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I just saw the commercial...again...this time i noticed at the end of the commercial the older lookin fella w/ half a hand say "It's only a hand." gotta love it, you PNW guess sure got some cahones LOL

cant wait for it to come on....got it locked in on DVR in case im not around LOL
 
anyone catch it last night/this morning?

i fell asleep about 3hours before it came on

maybe it will show up on youtube?

thanks for the updates Mindy

I'm home for day 3 of massive mucous loss. Just opened up box number 3 of Puffs. So, since I am stuck here, I was able to watch the Live show a short time ago, obviously not live. Had to suffer through a million commercials and a long interview with (is this not ironic?) Woody Harrelson who I can't stand.
The loggers got about 5 minutes. Jay Browning ( I think) told how he lost part of his hand and I about lost my lunch. He tripped near a moving block and got his hand sucked through. Ick. Then they did a cute skit with some guy named Guillermo, showing clips from the show interspersed with Guillermo eating pancakes and getting a splinter in his hand. It ended with Guillermo in a backyard supposedly dumping a bush in a swimming pool and then they all got chased out by the homeowner. That was it. Now I'm going to dose myself with Benadryl. Good Night.:dizzy:
 
Hayes

Gologit, that book sounds right up my alley, I would love to read it. Also, you are a good writer yourself, that bit about your cologne made me for a second think I was working and not sitting at a computer.
 
[why would tou film a show about logging in oregon? washingtons where the real loggers are. only good thing to ever come out of oregon was I-5. only kidding cant wait to see if theres any north bending or better yet a good old south bend downhill show.
 
[why would tou film a show about logging in oregon? washingtons where the real loggers are. only good thing to ever come out of oregon was I-5. only kidding cant wait to see if theres any north bending or better yet a good old south bend downhill show.

Oregon loggers are cheaper than Warshington loggers. This was told to me OVER AND OVER by a displaced to here Oregon logger who had to hire crew here. :deadhorse: Perhaps the Warshington loggers wanted to be paid?
Apparently Oregon loggers are not only cheaper, but also walk on water. They LEVITATE the logs up to the landing...according to the Oregon logger. However, I told him what happened after we rigged up an intermediate support in the no longer offered quickie (10 week) logging course at Oregon State. He named it the OSU intermediate support rigging method...Rig up a support, yard 4 turns over it, pull it over and go home. He requested that I not teach it to his crew. :greenchainsaw:
 
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The truth about Oregon logging...

Yes, Oregon logging is far different than anywhere else. Why, all I have to do is open a 6-pack of beer. The MS361 is the Jesus of chainsaws. It does all the felling, limbing and bucking by itself. Then the bucked logs all levitate by themselves, as you say, and self yard themselves onto the log landings. When they are there, I measure and mark them, (sipping my beer, of course) and then they load themselves remotely onto the waiting trucks that roll on by, not even having to stop.

But that's not all! Once the trees are cut, the slash levitates to the burn piles all by itself. We can either burn it, or use the remote Bandit auto-chipper that makes them into hog fuel. Again, it all does it by itself! And then? Why, then the stumps dissappear all by themselves. The gournd swallow them all up! And then? The same Oregon ground opens up and sub-soils itself. Its amazing. Nice random patterns too. And then? The cones from last year all pop open and the trees replant themselves! Right there! All by themselves! Oh, and then? Why, in Oregon, wherever a tree sprouts, there is a nice 2 foot radius of released area that nothing grows in! No weeds or grass or anything! No need to spray them either. And the trees are fertilized all by themselves, as the deer go by they poop on each and every one of them, without browsing on them. Yessiree bob... nothing like logging in Oregon. A Gyppo lone logger like myself can do it all by himself. No crews, cable yarding equipment, skidders, loaders, or anything else. Oh, and there are logging roads already here (its true, this property has tons of skid roads already graded here from previous logging done over the past 100 years or so).

And that's all there is to it folks! Oregon logging is easy stuff. All you have to do is supply the beer. And an MS361. And buy some land here. Other than that, its just pay the 6% taxes and find a mill to buy your logs. Yessir, I am on my 3rd 6-pack today! :spam:
 
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Yes, Oregon logging is far different than anywhere else. Why, all I have to do is open a 6-pack of beer. The MS361 is the Jesus of chainsaws. It does all the felling, limbing and bucking by itself. Then the bucked logs all levitate by themselves, as you say, and self yard themselves onto the log landings. When they are there, I measure and mark them, (sipping my beer, of course) and then they load themselves remotely onto the waiting trucks that roll on by, not even having to stop.

But that's not all! Once the trees are cut, the slash levitates to the burn piles all by itself. We can either burn it, or use the remote Bandit auto-chipper that makes them into hog fuel. Again, it all does it by itself! And then? Why, then the stumps dissappear all by themselves. The gournd swallow them all up! And then? The same Oregon ground opens up and sub-soils itself. Its amazing. Nice random patterns too. And then? The cones from last year all pop open and the trees replant themselves! Right there! All by themselves! Oh, and then? Why, in Oregon, wherever a tree sprouts, there is a nice 2 foot radius of released area that nothing grows in! No weeds or grass or anything! No need to spray them either. And the trees are fertilized all by themselves, as the deer go by they poop on each and every one of them, without browsing on them. Yessiree bob... nothing like logging in Oregon. A Gyppo lone logger like myself can do it all by himself. No crews, cable yarding equipment, skidders, loaders, or anything else. Oh, and there are logging roads already here (its true, this property has tons of skid roads already graded here from previous logging done over the past 100 years or so).

And that's all there is to it folks! Oregon logging is easy stuff. All you have to do is supply the beer. And an MS361. And buy some land here. Other than that, its just pay the 6% taxes and find a mill to buy your logs. Yessir, I am on my 3rd 6-pack today! :spam:

Why all the smilies at the bottom. Someone already got Windthgrown a beer or 18. :)
 
I liked his logging methods, though. Maybe I'll go up there and hire on for the season. Hell, I can stand around and watch the work get done all by itself ..I'd be better at it than anyone I know. :cheers:

Well, yah know, its not that easy. You have to sharpen and tighten the chains, and fill the saws with gas. And pull the logging permits, make a lot of calls to sell the logs, and get tuckers set up to run them to the mills. And the beer budget is pretty steep. Oregon has a high beer tax, yah know?

Other than that, logging here is a sinch ;)
 
Well, yah know, its not that easy. You have to sharpen and tighten the chains, and fill the saws with gas. And pull the logging permits, make a lot of calls to sell the logs, and get tuckers set up to run them to the mills. And the beer budget is pretty steep. Oregon has a high beer tax, yah know?

Other than that, logging here is a sinch ;)

And it is probably micro brew, and you have to return the bottles to get your nickel back. Up here in Warshington, we can just throw them out the window because we have no bottle/can deposit. So, on the ride home, the crummies become lighter as empty bottles/cans are jettisoned thus increasing fuel efficiency. That savings in fuel efficiency can be paid out in increased wages.
Orygunians have to stop at Fred Meyer and throw their cans in the return thing which will usually then break down. Then they have to listen to the Fred Meyer computer voice echo through the store about Customer Service needed in can deposit area. It drives them mad!:chainsaw:

We Warshingtonians are a simpler people. No can deposits, no income tax, no buying hard liquor in the grocery store. We don't have to tell people how to pronounce Yachats, we have simpler town names like Sequim and Pateros. Yup, we live simple but well. :cheers:
 
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And all the trees are cut, bucked, and milled with a 290?

No, the 361 is the automated magical saw that does it all. The 290 is just in case the 361 decides to take a nap in the middle of the day.

Also the neighbor has the bandsaw mill... I have some oak ready to be slabbed up. Nice 24 inch oak log up there, about 12 ft long. I pulled out the 361 see, and waived it in the air, and the oak just shuddered and tipped over all by itself. I am waiting for the oak to levitate itself the 1.5 miles up to the neighbor's log mill though. It seems to be taking its time about it. Resting. CA Black Oaks can be more grumpy than Doug firs, and not as easy to coax into being levitated. More beer needed I think. I will have to take up a case of Oly and drink it there by that log to see if it will do its thing.
 
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Sure is. I just bought a 12 pac of Olympia beer the other day (my father's favorite beer, after Coors, which he could not by in Oregon back then).

"Its the water."

Union made... not a Stamper beer. :givebeer:
 
On the History Channel today 4 times...well one is tomorrow:

7pm, 8pm, 11pm, 12 midnight

Good show but one has to suspend his safety sense somewhat. Playing around with a cable being uncoiled by a helicopter and whipping around is not sane.

Harry K
 
But, can you get Schmidtties (animal beer) in Oregon? I'm afraid it has been replaced by Busch Light as the can most often seen in the ditch. :(

Few cans in ditches here. They are nickles in the ditch in Orygun. Never saw Schmidtties... see Busch and Busch Lite in the store. I have been trying to find a cheap drinkable beer leately. Ales are too spendy.
 
On the History Channel today 4 times...well one is tomorrow:

7pm, 8pm, 11pm, 12 midnight

Good show but one has to suspend his safety sense somewhat. Playing around with a cable being uncoiled by a helicopter and whipping around is not sane.

Harry K

I was thinking the same thing... I'm about the furthest thing behind a chainsaw from a professional logger but I can't imagine standing even remotely close to those coils of cable, or being a faller without full (or at least a little bit, besides hard hat) PPE. I was dissapointed there wasn't more falling footage, but the little they did show, the guys were dressed in less than what I wear when I cut my firewood. And I'm only felling hardwoods less than a paltry 100' tall. But as I said, I'm not in much position to judge.
 

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