41 Years in the Woods: A Family Logging Operation's Story
Our podcast team spent a day in North Idaho with Mason Logging. What stood out most while working on this podcast episode was hearing a crew talk about working alongside their brothers, sons, and nephews. We also enjoyed listening to them compare the old days of hand falling, chokers, and manual bucking to today's tether logging, bunchers, processors, and grapple skidders.
A lot of good discussion around:
- Learning curve of tether logging
- 80%+ slopes and shovel logging
- Running a Cat 527 on steep ground
- How production has changed over 40+ years
- Regeneration, forest management, and harvesting second-growth stands they logged decades ago
We'd love to hear other experiences. What's been the biggest change you've seen in the woods during your career?
u/Western_States_Cat — 9 days ago