[AT] Swamp loggers. A log skidder is a tractor isn't it?

[charliehill]

If any of you happened to see that marithon of the Swamp Loggers series last 
night, I know those folks.  Well I say I know them,  back when I worked in 
the logging industry we often worked along side of the senior Bobby 
Goodson's crew and passed their trucks on the road all the time.  Bobby Jr 
who runs the swamp logging show crew looks a lot like his daddy did back 
then.
I also found it interesting in one of the episodes last night they mentioned 
working on Caintuck road.  That is where my grandfather grew up over in 
Bladen County NC.  Interestingly enough he worked in the "log woods" in 
those same Cape Fear River swamps that the Swamp Loggers are working now.

Those shows might sound like they are highly exagerated with all of the 
machinery problems and mill closings, etc.  However, from my experience 
logging that is pretty much the way it goes.  Something is always broken. 
It cost a lot of money to fix and when you get everything running it rains 
too much and you can't get the wood out or the weather is good, everyone is 
in the woods, the mills get overloaded and shut down or put you on quota.

That kind of work gets in your blood.  I wish I was still doing it.