TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Bulldozer
Used for many purposes. A strong machine that can pull out stuck equipment from the mud and grade roads, push site prep shears, pull bedding harrows and many other uses.
Feller Buncher
This machine is used to harvest the trees and lay them down in bunches ready to be pulled to the log deck. Much safer than chain saws.
Grapple Skidder
Used to gather the felled tree bunches and drag them to the log deck.
Kunckle Boom Loader
Used to sort logs on the log deck putting them in separate piles for pulpwood and other grades of saw logs, then loading them on log trucks.
Log Truck
Hauls harvested and sorted logs from private land owners’ log deck to the papermills and sawmills. Each load is about 28 tons of wood.