Weyerhaeuser sign

[forestryworks]

saw a weyerhaeuser sign in a youtube logging video that said:

"Third-growth Douglas-fir

Harvested 1977

Planted 1978

Next Harvest 2027"

thought that was interesting

 

[slowp]

The way the workforce is aging, the only knowledgeable crew will be guys with caulks on their walker legs by that time.

 

[PA Plumber]

The way the workforce is aging, the only knowledgeable crew will be guys with caulks on their walker legs by that time.

Funny that.

Logging is actual work. Not as many folks think working hard is as novel as in the old days.

 

[Gologit]

The way the workforce is aging, the only knowledgeable crew will be guys with caulks on their walker legs by that time.

:hmm3grin2orange: Hey, I'll only be eighty-one when they cut that stuff. Where can I get some of those aluminum walker caulks? I figure I can fasten the walker on with suspenders to keep my hands free. If I can find one with a bottle holder I can hook up an IV drip for my Geritol and I'll be ready to rock.

 

[RPM]

saw a weyerhaeuser sign in a youtube logging video that said:

"Third-growth Douglas-fir

Harvested 1977

Planted 1978

Next Harvest 2027"

thought that was interesting

Thats the economic rotation of that stand....I've worked in Doug-fir stands around Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island that were harvested at 35-40 years old (second cut). The stand volume was approx. 400 - 450m3/ha and was private forest. 2027....I'll still be in the industry then.

PNW is the place to cut and grow timber.......

 

[forestryworks]

with the way the economy is

hopefully i'll have a job by 2027

 

[Gologit]

hopefully i'll have a job by 2027

You probably will. The thing to remember about the timber business is that, historically, it's been boom or bust. I can remember my grandfather fifty years ago worrying about the same things I worry about today. What we're seeing right now is one of the worst times that I can remember...but it won't last.

Will it ever get back to where it was when the big housing frenzy was happening? No. But eventually things will even out and we'll start selling boards again. Until then we just have to tough it out.

I don't know what your goals are in this business but no matter where you position yourself in the industry you'll be affected by it's cyclic nature.

LOL...just try to get as high up in the food chain as you can...the suffering is more refined and gentile there. Or so we keep telling ourselves.

 

[Cedarkerf]

saw a weyerhaeuser sign in a youtube logging video that said:

"Third-growth Douglas-fir

Harvested 1977

Planted 1978

Next Harvest 2027"

thought that was interesting

Diff land outfits post those signs all along the thurofares up here so maybe people realize trees grow back.

 

[forestryworks]

You probably will. The thing to remember about the timber business is that, historically, it's been boom or bust. I can remember my grandfather fifty years ago worrying about the same things I worry about today. What we're seeing right now is one of the worst times that I can remember...but it won't last.

Will it ever get back to where it was when the big housing frenzy was happening? No. But eventually things will even out and we'll start selling boards again. Until then we just have to tough it out.

I don't know what your goals are in this business but no matter where you position yourself in the industry you'll be affected by it's cyclic nature.

LOL...just try to get as high up in the food chain as you can...the suffering is more refined and gentile there. Or so we keep telling ourselves.

thanks for the wise words

Diff land outfits post those signs all along the thurofares up here so maybe people realize trees grow back.

good point, maybe more people will wake up and... see the trees

 

[SuperDuty335]

While reading this thread and the few comments about aging, I just now realized that in 15 years EVERY logger I know will either be retiring or retired... with no one to replace them!

 

[forestryworks]

While reading this thread and the few comments about aging, I just now realized that in 15 years EVERY logger I know will either be retiring or retired... with no one to replace them!

that seems to be the problem if i'm reading everything right.

read an article once called who will save the loggers? or something like that - and it dealt with not having enough young people to come up under the veterans.

it may sound naive or whatever, but i feel like that's my duty - to be one of the young guys to come up under the vets...

not trying to sound all important and puff up my chest, just stating how i feel. besides, the military won't take me anyways.

 

[clearance]

It grows back

I saw a tv commercial from some tree hugging outfit recently. It showed a processor cutting down a flat patch of second or third or fourth growh conifers. The saying was "Once its gone, it gone" What a bunch of bs.

If its gone when its logged, how does it get logged again? freaking morons. Like when you shave, I guess thats it, right? Arggggg.

 

[Jacob J.]

You probably will. The thing to remember about the timber business is that, historically, it's been boom or bust. I can remember my grandfather fifty years ago worrying about the same things I worry about today. What we're seeing right now is one of the worst times that I can remember...but it won't last.

That's why it's so hard to get young people into this business. If you're trying to feed a family, long lay-off periods aren't the way to do it, unless you have side businesses going.

While reading this thread and the few comments about aging, I just now realized that in 15 years EVERY logger I know will either be retiring or retired... with no one to replace them!

I know a guy who was a timber falling contractor for 16 years, and a good one at that. He hit his late thirties and was facing another rough winter a couple years ago. So he quit cutting timber and started his own contract janitorial/custodial business. He's making double what he made cutting timber in a year and has more work than he wants. I saw him the other day at the store and he told me: "Modern timber cutting is for the birds. It's way too easy to make a good living doing something else."