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

[John Hall]

Figured that was down your way somewhere Charlie. Personally I like the old 
Pepsi truck they use to haul supplies!  I've run a little bit of everything 
when it comes to machinery but the one I really want to run is a 
log-skidder. Those things make a monster truck seem like a go-cart!

John Hall

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From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 7:54 AM
Subject: [AT] Swamp loggers. A log skidder is a tractor isn't it?


> 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.
>
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