Eli really knows how to do it! Good for him, he has skills that will serve him for a lifetime and can pass on. Awesome! I always enjoy watching loggers do their work. It's dangerous, but essential. Thanks for sharing, Wily!
Great video, Wily. The twelve year old impressed me. He will be able to get a job in the log woods any time. Thanks for sharing and have a great week!!
I start at 10 years old running 966 cat loaders and excavators. By 12 I was running mixers and dump trucks. I love this video. Touches my heart to see a young man out there
The sights and sounds remind me of my logging work. Seeing that youngman run the iron like that will take him far in his working career too!! Thanks wiliey
I wish him all the success in the world. This is dangerous and expensive work. A change in politics can bankrupt an operation like this. Batteries, tires, hydraulics are always needing money. Thanks for the ride along from Montgomery Al.
I know it takes a little more gumption to try something new, the older we get. Thanks for giving us a different perspective on the the world/life. Great video Wishing you much success my friend!
You have a different way of logging across the pond from here in the uk , we mostly use the harvester to fell and crosscut to required lengths then take out to roadside with the forwarder for the trucks to load themselves 😊
Thanks for another great video Wiley. It was really interesting and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for showing us this logging operation. I found that most interesting seeing the different pieces of equipment actually working. Feel free to do some more of that anytime. Was super interesting. That young man being 12 years old, looked like an older operator that had been at it for years. He did great for being 12 years old. Proud of that young man. Thanks for showing that to us Wiley. I was impressed!!!!!! Hire that young man in a minute. Appreciate you taking us along Wiley. Was super interesting. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
We had a bell cutter back in the 80s no telling how many tons of lumber was layed on the ground and i mean swamps not this dry ground we went with that deere equipment where they said it wouldnt go
Nice to see how they logout the Timber! What type of pine are they harvesting Wiley? How soon will the open area be re-planted ? Where do they source the replants from? Thanks!
My 10 year old daughter was running my 648g3 when she was 11 she is 14 now and he'll on wheels make a drag clean up at the delimber and keep the set clear
My Dads crew was all family. Most every time we hired “outside”they turned into a dud. Had several that never showed back on a job site for their second day. Got a nephew that started his kids on a skid-steer at 10 yrs old…..now, at 15, his son would likely win an equipment rodeo. 🫡
Ive known for yeare that logging varied regionally in the United States. Even gyppos in the Pacific Northwest of my era, 70s and 80s, wore tin hats, boots and long pants and gradually adopted safety measures used by union loggers for years (face shields, chaps, ear plugs, satety vests and so on.) I am quite surprised at the casual way Southern Loggers approach the risks and hazards of their of work. No hard hats or orange vests, frequently loggers wearing shorts and tennis shoes, no gloves or face shields. These simple satety measures are marginal costs but prevent costly and possibly debilitating injuriee. Why are they not used?
i would hire that kid any day over a any one graduateing from kollage any day to run any equip my own son built his very frist 4 acre pond dam with our heavy equip as i had jus had a neck surgery i sat under a shade tree back then to watch ,,,worked every day like a grown man at 13 years old ,,now he runs the entire company
I was 15 when i got paid to run a skidder for my dad but i knew how to run it way before then I ran a skidder off bluff at 15. Thats why i have a limp today
Wily I use to work for a grading contractor in Fancy Gap VA we use to cut our on right of way. I loved to get into a patch of white pine we would notch and cut them part of the way and we would cut a row of the and fall the whole bunch at one time.
We dont have as many running as we use too. I believe in the early 90 s we had 300 bells with dangle heads south of Montgomery working in Alabama. Them the others caught up With shear heads and Thinning pine plantations is where they thrived
