Up in Northern Wisconsin with Ken to get a close up look a real logging operation that is family owned and ran with three generations working together.
Chris and Ken, thanks for sharing this logging operation with us! Learned a lot in this video! Really liked when the owner said nice to see the trees standing up and not bent over. Great to see gerations working in the operation! Probably the cleanest logging operation i have seen.
Great video. Good example of a family business scaled up to sustain the growth of the family . Terry has no doubt had to take serious risk and invest major capital to build a business that can keep multiple generations working together.
Those logging processors are so neat. They have sensors in the head that precisely measure the length and diameter of each piece. It takes a lot of the decision making out of it for the operator. Logging has come a long way, it’s hi-tech like everything else. We’ve come a long way since the days of mules and crosscut saws! GNI 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Well said.. What is best is what we have to work with today.. When I am gone and my great grandkids are watching/ working what are they going to have around for equipment.. The thoughts are endless..
I same here in the Pacific NW.. The unusable stuff just gets left there.. Sometimes guys like me can collect a little.. Thanks again Chris for taking us along..
I spent my summers as a kid logging with my dad. I gained so much knowledge from working in the brush and it sure comes in handy surveying to this day.
Quite the operation they have going! Always like to see family owned and operated doing well.👍 Great job on the camera work! The camera just never do justice on the size and power of logging equipment. Huge trees look like tooth picks when they throw em around. I could see your trust in operator went up after chain sharpening which allowed you to get into the danger zone. Thanks again!
Really enjoyed this look at the family logging business, much like Logger Wade, only I could understand what was being said, haha . Great closeup of the fella sharpening the chain, awesome, clear footage, see you tomorrow
G’morning Chris. Nice operation. Great vid to watch with youngsters. My 7 yr old daughter loved it. Should’ve busted out the dremel for the sharpening. Look at all the carnage ! Thanks. GoodNightIrene
Very cool to see their family logging operation in action. Cannot imagine what their overhead looks like on the equipment, liability insurance, fuel, maintenance, and payroll, etc.
Interesting to see 16 foot pulp, saw a logger around home cutting it maybe going to the same destination. Don't see it much in Barron county wi. Nice job showing your friends logging operation 👍😁😎. Looks like a class act
We cut a portion of our land in Rusk county this winter. Some 16' hardwood was sent LP in Hayward. Supposedly it was then train transported to an osb plant down south!
Good morning Chris and Kenny!! Thanks for taking us out on one of the big jobs up there. I can't hardly believe it either that they are shipping those 16 foot logs all the way to Kentucky. They really must need it bad for them to come this far for it. Sure is a lot of nice maple on that job. Take care my friends!!😀😀 Logger Al
@@kennethcarlson8713 Hi Kenny, I realize that. But that still has to cost the buyer a lot of money to get them shipped way down there. I think it goes to show that the mills are making more than they act like they are and could give us a little more money for all the expenses we have to produce the wood. It looks like all of his harvester's have a lot of hours on them. I saw a lot of welds on the 133. Hardwood is really hard on a harvester head. I'm glad that I am usually cutting plantation pine most of the time.
I suppose Terry's operation would still be considered a "small business" sorta like a family farming operation. Nice to see a family that found a way to stay together in business and be successful at it.
great vid!!! another aspect of logging in Wis. it's a shame that so much firewood just gets left but it's not worth heading a mile back in the woods to collect the drops! looking forward to the next one chris! blew a hose on the splitter so i have to fix that today!
We have no Pulp market in western ny. Maybe one reason firewood prices are so much lower than Chris's more like Kenny's. Loved when the dad said when they're done in area he wants to see trees standing up not at an angle.
Trailer behind your little tractor could pick that stuff up. Well if you can on that site. MN gives out firewood permits for that stuff.....(well they use to)
Yes but it is a way to the logging site and a long ways into the woods with not much of a road to it, having logs delivered is much faster and gets more production done.
@@InTheWoodyard tbh I'm not sure that it's cheaper to cut your own .it seems to have to be a pretty perfect setup. It brought me back thou......I started my firewood business for sites like that......
Hey Chris …Great filming , you should be getting a Christmas card from CAT 501 . Would love to give that a try. Thanks Plenty of new subscriber comin. ,
Funny thing about all this efficient equipment relative to your operation. When we are watching you each day, step by step, we can't help but think how you could improve 3% here, or buy something and improve 30% there. Then we write some unnecessary comment that drives you nuts and you lie saying you appreciate them. But do you ultimately want to live your life simply pressing buttons in a $100k piece of equipment with heated interior everything?? There is money to be made that way, but at that point get a cubicle job. Thanks so much for the vid!
Right on thanks! I know what you and your brother where thinking starring at the load on the forwarder I was thinking the same my look at all that nice wood 🪵 when he was sharpening the chain you probably saying to your self I'd like to sharpen that with my ezydoo 👍
