This is Trinity River Lumber 1952

One time we sent a green horn down the hill to the shop for a set of rubber tracks for a D7 it was 80 miles round trip!

the first job I worked was a steep one, with a small landing. The bosses son was running a swivel head processor and he hadn't quite figured it out. All day in the snow we were dodging those logs that he kept throwing over the hill at us. Not a bad first look at how it is.

 we had a green horn pack a piss can (Fire Can) out of the back of 2500 foot yarder block that was steeper then a cow face when he got to the landing I dump the 5 gallons of water out of the piss Can! who yeah we forgot to tell him to dump it out at the tail hold

Winter of 72 I was a chokersetter with Illinois Valley Logging out of Merlin, Or. We were working in the Siskiyou Nat'l forest hauling doug fir and the occasional huge sugar pine[some up to 8 ft.in dia.]. Being winter we were using dynamite to blow choker holes. Standard practice was to put 1/4 to 1/3 a stick under the log, climb on top, take out your d cell battery and set off the charge. We came to a big sugar
pine and decided to use a whole stick instead. We set the charge, climbed on top and blew her. What we didn't know was that the log was a cull. It was rotted in the middle and when we blew it, it flew apart sending us flying about 20 ft. down the hill. After finding out we weren't hurt we started laughing and decided we were going to join the circus as human cannonballs.

Just another day in the brush.

 I was on a sale that was 3200 feet to the tail block

and we were there 2 1/2 months with a BU 98 25 to 30 loads a day and most of them were 3 and 4 log loads know more then 6! this is not a lie!! it was 1979

We were working on a sky line block with a carriage, there was no lift but the piss fir willy said we had to use it. So when they went back down the hill we hung the butt riggen on, about 5 hour later they came back " man you guys got lots of logs, I told you the carriage would work here" the thing is we were setting on the Carriage eating lunch and the butt riggin was hanging over the landing