspaper.

 

[Gologit]

Good article, Jameson. Thanks for posting it. They didn't do a bad job for a newspaper, got a few words wrong but much better than the average newspaper does.

LOL...I'll try to save up some newspaper articles from around here. We usually don't get treated quite that fair.

 

[paccity]

good one, lived there in 73/75. still hunt and fish up the trask.