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(this column originally appeared in thenovember 1974 edition of Loggers World.)

Otto is a logger who falls timber. He worksfor Weyerhaeuser, grays river. He lives at

cathlamet. He is a finn.recently i received a book about finnish peo-

ple and gave it to otto. He was very interested inthe book. He heaped praise on author WalterMattila.

somewhere the phrase, “finns are glum” cameup. otto wrote me a letter and talked about this.the letter is gone-so i’m talking from memory,which is always dangerous. otto said that the ap-pearance of certain people may be glum but thatdoesn’t mean they are glum inside. these serious-faced people may be very happy, self-confidentpeople who don’t feel as though it must show onthe outside. they hold themselves in. they aremore humorous, friendlier and more outgoingthan you would judge from their normal expres-sion. When you are talking to this serious man allthis good stuff comes out. He doesn’t give out thesame material when in a crowd of people.

i agree. Many years ago i had to work with aman who wore a serious, glum expression. Woreit all the time. Looked the same asleep as he didawake. a man would think that he worried a lot,didn’t have a sense of humor and was pretty mis-erable. this was not true. the exact opposite wastrue. this man was interesting, full of humor andhad a fresh grasp on things. a pleasure to workwith. He had developed a poker face and neverplayed poker. but you couldn’t find these prizes ofpersonality without digging for them. the re-wards were worth three times the effort.

back to otto. to me otto oja has a grasp onlife and living that is rare and realistic. He knowswhat he wants to do. He has much freedom. youcan disagree with him and he allows you that

without personallychanging his feelingsabout the disagreementor you.

i first met this talent-ed logging man 14 yearsago. since then he and ihave exchanged at leastone letter a week. Let-ters of freedom. We don’tneed to answer each oth-er. We don’t need to talkabout what the otherman talks about.

from these letters idiscovered otto is a fine writer. He says thingssimply and plainly and clearly. He doesn’t need tore-write because he writes right the first time.

i like the way he looks at things. i like ottooja.

“The thing i admire most is peoplewho face life with courage, loyalty,and have a sense of humor.”

- Hal boyle

One of the first things i remember is my fa-ther as a young man clearing some land so

we could raise a garden. it boggled my youngmind to watch him carry and pile andburn large chunks. He was working inthe woods out of granite falls, Wash-ington. i was maybe six years old at thetime.

Hal boyle could have been talkingabout my dad. He had a family to raisein a damned tough time, and he raised atough family. that took courage. Loyal-ty? dad has the same friends and thesame loyalties he has always had. Hehas been consistent to himself and toothers. sense of humor? He had that, hehad to. Without a sense of humor any ofus would go mad.

He knew more songs and stories to tickle, in-form and entertain us than can be believed. itused to be a rare and wonderful evening when heand other loggers would exchange stories. someof those stories, most of them, are locked in mymemory bank yet.

there are thousands of men, maybe millions,like my dad. they go out and work-work everyday-and they work for others, for their families.year after year they put in their time and theyshare everything they make with others. shoes,

dentist bills, groceries, clothing and dozens of oth-er things they give to their mates and theiryoung.

it will continue to amaze me that this is done.that sharing is so commonplace. that people cantake the constant whipping they do and comeback grinning, and full of hope, for more.

bravery is so commonplace that we don’t evennotice it. People are hit hard and sudden by acci-dents and bad luck. they heal up, come back andare better than before.

amazing. Hopeful. i agree with Hal boyle,“the thing i admire most is people who face lifewith courage, loyalty and a sense of humor.”

When i was young we entertained ourselves-and did rather well at it too. When my dad andother loggers would get together they would tellthe most exciting stories. i couldn’t wait until iwas big enough to be a logger. My desire to be alogger probably started then and there.

Two of those stories stick in my mind.

One Saturday the super of the outfit came tothe bunkhouse and told the donkey puncher

that he’d have to stay in camp another day. thenext day, the super, charley, and the donkeypuncher, Jim, would have to tear the fire brickout of the boiler and put in new brick.

this wasn’t good news to Jim, but jobs werescarce and he stayed over. next day Jim was in

the firebox and prying the old brickloose. charley was outside and helpingfrom there. charley was constantly giv-ing orders and urging Jim to hurry-hur-ry-hurry. soon charley and Jimchanged places. charley was in the fire-box and putting in the new brick. Jimwas outside mixing mortar, handing inbrick and doing other things.

charley was still ordering and urgingand talking. this was getting on Jim’snerves.

finally he had enough of all this b.s.he could stand.

He reached over and slammed the firebox doorshut and popped shut the latch. He hollered inand told charley that he quit. He was going tocamp and he’d send someone back later to letcharley out.

Jim got to camp and stuffed his pack sack fullof his belongings. He slid into the pack and went

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By Mike crouse

the cook family migrated tooregon from ohio sometime

during the late 20s. “dad(Lawrence) was born in ohio,” tomcook explained. “i have no ideawhat dad did before coming to ore-gon. His father left when dad wasseven or eight years old, and duringthe great depression. dad and asister were taken in by a familynamed flemming,” noting thattimes were very tough, familiesknew each other, “they were allraised, knew each other... nobodygot adopted.” flemming worked inthe woods and the sawmills, he ex-plained. “the guy who raised himhad worked in the woods and done abit of everything, and they’d cut fire-wood,” cook explained, whichserved as his introduction into thewoods.

following high school graduationin the late 30s, cook worked for awhile at a Mill down in siletz, andaround 19 he started working withsmall and daniels Logging (out ofblodget) driving log truck beforeheading off to the navy and WorldWar ii.

cook returned to oregon after theservice and worked with his moth-er’s father (Marvin clark) loggingand milling those logs on clark’ssmall wood mill. “they’d log to themill, then mill the wood,” he ex-plained, with the day’s work beingdictated by the prevailing weather,until the markets tanked, “...andthey got out of the mill.”

cook continued logging for othersincluding, “...triple t (thompsontimber co.), cutting timber for rexclemens, and later worked forsmall and daniels who loaded forthompson timber another two tothree years.” He then spent anotherfew years working “... for the under-hills,” as well.

by the mid-50s he broke out onhis own logging with george Millerfor a number of years, later buyingMiller out and forming L.b. cookLogging company, which someyears later as his sons were oldenough became L.b. cook and sonLogging in ‘65 then L.b. cook &sons Logging company when theyincorporated in ‘71.

The next generation

Of the five offspring (threeboys and two girls) tom, born in

1950, was the youngest of the brood,next to his brother dale, “... he’s ayear, a month and a day older thanme,” he laughed recalling “we werealways the little boys.”wor

they went entirely throughschool in eddyville, with tom grad-uating in 1968. While he’d workedin the woods with his dad and broth-ers while growing up, typical ofmany at that age, “i had no idea,”what he wanted to do. “i enjoyed thework but was looking to do some-thing else. i didn’t think i wanted tobe a logger.”

He loved racing motorcycles atthe time and had designs on a mo-torcycle tour of europe with his sis-ter and her husband, but that pointin time and his being 19 the draftLottery was going on, “and my num-ber was pretty low.” With the strongpossibility being drafted looming onthe horizon, cook went down to seethe local army recruiter, “...whoconvinced me to join.”

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THE OWNERSHIP OF R&T Logging of Oregon (from the left) MattCook, youngest son and co-owner with his parents and partners,Rose and Tom Cook. R&T began as a partnership in ‘82 with Cookbecoming sole owner in ‘94. They’ve remained a small operation witha five man crew running a Madill 071 tower, or their 330 Kobelco yo-der, and are fully mechanized.

“i went to asphalt paving, opera-tions and maintenance school, partof the army engineers group,”cooke explained, “and then didn’t doany of that but that’s what i wastrained for,” he said with a smile. “iserved a tour in Vietnam,” and gotout during the downsizing in febru-ary of ‘73, returning to eddyville en-rolling in Linn-benton communitycollege, “just for something to do.”

When the weather began improv-ing in March, “i decided i should beoutdoors,” and he went to work inthe woods for his father’s company,L.b. cook Logging in 1975, earninghis spurs and learning the businessover the next several years.

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friend of his from high school, ronMcneely formed r&t Logging withas he described it, “...not a lot ofmoney.” cook got a skidder from hisdad at dtL, “... and ron brought apickup, so with a skidder, a couplechainsaws, and a pickup we were inbusiness logging.”

dtL had two sides operating atthat time and cook had worked ondtL’s thompson timber co. side,and when they started r&t “...kin-da took over that side.”

by november, “it was too wet forus to ground skid so we both went towork for another company, andwhen april came we went back (andthe site dried out) we went back toskidding for thompson. the follow-ing winter we were the rigging crewfor dtL,” he explained.

their third year of operationsthey contracted for north side Lum-ber co. and were out on their own.“it was lean but we made some mon-ey,” cook explained. they thenpicked up another job with a farmer,“...cutting his million ft. side... agood sized project for us and it paid.We fell it, bucked and yarded it.”

they ran a two-man show a fewmore years before hiring a thirdman, “...just looking for more pro-duction, which worked out,” cooksaid.

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CRAIG BORTON is rigging slingerfor R&T Logging and joined thecrew two years ago. He’s a fifthgeneration logger, and the son ofRaymond Borton whose a veteranmember of the R&T crew runningyarder, shovel or whatever’s need-ed. Borton lives in Eddyville.

GREG BIERMAN had just startedlogging, joining R&T a few weeksprior, having spent the previousdecade as a carpenter. He wasraised in Roseburg and his familyhad logged as well, and lives inDallas. “It’s going good,” he said.“I like it.”

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RAYMOND BORTON loads Dale Cooks Kenworth W900log truck with R&T’s Caterpillar 325D shovel that’s theirprimary loader and shovel logger. Borton’s a fourth gen-eration logger who started his career right out of highschool in 1980, starting for R&T setting chokers at thetime, and has worked for the company a few times. Heoperates a bit of everything, including the yoder, theyarder, and loader, making his home in Burnt Woods.

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TOM COOK seen here at thecontrols of R&T’s Madill 071yarder. They run an Acme 28carriage on the Madill andhave an Acme 10 carriage theyuse with their 330 Kobelco yo-der. They also use a set of sixFortronic remote control chok-er bells, using the control box(below) to release some or allchokers, which have workedvery well for them.

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around ‘90 they added a smalltruck mounted three-guyline skagitbu20, which enabled them to logyear round (even though they’dmanaged that ground skidding be-fore).

While working for Wtd a portionof the yarder ground they were log-ging was more than the bu20 wasreally up to, “...so we rented a towerfrom his brothers at dtL that wasjust sitting, a bu30 that had a de-troit diesel 471 for power and sixguylines. We could log further,

pulling bigger turns, and gettingmore wood with less effort!”

by ‘92 thompson timber toldthem they needed a bigger yarder,which led to their buying a Westcoast falcon yarder (which is simi-lar to a Madill 071), and a goodmove for them. also that year ray-mond borton, a long time crewmember, first joined the company.

in ‘94, Mcneely sold his interestto cook who became sole owner,who then decided to sell the yarder,logging with a skidder and acrawler and worked by himself for aspan of time, then shifted focus tothinning, hiring a small crew and

continuing in that fashion until2002, working both for thompsonand a number of private landown-ers. cook would admit he was slowto modernize the operations, anddidn’t own their own loader until2000, in part due to his brotherdale’s owning a truck mountedbarko 275, which he used to loadthe r&t logs himself. in 2000 r&tpurchased a used 907 kobelco load-er with 2,300 hours on it. “it was agood thing for us,” cook explained,and we started doing some shovel

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logging then as well.”

The Madill 071

two changes came into play in2002 for r&t: first the pur-

chase of a Madill 071 yarder andcook’s son Matt joining the crew.

the larger workhorse Madill 071was needed for the larger timberthey had in front of them to log. “Webought it used out of amboy (Wash-ington),” cook explained. “i figuredit was the right machine for the joband i’d been around ‘071’s before,”working for dtL, in addition to tow-er logging before.

Matt’s joining the crew not onlybrought new blood into the opera-tion, but also his interest in modern-izing and mechanizing the opera-tions. cook’s wife and business part-ner rose chimed in, “Matt modern-ized us, a darned good thing!” sheadded, “the most he brought to thecompany was going to more modernmethods, and pushing to do that,” aposition father tom agrees with.

Matt cook was raised around hisparent’s business and had worked inthe summers logging from when hewas a high school freshman.

When they bought their first de-limber, a used danzco, Matt builtthe trailer they used to move it withwhile still in high school.

they continued updating machin-ery and finally in 2006, at Matt’s in-sistence because he could see addi-tional work they could get by havinga high production processor, theypurchased an ‘03 Link-belt 210 witha new LogMax 7000 dangle headprocessor. “the agreement,” cookexplained, “was if we bought one,Matt would run it,” which he has.“it made a very big difference: from8-10 loads to 18-19 loads a day withthe processor.” tom then smiled andadded, “...what i noticed more thananything was we needed to findmore jobs.” Persistence in pursuitdoes pay off.

Persistence in changingtimes

as the overall lumber marketslowed around ‘07, thompson

timber, who they’d worked with formany years went to bidding for eachjob. “We looked at what the bidswere doing for us,” cook explained,“and decided we were just wearingour equipment out at those prices,”a further incentive to change priori-ties and find other jobs. “We had abase of people we’d logged for overthe years, steady clients, privateland owners,” and expanded uponthat base.

then in 2011, they took their firstjob with starker forests, inc. “We’dbeen talking with them off and onsince ‘08,” cook explained, “and hadbeen to their office several timesand said we were available. they’dcompleted an inventory and lookedto hire another logger, keep theirsmall operations emphasis on high-er quality. they are very consciousof a logger’s reputation and opera-tions, and we fit their profile. We(the family) had known them andhad worked for them in the ‘70swith dtL, and they gave us our firstjob in 2011. six months later we gotour second job there, and since thatpoint they’ve kept us pretty busy.”

The future

today’s company remains com-mitted to the quality logging

they’ve built their reputation on,primarily a single tower loggingside. their equipment gives themgood versatility for the forests theywork in including the Madill 071with an acme 28 carriage; a 330 ko-belco yoder (since 2010) with anacme 10 carriage; a cat 324d withWaratah 622b dangle head proces-sor (purchased in June 2013; a cat325 loader used on their landingand for some shovel logging; a 14cfiat allis crawler; a John deere650g crawler with winch; and aJohn deere 648e skidder withswing grapple.

they have a versatile crew of five,“Matt, raymond (borton) and craig(borton),” cook noted, “can do al-most anything.” they work a fiveday week, “...for the most part,whatever it takes at times.” J&tcovers health insurance for employ-ee and spouse, and pay a bonus,

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PONSSE

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VIEREMA, FINLAND

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TAMO JUNTUNEN, Ponssetrainer, processing logs withPonsse’s new Scorpion with anH5 harvesting head mounted onan C50 squirt boom. The Scor-pion, as you can see, is aunique approach with the boommounted above and behind theoperator cab that gives the op-erator an unobstructed view,great stability and comfort.

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See “9,000TH Ponsse” THE 9,000TH PONSSE, and ElephantKing 8-wheel drive forwarder,pictured with the entire factory and the new owners, EntreprisesForestieres Lemieux & Girard, Inc. out of Quebec, Ontario Canada

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press to visit their facilities, whichwe gladly accepted, thus in threeweeks’ time we were transportedover the span of 20 hours from Port-land to Vierema, finland.

We’d been to the Ponsse facility14 year’s prior in 1999, needless tosay they’ve had substantial leaps ingrowth and market since that pointin time.

We were on a pretty tight sched-ule over a couple of days... their fa-cilities have grown substantially ashas their market reach. first stopwas heading to their corporate cen-ter for an overview of the companyand their families history, presentedby chairman of the board, JuhaVidgren, with an overview of themarket by sales and Marketing di-rector Jarmo VidgrÇn, and the mar-kets in north american by area di-rector Marko Mattila.

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company, which is a corporationthat is still 60% family owned, runnot by accountants but the visionand commitment to their originalgoals.

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JUHA VIDGREN, Chairmanof the Board of PonsseOyj, presenting a aerialphoto of the Vierema plant,as part of the Ponsse his-tory.

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over several acres in the otherwise small villageof Vierema, and the largest employer in thatarea. the company in total employs over 1,000 onseveral different facilities.

the factory tour was led by Ponsee ceo Juhonummela, who explained the flow of materialsthrough the various sections of the factory, andthe importance of “lean manufacturing” in theoverall economics and quality control, as he led usthrough the factory. they were operating at fullcapacity with full line of Ponsse’s in some stage ofconstruction up and down the line, all custom or-dered.

following the tour and lunch, we assembledwith the both the morning and afternoon shift atthe Ponsse factory to take a picture of the 9,000th

machine, a Ponsse elephantking 8-wheel driveforwarder they’d built, and were presenting tothe purchasers, entreprises forestieres Lemieux& girard, inc. out of Quebec, ontario canada atthe plant.

from the plant out in the field for a livedemonstration of three forestry machines: Ponsseelephantking forwarder, Ponsse ergo 8W har-vester and, Ponsse’s newest scorpion harvester.the star of the show was the new innovatively de-signed scorpion harvester. upon seeing it you’reimmediately struck with the crane’s design,mounted behind and over the operator leaving avery clear view from the cab. the crane has a hy-draulic cylinder on each side, and as was ex-plained, “...as well as operating extension boom, it

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HARRI RONKKO, Ponssetest operator on the Pon-sse Elephant forwarderwith K100 squirt boom,which has a 9.5 meterreach, forwarding wood onPonsse’s first demo site.

also pumps oil to the lift cylinderson both sides of the cab, so it hy-draulically syncs the movement ofthe lifting boom and the extensionboom, so it’s really easy and smoothto maneuver and operate. onground level you operate with onejoy stick.”

the scorpion’s cab is also mount-ed such that the operator is literallyin the center of the machine’s ring,so you’re turning on your own ac-cess. it’s very smooth for the opera-tor both for harvesting and travers-ing the forest floor.

the machine was introduced atelmiaWood this past summer, andwill be at this year’s oregon Loggingconference in february.

the following day we visited theLisalmi service & Logistics centerand given a tour of that facility byspare Parts Manager Mikko eskeli-nen. immediately one’s struck bythe sheer size, complexity and scoperequired to maintain and supplyparts and service to Ponsse ownersworldwide. the term “logistics”takes on a deeper meaning as youwalk through multiple rows of mul-tiply tiered storage for each part,both large and small, made over thespan of the companies existence.one row of storage was somewhatdifferent, motorized shelves that ro-tate the entire height of the ware-house, and held the smaller parts.the entire row was so equipped, cat-

alogued and coded for easy accesswhere you could rotate to the rightcontainer containing the part need-ed. storage on a massive scale sim-plified.

Within the second level of a near-by structure was a room of cubicles,and on the top shelf of each cube area series of nations flags, which des-ignate which languages that partic-ular individual was proficient in forcustomer service to those individualcountries. While they still haveparts books and service manuals,most have been brought into the

computer age for easy if not almostinstant access, in an array of lan-guages.

one can appreciate the planning,foresight, layout and logistical im-portance required to brings all theindividual parts and pieces togetherto manufacture and maintain equip-

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machinery with professionals. theschools been in operation since the50s and has been an integral part ofthe forest industry in finland.

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beaver with H6 harvesting headand a Ponsse elk forwarder.

Ponsse was a very gracious hoston the whirlwind tour, and theweather could not have been better.our good fortune with the weatherwas brought into perspective the fol-lowing week when we received aphoto of the headquarters we werein the week before, which was re-ceiving their first snowfall of theseason ... close call.

every time i’ve been through amanufacturer’s site i’m reminded ofhow fortunate we’ve been in the

past 20 years having machinery bet-ter engineered and manufacturedthan ever before, which has allowedmany within our business to logthrough the economic recession ofthe past several years with durableequipment that 20 years ago wouldhave been dead in half the time.certainly we operate smarter, andare more conscious of good mainte-nance. but the better engineeringand design has played a large part.touring the Ponsse plant remindsus of that.

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PEKKA AIRAKSINEN cutting and processing logs with the PonsseBeaver with H6 harvesting head mounted on a C22 squirt boom,works with Otto Piironen who was operating their Ponsse Elk for-warder on the same site. The contractor, FinnHarvest Oy and PiirosetKY, on this UPM managed site, is located near Kupio. The contractorowns 19 Ponsse machines, consists of the eight Piiroset brothersand 25 employees.

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Some 200 loggers and aLc spon-sors collected in Marksville,

Louisiana at the recently completed19th annual Meeting of the ameri-can Loggers council (aLc), enjoyingthe warm, dry weather and thewarm hospitality the southeasternpart of the country is known for. an-nual meetings traditionally are heldin that year’s president’s state.

Host and outgoing presidenttravis taylor said, “i am proud ofthe supportive efforts that all of ourmembers, committees and sponsors

have put forth over the past twelvemonths. We’re excited about theprogress that has been made andlook forward to extending those ef-forts as we head into 2014. We areconfident that we are headed in theright direction with our goal of beingthe national hub for logger informa-tion exchange, linking local, stateand regional organizations aroundthe country.”

thursday evening was the Wel-come reception held at the Paragonresort’s Pelican stage, an informalmeet and greet open to all atten-dees.

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saturday’s buffet breakfast pre-ceded the board of directors Meet-ing complete with committee reportsfrom the legislative, transportation,biomass, communications, member-

ship, Master Logger and nominationcommittees. in particular the leg-islative committee gave updates onefforts by the council in supportinglegislation favorable to the timberharvesting community. note thatwith 20 years of creating a name foritself in the nation’s capital, theaLc has successfully positioned it-self as a well-respected and distinctnational organization whose per-spective and knowledge on timber

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harvesting is well respected, andrecognized as the national voice forlogging professionals.

transportation and biomass com-mittee reported on those issues thatwere impacting those two sectors ofthe industry. the biomass commit-tee recommended that the aLc cre-ate a position statement on the ben-efits of utilizing woody biomass to bedelivered to the ePa, as well as aposition on the economic impacts ofover-regulation to the timber har-vesting industry.

the general membership meetingimmediately followed the board ofdirectors, and is open to all mem-bers in attendance.

Within the open meeting werediscussions on the importance ofachieving and maintain low dotsMs scores among log, chip, anddump truck drivers, and some of theonerous fines that can come as a re-sult of repeated offenses and higherscores. in particular is the effectthis can have on your insurancerates and potential liability not onlyfrom your employees but any sub-contractors who either may not havesufficient or any coverage, in whichcase that liability passes through tothe general contractor. all were en-couraged to thoroughly check andcross check with anyone if you em-ploy, beyond your own crew to sub-contractors, to be proof positive allare in compliance or be party to theconsequences.

the communications committee’sreport included the suggestion, pre -sented by dk knight, of utilizing logtrailers, and chip bins as a “movingbillboard” promoting positive imagesof our industry. “it’s easy and one

could put that on each chip traileror log trailer,” he explained. “it’seasy, inexpensive, and effective.”

Membership chair Myles ander-son added to the committee’s reportthat the sponsorship goal of raising$125,000 this year had been sur-passed by raising $148,000. “theirsupport is key,” he added.

the slate of candidates elected forthe coming year include: bryan nel-son, President; Myles anderson,Vice President; richard schwab,second Vice President, and kenMartin as secretary-treasurer.

the afternoon awards Lun-cheon’s guest speaker was JimHourdequin, of the Lyme timbercompany, followed by sponsorsrecognition for the past years sup-port of the aLc.

this year’s President’s awardjacket and recognition of outstand-ing service to the american Loggerscouncil went to caterpillar forestProducts President kevin thiene-man, and north carolina loggerbobby goodson whose steadfastdemonstration of “real world log-ging” during his time on “swampLogger” was outstanding.

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at the President’s farewell din-ner, incoming aLc President, briannelson of cornell, Michigan noted,“i plan on keeping the momentumthat we have built up during travis’administration moving forward,”and “that there are still many issues

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ting with turner contract cutting(Jeff turner out of blodget), andsmallwood Logging (david small-wood out of tidwater) when theyneed a buncher.

they utilize three contract truck-ers primarily including Watkins,richard reynolds, dale cook and“... Henrie does all our mule trainwork.”

cook and his wife rose weremarried in 1976 and have threegrown offspring: kendall (35) wholives in Lake oswego, nicole (34) abusy housewife in albany, andyoungest son Matt who’s logged full

time for the company since 2004,after completing his associates de-gree.

certainly the future of the com-pany leans on the youngest son’s in-tense interest in the progressivelogging he’s helped bring the com-pany forward to. He and fathertom have a close working relation-ship and respect for one another.

tom laughed noting he enjoyedthe business and working withMatt into the future, “...as long asi’m not in his way, i’ll work!”

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THE PRESIDENT’S DINNER andALC Auction that followed waspacked and raised a record $23,475.

JIM HORDEQUIN, managing di-rector of the Lyme Timber Com-pany gave an outstanding pre-sentation on Logger Profitabilityduring the Saturday luncheon.(See “From the Stump” on Page2 of Log Trucker)

in 1808, a Scots-irish familynamed Mcilroy heard news of the

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boston Mountains, and north of thearkansas river, the family home-steaded three parcels at fly gap,beech grove, and cass. arkansasterritory was established in 1819;arkansas won statehood in 1836;and the million-acre ozark nationalforest, which surrounded the Mcil-roy farm, was proclaimed in 1908.

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beginning in the late 1960s, W.c.Mcilroy complained that Job corpsstudents were trespassing on andlittering his property, damaging hisfences, and destroying his hay; his

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Summary Judgment....

by William Perry Pendley

Scots-Irish EncounterThe King’s Menin the Ozark Forest

as i look back on the events ofthe 19th annual american Log-

gers council Meeting recently heldat the Paragon casino resort inMarksville, Louisiana, i can’t helpbut make a comparison between itand the government shutdown deba-cle that is currently going on.

the aLc has accomplished manythings over the past 19 years thanksin large part to the dedication ofsome of the finest loggers this coun-try has to offer. We as loggers arenotoriously independent, but to seeso many different personalities cometogether from all corners of thisgreat country to try and make thisindustry better for everyone is trulyinspiring and goes to show the char-acter that we have in this industry.our elected officials in Washingtond.c. could learn a lesson or twofrom those in our industry on how toresolve issues for the greater good ofall, not just themselves or their par-

ty.regardless of one’s political views

i can’t imagine anyone believes thatall the arguing and political jockey-ing is good for the countryas a whole. if nothingelse, just think of howour Veterans, who riskedtheir lives to protect thefreedoms that we all en-joy, feel when they areturned away from tHeirmemorials. that is justwrong in every sense ofthe word!!!!!!!!!!

i will get off my soapbox now and get back tothe issue at hand.

i have set some goalsfor my term as Presidentof the aLc as is custom-ary with each year’s in-coming president.

1. to continue working on the issuesthat affect all of our businesses

such as clean Water act legisla-tion, federal forest managementor lack there of, and overreachinggovernmental regulations to

name a few.

2.to work on the child La-bor Laws issue to tryand get the same ex-emption for our immedi-ate family membersthat our counterparts inagriculture are afforded.With the rising age ofloggers in this countrywe need to start train-ing the next generationof loggers to take overour businesses or log-ging as we know it willfail to exist.

3.to see more of the aLcsponsors involved on committeesbecause many of the issues thataffect our businesses also affecttheirs, either directly or indirect-

ly, and their input is valued.

4.to do a better job of improving ourimage and getting our messageout to those who don’t understandour industry. We must educatethe policy makers and the generalpublic on what we do and thebenefits of it. if we don’t someoneelse surely will and their versionlikely won’t be favorable to us.We must be ambassadors for ourindustry-because if we don’t whowill?

5.to address the issue of logging ca-pacity. While there has been a lotof discussion on this subject latelyi don’t believe there has been anyeffort to get all parties involved inthe supply chain together to startthe dialogue. i realize there is nosimple answer to this but we

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GOALS FOR THE COMING YEAR

BRIAN NELSONALC President

Cornell, Michigan

Federal Judge orders log-ging resume immediately

Oregon loggers can resumework on federal lands after a

judge ruled against two agenciesthat suspended timber harvests dur-ing the partial government shut-down.

u.s. district Judge owen M.Planner in Medford signed an orderthursday, lifting the logging banimposed by the bureau of LandManagement.

according to court records, thebLM and forest service asked thatthe timber industry’s motion be dis-missed because the government re-opened thursday.

the timber industry, however,pressed ahead with its lawsuit,which was filed Monday, becausecompanies didn’t want to wait fornotices to proceed.

“this is good logging weather,and they needed to get after it,” said

ann forest burns, vice president ofthe american forest resourcecouncil, a party in the suit. “as soonas our members got the word, theywere moving forward.”

Murphy company, which oper-ates mills in Washington and ore-gon, including sutherlin, sent log-gers back to work as soon as possi-ble and made plans to work throughthe weekend to make up for timelost.

“it is tough to lose any time inthese months when we are trying toput our full log inventory in,” thecompany’s director of resources, Ja-cob groves, said today. “i think allof Murphy company and the timberindustry thought it was a good deci-sion by the judge because it takes allthe uncertainty out of it instead ofhaving to wait for (notifications).”

bLM roseburg districtspokesman cheyne rossbach saidhe did not know when the agencywill issue the notifications.

the bLM and forest service jus-tified the suspension of timber con-tracts by citing a law that prohibitsagencies from incurring obligationsthat exceed appropriations, accord-ing to court documents.

forest burns said the parties arestill pursuing the underlying case,contending it was unlawful for thefederal government to stop timberoperations if a contract was in placeprior to the shutdown and if over-sight by federal inspectors wasn’tcritical.

“they’ve got to keep their crewsworking. those guys work on dailywages, they are not on salary, and ifthere isn’t work for them to do, theycan’t pay their workers, and thoseworkers can’t pay for food for theirfamilies,” she said.

art adams, owner and generalmanager of roseburg-based nordicVeneer, said today the company hadone supplier slightly affected by theshutdown.

“We normally get 65 to 75 (tim-ber) loads a day, and it pretty muchheld in there,” adams said. “Wemight have been off two or threeloads, but we seemed to have stillgotten wood for the most part.”

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must start somewhere.i am honored and humbled to be

named the 20th President of theamerican Loggers council and iwill do everything i can to repre-sent the professional timber har-vesters of this great country. i’msure there will be many challengesalong the way but with the supporti’ve been shown so far i’m sure wewill prevail.

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President of the americanLoggers council and he andhis brother david and fatherMarvin own and operateMarvin Nelson forest Prod-ucts, inc. based out of cor-nell, Michigan.

the american Loggers council isa non-profit 501(c) (6) corpora-tion representing professionaltimber harvesters in 30 statesacross the us. for more infor-mation, visit their web site atwww.americanloggers.org or con-tact their office at 409-625-0206.

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by the shop and told one of the shopmen. “you’d better go up to yarderseven as soon as you can. you’llfind charley locked in the firebox ofthe yarder. be sure to go up and lethim out but don’t be in too much ofa hurry. i want to be long gone be-fore he gets loose.”

the other story had to do withben Mcclure. ben was tending

hook for an outfit out of alger. itwas haywire from the cook house tothe tail block. good crew and benwas one of the best hook-tenders ofall times and all places. the main-line was rotten and before whenben had asked for a new mainlinehe was told, “Make it last a littlelonger, ben. We’ll get you a newone. Just be patient.”

so there they were. ben and his

crew working with that rottenmainline. break it and splice itabout three times a day. finallyone day along in midafternoon themainline broke again, and at thesame time ben’s temper snapped.He let out a squawl and grabbedthat line and wrapped it around astump four times. Had the punkblow it ahead and the mainlinebroke again. ben did this again andagain, all the way from the backend to the landing. He broke themainline into about six chunks.

When he got to the landing hesaid, “i’m quitting this haywire out-fit. but i bet that the next hook-tender will have a new mainline towork with.”

is it any wonder that a boyraised on stories like this couldn’twait till he grew up to join such abrand of men as these?

Rigging Shack


objections went unanswered. in1971, he died and his son, W.L.Mcilroy, took over the farm only todiscover that the forest servicehad drilled a well on his property.He protested, but forest service of-ficials said the well, used as a wa-ter source for Job corps facilities,was on federal land. over theyears, a string of Job corps direc-tors, forest service rangers, andforest service officials repeatedthat statement, over the family’sprotestations.

in 1973, unbeknownst to W.L.Mcilroy, the Job corps used heavyequipment to tear down a 100-yearold levee built just upstream of thefarm at the confluence of Mulberryriver and fane’s creek to protectthe farm and the site of the Jobcorps facility. the result wasflooding and erosion downstream,alteration of the bed of Mulberryriver due to silting and deposits oferoded rock, and destruction of 10acres of the farm. subsequent ac-tions by the forest service, whichincluded removing fill, laying cul-verts, and pouring concrete, onlyexacerbated the problem: the wa-ter widened the channel across thefarm to Mulberry river.

in 1998, Matthew Mcilroy,W.L.’s son, who had taken over thefarm, discovered part of his fencehad been flattened, a sewage efflu-ent line installed over it and across50-60 yards of the farm, and Jobcorps sewage effluent dischargedfrom his property into Mulberryriver. subsequently, he discovered

the forest service installed a “tem-porary” water line that ran a quar-ter mile across his land andblocked entry to his farm; contin-ued to use the water well-eventhough a later federal surveyproved the well was on the farm;trespassed with heavy equipmentonto the farm to blade dirt anddrag drainage ditches; built a ser-vice road across the farm to accessthe well and the sewage effluentline and poured concrete on theroad when it eroded; used parts ofthe farm for heavy equipmenttraining, digging down to creekrock, causing serious erosion, de-stroying fences, and resulting inthe loss of escaping livestock; and,dumped concrete and constructionwaste on its property near thefarm, effluent from which washedonto the farm.

in January 2013, a forest ser-vice official “document[ed] the en-croachment on [the Mcilroy’s] prop-erty.” nonetheless, the forest ser-vice refused to compensate Mr.Mcilroy or remove those encroach-ments. under the federal tortclaims act, which permits recom-pense when the government’s em-ployees commit torts, Mr. Mcilroyfiled an administrative claim onwhich he will sue if it is denied.Meanwhile, he wonders whetherhis clansmen in the days ofWilliam Wallace ever saw greaterabuses by “the king’s men.”

Mr. Pendley, a Wyoming attor -ney, is President and Chief Le-gal Officer of Mountain StatesLegal Foundation and a regular c olum nist in Loggers World.

Pendley

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