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is a big objective that is beginning to be realized with the legislation, Dructor believes. A work in progress since late April, the legislation gaining passage has meant supporters repeatedly meeting with congressional offices and the White House National Economic Council. Working with staffers demanding viral impact data for the legislation, promoters of the bill have raised awareness of not only the virus’ imollowing months of political wrangling and lobbying, pact on loggers but also the commodity producer role of America’s loggers finally have access to financial relief loggers and log haulers in the forest economy. after language funding the Loggers Relief Act introduced in Another big impact is the awareness of what’s possible Congress in spring 2020. Loggers who suffered more than when people get involved. “This happened because industry 10% drop in revenues in 2020 due to coronavirus impacts came together,” Director said. “When loggers do stand towill have an opportunity to apply for $200 million in federal gether they can get things done, and that’s important befunds set aside for loggers and log haulers. cause we had people from all over get involved, and lots of The Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020, the latest people engaged their representatives.” COVID-19 relief package, was passed by a bi-partisan vote in According to a report from ALC, members of Congress both the House and Senate. The bill includes language approrecognized the important role the timber harvesting industry priating $200 million in funding for logging and log trucking plays in the United States economy by including the logger businesses affected by the virus. Accordrelief funds. Logging and log hauling to Title 3 Sub-Title C Section 3201 of ing businesses were deemed to be the legislation, “Provided, That of the essential service providers, but have Major issues remain, amount provided under this heading, struggled with making fixed cost $200,000,000 shall be used to provide repayments as a result of reduced marsuch as qualifications lief to timber harvesting and timber haulkets for the unrefined forest products and implementation, and ing businesses that have, as a result of the they produce. officials would like to roll COVID–19 pandemic, experienced a loss Many logging companies experiof not less than 10 percent in gross revenue enced severe losses when lumber and the funds into an existing during the period beginning on January 1, paper mills across the country reduced program if possible. 2020, and ending on December 1, 2020, as or ceased production in response to compared to the gross revenue of the eligidrops in demand. Nationwide producble entity during the same period in 2019.” tion curtailments have led to lower Contacted a few days after President Trump signed the prices for log delivery to mills. According to a third-party legislation, American Loggers Council Executive Vice Presanalysis by Forests2Market, a 6.7% (21.4 million tons) reducident Danny Dructor was excited about its passage, though tion in nation-wide wood consumption reduced wood prices he cautioned “We may be a ways off before we can see any and generated a $1.83 billion (-13.0%) loss in revenue. money on the ground” due to some uncertainty about how it Insurance, equipment, fuel, and other costs make up the will be implemented. vast majority of logging expenses as compared to payroll Going forward, he said, two big issues are how the funds which some were able to take advantage of under the Paywill be administered and the literal qualifications for receivroll Protection Program issued earlier during the pandemic. ing assistance. There’s been a lot of pain to pass around in “Those costs continue to be incurred by the businesses, re2020 but not all of it has been virus-related such as contracgardless if they are able to work or not, and with the tight tors whose markets were hit by tariffs or forest fires. “The margins and quotas that the industry has seen over the past issue is the 200 million needs to go to those truly impacted several months, many logging businesses were not able to by COVID,” Dructor says, and designing a program to dekeep up with their fixed costs, causing concern about the futermine that is key. Bill promoters had also received feedture of their businesses. The amount of relief coming from back that administrators would like to roll the logger relief the federal government is not meant to make these busifunds into an existing program if possible. Two potential nesses whole, but rather to serve as a stop gap while they areas are the USDA’s Farm Service Agency or more readjust their business plans to be able to operate under this cently created USDA Coronavirus Food Assistance Program new economy,” Dructor said in the report. (CFAP) for agricultural producers whose operations were Logging companies need to be able to take advantage of directly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. programs like other commodity producers, said ALC PresiFor now, patience is needed. Compounding the uncerdent Tim Christopherson of Kamiah, Idaho. “To see Christtainty is the change in presidential administrations, Drucmas trees and other agricultural commodities and specialty tor adds, noting that as ALC gets any updates or new inforcrops included in the first and second versions of Coronavimation it will be posted to its web site. rus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) while not including One of the most significant impacts of the relief fund pasthose same trees that can be turned into paper and other consage is the recognition that loggers are their own industry, sumables, simply did not make sense. We applaud members apart from pulp and paper or lumber. “Creating parity” beof Congress for recognizing and including the loggers and TH tween loggers and other commodity agricultural producers log haulers in this historic legislation.”
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NewsLines Arizona Restoration Remains Uncertain Uncertainty continues to surround forest restoration efforts in Arizona: A key second contract for the U.S. Forest Service’s (FS) Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI) has been delayed again; Arizona state election results will affect the state’s renewable energy policy that’s going to be a big part of any forest restoration effort; and while recently introduced legislation could make the 4FRI process easier, the federal government’s final budget proposal seeks to eliminate the Forest Service Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program that funds 4FRI and 22 other stewardship projects across the country and shift its administration elsewhere in the Forest Service that also does restoration work to reduce duplication. The 4FRI is a highly ambitious project seeking to actively treat more than 2 million acres that are at risk for wildfires across four Arizona national forests. The first 4FRI contract awarded in 2012 to treat 300,000 acres has underperformed, as the state faces major challenges, primarily the lack of timber harvesting, hauling and processing capacity to make such extensive forest work viable. In September 2020, 4FRI officials again extended the deadline for 4FRI’s expansive Phase 2 contract, already delayed a year, due to a variety of issues, primarily questions and requested changes made by potential bidders. Billed as a precedent-shattering stewardship contract that covers 20 years and provides the huge volumes required to justify a major investment in infrastructure and timber processing capacity, Phase 2 seeks to treat more than 800,000 acres but has suffered several delays in awarding the contract. An FS spokesman says the plan now is to award the Phase 2 contract in April 2021. Meanwhile, election results from November show little support for a state mandate requiring utilities to purchase a certain amount of biomass-derived power that would help provide critical markets for the lower quality fiber coming off restoration projects. The Arizona Corporate Commission considers such proposals and voted down a similar mandate 3-2 last year. But once the newly elected commis6
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sioners are seated in January, only one commission member is on record supporting a biomass mandate. Arizona’s only biomass power plant, the 28MW Novopower, can handle enough volume to support roughly 15,000 acres of thinning each year, but more capacity is needed, especially with Phase 2’s projected massive biomass volumes (enough to fill the Rose Bowl seven times in just the first five years). Novopower’s position in the market is also a bit uncertain: The company is currently negotiating new power purchase agreements with Arizona Public Service and the Salt River Project. According to Novopower President Brad Worsley, despite more competitive solar and wind power prices, utility executives understand the importance of forest treatment and he hopes to have power contracts renewed by mid 2021. There’s also federal legislation introduced and supported by Arizona’s congressional delegation. The “Forest Health and Biomass Energy Act of 2020,” if passed, would set the table for Arizona to expand biomass power generation by, among other things, creating a fund to help subsidize biomass harvesting, collection and transportation, streamlining the FS bureaucracy in terms of identifying and defining sources—and also giving preferential treatment to facilities that have recently converted from coal burning.
Florida’s Gray Logging Hosts Student Tour Building support for the forest products industry among America’s youth, Gray Logging of Madison, Fla. recently hosted a group gf homeschool students at the company’s shop and job site for an educational learning experience that “Wood Is Good” and all the things made from wood make the timber industry essential to our modern world. The day began at the Gray Logging shop, where students received hardhats, booklets and pencils. They went to the job site watched trees being harvested sustainably and learned how loggers work to provide things society needs while protecting the environment. The students ate lunch at the landing and got to see the equipment up close and also learned about tree boring and tried their skill at boring a tree and learned some about what foresters do. At the end of the event, students
left with core samples and tree seedlings as reminders of the day they learned that “Wood Is Good.” According to a report in the Southeastern Wood Producers Assn. Out of the Woods publication, special thanks go to Jerry and Ginger Gray of Gray Logging for making the event possible, and also Genesis Timber LLC’s forester Todd Whitt and director of operations Joshua Light for their help and to Superior Trees for providing the seedlings.
California Approves New Tethered Logging Rules At a fall meeting, the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection approved a new group of regulations titled “Proposed Tethered Operations Amendments 2020.” Pending review by California’s Office of Administrative Law, the regulations could go into effect January 21, 2021. According to a notice on the opening regulatory framework, the effect of the amendments is to provide regulatory certainty around the application of tethered logging operations, create more straightforward and streamlined requirements surrounding the application of rules related to tractor and cable Timber Operations and provide clarity for the implementation and enforcement of any such regulations. One goal of the amendments is to increase the use of mechanized logging systems that can reduce accidents and also lower insurance costs for employers. A report in the Associated California Loggers newsletter says the action and pending approval is “just the beginning” for developing guidelines and expanding tethered equipment applications in the state.
Western Producer IFG Builds Southern Mill Idaho Forest Group is building a sawmill in Lumberton, Miss. in Lamar County. The project is a $120 million corporate investment and will create up to 135 jobs. Headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, IFG operates six sawmills and a fingerjoint plant at locations in Idaho and Montana. The company manufactures, markets and distributes a variety of lumber products to consumers predominantly across North America and has the capacity to produce more than 1 TIMBER HARVESTING & FOREST OPERATIONS
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NewsLines billion BF per year, making it one of the country’s largest lumber producers. “We are pleased to have the confidence of the Lamar County leadership,” says Marc Brinkmeyer, Owner & CEO of Idaho Forest Group. The Mississippi Development Authority is providing assistance for site preparation and rail upgrades. Lamar County and the city of Lumberton also are assisting with the project. IFG plans to begin construction on the new sawmill in early 2021 and expects it to be operational in 2022. The Lamar County Board of Supervisors agreed to transfer 174 acres of county land to IFG for the project. The site is between Lumberton and Interstate 59, along Old Highway 11.
Klausner’s NC Mill Sold At Auction Austria-based Binderholz Group has purchased through auction the bankrupt Klausner Lumber Two LLC sawmill operations in Enfield, NC for $83.4 million.
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Binderholz had already purchased at auction in August the bankrupt Klausner Lumber One LLC sawmill operations in Live Oak, Fla. for $61 million. Binderholz prevailed over runnerup bidder Austria-based Mayr Melnhof Holz both times. Klausner Lumber Two had produced some green lumber before going down. As some technical investments still have to be made, production is expected to start at the end of 2021. Construction at Enfield began in 2015 and over the years several setbacks and delays plagued the operation. Klausner shut it down this past March. With this acquisition Binderholz becomes the largest European lumber producer with nine sawmills in Austria, Germany, Finland and the U.S. Both Klausner sawmills were expected to produce 350MMBF of southern yellow pine lumber annually. Family-owned Binderholz now has 14 locations producing sawn timber, profiled timber, single- and multi-layer glued solid wood panels, glued laminated timber and cross laminated tim-
ber. Once both U.S. mill are running, it will employ 3,500 at five Austrian sites, five German sites, two Finnish sites and the two U.S. sites.
Hankins Lumber Plans New Timbers Sawmill Hankins Lumber is building a timbers sawmill in Grenada County, Miss. The project is a $12.5 million investment and will create 43 jobs. It’s expected to operational in the spring. The new Hankins Timbers operation will process first and second pine thinnings and produce 40MMBF annually. The Mississippi Development Authority is providing assistance for equipment installation. The company also qualifies for the Advantage Jobs Rebate Program, which provides a rebate to eligible businesses that create new jobs exceeding the average annual wage of the state or county in which the company locates or expands. The Delta Regional Authority and Grenada County also are assisting with the project.
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NewsLines Forest Service Sold 3.2 Billion BF Last Year Despite challenges posed by the pandemic, the USDA Forest Service announced it surpassed goals in 2020. The agency sold more than 3.2 billion BF of timber, the second highest level in 20 years. It also improved forest conditions and reduced wildfire risk on more than 2.65 million acres, removing hazardous fuels like dead and downed trees, and combating disease, insect and invasive species infestations. “2020 was a challenging year with record wildland fire activity and the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the Forest Service, we have risen above these challenges and set our minds, hands and hearts to carrying out our mission to meet the needs of the communities we serve,” says Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen. The Forest Service will have nearly completed all guidance to implement new legislative authorities in the 2018 Farm Bill. In addition, officials quickly began implementing President Trump’s Great American Outdoors Act to increase access to national forests and grasslands and make progress towards reducing the agency’s $5 billion infrastructure backlog. The Forest Service was successful in prioritizing early suppression of wildfire ignitions while facing a record-breaking fire year, with the most acres burned on national forests since 1910. The agency’s modeling research on how COVID-19 may spread between firefighters or in communities during response efforts led to new interagency safety protocols to better support fire camp management.
Jasper Lumber Teams With Tolko Industries Tolko Industries (U.S.) Ltd. and Jasper Lumber Co. announced a 50-50 joint-venture partnership in Jasper’s existing southern yellow pine sawmill, shavings, chipping and trucking operations in Jasper, Ala., with plans to expand lumber production. The collaboration will be known as Jasper Forest Products LLC, A Jasper-Tolko Partnership. “This joint venture project is an important part of our company growth and we’re excited to be investing in 8
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this mill with Jasper Lumber,” says Tolko CEO Brad Thorlakson. “This is our third U.S. lumber partnership and supports our product and geographic diversification.” Jasper Lumber Chief Operating Officer Roy Beall adds, “Tolko has a proven track record in our industry and a long family history in the lumber manufacturing business. We look forward to working with Tolko, our valued customers, and the state and local economic development community as we create jobs and expand capacity from our current 70MMBF to approximately 200MMBF (annually).”
West Fraser Buys World OSB Leader West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. is acquiring all of the outstanding common shares of Norbord, the world’s largest oriented strandboard producer, for $3.1 billion (U.S.) The combined company will operate as West Fraser. “Norbord’s OSB production is a perfect complement to the West Fraser portfolio, enabling us to deliver a wider range of wood products, and making us a more complete, efficient and valuable partner for our customers,” says Raymond Ferris, President and CEO of West Fraser. Norbord operates 17 plant locations in the United States, Europe and Canada, encompassing 15 OSB mills, one MDF plant, two particleboard facilities and a furniture plant. West Fraser operates 34 sawmills in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Southern U.S., as well as three plywood operations and two MDF) facilities in Western Canada.
Barge Access Grant Paves Way For Enviva U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.7 million grant to the University of West Alabama, Livingston, Ala., to improve barge access at the Port of Epes Industrial Park. The EDA grant will be matched with $540,000 in local funds and is expected to create 85 jobs and generate $175 million in private investment. The grant complements a $175 million investment that industrial wood pellet producer Enviva is expected to
make toward the construction of a wood pellet facility in Sumter County. Last December Enviva received approval for an air construction permit from the Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management (ADEM) for a facility expected to be located at the Port of Epes Industrial Park. The plant’s planned permitted capacity is expected to be 1,150,000 metric tons of wood pellets per year. The plant would initially be constructed to produce 700,000 metric tons per year, with the possibility to expand in the future to reach full production capacity of 1,150,000 metric tons of wood pellets per year. The plant would principally utilize a mix of softwood and mill residuals sourced from areas within approximately 75 miles of the plant. The rich fiber basket and supply in Alabama, along with favorable transport logistics and a great local workforce, are what makes this project sustainable and attractive to Enviva. The EDA funding goes to one of Alabama’s 158 Opportunity Zones. Created by President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Opportunity Zones are spurring economic development in economically distressed communities nationwide.
OLC 2021 Announces Regional ‘Sawdust Bowls’ Oregon Logging Conference Board of Directors announced that the 2021 Oregon Logging Conference (OLC) at the Lane Events Center and Fairgrounds in Eugene will not be taking place in February as planned. “After much discussion and based on the current and anticipated COVID19 related restrictions, the Board of Directors has made this decision,” says OLC President Scott Melcher. He said it was a difficult decision to make. “We looked at a number of ways to have the conference as usual in Eugene, but just could not make it work with the restrictions in place.” On a positive note, even though the conference in Eugene is canceled, there will be an 83rd Annual OLC with some of the traditional conference activities. “We will celebrate our conference in February of 2021, but in new ways,” Melcher adds. Plans call for a series of sawdust bowls, which will offer multiple opTIMBER HARVESTING & FOREST OPERATIONS
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approaches will ensure that the company’s operations continue without interruption, with employees, suppliers, vendors, contract counterparties and other trade creditors continuing to be paid in full in the ordinary course, the company states. In a Chapter 11 scenario, the company would fund the process with its existing cash collateral. NWH is the largest U.S. manufac-
turer of North American hardwood lumber with a current estimated annual hardwood lumber capacity of 320MMBF. Its North America operations include 20 facilities that produce more than 20 species of domestic hardwoods. NWH is owned by investment firm Littlejohn & Co., which purchased it in 2014 from American Industrial Partners.
NW Hardwoods Enters Restructuring Agreement Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. reports it has entered into a restructuring support agreement (RSA) with holders of more than 95% in principal amount of the company’s secured notes and certain of its existing equity holders to execute a transaction that will reduce the company’s debt by $270 million and position NWH for future growth and success. The company states it will effectuate the transaction either through an out-of-court debt-for-equity exchange or through a prepackaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. The terms of the restructuring under each approach are substantially the same, and both Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
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Pulpwood Markets Adapt To Product, Demand Changes CHRISLyddan
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fter the COVID year and social/political turmoil that nobody predicted for 2020, picking market winners and losers for next year seems like calling the weather: pretty dicey. But that’s what analysts and others do this time of year. When asked again by Timber Harvesting for a timber market review and outlook, I was happy to comply and represent RISI (what is now Fastmarkets RISI, or FMRISI). There’s one note, however: Due to short timing, data is shown in original sector units, not converted to standard tons. Currently, softwood log and lumber markets are hot and quite positive for loggers, sawmills and landowners, but pulpwood is a mixed bag and a complex story. Harvest Up. Overall U.S. timber harvest should rise about 2% in 2021, compared to this year, with softwood up 3% while hardwood declines about 2%. That would total just over 400 million cubic meters next year, according to FMRISI projections on UN and Wood
Resources Intl. data. That’s about 400 million tons in U.S. terms. The harvest mix will likely run just under 25% hardwood and just over 75% softwood. Overall, nearly equal volumes of sawlogs and pulpwood came out of the woods in 2019—but that’s where the similarities ended and much has changed. Looking ahead, and breaking it down, logs gain in overall loads delivered in 2020-21 while pulpwood is quite mixed: Expect shrinking deliveries to paper-grade mills (heavy to hardwood) yet rising deliveries to packaging mills (mostly softwood). Winner: Lumber. Softwood sawlogs and lumber, longtime timber value drivers, are already strong in second half 2020 and should step up another 5% in volume nationwide in 2021, to 38 billion board feet (BF) production, lumber basis, according to FMRISI forecasts (see harvest table). That gain equals an additional 1.8 billion BF for the US next year. By region, the South remains clear leader in U.S. softwood production
growth. Some mills will ramp up recent multi-million dollar capacity projects in the New Year, while others, led by Canadian operators now dominating the South, will simply run hard on strong orders and healthier crews next year, COVID willing. Specifically, the South should see a solid 6% volume gain in softwood log/ lumber production in 2021, up about 1.2 billion BF to 21.3 billion BF. And the West rises an estimated 4%, up 500MMBF to about 14.2 billion BF for 2021. Loser: Pulpwood Grades. While softwood logs and lumber are quite positive, as mentioned, pulpwood is a mixed and complex story. And difficult to predict. What is clear: Expect falling quotas/lower demand from various paper-grade mills, while paperboard facilities should gain volume in 2021, led by the South. It’s crucial to distinguish grades, as outlooks vary greatly. There were 122 remaining pulp mills operating in the U.S. at the start of 2020. But numerous
Going into the new year, regional pulpwood markets are facing tough going depending on whether they are focused on paper or paperboard production.
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machine and mill closures plus market-related outages occurred during 2020 and the last several years. Altogether, 2019-20 will mark a modern-day low for U.S. pulpwood consumption. Peak to trough, pulpwood usage is down fully 25% from the alltime high in 1999. That’s right, off one-quarter in 20 years. Two Bright Spots. Much smaller than everything pulp-related, but significant in some regions, higher wood use by OSB and pellet mills counters some of the widespread pulp mill losses. As the second-biggest U.S. wood market OSB ran aggressively in 2020, consuming an estimated 28 million tons of roundwood, and should top that in 2021, up about 14%, or 4 million tons, to 32 million tons. The South holds more than 80% of the nation’s OSB capacity. Third-ranked pellet producers exported a preliminary 7.3 million metric tons of product this year, up 6.5% over the prior year and growing considerably (table 4). Led by Enviva and its greenfield mills in the Gulf South, exporters are on track to boost output a combined one million tons (2.2 million tons wood) in 2021. Many in the timber business hold high hopes for continued pellet export expansion. The segment, Southern based, launched its first vessel load barely 10 years ago and now accounts for more than 16 million tons of wood demand, record setting growth. Paper Trends. Tumbling paper grades include the printing and writing group (so called free sheet and mechanical, both in coated and uncoated finish), which was down a combined 21% year to date through October 2020. Those losses follow years of gradual decline on shifts to internet advertising. Indeed, most printing and writing grades slumped further and faster this year on COVID school and office closings, many of which will extend into 2021. These grades are typically heavy to hardwood. For evidence, recall multiple paper mill and machine closures over recent years at Luke, Kingsport, Port Hudson, Ashdown, Evadale, Crossett, Naheola, Catawba and Augusta, among others. Countless communities and businesses large and small have suffered mightily. Common to most was hardwood furnish, off fully 20% industry-wide the last several years. Outside of paperboard, only the tissue segment (softwood) grew this Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
year, up 5% to October. Paperboard Strengths. In stark contrast, the industry’s largest segment by far, paperboard grew in 2020 as home-delivered shopping consumed millions of boxes. So far in 2020 to October, sub-categories linerboard and medium rose smartly, up 4% and 3%, respectively, and should match that growth again next year. Just out, November 2020 paperboard production numbers remained quite strong as box shipments rose 5% versus the same month a year ago. Liner mills ran hard at 93% capacity in November, while corrugating medium was especially strong, running at 98%. That boosted pulpwood orders late in the year, when things normally
slow just before Christmas. So, with many moving parts at yearend, a reliable grade-by-grade pulpwood forecast for 2021 is not yet complete. However, one broad prediction is clear: Paper grades should decline another 5-9% next year while paperboard should gain about 2%. That leaves the entire group down a combined 2% in 2021, continuing that TH multi-year decline. Chris Lyddan with FastMarkets RISI is Executive Editor, North American Woodfiber & Biomass Markets, Timberland Market Reports. He co-founded International Woodfiber Report in 1995 and Timberland Market Reports in 2000. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Forestry from Virginia Tech. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021
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SAINT MARIES, Id. usinessman Bob Danielson, 63, is a busy guy. His company, Danielson Logging & Rock, moves a significant amount of rock and other crushed material each year, more in 2020 than it had in many years thanks to a great number of people moving into Idaho from other areas on the West Coast. And thanks to low driver availability for the rock side, Danielson often finds himself in a dump truck many days making deliveries. But the logging side is where Danielson’s commitment to his company really shines. He operates three steep slope logging crews, including one that makes use of tethered technology from Summit Attachments & Machinery. Across the three crews, Danielson’s forester Eric Femreite says it is not unheard of for a day to be made with 30 loads coming off a single crew working on an average slope of 60%—handling steep work that can at times push 70%. Danielson, active in the industry, says moving to trying out tethering was a natural fit, given the rocky and incredibly steep terrain of northern Idaho. Tethered operations are the biggest industry change Danielson has seen in his 30 plus years of logging. Thanks to his industry involvement (including being 2014 president of the Intermountain Logging Conference (ILC) and a fiveyear board member of the Pacific Logging Congress (PLC)), he says he learned so much about tethered systems he couldn’t pass up the chance to be on the cutting edge. “I like doing things differently,” he says, adding, “I am usually out front in the industry.” He credits his active involvement in regional associations, like PLC, the Intermountain Logging Conference and the Associated Logging Contractors (of Idaho) as the jumping off point to this cutting edge mentality. “I wouldn’t be involved in tethering if it wasn’t for the networking in associations and getting familiarized with the way other people are doing it,” Danielson explains. While for some, their markets might dictate tethering or different ways of logging, it was Danielson that went to his mills and explained what he was going to do: “Being the way I am and liking to look around, I got the companies I work for involved in it. You learn more from someone else’s job than you do from your own.” After a trip to Canada, and multiple conversations with various equipment vendors, Danielson ultimately went
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with Summit Attachments & Machinery’s tethering system for his Timber Pro shovel-buncher. Femreite explains that basically the tethering side is four machines in a row—felling, yarding and processing logs that are placed for the contract loaders to haul it off. Tethered to a 330 Cat with Summit single drum winch base machine, the Timber Pro 765C shovel-buncher machine cuts the timber, shoveling it in bunches to a corridor where the yoader system (Deere 3756 log loader converted into a yarding machine) flies a motorized Summit grapple carriage that grabs bunches and hauls them in. At the landing, the yoader hands off bunches to an adjacent Deere 3756G shovel machine that feeds sticks to a Deere 2954D with LogMax 10000XT processor for final delimbing and bucking. The skyline is tied to a tree down the bottom of the mountain, and setting it up represents the only time Danielson has someone on the ground. The grapple carriage on the yoader is a new way to operate around their part of Idaho, Femreite says. The grapple is equipped with cameras, so once the machine is down far enough that the yoader operator is no longer able to see the bunches, the cameras take over. In the cab, screens assist the operator so he knows where to drop that grapple and carry the trees. Femreite admits the middle shovel isn’t always necessary, and a lot of times the processor can come down and pull away from the line machine. However, this set up gives the processor that much more space to get the job done, moving things away so the grouping isn’t so tight that machines get in each other’s way. The setup helps the crew stay productive, working about 100 acres at a time. The other two logging sides are not tethered operations—one is a shovel operation and one uses a hot saw and skidder. Typically, crews work on contracted jobs, purchased by Danielson’s three main markets: Stimson Lumber, Idaho Forest Group (IFG), Inland Paper and Potlatch. He’ll buy timber at times, and with the addition of Femreite, he’s able to be flexible, but it really just depends on what is out there as to when the crews might be cutting purchased stumpage versus contract work. Once the crews are set up on a given tract of timber, they are pretty self-sufficient and can get the jobs done with little supervision. Femreite still makes a point to visit each crew a
The setup might be slightly unconventional, but for the crew, having a secondary shovel helps give the processor breathing room.
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few times per week though, just to check in. All loading is contracted out, and the crews have access to three company trucks and 20-plus contract trucks once loads are made. The company used to handle their own loading, but five years ago made the switch. Danielson says, “I don’t need to own every piece of equipment needed to do the job. This works very smoothly, letting the loader operator have his piece of the pie.” The same logic is applied to trucking. Contractors can operate cheaper than company trucks can and considering it is nearly impossible to find good drivers it takes a headache away from the already busy Danielson. He reports no trouble with the method, saying, “Single truck operators can do well in the area and are reliable. It gives them skin in the game. You take one loader operator who loads 35 loads a day, running 12-15 trucks— that takes 12-15 people out of my day’s worry.” Contractors bring their load sheets into the Danielson shop each day, so he knows his logs are going to the mill. Crews cut approximately 50 million BF per year of the seven species native to Idaho. All are processed according to cut sheets provided by the mills, and can include up to 21 different sorts. Work starts in the summer around 3:00 or 4:00 a.m., and is finished by 3:00 in the afternoon. Trucks roll earlier: Loading starts at 1:00 a.m. With mills sometimes three to four hours away and more than 100 miles from the sites, Danielson likes the trucks to begin early so they can be among the
first rigs in line when the mill wood yard opens. It is not uncommon for him to have just two trucks per day getting to the IFG mill in Lewiston, Id., as example. Loaders coordinate the trucks on their own, and because they keep everything picked up Danielson and Femreite stay out of their hair.
Handling Machinery A former Caterpillar logger, Danielson moved to John Deere machines because of the service he received from dealer Papé Machinery and their parts availability. “They just take better care,” he says simply. The company used to keep machinery for long periods of time, but has since moved away from that after recognizing the cost involved in maintaining older equipment. Now, Danielson trades every four or five years, keeping uptime at the highest rate it can be. “If it is paid for it’s usually going down the road in the next year or so,” he explains. “Sometimes we trade at three years if it’s a really good piece, but once it starts costing repair money that’s when we get rid of it.” The shop Danielson operates used to employ three, and at times four, mechanics. Now just two handle the work. Danielson says he used to spend upwards of $1.5 million in shop expenses, but that has since been cut in half thanks to the newer pieces. “Our payment schedule per year might be higher per month, but we’re doing better in the long run by trading quicker,” he believes. As a rule, Danielson will not overhaul engines and will only change out JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021
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one undercarriage. He says he made that decision after watching machines run up $120,000 parts bills and he was struggling to get them paid, not to mention the associated labor costs.
Making It Work Using both an office at the house, and at the shop, load entries, bookkeeping for the logging sides and other paperwork are handled by Sally Danielson (Bob’s wife) and Nessa Sullivan. Bob says it can be easy to miss a load or some other detail when it’s handled by just one person, but with the two of them checking each other, nothing slips past. Sally does the payroll for the entire operation at home, while Sullivan handles the rock operations books. “It’s one of the most important parts of this business,” Danielson says firmly. “We’ve never missed anything, bills and payroll are always paid.” As far as the woods goes, Danielson says he’s very happy with the addition of Femreite and thinks that portion of the company is done growing. Three sides are plenty, he says. “We wouldn’t be where we are, with good equipment, without good people. It all TH runs together like a clock.”
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Salvage Work Defines Current Brandt Job A career of adapting to opportunity and changing markets and timber. DANShell LAZEAR, Colo. lmost 50 years logging in Colorado in a variety of roles, Perry Brandt has seen a full career of woods work and changing niches. A traditional, mechanized ground-based logger, Brandt has worked across the state, at one time heavy into aspen logging with multiple crews and trucks and now downsized and working primarily salvage timber sales the past 10+ years. Timber Harvesting found Brandt Logging working a salvage logging operation on the Gunnison National Forest south of Gunnison as he continues what has been his primary work focus in the past 15 years: Recovering dead or dying timber. The pine beetle first ravaged northern Colorado forests soon after the turn of the century, now the spruce beetle is infesting timber stands in central and west Colorado, leading to yet more salvage work as the state tries to recover from the extensive for-
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est resource damage that in turn dramatically increases the chance of catastrophic wildfires—like those that occurred in the state just this past fall. Brandt’s logging job sat at just under 12,000 ft. elevation, the treeline easily visible. “This is really high altitude spruce here,” Brandt says of the site, noting that low growth rates produce a shorter and more tapered tree stem with a wider butt. In addition, timber coming off the tract wa s reaching the end of its merchantability, noted by some splitting and really light weight that leads to taller than normal truckloads. It’s tough-go logging but it’s critical work for the industry and environment and another phase of Brandt’s long and varied career.
Background At age 74, Brandt has been logging since 1972 when he began working with his father. A third-generation log-
ger, Brandt says he initially went to college with no intention of working in the woods. But when he was home in the summers earning tuition while helping his father, it became tougher to go back to campus and eventually he decided to stay with the company. By 1976 Brandt decided to start his own logging business, and soon was able to buy some new equipment. In 1984, he bought his first mechanized felling machine, a rubber-tired Hydro-Ax. A key development for Brandt in the 1980s was his business growth and work with Louisiana-Pacific and its Olathe, Colo. OSB plant. At one time, he was producing almost 40% of the plant’s log supply and running 15 trucks hauling all aspen to the panel plant. “We had a sizable logging operation back then, and Louisiana-Pacific had confidence in us, so we did well,” he remembers. Of course, all that changed in 2001 when the plant closed. He had to downTIMBER HARVESTING & FOREST OPERATIONS
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size, and the operation went from around 25 loads a day to nine or 10. That’s about the time the pine beetle began ravaging lodgepole stands across northern Colorado, and Brandt soon found work doing salvage operations.
On Site “Most of the country up here has been logged before,” Brandt says, adding that the crews might reopen older road systems if needed or work using new but temporary roads that are later obliterated. In most cases, the Forest Service approves landing locations. Brandt says a key goal is protecting as much of the smaller green timber as possible for seed stock. Working around and protecting the residual stand is key for future stand regeneration and production, he says. On site just below the timberline, the company was producing logs up to 30 in., with random lengths allowed due to the salvage aspect of the job. The crew was taking logs down to a 7 in. top. All production was going to Montrose Forest Products, which has been cited by loggers and Forest Service officials as being flexible when working with salvage material. Brandt Logging was nearing the end of the tract, and the felling, handled by a 708L Timberjack feller-buncher (Koehring head) and a 425D Timbco f-b (Quadco head), was complete. The logger was running a Deere 748 L-II skidder with Trygg tire chains, moving wood to a processing area where a 445EXL Timbco with Southstar processing head was bucking stems. Brandt was loading Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
Salvage job was producing logs down to a 7 in top., in random lengths.
logs from the cab of a hybrid machine: a Barko 495ML loader mounted and fully integrated with a Timberline delimber carrier chassis. A Doosan DX225 loader was on site, but its operator was out. A Deere 650 dozer was also on site, and a Deere 648 skidder was at hand as a spare. Brandt notes that salvage projects are trending smaller after being fairly large early on. “Initially there was a push to get as much acreage as possible treated, and now we’ doing more smaller tracts,” Brandt says, adding that it can be tough because he needs enough capacity to handle the larger jobs that do come along.
Issues Brandt Logging is a longtime member of the Colorado Timber Industries Assn. (CTIA), and Brandt was on the board of directors for 25 years. He notes that the group initially came together to work on workers’ comp rate reform in the 1980s. “We started a safety program and were able to get some real big rate eductions,” Brandt says, citing the group’s work with a safety director and inspectors and developing preferred workers’ comp rates for safe operators. The group has also worked to gain equipment tax exemptions and remains politically active as the state’s timber supply is overwhelmingly on public land. The CTIA is also administrator of Colorado’s Master Logger continuing education program that certifies loggers for training and professionalism. Brandt says his state has been hit
hard by timber pests such as the pine beetle but also misguided federal management policies that left overstocked forests susceptible to drought and insects. Like other loggers, Brandt was concerned when reduced federal timber sales in the 1990s led to closures of multiple mills in the state. Today, the Neiman sawmill at Montrose is the state’s only large-scale production mill. And those much-needed salvage operations aren’t going to be nearly as successful with few market outlets. A new veneer operation recently started up in southwest Colorado. Fire issues and forest health issues are driving many decisions that public land managers are making in Colorado. Brandt says it’s important to be proactive to stay ahead of such problems, and loggers and wood-consuming businesses are critical to the success of any forest health mitigation efforts. He also believes with the need for more salvage work and thinning of live stands to reduce fire risk and improve overall forest health, there’s at least 20 years of work visible on the ground right now.
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abling a transition for his employees who have been with him for years. “It will be interesting to see how it all plays out,” Brandt says, impressed that Neiman rejuvenated the Montrose mill several years ago and recently announced plans to build a pellet plant on site. The future of forest health work in Colorado is trending up, and Brandt Logging looks to be a part of the solution.
Update Contacted recently, Brandt says he’s moved to a new, larger timber sale on the Gunnison NF, a bit closer to Montrose and not quite as high altitude. More importantly, the timber on the job is better quality than the previous job and also “fresher” in terms of salvageability: It hasn’t been dead as long. The crew was also doing well on the new job, producing between 10-15 loads a day. Thanks to cool but dry weather, Brandt was working regularly well into mid December on the site, though several inches of snow had just fallen and more was on the way. “The
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weather has been really good,” Brandt says, noting that before Christmas the mill went to a four-day hauling week thanks to high inventory. He adds that the crew will likely stay on site through most February and into the spring thaw out break—snow permitting though he’ll work with as much as 5 ft. on the ground One issue the company is confronting this spring and summer is a months-long daily major construction shutdown of U.S. Hwy. 50, a major trade route that crosses the Continental
Divide and connects eastern and western Colorado and the towns of Montrose and Gunnison with the larger cities like Pueblo and Colorado Springs along the Front Range. The crowded mostly two-lane highway is a slow go on good days, and while the impact on log hauling is unknown most believe it won’t be good with the highway open only a few hours each day. Brandt says he’s working with the mill to find some work on the mill side of the construction project after the February-March spring thaw out period. TH
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NewLoggingTechnology2021 Bandit Productivity Enhancements Bandit continues to enhance the productivity of its already popular whole tree chipper line to now offer an optional Rotobec cab and loader on most models. Included with this option is a highly productive loader that has plenty of lifting and pulling power to easily pull material up and into the chipper. The operator’s cab is designed for maximum operator comfort and comes equipped with an air conditioning and heating system and the cab swivels with the loader for enhanced visibility. Ordering this configuration on a whole tree chipper eliminates the need for a separate loader to be onsite and saves room making it easier to position material near the chipper increasing productivity. Loggers can view pictures or video of these models on Bandit’s YouTube channel or website. Bandit offers a complete line of disc and drum style chippers ranging from 20" to 36" capacity with engine options available up to 1,200 HP. Each unit features Bandit’s patented slide box feed system providing unmatched pulling and compressing power allowing each chipper to be highly productive and easy to feed. Each Bandit chipper will process material using less horsepower while consuming less fuel while packing chip trailers to their maximum capacity. For more information or to locate your closest authorized Bandit dealer visit banditchippers.com, call 800-952-0178.
CHAD Improves Hose Assembly The Schwab Hydraulics series of Compact Hose Assembly Devices (CHAD) has revolutionized the manufacture of hydraulic hose assemblies. The CHAD Max, CHAD Lite, CHAD Micro & CHAD Custom options give loggers multiple size designs to fit their exact needs. The CHAD’s durable, service truck mountable, compact design and air-over-hydraulic crimping capability easily gives you the ability to efficiently build hose assemblies on your job site. In today’s production-based markets, downtime can be catastrophic. By implementing the CHAD on your job site, you are guaranteed to cut downtime costs due to hydraulic hose failures. Call 850-838-6487, visit schwabbrothershydraulics.com/chad
Forest Chain Protection Forest Chain’s wide range of ring skidder chains, are available in fixed ring, multi ring, and studded with 9⁄16", ⅝" or ¾" tag chains to fit all popular tire sizes. Designed to give as much as 60% more traction to your skidder, Forest Chain Skidder Chains provide quicker skid times, more production and increased bottom line profits. Forest Chain premium Multi-Ring heavy duty chains offer superior traction putting steel in strategic points providing protection from rocks, stumps and site debris, protecting your expensive rubber tires.and are available in 9⁄16", ⅝", ¾", ⅞" and 1". The Double Diamond configured chains equipped with U-shaped studs are especially effective in the worst conditions like mud and snow, the deep biting lugs dig deeply into the terrain to keep production moving. All Forest Chains are manufactured with top quality materials and workmanship and designed to provide puncture protection from rocks, stumps and debris. Repairs are easy using common welding techniques and materials for longer life. Call 800-288-0887; email forestchain@gmail.com
Komatsu Track Feller-Bunchers, Harvesters, Heads Komatsu America Corp. offers a complete line of Track Feller-Bunchers, Harvesters, and Harvesting Heads to meet a broad range of logging needs. The Komatsu XT-5 Series of Track Feller Bunchers includes the XT430-5 (non-leveling), XT445L-5 and XT465L-5 models. A 331 peak HP engine provides more horsepower and torque with lower fuel consumption. A gull-wing style engine hood folds down to provide ample service access and an elevated service work platform. Four other service doors swing open wide to provide excellent overall access. The rear-mounted cooling system features a larger radiator, charge-air cooler and a single hydraulic cooler. The XT-5 Series lift capacities at full reach have been increased significantly for improved productivity. A full range of Quadco disc saws are offered including 24" diameter models for the XT465L-5. The state-of-the-art forestry cab is now located to the left of the boom and cab design changes provide superior line-of-sight vision to each track. New more rugged undercarriages provide significantly longer service life with improved track chain links, track roller bushings and final drives. Komatsu’s exclusive Komtrax remote equipment monitoring and management telematics system transmits valuable machine information such as location, utilization, and maintenance records to a PC via an internet website. The Komatsu Care complementary maintenance program is standard with the XT-5 Series machines. The market-leading Komatsu 901, 901XC, 911, 931, 931XC and 951 Wheeled-Harvester models feature powerful fuel-efficient engines, modern cabs amenities, 360º cab/crane rotation, 4-way cab/crane leveling, and an innovative new 3PS hy20
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NewLoggingTechnology2021 draulic pump system that allows the operator to simultaneously slew, feed and maneuver. The 901XC and 931XC (eXtreme Conditions) models feature a revolutionary double Komatsu Comfort Bogie Axle 8WD System in which both axles have left/ right and uphill/downhill oscillation. This further stabilizes the machine to follow rough terrain more closely with extremely low ground pressure. All models offer a full suite of MaxiXplorer/MaxiXT machine control software that provides for easier operation and increased productivity. A full range of Komatsu Harvesting Heads are available for specific applications. The Komatsu “C-Series” Harvesting Heads include the C93, C124 and C144 models to handle thinning, clear-cutting, crooked, and multi-stem harvesting applications with working ranges of from 6" to 20" DBH (29.5" max cut). Visit komatsuforest.us
Olofsfors: Traction, Flotation Innovations Olofsfors is a Sweden-based company founded in 1762 with North American operations in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Olofsfors Inc. specializes in attachments and accessories for the cutto-length machinery. The two main product lines are ECO-Tracks and Iggesund Forest. Olofsfors is the market leader in bogie tracks for CTL machinery and wheel tracks for skidders and wheeled feller bunchers. Under the brand name, ECO-Tracks, Olofsfors offers a wide range of track models and linkage systems for various machine configurations and ground conditions. Most track models are now available in the next generation of curved cross members for increased flotation, less ground disturbance and easier machine turning. The track assortment ranges from traction only, flotation only and all around. Along with 5 different link systems, Olofsfors has the most track options available on the market today. The link systems range from 22 mm (⅞") to 30 mm (1-3⁄16") with the 26 mm (1") being the most popular. New for 2021 is a larger 29 mm (1-⅛") link system. It features a 29 mm (1-⅛") link and wider and thicker link hook for increased lifetime. Olofsfors has 9 families of track models. The All Around tracks are ECO-Track and KovaX. Both models provide good traction along with good flotation. The Traction tracks include EX, OF and EVO with EX providing the most traction. The Flotation tracks consist of Baltic, U and CoverX. CoverX is the newest addition which features exceptional flotation along with good traction. The cross member sits higher on the tire and has raised ridges on the leading edges to increase the traction. Lastly is the Combination where you can mix and match track profiles to get the perfect track. Visit olofsfors.com
Ponsse Opti 8: User Friendly High Performance The basic principle behind Ponsse Opti information systems is user-friendliness. This is why they have been designed according to operators’ wishes and forest companies’ requirements. The Ponsse Opti product range offers just the right system for forest machines and the control and monitoring of harvesting. The Opti system’s easy-to-use programs offer convenience in the use, control and calibration of forest machines and the management of bucking files. Ponsse Opti 8 is a state-of-the-art touchscreen computer designed for Ponsse forest machines. User-friendliness, a large high-resolution display, high ergonomics in the cabin and responsiveness form the basis of the technical and visual design of the Ponsse Opti 8 computer: all factors that improve the working conditions of forest machine operators. The new Opti 8 computer offers more power and memory than the previous version, experienced by users in faster and smoother operations. The storage capacity of the hard disk has been doubled to ensure the operation of future applications. The design of the Ponsse Opti 8 computer focuses on performance in a demanding forest machine environment. The computer was developed by Ponsse with the Group’s technology company Epec. “Opti 8 allows us to make the control systems of Ponsse forest machines more user-friendly than before,” says Markku Savolainen, Ponsse Plc’s Product Manager, equipment automation. The Opti 8 computer will come standard in Ponsse harvesters and forwarders from the beginning of 2021. Call 715-369-4833; visit ponsse.com
32-PR Primex Logstomper Xtreme The Primex LogStomper Xtreme now offers 30.5-32 and 35.5-32 sizes with 32 ply rating and an improved dual-bead bundle for tight grip and reliable mounting—so now the Xtreme is more extreme than ever. The new 32-PR construction adds even more heft and durability under the Xtreme’s tapered, variable-angle lugs, which deliver outstanding stability on steep hillsides and superior traction on any surface. The curved lugs, highly engineered shoulder design and mud breakers between the bars all contribute to the excellent self-cleaning that helps the Xtreme maintain its grip—even in sticky conditions—and perform well with chains. Heavy undertread gauge and a thick sidewall protect against punctures and cracking. The highly cut-and-chip-resistant compound and steel-belted construction help ensure a long service life on skidders and feller bunchers under even the most grueling conditions. From the swamps of the South to the steep slopes of the Pacific Northwest and everywhere in between, the improved Primex LogStomper Xtreme is taking skidder and feller buncher tires to a whole new level. Call 800-777-9926; visit atgtire.com Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
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NewLoggingTechnology2021 ProLenc Log Load Binders, Snubber ProLenc’s innovative log Load Binders feature a longer, offset, forged handle for more leverage when closing and will not snap closed on the hand as straight handles are prone to do. When open their geometry allows handle to stand upright when attaching to the chain on a log bundle wrapper. A 1" round ball on the end of the handle stops hands and wet gloves from slipping off when closing. The forged in chain hook enables easy, positive locking of the handle eliminating the traditional method of wrapping the chain around the handle or using a separate wire restraint. Prolenc new, patent pending 250 series Brake Link is designed to integrate with 5 to 8 ton class rotators offered by Finnrotor, Baltrotor and others in this class weight class and features Prolenc’s unique, simple, tapered friction sleeve design. Externally mounted and integrated on the link, it offers easy access for periodic tension adjustments and serviceability. The link is single or double dampening and also available as individual units to adapt to the wide variety of linkages and crane tips available worldwide. Ideal for smaller thinning harvesters and free swinging biomass heads as well as loading grapples the 250 series allows Prolenc to now offer a full complement of brake links and dampeners for all attachments up to 2,000 Kgs or 4,400 lbs. Long proven in many applications with over 20 years of experience, the patented tapered design provides only 1 wear part available in a self lubricating composite material or a grease lubricated, zinc based material maintained by the operator daily as other service points on the machine. Robust holding power and far fewer mowing wear parts result in a very low cost per hour and less maintenance than offered by traditional flat disc type systems. Visit prolenc.com
Tamtron New Generation Scale Tamtron has launched a new generation timber scale, the One Timber. This new technology includes a completely redesigned display and weighing link. The design and implementation of the scale has taken into account the wishes of our partners as well as the challenges the industry faces today. The result is a modern, more accurate scale that will serve our customers with the utmost reliability. The One Timber scale’s technology and practicality work together seamlessly. The scale features the new-generation Tamtron One touch screen display and an innovative strain gauge weighing link. The weighing link is based on strain gauge technology, so there are no moving parts or hydraulics that cause friction to affect the weighing result. This eliminates the possibility of irregularities in the weighing results, for example. “Weighing accuracy is the number one thing—it has to be fine-tuned to perfection and the operator’s way of working must not affect the accuracy of the scale. The One Timber scale is extremely accurate and enables optimized load performance in all conditions,” says Harri Pentinniemi, Tamtron Product Manager. He adds that the new One Timber display is a new design that offers more sophisticated features, but also a more simple and modern display. The display’s durability in different environmental conditions was also increased. Visit tamtrongroup.com
Tigercat Adds RemoteLog Improvements Tigercat has released a new RemoteLog portal with several enhancements. The Tigercat RemoteLog is a complete telematics system for machine monitoring and fleet management. Everything loggers need to know is organized within an easy-to-use web portal, providing important performance and service information in near-real-time. New RemoteLog enhancements include: New diagnostics Dashboard—Mobile users may now easily review machine fault codes grouped in cards and colour coded by severity. While office personal may view fault codes in an easy to sort and filter list. A single click/tap brings up technical information for any fault code. While the easily accessible engine troubleshoot guide get you the answer you need quickly. New machine summary report—A new one-stop machine summary report is now being sent to you weekly. It contains data that matters to your business such as machine working time, production metrics, total fuel consumption, fuel rates, engine hours, machine utilization, and summary of fault codes. Enhanced machine management—Easily access the IQAN control software version running on the machine. Get at the telematics firmware version to see if it needs to be updated. Quickly find your primary dealer contact. New production metrics—Track how much you are producing with your machines. Mulchers now reporting mulched land area to give you a sense of their productivity. Harvesters and processors report production volumes and stem counts while forwarders report number of loads. Visit tigercat.com 22
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NewLoggingTechnology2021 New TriLink Harvester Chain TriLink Saw Chain recently introduced a new ¾ harvester chain. Complementing TriLink’s line of .404 machine harvester chain and guide bars, the new ¾ harvester chain is manufactured from high quality alloy steel. The CAD designed semi-chisel cutters have excellent cutting speed for increased board feet production. The chrome-plated aggressive cutting edge is designed for extreme cutting conditions from the coldest winters in Sweden to the hottest summers in the western U.S. TriLink’s harvester line provides a superior and more durable alternative over the competition. TriLink offers a full range of handheld harvester chain as well. Engineered for precision, balance and low vibration, our handheld harvester chain incorporates semi-chisel cutters that are designed to cut faster and stay sharper longer in dirty and gritty conditions. All TriLink semi-chisel cutters are manufactured with advanced heat treatment and hard chromed to allow for improved cutter performance. TriLink Saw Chain strives to improve logger products through innovation, production, and service while offering the best value in the industry. We aim to develop and deliver never before seen products and solutions.TriLink is your link to quality. Visit trilinksawchain.com
Trygg Chain Durability Trygg case-hardened Netlink Forestry Chain is designed strictly for forestry use for skidders, forwarders, and loaders with a quality second to none. Double studs on top of the vertical links provide extreme traction. Also for forestry the Trygg Giant U chain combines the stability of our U-Grip with aggressiveness of our Netlink. The chains are made in 16mm dimensions with double diamond pattern as standard. U-studs are welded under the horizontal chain links and stand upright throughout the whole lifetime of the chain. This construction gives good grip and reduces link wear. Tightening rail is standard for 55 profile and lower and is optional for all other tire sizes. We recommend use of our chain tightener tool when mounting this chain. Call 208-267-6215; visit whitemountainchain.com
Western Trailers: Profitable Transport Western Chip Trailers are specifically designed for the forest products industry and deliver the optimum combination of durability, maximum volume and light weight savings. Trailers are available in a variety of lengths, capacities and axle configurations to match the requirements of any wood by-product haul and include models with exterior posts for ease of unloading and models with interior posts for maximum volume and aerodynamics. The result is chip trailers that deliver larger payloads and make greater profits during a long working life, while maintaining the highest resale value in the industry. A prime example of our commitment to continuous improvement is our self cleaning aluminum top rails and lower rails. This virtually eliminates all painted steel on the trailer leaving only the king pin section, landing gear, rear sub frame and axles as painted steel. This maximizes the total trailer package to ensure an optimum lightweight payload. If a sidewall is damaged, the sheet and post construction allows localized repairs to be made easily and quickly. Our CNC punch press allows you to order pre-punched panels for even faster repairs and shorter downtime. Western’s forest products Express Floor, the latest evolution in in Express Floor trailer technology is designed to load and haul more chips, sawdust and other wood residuals. Heavy duty extruded full length aluminum slats result in less maintenance and a more durable and long lasting floor and greater ease and convenience in loading and unloading. Visit westerntrailer.com/forest
Oregon Delivers Innovative Cutting Systems The new SpeedMax XL404 cutting system for timber harvesters is designed with greater cutting speed, strength, and durability. The system delivers maximum uptime through advanced designs across the bar,chain and sprocket. The 19HX saw chain is a chamfer chisel chain built for faster more aggressive cutting. The tall chamfer chisel cutters combine durability with improved chip clearance for faster and more consistent cuts in all types of wood. By reducing vibration to the guide bar is designed to minimize time between cuts. It has been widened to improve chain retention. The bar is also stiffer and stronger to increase cutting speed and reduce costly downtime. A tail contour decreases friction making it less likely to throw chain. The larger 14-tooth replaceable sprocket nose features high alloy industrial bearings and required fewer rotations to accomplish the same work with less heat buildup—extending the life of the nose. The rim sprocket is precision balanced and machined from durable solid-billet steel and is equipped with a raised-tooth design to reduce chain stretch and incorporates improved debris ejection with tapered side ports. Call 800-223-5168; visit oregonproducts.com Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
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TIMBER HARVESTING EQUIPMENT DIRECTORY PRODUCTS/SERVICES/SUPPLIES
AFTERMARKET PARTS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. CENTRI Precleaners
Cutting Systems Inc. CW Mill Equip. Co. Inc. Hendrickson Kenworth Truck Co. Meritor Inc. Oregon/Blount Inc. Rottne Industri AB Stens
Taimi Hydraulics Western Trailer Co.
AIR CONDITIONING SYS.
Hammond Air Conditioning Ltd.
AXLES
1. Off-road vehicles 2. Truck & trailer
Emerald West Equip. Parts Inc.. . . . 1 Hendrickson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 L&M Powertrain Parts Meritor Inc. NAF Neunkirchener Achsenfabrik AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
BABBITT METAL
Precision Husky Corp.
BEARINGS
Emerald West Equip. Parts Inc. Stens Tajfun USA
BELTS
Oregon/Blount Inc. Tajfun USA
BIOMASS BALERS
Gyro-Trac Corp. Stens
BOGIE TRACKS
OLOFSFORS
BRAKE ASSEMBLIES
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Force Control Industries Inc.
BRAKES
ACME Mfg. Inc. Aftermarket Parts Inc. Force Control Industries Inc.
BRIDGES
Rapid-Span Structures Ltd.
BULLDOZERS
Cat Forest Products John Deere Forestry Island Pacific Logging
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div.
CABS & CANOPIES
Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc.
CARRIAGES (LOGGING)
ACME Mfg. Inc. Eagle Carriage & Machine Inc.
Summit Attachments & Machinery
1. Boom 2. Flail 3. Logging 4. Skidder tire 5. Truck tire
CHAIN
Albach Northamerica . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chambers Delimbinator Inc. . . . . . . 2
Cutting Systems Inc. . . . 2,3
Forest Chain Corp. LLC. . . . . . . . . . 4 Morbark LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Oregon/Blount Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Peerless Chain Co. . . . . . . . . . . . .1-5 Pewag Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,3-5
Precision Husky Corp. . . . 2
Tajfun USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Wallingfords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-5 White Mountain Chain Inc. . . . . . .2-5
CHAIN SAW CHAIN, BARS & ACCESSORIES
Cannon Bar Works Ltd. Chain-Serts
Cutting Systems Inc.
Gem Chain Bar Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. Iggesund Forest Oregon/Blount Inc. Pacific Trail Mfg. Inc. Tajfun USA Wallingfords Inc. Waratah
CHIPPER KNIVES/PARTS
Bandit Industries Inc. Continental Biomass Industries D I .I ’. Fecon Inc. Key Knife Morbark LLC Peterson Corp.
Precision Husky Corp. SEPPI M USA Trelan Mfg. Vermeer
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CHIPPERS
Stripper Tree Delimbers. . . . . . . . . . 4 Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Madill Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Risley Equip. Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Albach Northamerica . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Bandit Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Continental Biomass Industries . . .1,2 D I .I ’............... 1 Fecon Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Gyro-Trac Corp. Morbark LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Peterson Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
DRUM SETS
TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,3 Waratah Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2
1. Brush 2. Total tree
Precision Husky Corp. . . 1,2
SEPPI M USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trelan Mfg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vermeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Summit Attachments & Machinery
ENGINES
Detroit Diesel Corp. Kenworth Truck Co. Oregon/Blount Inc. Tajfun USA Volvo Trucks North America Western Star Trucks
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Albach Northamerica . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Cutting Systems Inc. . . . . 1
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Industrial Seating Inc.
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . 1
EXCAVATORS
Cat Forest Products Caterpillar John Deere Forestry Doosan Infracore North America LLC Hitachi Construction Machinery Island Pacific Logging
Summit Attachments & Machinery
DEBARKERS (TOTAL TREE FLAIL)
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div.
Continental Biomass Industries HYPRO AB Morbark LLC Peerless Chain Co. Peterson Corp.
LBX Co. Link Belt Forestry Equip.
FANS (REVERSIBLE)
Precision Husky Corp.
Aftermarket Parts Inc.
Trelan Mfg.
Cleanfix North America Inc. Oregon/Blount Inc.
DELIMBERS
FEED ROLLERS (HARVESTER/ PROCESSOR HEAD)
1. Gate 2. Flail 3. Flail/pull-through 4. Pull-through (loader powered) 5. Pull-through (auxiliary powered) 6. Rake 7. Stroke
Island Pacific Logging Waratah
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,5 Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Chambers Delimbinator Inc. . . . . . . 2 Continental Biomass Industries . . .2,4
Cutting Systems Inc. . . . 2-4
1 2 7 2 7
Precision Husky Corp. . . . 2
Quadco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Risley Equip. Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2 3 1 2
Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 HYPRO AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc.
CUSTOM HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS
John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . Fecon Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gem Chain Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gilbert Products Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .
GN Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
EXCAVATOR CONVERSIONS
CULVERTS
Advanced Drainage Sys. Inc. Enviro Span/Trinity Composites LLC
FELLING DEVICES
1. Sawheads (bar & chain) 2. Sawheads (rotary) 3. Shearheads
EQUIPMENT SEATING
Summit Attachments & Machinery
Magnolia Trailers Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . Peerless Chain Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pentin Paja Oy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peterson Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . .
Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc.
Tigercat Industries Inc. . 1,2
FELLER-BUNCHERS
1. Track-type 2. 4-Wheel 3. 6-Wheel
Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . .1,2
Cutting Systems Inc.
John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Island Pacific Logging . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Madill Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Oregon/Blount Inc. Pentin Paja Oy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,3 Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Quadco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Risley Equip. Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Ryans Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Trilink Saw Chain LLC . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Waratah Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
FILES
Oregon/Blount Inc. PFERD Inc. Stens Trilink Saw Chain LLC
FILTERS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Baldwin Filters CENTRI Precleaners Stens
FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT
1. Extinguishers 2. Plows 3. Pumps 4. Vehicles
AFEX Fire Suppression Sys. . . . . . . 1 KMC Kootenay Tractor . . . . . . . . . . 4
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . 1
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FIREWOOD PROCESSORS
1. Portable 2. Stationary Cutting Systems Inc. . . . 1,2
Hahn Machinery Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pentin Paja Oy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tajfun USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Timberwolf Mfg. Corp. . . . . . . . . . .1,2
FORWARDERS
1. 4 wheel drive 2. 6 wheel drive 3. 8 wheel drive 4. Other
Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . .2,3 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . .1-3
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. . . 2,3
Logset Oy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ponsse North America Inc. 3 Rottne Industri AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Tigercat Industries Inc. . . 3
TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,3
FUEL STABILIZERS
Stens Texas Refinery Corp.
1. Ring 2. Planetary 3. Worm 4. Other
GEARS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. . . . . . . . . . .1-4 L&M Powertrain Parts . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd.
GRAPPLE SAWS
6K Products Cat Forest Products
Precision Husky Corp. Rotobec USA Inc. Ryans Equip. Inc. Weiler Forestry
GRAPPLES
1. Knuckleboom 2. Remote controlled line 3. Shovel 4. Skidder
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . .1,3 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hood Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . 1
Morbark LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1
Precision Husky Corp. . . . 1
Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. Rotobec USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 SENNEBOGEN LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Summit Attachments & Machinery . . . . . . . . . . 3
Tajfun USA TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,4 Young Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
GRINDERS (REFUSE)
1. Horizontal 2. Tub
Albach Northamerica . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bandit Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Continental Biomass Industries . . . . 1 CW Mill Equip. Co. Inc. . . . . . . . . .1,2 D I . I ’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Jones Mfg. Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Morbark LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Peterson Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Precision Husky Corp. . . 1,2 Rawlings Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . 1 Rotochopper . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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Tigercat Industries Inc. . . 1
Vermeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 West Salem Machinery . . . . . . . . . . 1 WHO Mfg. Co. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
HARVESTERS
1. Dedicated CTL (single grip) 2. Excavator type 3. Landing type 4. Other
Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,3 Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . .2-4 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Hahn Machinery Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,4
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. . . 1,2
LBX Co. Link Belt Forestry Equip. . . 3 Log Max Logset Oy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Oregon/Blount Inc. Pentin Paja Oy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . .2,3
Ponsse North America Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Madill Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Mesera Cranes Finland Oy . . . . . . . 2
Precision Husky Corp. . . 2-4
Rottne Industri AB SENNEBOGEN LLC . . . . . . . . . . .2-4 Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,3
Tigercat Industries Inc. . 2,4
Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,3 Wicker Machine Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Young Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
LOG DIAMETER DETECTION SYSTEMS
1. Grapple saw 2. Pull-through delimber 3. Slasher Cutting Systems Inc. . . . 2,3 R Squared Solutions . . . . . . . . . . .1-3
LOG SCALING SYSTEMS
Haglof Inc. Magnolia Trailers Inc. Maxi Load Scale Systems Tajfun USA
Risley Equip. Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rottne Industri AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 SP Maskiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3
Haglof Inc.
Waratah Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,3 Young Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
BEKAWORLD LP (formerly Beka-Max of America Inc.)
Tigercat Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,3
HEATER SYSTEMS, VEHICLE
Hammond Air Conditioning Ltd.
LOG TAGS
LUBRICANTS
Cutting Systems Inc.
Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. Stens Texas Refinery Corp.
PIVOT PINS
HOSES
Aftermarket Parts Inc.
Aftermarket Parts Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hammond Air Conditioning Ltd. . . . . 1 Oregon/Blount Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . .1,3
Cat Forest Products Hahn Machinery Inc. HYPRO AB
1. Air 2. Fire 3. Hydraulic
HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT
1. Brakes 2. Couplings 3. Cylinders 4. Manifolds 5. Motors 6. Pumps & Drives 7. Seals/Seal Kits 8. Valves
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,4 Aftermarket Parts Inc. . . . . . . .3,4,6-8
Cutting Systems Inc. 2,3,5-9
Force Control Industries Inc. . . . . . . 1 Geartek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5,6 Gyro-Trac Corp. Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,4
Taimi Hydraulics . . . . . . . 2,4 Young Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
LOAD BINDERS
ExTe Fabriks AB Peerless Chain Co. Prolenc Wallingfords Inc.
LOADERS
1. Front-end 2. Knuckleboom 3. Knuckleboom (self-propelled) 4. Knuckleboom (track-mounted) Allied Systems Co.
Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-4 Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-4 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . .1-4 Doosan Infracore North America LLC Fuchs, A Terex Brand . . . . . . . . . .2-4 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hood Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,3
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . 1
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Cutting Systems Inc.
PROCESSOR HEADS
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. Log Max Pentin Paja Oy Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. Quadco
Tigercat Industries Inc. Weiler Forestry
RIGGING HARDWARE
Erickson Air Crane Inc. Peerless Chain Co. Young Corp.
ROTATORS
Hakmet USA Inc. Prolenc Quadco Young Corp.
SAFETY APPAREL/ EQUIPMENT
L&M Powertrain Parts Stens Trilink Saw Chain LLC
SAWHEAD DISCS
Quadco Risley Equip. Ltd. Waratah
SAWHEAD TEETH
Gilbert Products Inc.
GN Roy
Mobile Mfg. Co. Quadco Risley Equip. Ltd. Timberblade Inc. Wallingfords Inc. Waratah
SAWMILLS (PORTABLE)
Gilbert Products Inc. Mobile Mfg. Co. Morbark LLC Trilink Saw Chain LLC
SAWS (HAND-HELD)
1. Chain 2. Clearing 3. Pole
Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. . .1-3 Oregon/Blount Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3
SERVICE/UTILITY BODIES
Alucar Oy
SILVICULTURAL GROUP
1. Aircraft services 2. Brushcutters 3. Cultivators 4. Discs 5. Drag chains 6. Drip torches 7. Drum choppers 8. Fertilizers 9. Fungicides 10. Harrows 11. Herbicides 12. Mulchers 13. Plows 14. Rippers 15. Root rakes 16. Scarifiers 17. Spot cultivators 18. Sprayers 19. Tractors 20. Tree crushers 21. Tree planters 22. Tree pruners 23. V-blades
Advanced Forest Equip. . . . . . . .2,12 Albach Northamerica . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ASV Holdings Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .2,12 Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . 2,12,19 D&M Machine Div. Inc. . . . . . . . .2,12 Erickson Air Crane Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gilbert Products Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,12 KMC Kootenay Tractor . . . . . . . . . . 2 Loftness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Morbark LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,12 Nisus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Rayco Mfg. LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . .12,19 Risley Equip. Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 SEPPI M USA . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,12,20 Texas Refinery Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Tigercat Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,18 Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,12
Wallingfords Inc. Young Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SLASHERS
1. Bar & Chain Saw 2. Circular Saw Cutting Systems Inc. . . . 1,2
Gem Chain Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hood Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. . .1,2 Oregon/Blount Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Tajfun USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2
SLINGS, TIE DOWNS
C I ’.I . ExTe Fabriks AB Peerless Chain Co.
SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT
Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. Vermeer
SNUBBERS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Prolenc
SOFTWARE
1. Logging 2. Procurement
Automated Accounting Systems Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribou Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haglof Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Logset Oy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 1 1 1
Summit Attachments & Machinery . . . . . . . . . . 1
SPILL PRODUCTS
SEI Industries Ltd.
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STRAPPING, STEEL I ’.I .
SUSPENSION SYSTEMS
Magnolia Trailers Inc.
TIRE PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEMS
TIREBOSS Tire Pressure Control
TIRES
1. Flotation 2. Non-Flotation 3. Truck/trailer
1. Clam bunk 2. Track type 3. Wheel type
BKT USA Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Magnolia Trailers Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Maxam Tire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2 Nokian Tyres Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Oregon/Blount Inc. Pitts Trailers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Primex Tire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Titan International Inc./ Goodyear Tires . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2
Ponsse North America Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,3 Summit Attachments & Machinery . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tigercat Industries Inc. . 1,3
Emerald West Equip. Parts Inc.
SKIDDERS
Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Gyro-Trac Corp. Island Pacific Logging
TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,3 Weiler Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SKIDDING COMPONENTS
1. Arches 2. Chokers & Fittings 3. Fairleads 4. Winches
TORQUE CONVERTERS
TRAILER ACCESSORIES
Alucar Oy ExTe Fabriks AB Pitts Trailers Prolenc Stens
Aftermarket Parts Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CENTRI Precleaners
Cutting Systems Inc. . . . . 4
Erickson Air Crane Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Island Pacific Logging KMC Kootenay Tractor . . . . . . . . . . 2
Ponsse North America Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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TRAILERS
1. Delimber carrier 2. Flatbed 3. Folding pole 4. Frame 5. Loader carrier 6. Lowboy 7. Pole 8. Vans (Chip) 9. Vans (Moving Floor)
Alucar Oy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Big John Trailers . . . . . 1,4-7
Cat Forest Products. . . . . . . . . . . .1,4
Cutting Systems Inc. . . . 1,5
Ferree Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-6 Great Lakes Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . 2,4,7 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,5 Hood Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 HYPRO AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,5 Magnolia Trailers Inc. . . . . . . . . . .1-7 McLendon Trailers . . . . . . . . . .1,2,4-6 Pitts Trailers . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2,4-6,8,9 Titan Trailers Inc. . . . . . . . . . . .2,6,8,9 Western Trailer Co. . . . . . . . . . . 2,8,9
TRANSFER CASES
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Meritor Inc. NAF Neunkirchener Achsenfabrik AG
TRANSMISSIONS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. John Deere Forestry Emerald West Equip. Parts Inc. L&M Powertrain Parts NAF Neunkirchener Achsenfabrik AG Western Star Trucks
TROMMEL SCREENS
Continental Biomass Industries Peterson Corp. Vermeer West Salem Machinery
TRUCKS
Alucar Oy Cat Forest Products Doosan Infracore North America LLC Kenworth Truck Co. Mack Trucks Inc. Volvo Trucks North America
WEIGH SCALES
1. On-board 2. Platform 3. Portable 4. Non-portable platform
Ferree Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 RMT Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,3 SI Onboard Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Smart Scale Technologies . . . . . . . . 1 Vulcan On-Board Scales . . . . . . . . . 1
WHEEL TRACKS
OLOFSFORS
Wallingfords Inc.
UNDERCARRIAGES
Cat Forest Products
USED EQUIPMENT
Allied Systems Co. Chambers Delimbinator Inc. Continental Biomass Industries Deanco Auction Co. Gyro-Trac Corp. Kenworth Truck Co. Logset Oy Magnolia Trailers Inc. Morbark LLC
Summit Attachments & Machinery Tajfun USA Western Trailer Co.
Tajfun USA
WEDGES
WINCHES
ACME Mfg. Inc. Aftermarket Parts Inc. ExTe Fabriks AB HYPRO AB Magnolia Trailers Inc.
Summit Attachments & Machinery Tajfun USA
WIRE ROPE
Erickson Air Crane Inc. Wallingfords Inc.
WIRE ROPE CUTTERS
Wallingfords Inc.
YARDERS
1. Swing 2. Tower 3. Other
HYDRAULIC REPAIR
6K Products
Summit Attachments & Machinery
ACME Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Madill Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,2
Winkle Industries
Tajfun USA
AssuredPartners BITCO Insurance Co. Cat Forest Products Forestry Mututal Insurance Co. Hawkins & Rawlinson Inc. Victor Insurance Managers Inc.
Summit Attachments & Machinery . . . . . . . . . 1-3
SERVICES AUCTIONEERS/ APPRAISERS
Deanco Auction Co. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers JM Wood Auction
INSURANCE
MACHINING
6K Products Cat Forest Products CENTRI Precleaners Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. Risley Equip. Ltd.
Summit Attachments & Machinery
BAR REPAIRS
Winkle Industries
Cutting Systems Inc. Gem Chain Bar
ENGINEERING/DRAFTING
Alucar Oy Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. Risley Equip. Ltd.
Summit Attachments & Machinery
WELDING
6K Products CENTRI Precleaners Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. Risley Equip. Ltd.
Summit Attachments & Machinery
Winkle Industries
FINANCING/LEASING
Cat Forest Products John Deere Forestry Kenworth Truck Co.
Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. Magnolia Trailers Inc.
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MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS INDEX 6K Products ...................................28 ACME Mfg. Inc...............................28 Advanced Drainage Sys. Inc. ........28 Advanced Forest Equip. ................28 AFEX Fire Suppression Sys..........28 Aftermarket Parts Inc. ....................28 Albach Northamerica .....................28 Allied Systems Co..........................28 Alucar Oy .......................................28 AssuredPartners ............................28 ASV Holdings Inc...........................28 Automated Accounting Systems Inc. .............................28 Axe Timber .....................................28 Baldwin Filters................................28 Bandit Industries Inc. .....................28 Barko ..............................................28 BEKAWORLD LP (formerly Beka-Max of America Inc.) .......28 Big John Trailers ...................... 28 BITCO Insurance Co. ....................28 BKT USA Inc. .................................28 Cannon Bar Works Ltd. .................28 Caribou Software ...........................28 C I ’ . I . ..........................28 Cat Forest Products.......................28 Caterpillar .......................................29 CENTRI Precleaners .....................29 Chain-Serts ....................................29 Chambers Delimbinator Inc...........29 Cleanfix North America Inc. ........................ 29 Continental Biomass Industries.....29 Cutting Systems Inc. ................ 29 CW Mill Equip. Co. Inc...................29 D&M Machine Div. Inc. ..................29 Deanco Auction Co. .......................29 John Deere Forestry ......................29
Detroit Diesel Corp. .......................29 Doosan Infracore North America LLC .............................29 D I . I ’ ...........................29 Eagle Carriage & Machine Inc. .....29 Elmia AB/Elmia Wood....................29 Emerald West Equip. Parts Inc. ....29 Enviro Span/Trinity Composites LLC .......................29 Erickson Air Crane Inc. ..................29 ExTe Fabriks AB ............................29 Fecon Inc. ......................................29 Ferree Trailer .................................29 Force Control Industries Inc. .........29 Forest Chain Corp. LLC ................29 Forestry Mututal Insurance Co. .....29 Fuchs, A Terex Brand ....................29 Geartek ..........................................29 Gem Chain Bar ..............................29 Gilbert Products Inc. ......................29 GN Roy ...................................... 29 Great Lakes Mfg. Inc. ....................29 Gyro-Trac Corp. .............................29 Haglof Inc. ......................................29 Hahn Machinery Inc.......................29 Hakmet USA Inc. ...........................29 Hammond Air Conditioning Ltd. ....29 Harris Real Estate Auctions...........29 Hawkins & Rawlinson Inc. .............29 Hendrickson ...................................29 Hiab AB ..........................................29 Hitachi Construction Machinery ....29 Hood Equip. Inc. ............................29 Hultdins Inc. ...................................29 Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. ..29 HYPRO AB ....................................29 Iggesund Forest .............................29 Industrial Seating Inc. ....................30
Intermercato AB .............................30 Island Pacific Logging....................30 Jones Mfg. Co................................30 Kenworth Truck Co. .......................30 Key Knife........................................30 KMC Kootenay Tractor ..................30 Komatsu America Corp. Forest Machine Business Div. ....................... 30 L&M Powertrain Parts....................30 Laser Technology Inc.....................30 LBX Co. Link Belt Forestry Equip...........................30 Loftness..........................................30 Log Max .........................................30 Logset Oy.......................................30 Mack Trucks Inc. ............................30 Madill Equip. ..................................30 Magnolia Trailers Inc......................30 Manac Trailers USA.......................30 Maxam Tire ....................................30 Maxi Load Scale Systems .............30 McLendon Trailers .........................30 Mense Oy.......................................30 Meritor Inc. .....................................30 Mesera Cranes Finland Oy ...........30 Mobile Mfg. Co...............................30 Modern Machinery .........................30 Morbark LLC ..................................30 NAF Neunkirchener Achsenfabrik AG .......................30 Nisus Corp. ....................................30 Nokian Tyres Inc. ...........................30 OLOFSFORS ............................. 30 Oregon/Blount Inc..........................30 Pacific Trail Mfg. Inc.......................30 Peerless Chain Co.........................30
Pemberton Attachments ................30 Pentin Paja Oy ...............................30 Peterson Corp................................30 Pewag Chain .................................30 PFERD Inc. ....................................30 Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. ..................30 Pitts Trailers ...................................30 Ponsse North America Inc. ......................... 30 Precision Husky Corp. ............. 30 Primex Tire .....................................31 Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. .........................31 Prolenc ..........................................31 Quadco ..........................................31 R Squared Solutions......................31 Rapid-Span Structures Ltd. ...........31 Rawlings Mfg. Inc. .................... 31 Rayco Mfg. LLC .............................31 Risley Equip. Ltd. ...........................31 Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers ..............31 RMT Equip. Inc. .............................31 Rotobec USA Inc. ..........................31 Rotochopper ............................. 31 Rottne Industri AB ..........................31 Ryans Equip. Inc............................31 Schwab Brothers Hydraulics .........31 SEI Industries Ltd. .........................31 SENNEBOGEN LLC .....................31 SEPPI M USA................................31 Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine .........................................31 SI Onboard Scales ........................31 Smart Scale Technologies .............31 Southstar Equip. ............................31 SP Maskiner...................................31 Stens ..............................................31 Stripper Tree Delimbers.................31
Summit Attachments & Machinery ......................... 31 Taimi Hydraulics ....................... 31 Tajfun USA .....................................31 Texas Refinery Corp. .....................31 Tigercat Industries Inc. ............ 31 Timberblade Inc. ............................31 Timbermax .....................................31 TimberPro Inc. ...............................31 Timberwolf Mfg. Corp. ...................32 Tireboss Tire Pressure Control......32 Titan International Inc./ Goodyear Tires .........................32 Titan Trailers Inc.............................32 Tracked Slasher.............................32 Trelan Mfg. .....................................32 Trelleborg Wheel Systems Nordic AB ..................................32 Trilink Saw Chain LLC ...................32 U.S. Blades ....................................32 Vermeer .........................................32 Victor Insurance Managers Inc. ....32 Volvo Trucks North America ..........32 Vulcan On-Board Scales ...............32 Wallingfords Inc. ............................32 Waratah..........................................32 Weiler Forestry...............................32 West Salem Machinery .................32 Western Star Trucks ......................32 Western Trailer Co. ........................32 Westtech ßMaschinenbau GmbH........................................32 White Mountain Chain Inc. ............32 WHO Mfg. Co. Inc. ........................32 Wicker Machine Co. ......................32 Winkle Industries ...........................32 J M Wood Auction..........................32 Young Corp ....................................32
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6K PRODUCTS 1006 143RD AVE. SE Tenino, WA 98589-9242 360-264-2141 Fax: 360-264-5105 Email: ed@6kproducts.com
ALLIED SYSTEMS CO. 21433 SW Oregon St. Sherwood, OR 97140-9799 503-625-2560 Email: ron.vandlac@alliedsystems.com ALUCAR OY Maxmovagen 186 FI 66640 Voyri-Maksamaa, Finland 358-207-851-720 Fax: 358-207-851-740 Email: virpi.hattula@alucar.com
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boys up to 50 ton capacity are other popular trailers in the Big John product line. Kodiak hydraulic trailers are available in the loader/delimber trailer design. All of these trailers are built for rugged and dependable use. Call for more information, 800-771-4140. BITCO INSURANCE CO. 3700 Market Square Cir. Davenport, IA 52807 563-232-0241, 800-475-4477 Fax: 844-233-7299 Email: steve.barnett@bitco.com
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BKT USA INC. 202 Montrose West Ave., Ste. 240 Copley, OH 4321 330-836-1090, 888-660-0662 Fax: 330-836-1091
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CANNON BAR WORKS LTD. Unit A120, 5525 272nd St. Langley, BC V4W 1P1 Canada 604-856-6682, 888-604-9990 CARIBOU SOFTWARE PO Box 6421 Hinton, AB T7V 1X7 Canada 850-532-6206 Email: sales@caribousoftware.com CARI TRA INT’L. INC. 1760 Fortin Blvd. Laval, QC H7S 1N8 Canada 450-667-4700 Fax: 450-663-1520 Email: akarass@caristrap.com CAT FOREST PRODUCTS 954 NC Hwy. 42 E. Clayton, NC 27527 785-454-3415
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necessary and computer aided design (CAD) models to make sure our pull-thru delimbers, slasher saws and dangle head grapple felling saws are the best available. We have lots of models to choose from. Check our website for the latest brochures or mini DVD. CW MILL EQUIP. CO. INC. 14 Commerce Dr. Sabetha, KS 66534-9413 800-743-3491 Fax: 785-284-2010 Email: hogzilla@cwmill.com
D D&M MACHINE DIV. INC. 12 Monte Brady Rd. Montesano, WA 98563-9521 360-249-3366 Email: dmm@slashbuster.com DEANCO AUCTION CO. PO Box 1248 Philadelphia, MS 39350-1248 601-656-0192
CLEANFIX NORTH AMERICA INC.
250 Wright Blvd. Stratford, ON N4Z 1H3 Canada 519-275-2808, 855-REV-FANS Fax: 519-275-3995 Email: cleanfix-ca@cleanfix.org Website: www.cleanfix.org Established: 2010 A dedicated branch of the worldwide Cleanfix organization, Cleanfix North America Inc. designs, manufactures and supplies application-specific Cleanfix Reversible Fans to the users, dealers and manufacturers of heavy equipment throughout the continent. This includes feller bunchers, tree harvesters, grinders and other forestry machines. Providing engine cooling and radiator cleaning in an all-in-one solution, Cleanfix Fans are installed in a wide range of self-propelled equipment used in agriculture, waste and recycling, construction, mining and forestry, among applications. These include tractors, excavators, combines, sprayers and loaders that achieve maximum productivity and significant fuel savings with their maintenance-free, automatic cleaning of clogged radiators. CONTINENTAL BIOMASS INDUSTRIES G 22 Whittier St. Newton, NH 03858-3524 603-382-0556 Fax: 603-382-0557 Email: nwt.infofwd@terex.com
CUTTING SYSTEMS INC.
774 Zeb Rd. Union Grove, NC 28689-9148 877-844-1274 Fax: 704-592-4458 Email: email@cuttingsys.com Website: www.cuttingsys.com Established: 1995 When you buy CSI you not only get a superior product that is well engineered and job tested, but a product backed by the best parts and customer service in the industry. ur goal is our customer’s success. That’s why we use high alloy steels, bushings and bearings where
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HARRIS REAL ESTATE AUCTIONS 3855 State Route 45N Mayfield, KY 42066 270-247-3253
FUCHS, A TEREX BRAND 11001 Electron Dr. Louisville, KY 40299 502-736-5200 Email: john.vanruitenbeek@terex.com
GEM CHAIN BAR PO Box 608 Grangeville, ID 83530-0608 208-983-0203 Fax: 208-983-0213
HAGLOF INC. PO Box 2548 Madison, MS 39110-2548 601-856-5119 Fax: 601-856-9075 Email: sales@haglofinc.com
HAMMOND AIR CONDITIONING LTD. 125 Samnah Crescent Ingersoll, ON N5C 3J7 Canada 519-485-5961 Fax: 519-485-3745 Email: sales@hammondac.com
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EAGLE CARRIAGE & MACHINE INC. 62500 Commerce Rd. La Grande, OR 97850-8719 541-963-4646 Fax: 541-963-3415 Email: eaglecarriage@eoni.com
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FECON INC. 3460 Grant Ave. Lebanon, OH 45036-6432 800-528-3113 Fax: 513-696-4431 Email: sales@fecon.com
GEARTEK 1506 S. Fulton Dr. Corinth, MS 38834 662-286-2252, 800-447-0804 Fax: 662-287-6580 Email: haisales@gearek.com
DURATECH IND. INT’L. PO Box 1940 Jamestown, ND 58402-1940 701-252-4601 Fax: 701-252-0502 Email: indsales@duratechindustries.net
EXTE FABRIKS AB Ygskorset Farila, SE-82762 Sweden +46-651-175-00 Email: per.jonasson@exte.se
GYRO-TRAC CORP. 10 Flying Cloud Dr. Summerville, SC 29483 843-879-0208, 866-800-3900 Email: sales@gyrotrac.com
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GILBERT PRODUCTS INC. 1840 Boulevard Marcotte Roberval, QC G8H 2P2 Canada 418-275-5041 Email: sales@gilbert-tech.com
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761 Avenue Du Parc Amos, QC J9T 4M1 Canada 819-732-8871 Email: marketing@gnroy.net Website: www.gnroy.com We are manufacturers of feller buncher heads. We produce 5 models of heads with stem cut capacities of 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 inches and have shipped over 450 units as of 1999. Our heads are light, fast, productive and most importantly….reliable. The original design and improvements over the years are the result of recommendations from experienced forestry operators. GN ROY heads provide optimum tree accumulation with minimum stem crossing. Bunches are thus aligned which provides for optimal handling. Please feel free to contact us for any questions you may have.
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HUSQVARNA FOREST & GARDEN CO. 9335 Harris Corners Pkwy. Charlotte, NC 28269-3818 704-597-5000 HYPRO AB Smalatorp 882 Lönsboda, S283 93 Sweden +46 479 220 59 Email: info@hypro.se
I IGGESUND FOREST 121 Roy Blvd., Unit 4 Brantford, ON N3R 7K1 Canada 519-754-2190 Fax: 519-757-1100 Email: info@olofsfors.com
GREAT LAKES MFG. INC. 8450 County Rd. R Suring, WI 54174-9541 920-842-2012 Fax: 920-842-2497 Email: cfrench@greatlakesmfg.com
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INDUSTRIAL SEATING INC. 1144 SW Berg Pkwy. Canby, OR 97013 503-266-6885, 800-346-2839 Fax: 503-266-6885 Email: sales@indseat.com INTERMERCATO AB BYGATAN 5 Tommarp, 272 93 Sweden 46-0-414-397-917
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LOG MAX 1114 W. Fourth Plain Blvd. Vancouver, WA 98660-2021 360-699-7300 Fax: 360-699-7304 Email: info@logmax.us
JONES MFG. CO. 1486 12th Rd. Beemer, NE 68716-0038 402-528-3861 Fax: 402-528-3239 Email: mightygiant@mightygiant.com
KENWORTH TRUCK CO. PO Box 1000 Kirkland, WA 98083-1000 425-828-5000 Email: ryan.breezee@paccar.com
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121 Roy Blvd., Unit 4 Brantford, ON N3R 7K1 Canada 519-754-2190 Fax: 519-757-1100 Email: info@olofsfors.com Website: www.olofsfors.com Established: 1762 Olofsfors is a Swedish company founded in 1762 with North American operations based in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Olofsfors is the market leader in bogie tracks for CTL machinery and wheel tracks for skidders and wheeled feller bunchers. ECO-Wheel Tracks: An economical alternative to conventional tire chains. Provides numerous benefits over chains including; improved traction, less maintenance, reduced spin and grab and extended tire life. ECO-Tracks: There are no limits for operators with the right tracks. Olofsfors offers a wide range of track models and linkage systems for various machine configurations and ground conditions. For more information, please visit www. olofsfors.com or call us at 519-754-2190.
MCLENDON TRAILERS PO Box 1145 Phenix City, AL 36868-1145 334-448-8888 Fax: 334-448-3800 Email: mclendontrailers@bellsouth.net
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MENSE OY Hallikuja 2 Taavetti, FI 54500 Finland 358 0 5 610 6900
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MERITOR INC. 2135 W. Maple Rd. Troy, MI 48084 248-435-1000 Email: offhighway@meritor.com
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PACIFIC TRAIL MFG. INC. 6532 SE Crosswhite Way Portland, OR 97206-9529 888-910-SAWS (7297) Email: info@ptmi.net
MESERA CRANES FINLAND OY Wattitie 2 Paimio, FI-21530 Finland 358 40 7045504
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PEERLESS CHAIN CO. 1416 E. Sanborn St. Winona, MN 55987-4948 800-873-1916 Fax: 800-356-1149 Email: custserv@peerlesschain.com
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PFERD INC. 9201 W. Heather Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53224-2419 262-255-3200, 800-342-9015 Fax: 262-255-2840 Email: sales@pferdusa.com
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PIERCE PACIFIC MFG. INC. PO Box 30509 Portland, OR 97294-3509 503-808-9110, 800-760-3270 Fax: 503-808-9111 Email: info@piercepacific.com PITTS TRAILERS PO Box 127 Pittsview, AL 36871-0127 800-321-8073 Fax: 334-855-3507
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MAXAM TIRE 300 Rosewood Dr., Ste. 102 Danvers, MA 01923 844-629-2662 Fax: 978-560-0624 Email: na@maxamtire.com
PO Box 168 Chattanooga, TN 37401-0168 423-267-1066 Email: info.na@komatsuna.com Website: www.komatsuforest.us Established: 1946 Komatsu is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative world-class forestry equipment including: CTL Harvesters & Forwarders, Harvesting & Processing Heads, Tracked Feller Bunchers & Harvesters, Tracked Log Loaders and Forestry Excavators. Komatsu Crawler Dozers, Wheel Loaders, Excavators and other support equipment supplement these purpose-built forestry products, providing comprehensive solutions. Through its distributor network, Komatsu offers a state-of-the-art parts and service program to support its equipment. Forestry professionals around the world have come to know and trust in the high levels of productivity, quality, reliability and durability found in Komatsu forestry equipment.
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MAGNOLIA TRAILERS INC. 144 Airport Cafe Circle Lucedale, MS 39452-1146 601-947-7990, 800-738-2123 Fax: 601-947-4900 Email: magtrailers@gmail.com
KOMATSU AMERICA CORP., FOREST MACHINE BUSINESS DIV.
NOKIAN TYRES INC. 501 Union St., Ste. 200-A Nashville, TN 37219 800-565-2525 Email: heavytyres@nokiantyres.com
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PEWAG CHAIN 3825 Cincinnati Ave. Rocklin, CA 95765 916-408-0413 Fax: 866-472-8775 Email: tammyk@pewagchain.com
NAF NEUNKIRCHENER ACHSENFABRIK AG Weyhausenstr. 2 Neunkirchen am Brand, 91077 Germany +49 9134 702-0 Fax: +49 9134 702 653 Email: sales@nafaxles.com NISUS CORP. 100 Nisus Dr. Rockford, TN 37853-3069 865-577-6119, 800-264-0870 Fax: 865-577-5825 Email: jimg@nisuscorp.com
LOGSET OY Hannisentie 2 Koivulahti, FI-66530 Finland +358-10-286-3200 Email: info@logset.com
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L&M POWERTRAIN PARTS 201 Snidercroft Rd. Concord, ON L4K 2J9 Canada 905-669-2292, 800-387-3765 Email: parts@landmparts.com
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PONSSE NORTH AMERICA INC.
4400 International Ln. Rhinelander, WI 54501 715-369-4833 Email: diana.olkowski@ponsse.com Website: www.ponsse.com Established: 1970 We are a Logger´s Best Friend – and for a very good reason! Our innovative harvesting solutions that follow the principles of sustainable development are always produced specifically for each customer: our mission is to help to im– prove our customers’ business by providing reliable products and services. Ponsse specializes in cut-to-length forest machines and their information systems. We also offer high-quality maintenance, spare parts and trade-in machines – safely and reliably. Contact us!
PRECISION HUSKY CORP.
PO Box 507 Leeds, AL 35094-0010 205-640-5181 Fax: 205-640-1147 Email: sales@precisionhusky.com Website: www.precisionhusky.com Established: 1964 Precision Husky Corp. engineers and manufactures world-class equipment for chipmills, sawmills, wood-yards, log loading and inwoods debarking/chipping and wood waste grinding. THREE DIVISIONS Precision produces sawmill, chipmill equipment, in-woods flailers, whole tree chippers and a combo unit that combines both functions. Husky manufactures a complete line of knuckleboom loaders available as truck mount, on crawler tracks, trailer mounted and as a stationary unit. The ProGrind line of shredders offers nine different sizes of horizontal and tub grinders with production to 100 TPH and horsepower options from 100-1,200 HP.
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PRIMEX TIRE 201 Edgewater Dr., Ste. 285 Wakefield, MA 01880 205-709-1701, 800-777-9926 Fax: 205-655-6824 Email: bclifford@atgtire.com PRO MAC MFG. LTD. 2940 Jacob Rd. Duncan, BC V9L 6W4 Canada 800-665-5405 Fax: 250-746-4799 Email: promac@promac.bc.ca
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PROLENC 951 Great St. Prince George, BC V2N 5R7 Canada 877-563-8899 Fax: 250-563-6704
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RMT EQUIP. INC. 30 EMILIEN-MARCOUX, STE. 101 Blainville , QC J7C 0B5 Canada 450-951-2862, 800-648-8132 Fax: 450-951-4701 Email: info@rmtequip.com
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RAPID-SPAN STRUCTURES LTD. 1145 Industrial Dr. Armstrong, BC V0E 1B6 Canada 250-546-9676, 800-661-2047 Fax: 250-546-9066 Email: info@rapidspan.com
RAWLINGS MFG. INC.
1780 Idaho St. Missoula, MT 59801-1424 406-728-6182, 866-762-9327 Fax: 406-728-7957 Email: john@rawlingsmanufacturing.com Website: www.wastewoodhogs.com Established: 1976 With over 40 years of experience in the forest and sawmill related industries, Rawlings delivers wood grinding equipment with a reputation for durability, performance and reliability. Since 1976, Rawlings Manufacturing has been manufacturing and installing custom wood grinding systems. Rawlings offers a complete line up of wood grinders in a full range of sizes and models. Each customer’s operation is unique to its own challenges. Our team designs each system specific to the customer’s operation and specifications. Add a wide variety of available options such as work platform decks, choice of belt, chain, vibrating in-feed and out-feed conveyors, metal or magnet protection, product screening and separation, and you’ve got the flexibility to customize the perfect wood grinding system. RAYCO MFG. LLC 4255 E. LINCOLN WAY Wooster, OH 44691-8601 330-264-8699, 800-392-2686 Fax: 330-264-3697 Email: rayco@raycomfg.com
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RYANS EQUIP. INC. 111 Quicksilver Ln. Edmore, MI 48829-7306 989-427-2829 Fax: 989-427-4008 Email: info@ryansequip.com
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SEI INDUSTRIES LTD. 7400 Wilson Ave. Delta, BC V4G 1E5 Canada 604-946-3131 Fax: 604-940-9566 Email: seisales@sei-ind.com
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SENNEBOGEN LLC 1957 Sennebogen Trail Stanley, NC 28164 704-347-4910 Fax: 704-347-8894 Email: sales@sennebogenllc.com
SI ONBOARD SCALES 39521 Place Rd. Fall Creek, OR 97438-9732 541-937-2070
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SMART SCALE TECHNOLOGIES 1595 BEDFORD HWY. Bedford, NS B4A 3Y4 Canada 877-757-7888 Email: derrick.hearn@truckweight.com
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192 Parc Industrial St. Prime, QC G8J 2B1 Canada 418-686-6868 Fax: 888-830-5331 Email: info@taimi.ca Website: www.taimi.ca Established: 2006 Manufacturer of the toughest swivels in the world, Taimi Hydraulics offers unique and innovative products. Our promise is to help increase your productivity, profitability, reduce your operation costs while protecting the environment. Taimi’s swivel products are chosen by most of the major forestry equipment manufacturers for their outstanding reliability, durability and simplicity.
STRIPPER TREE DELIMBERS 98 Old Route 26 South Paris, ME 04281-6304 207-890-6597 Email: samsessions@yahoo.com
TAJFUN USA 6910 Salashan Pkwy., Ste. B-3 Ferndale, WA 98248 360-224-1589 Email: tajfunusa@tajfun.com TEXAS REFINERY CORP. G PO Box 711 Fort Worth, TX 76101-0711 817-332-1161, 800-827-0711 Fax: 800-582-3329 Email: lube1@texasrefinery.com
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TIGERCAT INDUSTRIES INC.
2205 Parrott Way, Ste. E. Kelso, WA 98626 360-232-8572 Fax: 360-703-3990 Email: summitmach@gmail.com Website: www.summitattachments.com Summit is the leader in hydraulic cable systems for the logging industry. Summit’s products include winch assist systems, hydraulic swing yarders, grapple carriages, loader grapples and shovel yarder conversions also known as Yoders. Summit specializes in the repower, repair, and modification of equipment from most machinery manufacturers. Summit provides services such as processor head installation, custom truck builds, grouser extensions, hitch installation, custom manufacturing, and custom hydraulic system/component design. We are a distributor in a wide range of hydraulic parts and accessories as well as winch systems. Summit is the most highly focused steep slope and forestry related machinery and attachments manufacturer in the industry.
PO Box 637 Brantford, ON N3T 5P9 Canada 519-753-2000 Fax: 519-753-8272 Email: comments@tigercat.com Website: www.tigercat.com Established: 1992 Tigercat specializes in the design and manufacture of premium quality harvesting systems that deliver wood to roadside at the lowest cost per ton. With a range of full-tree and cut-tolength equipment including feller bunchers, skidders, loaders, harvesters, forwarders, felling and harvesting attachments as well as a range of site preparation and land clearing equipment, Tigercat is the most highly focused player in the forestry equipment industry. www.facebook.com/Tigercat
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(Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div.) TIMBERBLADE INC. 508 Meadow Wood Ln. Woodstock, ON N4T 0J2 Canada 519-532-3283 Fax: 888-763-2336 Email: maurice@timberblade.com
SEPPI M USA 9077 Gold Park Dr. West Chester, OH 45011 513-443-6339 Email: info.usa@seppi.com SERCO LOADERS TWO HARBORS MACHINE 511 25th Ave. Two Harbors, MN 55616-5068 218-834-5118 Fax: 218-834-2498 Email: dwilliamson@sercoloaders.com
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TIMBERWOLF MFG. CORP. 126 Spruce St. Rutland, VT 05701-4420 802-775-4227
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WEILER FORESTRY 100 SL White Blvd. LaGrange, GA 30241 706-443-7567 Email: ppearce@weilerforestry.com
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WALLINGFORDS INC. 1010 Kennedy Memorial Dr. Oakland, ME 04963-4830 207-465-9575, 800-323-3708 Fax: 207-465-9601 Email: info@wallingfords.com WARATAH 375 International Park, Ste. 200 Newnan, GA 30265 770-692-0380 Fax: 770-692-0384 Email: michael.campbell@us.waratah.net
TITAN TRAILERS INC. 1129 Hwy. #3 Delhi, ON N4B 2W6 Canada 519-688-4826 Fax: 519-688-6453 Email: info@titantrailers.com
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WESTERN TRAILER CO. PO Box 5598 Boise, ID 83705-0598 208-344-2539, 888-344-2539 Fax: 208-344-1521 Email: wtsales@westerntrailer.com
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555 Alabama St., Montgomery, AL 36104-4309; 334-265-8733, Fax: 334-262-1258; J. Moon, exec. dir.
Great Lakes Timber Professionals Assn.
California Forestry Assn.
Independent Logging Contractors Of Alabama
PO Box 12339, Salem, OR 97309-0339; 503-364-1330, Fax: 503-3640836; Email: aol@oregonloggers.org; www.oregonloggers.org; R. Storm, exec. vp. Annual Meeting: January 21-22 2021, Valley River Inn, Eugene, OR
1215 K St., Ste. 1830, Sacramento, CA 95814-3947; 916-444-6592; Email: richg@calforests.org; www.calforests.org; R. Gordon, pres./ ceo. Annual Meeting: March 10-11 2021, Kimpton, The Sawyer Hotel, Sacramento, CA
Alaska Forest Assn.
111 Stedman St., Ste. 200, Ketchikan, AK 99901; 907-225-6114, Fax: 907-225-5920; Email: afa@akforest.org; www.akforest.org; T. Axelson, exec dir.
Carolina Loggers Association
American Loggers Council
PO Box 966, Hemphill, TX 75948-0966; 409-625-0206, Email: americanlogger@aol.com; www.amloggers.com; S. Jarvis, pres; T. Christopherson, 1st vp; A. Irish, 2nd vp. Annual Meeting: October 7-9 2021, Coeur d’Alene Resort, Coeur d’Alene, ID
Arkansas Forestry Assn.
1213 W. 4th St., Little Rock, AR 72201-1905; 501-374-2441, Fax: 501-374-6413; www.arkforests.org; M. Braswell, exec. vp. Annual Meeting: October 5-7 2021, Embassy Suites, Rogers, AR
PO Box 785, Henderson, NC 27536-0785; 504-884-4585; Email: contact@ncloggers.com; www.carolinalogger.com; E. Smith, exec. dir.; C. Capps, pres.
Council On Forest Engineering (COFE)
PO Box 6125, Morgantown, WV 26506; 240-382-2633; Email: admin@cofe.org; http://cofe.org; B. Spong. Annual Meeting: June 6-9 2021, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Florida Forestry Assn.
Arkansas Timber Producers Assn.
2311 Biscayne Dr., Ste. 206, Little Rock, AR 72227-3393; 501-2242232, 888-403-2232, Fax: 501-224-9625; Email: lboccarossa@ sbcglobal.net; www.arkloggers.com; J. Wilson, pres.; M. Pierce, vp. Annual Meeting: August 13-14 2021, Southwest Forest Products Expo 2021, Hot Springs Convention Ctr., Hot Springs, AR
Associated California Loggers
555 Capitol Mall, Ste. 460, Sacramento, CA 95814-4581; 916-4417940, Fax: 916-441-7942; Email: ecarleson@calog.com; www.californialoggers.com; E. Carleson, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: January 12-14, 2021, Atlantis Casino Resort & Spa, Reno, NV
Associated Contract Loggers & Truckers Of Minnesota
Associated Oregon Loggers Inc.
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Forest History Society
2925 Academy Rd., Durham, NC 27705; 919-682-9319, Fax: 919682-2349; Email: andrea.anderson@foresthistory.org; www.foresthistory.org; S. Anderson, pres.; E. Lehman, lib./archivist.
Forest Products Society
251 SL White Blvd., LaGrange, GA 30241; 706-443-1337; www. forestprod.org; C. Butts, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: June 14-17 2021, Madison, WI
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1901 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Ste. 303, Washington, DC 20006-3459; 202-296-3937, Fax: 202-296-0562; www.forestresources.org; D. Hawkinson, pres.; C. ALexander, chair; D. Lemmens, vice chair; M. Stewart, vice chair; J. Parnell, vice chair.
Associated Logging Contractors Inc.
Forestry Assn. of South Carolina
PO Box 671, Coeur D Alene, ID 83816-0671; 208-667-6473, 800-6328743 (ID), Fax: 208-667-2144; Email: alc@idahologgers.com; www. idahologgers.com; G. Ikola, pres.; M. Mahon, vp.; S. Keough, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: April 23-24 2021, Best Western Lodge at River’s Edge, Orofino, ID
4901 Broad River Rd., Columbia, SC 29212; 803-798-4170; Email: scfa@scforestry.org; www.scforestry.org; C. Crawford, pres. Annual Meeting: November 10-12 2021, Hyatt Regency, Greenville, SC
Georgia Forestry Assn.
PO Box 1217, Forsyth, GA 31029-1217; 478-992-8110; Email: info@ gfagrow.org; www.gfagrow.org; M. Hestad, dir. of comm.
2021 Major Industry Trade Shows IMPORTANT: With restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic continuing to cause events to be delayed or cancelled, please double-check dates and locations for all events before making plans to attend. April 7-9: Intermountain Logging Conference, Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane Valley, WA: 208-2453425; www.intermountainlogging.org April 16-18: Forst Live, Exhibition Center, Offenburg, Germany; www.forst-live.de May 14-15: Northeastern Forest Products Expo, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor, ME; 315-369-3078; www.nefpexpo.net May 20-22: Sierra Cascade Logging Conference & Forest Products-Construction Equipment Expo, Shasta District Fairgrounds, Anderson, CA; 530-222-1290 May 21-22: East Coast Sawmill & Logging Expo, Richmond Raceway Complex, Richmond, VA; www.exporichmond.com June 6-8: SkogsElmia, Bratteborgs gard, Jonkoping, Sweden; www.elmia.se August 11-13: Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA; www.sfpaexpo.com September 9-11: Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo, UP State Fairgrounds, Escanaba, MI 715-282-5828; www.gltapa.org September 17-18: Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show, Starkville, MS; 662-325-7948; www.midsouthforestry.org October 1-3: Paul Bunyan Show, Guernsey County Fairgrounds, Lore City (Cambridge), OH 43755; 888-388-7997; www.ohioforest.org 34
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PO Box 1278, Rhinelander, WI 54501-1278; 715-282-5828, Fax: 715282-4941; www.gltapa.org; H. Schienebeck, exec. dir.
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Intermountain Logging Conference
PO Box 482, Saint Maries, ID 83861-0482; 208-245-3425; Email: Reva@intermountainlogging.org; www.intermountainlogging.org; E. Sussi, co-pres.; E. Henderson, co-pres. Annual Meeting: April 7-9 2021, Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane Valley, WA
Kentucky Forest Industries Assn.
106 Progress Dr., Frankfort, KY 40601-8695; 502-695-3979, Fax: 502-695-8343; Email: bob@kfia.org; www.kfia.org; D. Allard, pres.; G. Crawford, vp.; A Middleton, sec./treas.
Louisiana Forestry Assn.
PO Box 5067, Alexandria, LA 71307-5067; 318-443-2558; Email: lfa@ laforestry.com; www.laforestry.com; P. Spillers, pres. Annual Meeting: August 24-26 2021, Golden Nugget, Lake Charles, LA
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PO Box 332, Linkwood, MD 21835; 410-823-1789; Email: info@ mdforests.org; www.mdforests.org; B. Hill, exec. dir; J Hinson, pres.
Michigan Association Of Timbermen
7350 State Hwy. M123, Newberry, MI 49868-8179; 906-293-3236, Fax: 906-293-5444; Email: msears@timbermen.org; www.timbermen.org; M. Sears., admin. Annual Meeting: April 22-23 2021, The Bavarian Inn Lodge, Frankemuth, MI
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620 N. State St., Ste. 201, Jackson, MS 39202-3398; 601-354-4936, Fax: 601-354-4937; Email: mfa@msforestry.net; www.msforestry.net; msforestry.blogsport.com
PO Box 659, Quitman, MS 39355-0659; 601-776-5754, Fax: 601-7762737; Email: mla@msloggers.org; www.msloggers.org; D. Livingston, dir.; K. Martin, pres.
505 E. State St., Jefferson City, MO 65101-3024; 573-634-3252, Fax: 573-636-2591; www.moforest.org; B. Brookshire, exec. dir.
Montana Logging Assn.
PO Box 1716, Kalispell, MT 59903-1716; 406-752-3168, Fax: 406756-9574; Email: coleen@logging.org; www.logging.org; F. Quiram, pres.; M. Newton, vp. Annual Meeting: May 14-15 2020, Holiday Inn Downtown, Missoula, MT
NH Timber Harvesting Council
54 Portsmouth St., Concord, NH 03301-5486; 603-224-9699, Fax: 603-225-5898; www.nhtoa.org; J. Stock, exec. dir.;D. Park, office mgr.; C. Birch, program mgr.
North Carolina Forestry Assn.
1600 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh, NC 27608-2356; 800-231-7723, Fax: 919-832-6188; Email: jhatcher@ncforestry.org; www.ncforestry.org; J. Hatcher, exec. dir.
Northeastern Loggers Assn.
PO Box 69, Old Forge, NY 13420-0069; 315-369-3078, Fax: 315369-3736; Email: nela@northernlogger.com; www.northernlogger. com; J. Phaneuf, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: May 14-15 2021, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor, ME
Ohio Forestry Assn.
507 Main St., Ste. 200, Zanesville, OH 43701; 888-388-7337, Fax: 740-297-4153; Email: info@ohioforest.org; www.ohioforest.org; B. Perkins, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: October 1-3 2021, Paul Bunyan Show, Cambridge, OH
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2463 Morrea Dr., Roseburg, OR 97471; 360-202-7014; Email: register@olcnw.com; www.olcnw.com; D. Oster-Courtney, gen mgr.
Oregon Logging Conference & Show
PO Box 10669, Eugene, OR 97440-2669; 541-686-9191, Fax: 855-8660572; Email: rikki@oregonloggingconference.com; www.oregonloggingconference.com; R. Wellman, conf. mgr. Annual Meeting: February 25-27 2021, Lane County Events Center and Fairgrounds, Eugene, OR
South Carolina Timber Producers Assn.
PO Box 811, Lexington, SC 29071-0811; 803-957-9919, 800-3712240, Fax: 803-957-8990; Email: bcjpaw@windstream.net; www. scloggers.com; J Seckinger, chmn.; J. Key, vice chmn.; C. Jaynes, pres./ceo.; R. Crowder, sec./treas. Annual Meeting: February 19-21 2021, DoubleTree Resort by Hilton, Myrtle Beach, SC
Southeastern Wood Producers Assn. Inc.
PO Box 9, Hilliard, FL 32046-0009; 904-845-7133, Fax: 888-2523919; www.swpa.ag; R. Fowler, pres.; J. Gray, vp; T. Carroll, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: March 5-6 2021, Okefenokee Fairgrounds, Waycross, GA
Tennessee Forestry Assn.
300 W. Second St., Ste. 1002, Harrisburg, PA 17101-1222; 717-2342500; Email: thepfa@paforestry.org; www.paforestry.org
PO Box 290693, Nashville, TN 37229-0693; 615-883-3832, Fax: 615883-0515; Email: cdinwiddie@tnforestry.com; www.tnforestry.com; R. Kidd, pres.; C. Dinwiddie, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: September 8-10 2021, Westin Hotel, Chattanooga, TN
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PO Box 1488, Lufkin, TX 75902-1488; 936-632-8733, Fax: 936632-9461; Email: tfa@texasforestry.org; www.texasforestry.org; R. Hughes, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: October 19-21 2021, The Fredonia Hotel, Nacogdoches, TX
Texas Logging Council
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Virginia Loggers Assn.
5251 Tavern Ln., Goochland, VA 23063; 804-677-4290; Email: info@ valoggers.org; www.valoggers.org; F. Myers, pres.; R. Jenkins, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: August 5-8 2021, Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, VA
Washington Contract Loggers Assn.
PO Box 2168, Olympia, WA 98507-2168; 800-422-0074; Email: jerryb@loggers.com; www.loggers.com; E. Bryant, chmn. of board; J. Bonagofsky, pres/ceo. Annual Meeting: April 2-3 2021, Tulalip Resort Casina, Tulalip, WA
West Virginia Forestry Assn.
2008 Quarrier St., Charleston, WV 25311; 681-265-5019; Email: wvfa@wvfa.org; www.wvfa.org; E. Carlson, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: July 15-17 2021, Cannan Valley Resort & Conference Ctr., Davis, WV
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Ryan Wood provides a way for loggers to cut downtime, increase production.
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Schwab Brothers Hydraulics of Perry, Fla. has introduced the CHAD (Compact Hose Assembly Device) series. These portable, air-over-hydraulic devices can be attached to the bed of a service truck or installed in a service van for easy, on-site hose crimping, potentially saving hours in downtime. CHAD is available in three size variations: CHAD Lite, CHAD Max and CHAD Custom, to fit individual specifications. Each CHAD includes an air-over-hydraulic crimping machine in a Camlocker box and comes with crimping dies, an air powered rotary saw for cutting hoses, 10 cutting discs and a crimp specification chart to help match die and fitting sizes. The crimping machine plugs into any air compressor and is foot pedal operated. It can crimp a maximum of 1 in. 4- or 2-wire with 120-ton crimping force and features a manually adjustable micrometer and accurate crimp specifications. The Camlocker box offers storage space to keep fittings organized according to size. Replacement hoses and fittings are available from Schwab Brothers Hydraulics. Ryan Wood, director of sales/marketing for Schwab Brothers, points out that success in logging today is often a question of production, leaving margins very sensitive to downtime. Hydraulic hose failure often means a trip to town in the middle of the work day, with production halted in the meantime. With a CHAD on the job site, that time is reduced from hours to minutes. Cody Alexander, whose CA Timber, LLC operates from Ailey, Ga., has had a CHAD set up in his service trailer since summer 2020, when Wood brought one out to his job site. “We love it,” Alexander states. “It’s operator friendly; once he showed us how to set it up, everyone on the crew knows how to do it. It helps, having all the fittings organized. If I need more I just I shoot a text to Ryan and the fittings are here in two days. It makes it simple and easy.” As CA Timber runs all new machines, Alexander may average not even one busted hose a month, but when it does happen, he says the CHAD has been well worth its cost in time saved. A crew running older machines could benefit even more. TIMBER HARVESTING & FOREST OPERATIONS
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EquipmentWorld Rigoni Ties Schwab Brothers is an LLC affiliated with M.A. Rigoni, Inc., a logging concern that has been in business for more than 60 years. Brothers Chad and Richard Schwab own Schwab Brothers and co-own Rigoni with their father, Rodney Schwab. When Rodney’s long-time partner Gary Brett retired two years ago, the younger Schwabs took over daily management of the business. Although the CHAD was named for older brother Chad—he insists he was not part of that meeting when the acronym was chosen—Chad himself says the idea to start Schwab Brothers Hydraulics came from his little brother Richard. “A master distributor for Vitillo hose made a presentation at the Southeastern Wood Producers Assn. meeting,” Richard recalls. “I was
Crouse Represents Bandit In Arkansas Bandit Industries has expanded its agreement with Crouse Truck Parts and Equipment to represent sales, service and support of Bandit’s horizontal grinders and whole tree chippers for the state of Arkansas. “We couldn’t be happier to have Crouse Truck Parts and Equipment as an authorized Bandit dealer, so we are thrilled they’ve agreed to expand their product lines,” says Bandit Sales Manager Craig Davis. “Our current and potential customers in Arkansas can rely on the experts at Crouse to answer their questions about any large Bandit equipment, or get their machines serviced at their dealership location.” Crouse Truck Parts and Equipment is located 8.5 miles south of Sheridan on Highway 167. Visit crousetruckparts.com or call 1-870-942-3908.
Ponsse Completes Machine 16,000 The 16,000th Ponsse forest machine was completed at the end of September at Ponsse’s factory in Vieremä, Finland. The Ponsse Ergo harvester was delivered to Celulose Nipo-Brasileira S.A. (CENIBRA) for operation in eucalyptus plantations in Brazil to meet the needs of local pulp production. Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
thinking the whole time, I have all the contacts, I could help this young guy out. Also I could present it to my brother that we could put their product in our shop, and save some money using it in our logging crews. We have our own crimper and shop anyway.” Later, while watching a presentation on the history of John Deere, he had an epiphany: the Schwabs could go into business with the hose company as a partner. “We could sell hydraulic hose out of our shop.” The concept, design, development and patenting of the CHAD came about from that epiphany. That venture is just one example of how the Rigoni management team seeks out ways to think outside the logging box. For instance, about a year after starting Schwab Brothers Hydraulics, they were presented with an opportunity to buy a local diesel repair
shop from a longtime family friend who was ready to retire. What was Scott’s Repair is now the repair division of Schwab Brothers Hydraulics. “We are proactive,” Chad says. “We go out and look for things, we try things. We’re hungry. We’re not going to jump into something blind, but we want to look at new ideas, new ways of doing things to make our business better. In some cases loggers got paid more for timber in the ’80s than we do today, so we have to get creative and reinvent ourselves almost daily.” Looking at the CHAD, the hose business that birthed it and the repair shop that became part of it, Richard says, “We found ways to take a net cost, dead cost centers, and turn them into profit centers.” For more information, email ryan@ schwabhydraulics.com; visit schwabbrothershydraulics.com
Ponsse has worked in close cooperation with Cenibra since 2014 in extremely difficult slope conditions in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. This cooperation has provided Ponsse R&D valuable information about wood harvesting needs in steep slope conditions. “I would like to thank Cenibra for the excellent partnership so far. I would also like to thank Ponsse personnel that have made all this possible in Brazil,” says Marko Mattila, Sales, Service and Marketing Director, Ponsse Plc. The eight-wheeled Ergo is equipped with a Ponsse C5 crane, a Ponsse H7 Euca harvester head and the Ponsse Synchrowinch solution. Ponsse established a subsidiary in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, in 2006. Its team in Brazil consists of 248 people divided between five different locations in the country. During 2021, Ponsse expects to double its staff in Brazil.
rial defects up to 3,000 working hours. Previously, the warranty was 2,000 hours for the parts themselves and up to 1,000 hours for the work, so it is a significant improvement. In addition to an improved warranty on parts, labor costs and travel, Rottne Industri also covers the first service, which is done after 100 working hours. The first service sometimes discovers things that need to be readjusted and the customer should not pay for it, Rottne states.
Rottne Expands Warranty Terms Rottne Industri AB has introduced new warranty terms for its newly produced forestry machines. The new basic warranty foresees that Rottne Industri replaces for free of charge the machine parts that break down due to manufacturing or mate-
Ligna Changes 2021 Show Dates Organziers of the Ligna show— Deutsche Messe and VDMA—announced that the large woodworking machinery event, originally scheduled for May 2021, is rescheduled for September 27 to October 1, 2021. The announcement comes in view of ongoing developments and infections of COVID 19. "Due to the ongoing pandemic, increasing restrictions and the renewed lockdown, there is great uncertainty in the market," emphasizes Dr. Andreas Gruchow, Deutsche Messe Managing Board member. "The decision to postpone Ligna was a very difficult one for us, but it is the only consistent measure to give all those involved planning security and the necessary lead time for preparations.” JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021
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John Deere announces the new 953ML Shovel Logger, providing a purpose-built solution for loggers operating in wetland and swamp conditions. The 953ML is equipped to help loggers outmaneuver the muck, tackling challenging job sites with its powerful live heel boom, durable track system and comfort-boosting operator station. Equipped with a 330 HP John Deere PowerTech 9.0-liter diesel engine, the 953ML delivers the power needed to tackle challenging conditions. The most notable feature on the 953ML is the 36' live heel swamp-logger boom with its 60" grapple capacity. With the live heel boom, control over the positioning of the log is improved during timber-handling operations. Another key feature, the long and wide undercarriage, combined with excellent ground clearance and proven tractive effort, maximizes its maneuverability and flotation in soft, swampy and spongy conditions. “It’s got all the reach you need to get down into a hole and grab something. It has the lifting power and stability for handling big logs. And with the long tracks, it has plenty of flotation for working in wetlands,” says Trey Freeman, Long Bay Trucking. “The ride and feel are smooth and comfortable. There’s plenty of room in the cab, and the visibility is great. I can look out and grab what I need to grab. And if I start to get stuck, I can see the tracks really well.” The operator station on the 953ML offers improved visibility, equipped with floor-to-ceiling front and side windows along with an overhead skylight. Visit johndeere.com
nents with the field proven and similarly classed Tigercat 480B track driven mulcher as well as the popular M726G wheel driven mulcher. The 760B was designed primarily for silviculture applications. Forestry companies require the capability to efficiently clean up residual post-harvest forest debris and grind stumps to ground level. The 760B meets this requirement and the machine will also find application in large scale land clearing and ROW projects. In stable, well drained soil types, a high horsepower wheel driven machine has many advantages including quicker travel speeds, lower operating costs and the ability to run a wide mulching head for improved coverage and wider swaths, increasing quality and productivity. As such, Tigercat also designed a 3 m wide mulching head to complement the new carrier. The new 4061-30 mulching head is based on the original Tigercat 2.5 m 4061, with several updates and enhancements. The 2.5 m 4061 will be rebranded as the 4061-25 when similar updates are introduced in early 2021. The 760B will be standard equipped with boom float, LogOn (Tigercat’s wifi based machine monitoring system), ground level fueling and Tigercat’s WideRange transmission. The operator’s station was designed with operator comfort in mind, with a climate controlled seat, Bluetooth audio connectivity and ergonomic controls. Tigercat mulcher carriers offer superior build quality, greater hydraulic efficiency, better operator ergonomics and easier access to components and daily service points than competing mulcher carriers. The result is greater uptime and higher productivity. Visit tigercat.com
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American-made Battery Operated Barriers are designed to keep unauthorized vehicles out while easily letting logging vehicles pass. The portable gates are also used for security, staging, parking, during emergencies, and for numerous day-to-day applications as well. Built for harsh environments, the safety gates are 100% self-contained, instantly deployed, and can be used in any type of weather. With the solar option, the units can function day and night without the need for external power or charging. Currently used by the military, mining, oil and gas companies, construction firms, and numerous other entities, the safety gates have standard features that include a reflective arm and tower for night duty, adjustable levelers, security anchor points, high impact urethane coating, enclosed battery box with security chain loops and ultraheavy duty components. TIMBER HARVESTING & FOREST OPERATIONS
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Expanded Titan Tire Lineup Titan International is expanding its STL3 tire line to include a total of 7 tire sizes. The new 875/65R29 size is in high demand for articulated dump trucks, wheel loaders and scrapers. Matt Miller, Tire Technology Manager, R&D at Titan, comments, “Our customers have been asking for it in this new size to support a wider range of equipment models, as well as to overcome some of the challenges they’re having with competitive tires in this size, which include lack of availability and rim slip that causes bead chafing which can lead to air loss.” The dual-taper bead design and extra-wide steel bead on the STL3 give it high resistance to rim indexing. With
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its E-3/L-3 non-directional tread pattern and center-riding rib, the STL3 also provides excellent traction, a smooth ride and a long life. Its full-width shoulder lug provides lateral stability. Available in cut-resistant and wear-resistant compounds, it’s suitable for a range of conditions. The 875/65R29 joins the 750/65R25 and 26.5R25 sizes with wear-resistance compounds, along with four additional sizes offered with cut-resistant compounds—20.5R25, 23.5R25, 26.5R25 and 29.5R25. Visit titan-intel.com
Nokian Starts Up R&D Center The new Nokian Heavy Tyres R&D Center is up and running in Nokia, Finland. Nokian has invested heavily on a state-ofthe-art test center, upgrading the testing capabilities to a whole new level Tire scanner at Nokian Heavy Tyres R&D Center with added automation and capacity. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, many phases of the construction process were managed remotely. “This kind of flexible problem-solving has been typical
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for the whole construction project, and it has kept us on schedule. Hats off for the whole team that made it possible!” says Development Manager Matti Kaunisto. The nearly 4,000 square meter facility is a vast improvement both in terms of testing quantity and quality. “For example, the drum testing capacity grew significantly,” says R&D Director Kalle Kaivonen. “The product development and OEM collaboration are much more efficient. Thanks to the added capacity, the earlier bottlenecks in testing have been eliminated. And there is plenty of room for future investments” The new machinery encompasses more data and better analysis. The whole testing process from installation to measurements and 3D scanning, from pressure testing to section-cutting is optimized to provide quality data efficiently for different information needs. “Different kinds of tests and analysis can be ordered by a product development team, customer service or by a machine manufacturer, for example,” Kaivonen adds. Special attention was paid to the safe and ergonomic handling of the tires and wheels. For example, the process where the tire segments are scanned with a high-resolution scanner and transferred digitally fits well with today’s social distancing requirements. There’s hardly any waste that isn’t recycled and the heat generated by the test equipment is gathered for heating the facility, and more heat is generated by the local biofuel plant. Visit nokiantyres.com
Remsoft Partners With Forestx Remsoft, a forestry planning and optimization software leader, has partnered with ForestX, a Sweden-based consultant and IT service provider in forest digitalization, to expand its presence to the Scandinavian region. The partnership brings together two industry-leading experts that have a deep understanding of forest management processes, and a focus on helping forestry companies modernize their supply chain. At the forefront of forest management and digitalization, there is an opportunity for Scandinavian forestry companies to improve productivity with planning analytics and optimization that unlocks intelligence from all their available data for smarter decision-making. ForestX will add Remsoft’s forest management planning and optimization analytics software to its portfolio, enabling customers in Sweden, Norway and Denmark to increase efficiency and improve margins from forest harvesting to mill operations. Carl Barck, CEO and co-founder of ForestX, says, “Many of our clients are seeking to connect and automate manual planning processes for visibility and productivity improvement. They will see clear advantage in Remsoft’s suite of optimized planning and scheduling software.” Visit remsoft.com 40
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Good Riddance 2020! DANNY DRUCTOR As we look back on the year 2020, the majority of us can probably say it can’t happen fast enough! With the COVID-19 pandemic, catastrophic wildfires, hurricanes, mill explosions, the downturn in hardwood marDructor kets resulting from tariffs, extremely wet operating conditions and shuttered paper and sawmills in many parts of the country, 2020 has been without a doubt one of the roughest and toughest years for professional loggers and log truckers to keep their businesses afloat, no pun intended. It started with the tariffs and ended with the extended wildfire and hurricane season, and somewhere in between the issues that surrounded the COVID-19 pandemic. While loggers remained an essential service provider, many of the mills that we produced for could not maintain enough personnel to run their facilities due to the illness. At a time when paper products in the U.S. such as toilet paper were flying off of store shelves, loggers supplying the raw fiber need to produce those products were seeing their delivered prices drop. As do-it-yourself projects picked up because of the stay at home mandates, lumber prices soared due to the shortage of lumber caused, in part, by lack of mill capacity due to employee shortages. We asked both Congress and the Administration for some type of relief package to help those businesses that are struggling stay afloat long enough to reorganize their business plans in order to do just that, stay in business. While we had some help from both sides of the aisle in both the House and the Senate, the ability of Congress to pass legislation was hampered by the partisan politics that seem to be the new norm in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, we found that the United States Department of Agriculture failed to see the similarities between agricultural producers and loggers and our attempts at getting assistance by way of the CFAP program were rejected, perhaps because the advisors to the Secre42
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tary do not understand our industry or perhaps the Secretary himself was not interested enough in the issue. We provided them with the data generated by Forest2Market showing the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic on the logging and log trucking industry, but to no avail. Meanwhile, commercial Christmas Tree growers are eligible for the program even as they are set to have a banner year as social distancing and stay at home policies are still in effect in many states across the U.S. Go figure? Loggers are survivors as well as adaptors. Once again the majority of you have risen to the occasion and figured out a way to make a go of it, but there have been casualties, many that could have been avoided with an assistance program from the federal government. Besides legislation that we have worked on for many years such as the Safe Routes Act and the Future Logging Careers Act, it has become evident that one important recognition needs to be made and that is to create parity between logging and the rest of the agricultural commodity producers. We aren’t going to cry for assistance every time the ground gets too wet to work or another mill goes down due to market fluctuations, but logging and log trucking businesses should have the opportunity, the same as the other agricultural producers, to at least qualify for low interest loans or even small forgivable loans when pandemics that are totally out of our control shut down the businesses and markets that we rely on to deliver our product to. 2020 can’t get out of here fast enough, but we will have our work cut out for us in 2021. Wishing each and every one of you a safe, happy and blessed holiday season and a prosperous 2021! Danny Dructor is executive vice president of American Loggers Council. ALC is an 501(c)(6) not for profit trade association representing professional timber harvesters throughout the United States. For more information please contact the American Loggers Council at 409-625-0206, or americanlogger@aol.com, or visit our website at www.amloggers.com.
Arauco Achieves CO2 Net Surplus Charles Kimber, ARAUCO’s Senior Vice-President, Human Resources
and Sustainability, announced that the Chilean forestry company achieved certification as carbon neutral. This means that the carbon dioxide captures of the company are equal to or greater than its emissions. ARAUCO, based in Chile, states it becomes the first forestry company in the world to meet this important goal. This achievement is sustained by two complementary paths: efficiencies at an operational level that allow the company to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and an increase in CO2 captures by the native forest, forest plantations, and carbon stored in forestry products. The company says the current status is built on a path it began paving in the ’90s with regard to emission reductions through integrating clean and renewable energy from biomass into its production processes. The method used by ARAUCO to demonstrate its carbon neutrality was conducted in accordance to the Neutrality Protocol guidelines produced by auditing and consulting entity, Deloitte, which was applied to all of the company’s businesses for the year 2018. According to the company, ARAUCO generated a net surplus of 2,599,753 tons of CO2. “ARAUCO has developed a climate strategy that focuses on the complementary combination of native forest conservation and sustainable production, manufacturing products from the natural, renewable and noble resource that is wood,” the company states. Price Waterhouse Coopers audited the calculation process of the carbon capture by forests and its storage in forest products.
TFA Presents Logger Award To Futral Texas Forestry Assn. (TFA) presented Deaven Futral, owner and operator of Southern Logging, LLC, with the Outstanding Logger of the Year award during the organization’s virtual annual conference held in late October at their headquarters in Lufkin, Texas. “Deaven has been an active member of TFA, serving in leadership roles for Texas Logging Council and serving on the TFA Board of Directors,” says Rob Hughes, Executive Director, Texas Forestry Assn. “His leadership and experience were cruTIMBER HARVESTING & FOREST OPERATIONS
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WV Students Gain Tree Felling Skills Training with professionals, students in the Glenville State College (GSC) Dept. of Land Resources timber harvesting course recently participated in the West Virginia Div. of Forestry’s (WVDOF) Timber Felling and Chainsaw Safety Workshop on the GSC Farm. Students learned the importance of personal protective equipment, timber harvesting laws and regulations, how to obtain a timber harvesting license in the State of West Virginia, and OSHA regulations. The workshop, organized by Service Forester Jesse King, was led by Johnny King and Jack Spencer of the Div. of Forestry. Following a session on laws and regulations, the students began refining the skills they had already learned in their timber harvesting course, as well as learning new skills along the way. The hands-on training included practicing notches, boring into a tree, spring pole removal, tree topping and more. Johnny King demonstrated a
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OLC Starts Fire Relief Fund Oregon logger Scott Melcher, president of the Oregon Logging Conference (OLC), announced the establishment of the OLC Repair & Recovery Fire Relief fund. The fund will be guided by a committee chaired by OLC board member Heidi Leib, who wanted to create a way to provide financial support to timber-related contractors affected by the fires as they struggle to recover and get back to work. Noting multiple relief efforts for the thousands of houses destroyed and the material loss from the fires, Leib says she saw a need to create a program to target businesses that had lost equipment, tools and supplies to the fires. The OLC Repair & Recovery Fire Relief fund is seeking to assist with insurance deductibles and the costs of moving and repairing equipment and replacing equipment and supplies. “These are the same people we rely on for forest salvage and restoration efforts,” she adds. Melcher says the group plans to reach out to forest products manufacturers, retailers, suppliers and individuals for donations to help build the fund. E-mail: firerelieffund@oregonloggingconference.com; call 541-686-9191.
Earthworm, Drax Working Together Earthworm Foundation and bioenergy and wood pellet producer Drax Group have launched a new evi-
dence-based approach to measure and evaluate the health of a forest, enabling the forestry industry to identify opportunities to support communities, biodiversity and tackle climate change. The new tool, known as Healthy Forest Landscapes (HFL), will ensure that working forests continue to benefit the communities that depend on them, as well as the environment, amid increasing demand for sustainable wood products across a wide range of industries. The HFL approach assesses four key areas: forest cover, carbon stock, biodiversity and community well-being. Richard Peberdy, Head of Sustainable Forests at Drax, comments, “The HFL tool provides a consistent framework for evaluating different types of forests in different regions and countries. It gives us a clearer picture of forest health and allows us to obtain the evidence that the forests we source from are replanted, continue to store carbon and remain biodiverse and healthy while sustaining jobs and other opportunities.” HFL measures changes in the forest landscape using empirical evidence such as big data from government statistics, and input from remote sensing technologies such as earth observation from satellites. HFL also uses an Earthworm-developed socio-economic evaluation methodology to assess community well-being. Preliminary findings from the first pilot study at Drax’s Amite pellet plant in Gloster, Miss in the Southeastern U.S. show stable forest cover, carbon and biodiversity levels through the period 2010 to 2018, with a slight overall increase in total forested 46
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NC Groups, CLA Fight COVID Outbreak As Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases hit rural communities harder than major cities in North Carolina and the second wave of the pandemic is felt across the U.S., the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute, the North Carolina Forestry Assn. (NCFA), and the Carolina Loggers Assn. (CLA) have come together again to create a new series of social media messaging posts to help keep loggers safe.
Dr. Robin Tutor Marcom, Director NC Agromedicine Institute, explains,” We work daily in rural communities across North Carolina; it’s alarming seeing the rates increase so rapidly, especially in our rural communities. It’s estimated 50% to 75% of those with COViD-19 don’t know they have it… that’s how it’s working its way into rural communities. That’s scary—a logger or farmer could bring this home to their loved ones or a grandchild could bring it to them unknowingly. This will not happen until there is widespread vaccination which is not expected until summer 2021. COVID19 deaths in rural areas among white, non-Hispanic and African American under 49 years of age continue to increase and are being attributed to community spread.” According to Ewell Smith, CLA Executive Director, “It makes sense for loggers to feel safe in the woods regarding COVID 19 given the nature of their
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