January/February 2021
COVER STORY – Idaho Mechanized Cable Logging – 
SAINT MARIES, Idaho – Businessman 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%.
Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Associate Editor, Timber Harvesting
My Take: Loggers Relief Act Passes Congress
Following months of political wrangling and lobbying, America’s loggers finally have access to financial relief after language funding the Loggers Relief Act introduced in Congress in spring 2020. Loggers who suffered more than 10% drop in revenues in 2020 due to coronavirus impacts will have an opportunity to apply for $200 million in federal funds set aside for loggers and log haulers. Read More Article by Dan Shell, Managing Editor, Timber Harvesting
NewsLines
Forest Service Sold 3.2 Billion BF Last Year; Arizona Restoration Remains Uncertain; Florida’s Gray Logging Hosts Student Tour; California Approves New Tethered Logging Rules; Western Producer Idaho Forest Group Builds Southern Mill; Klausner’s NC Mill Sold At Auction; Hankins Lumber Plans New Timbers Sawmill; Jasper Lumber Teams With Tolko Industries; West Fraser Buys World OSB Leader; Barge Access Grant Paves Way For Enviva; Oregon Logging Conference 2021 Announces Regional ‘Sawdust Bowls’; Northwest Hardwoods Enters Restructuring Agreement
Pulpwood Markets Adapt To Product, Demand Changes
After 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. 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. Article by Chris Lyddan with FastMarkets RISI is Executive Editor, North American Woodfiber & Biomass Markets, Timberland Market Reports
Salvage Work Defines Current Brandt Job
LAZEAR, Colorado – Almost 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. Article by Dan Shell, Managing Editor, Timber Harvesting
New Logging Technology 2021
Ponsse Opti 8: User Friendly High Performance; Bandit Productivity Enhancements; CHAD Improves Hose Assembly; Forest Chain Protection; Komatsu Track Feller-Bunchers, Harvesters, Heads; Olofsfors: Traction, Flotation Innovations; 32-PR Primex Logstomper Xtreme; ProLenc Log Load Binders, Snubber; Tamtron New Generation Scale; Tigercat Adds RemoteLog Improvements; New TriLink Harvester Chain; Trygg Chain Durabiliy; Wester Trailers: Profitable Transport; Oregon Delivers Innovative Cutting Systems
Timber Harvesting Equipment Directory
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EquipmentWorld
Schwab Brothers Offers CHAD; Crouse Represents Bandit In Arkansas; Ponsse Completes Machine 16,000; Rottne Expands Warranty Terms; Ligna Changes 2021 Show Dates
InnovationWay
Portable Security Gates; Deere Shovel Logger; Tigercat Mulcher Carrier; Expanded Titan Tire Lineup; Nokian Starts Up R&D Center; Remsoft Partners With ForestX
SelectCuts
North Carolina Groups, CLA Fight COVID Outbreak; As We (ALC) See It: Good Riddance 2020; Arauco Achieves CO2 Net Surplus; Texas Foresty Association Presents Logger Award To Futral; West Virginia Students Gain Tree Felling Skills; Oregon Logging Conference Starts Fire Relief Fund; Earthworm, Drax Working Together
