The new History channel series..Axe Men

[Scott S]

Originally Posted by 4RE KLR

I like the fact they are showing the little guy as well. I will almost always use the smaller guys if I can to help them out. They have families as well and if they hold up their product quality I will pay a little more to help them out. I always have.

I am a "smaller guy" with one sometimes two contracts at a time. I personally know The owners of Phil and Stumpbranch, both gentlemen I would trust with nearly anything but....

Just one example the show with the defective climbing gear...? we are required by rule to have two sets on hand if there is climbing to be done. What would happen if the climber became injured or stuck at the top of the spar? It does happen.... You have to have rescue gear on hand just in case, though I hate to climb and have considered just falling the spar in hopes he survives the fall.


Another instance is the truck that spun out...

It happens nearly every week, I have logging units where we staged a machine in a spot and pulled or pushed every truck. One thing you all should know is our trucks have scales on them and we load to the nearest 100 lbs of legal weight, log trucks are either empty or fully loaded there is no light hauling. The tractors you see on the highways are true wimps to the trucks our guys rely on. Sometimes a hungry trucker will convert a "road" rig into a log truck nearly every time there will be parts laying all over the mountain.


As for climate controlled storing of lumber, with the new rules regarding mold most all of the lumber I see is kiln dried now, then wrapped in plastic and set out in the weather....Climate controlled sounds like a new marketing scheme to me.