in western Washington State Jason
rygaard's finally starting a massive
logging job that could keep the family
business alive for years so this job is
as far as logging and the bucking stuff
goes on it it's gonna be kind of tight
we've got three sorts of fur logs but
we've been off for a little while which
is gonna make it a little bit difficult
so getting back in the swing of things I
wanted to make sure we're doing it safe
and that we don't have any screw-ups and
we just want to remember overhead danger
limbs hanging in trees or broken tops
keep your eye out I know I'm anxious to
get going I'm sure you guys are too we
should be pretty much ready to go to
work we can just start getting rigged up
we'll take the time make sure we're
doing it right
securing the yarder is a huge job the
crew runs thousands of feet of cable
three steel lines are secured to anchors
at the base of trees and tighten with
pulleys to the top of the yarders tower
the cables hold up the 63 tonne machine
when it starts falling in seven ton logs
while Jason and Craig set up the yarder
and landing the cutters are already
slicing through a hundred and fifty foot
Douglas firs worth eight hundred dollars
each
with thousands of feet of cable in the
air and the yarder set to fly in trees
Craig moves in the shovel to stack the
logs once they're on the landing but he
doesn't realize his boom is dangerously
close to the guylines I walked right
into their guideline oh yeah you did I
was locked in those other guides and I
lost my mind we'll be all right we just
got a picture right my god it looks like
it just sucked a bunch of loose slack
out of the guyline drum my dad being a
space cadet once the crew
risa cures the guylines they finally
start hauling up logs that's nice to see
logs moving we can start generating some
revenue
right now we're for making logs but we
ain't shipping them yet that's the next
step the carriage hi what happened to
Carrie died the carriages shut off just
when Rygaard has a momentum the
operation grinds to a halt again we
haven't worked for a while there's gonna
be some weird stuff that happens his
first day is gonna be a bear the
carriage hauls logs up the mountain
without it rygaard's not making their
6:00 load quota and they're definitely
not making any money weird things happen
when you haven't been working machines
don't want to go back to work this is
proof the little carriages that I ready
to work yet
that's the mole there's your money I
told you there's always weird things
that happen on the first day back to
work after being off like why does a
bolt just fall out a bolt for the clamp
if you can't lock the car on the skyline
the car just keeps moving we can't pull
flock through the car a loose bolt shut
down the skyline a costly delay as
Rygaard gets the gear back up and
running
I knew this was going to go down okay
perfect I think it'd work
with the issues hopefully behind them
Jason needs to halt and stack six loads
of logs to stay in the black it's gonna
be close
I'm hoping we can actually really start
getting up to speed and our production
to go up where we need to be I figured
it at six loads a day if just to break
even and then all we need to do is be
able to start shipping some of this get
some log trucks in here and get some
wood moving don't pay on the landing
that's it boys quitting time I feel
pretty good about the way things went
today all in all in spite of the yarder
being screwed up I was afraid that we
weren't even gonna get close to what we
needed for the day but they actually
yarded six full loads today and made
enough today to make it pay so now I'm
hoping start getting some wood out of
here start making some money it's a huge
deal for me to know that we're gonna be
okay
that Rygaard is gonna be able to keep
working and that Elvis is gonna come to
fruition it's encouraging hopefully we
can start yarding full turns and get
this thing really rolling like it needs
to and we can get up to seven maybe even
eight loads a day if we get eight loads
a day I'll be smiling from ear to ear
all's well that ends well
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