All of the major landowners are looking to them for these complicated jobs.
There are very few in our area that are capable of pulling it off. It was a hard
corner to get to. Would require side-blocking and doing a little not
non-traditional yarding, not that there. Something they're not used to doing. They also had
a small fish stream where they had to be fully suspended across and yard somewhat
across that. The first time I saw this unit I noticed that it, it was clean I
checked all the ditches, the culverts, everything, looked at the RMA that they
logged over. The small fish stream was great. No big gaps in the RMA. There was
also a county road running through the middle of this job, which had to be kept
open throughout the day at various times for for a renter who lived in a house at
the bottom of it. Yeah, Ryan's renter a lady that lived down there she had a
little sports car, and whether it was a Camaro or Mustang, but real low clearance. So,
she made sure you know there couldn't be a limb there. She didn't want the bottom
of a getting scratched. So, we would what we couldn't sweep out of the way
with the shovel we'd hand pick and throw out of the road for her, so. But, she was
nice and good to work with. It's just another part of the job. On the way down
to the renter there's a power line that follows part of the hall route and runs
through the unit. So, there's a power line that was
it was a danger and an obstacle for logging this job. The issue there was
trying to keep on the normal power, and not have the cost of a big generator
that Lone Rock was going to have to supply. So my crew in the evenings or the morning
would go down and fill up the generator and we kept it topped off for them. And, I
think it could go to days that we hit it every day so we made sure it wouldn't
run out. So, that's one thing we mentioned to Ryan, he's still owes us.
Dick Clarkson and Denali Logging are very consistent operators. We give them jobs
like this that have these little challenges, because we know that once we
get them lined out we tell them what what we want and expect that it goes
smooth. It's just like if there was no nothing extra they had to do.
I'm just the orchestrator. Those guys are the guys that know what they're doing. They
have already logged it before we even logged it. They can see it and do it.
I nominated Dick Clarkson and Denali Logging for this this unit here. It's 64
acres approximately, but this was one job that for his nomination another job he
was nominated for which others can speak a little bit better about was his
operation of the North Fork of the Coquille where that involved some some
downhill logging and some stream crossings up there.
Well, there was a low-water crossing that had to go across the North Fork of the Coquille River. And,
so we have only a short time that we can have that temporary structure in place.
So, we needed somebody that we knew could get in there on a certain date at the
beginning of the season and get through there as quickly as possible. And the
only thing that you know scared us and hurt us was the fire season. You know we
we got shut down on a level four and then we let it sit for two weeks in that
hot weather. It just turned the, you know, kindling it just read up there so dry and
so every morning we'd water the tail blocks
down with the fire hose and then every night we'd water them down. And
everything turned out. Just a lot of challenges.
The high landslide hazard location, large this stream, low water crossing, small fish stream, grave site
that they needed to protect. There must have been three or four headstones there,
and it was from some of his family that had owned the property ahead of time. So it
was gonna be a issue. One of the corridors was gonna come down close to
it. But, we were able to put a landing a little bit off to the side. And we're side
blocking, and so we didn't have to hang through that little meadow, so. Things like that
where they changed their yarding pattern to protect the resources on their own.
It's just something that they do. Any good company is not a good company, it's
their employees that make them a good company. And, I realize that right off the
bat. It's all about the employees.You treat them the way you want to be
treated, and it'll really reward you down the line. And my employees are some
of the best out there. And it makes my job so much easier. You know, I'm just a guy
out there selling it.