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Posted on 7/7/15 at 9:30 pm to Cracker
Idk about that.
I'd like to know how many timber companies are running echo chainsaws and how many serious landscape companies are running echo weedeaters.
Stihl is everywhere because it works.
I'd like to know how many timber companies are running echo chainsaws and how many serious landscape companies are running echo weedeaters.
Stihl is everywhere because it works.
Posted on 7/7/15 at 9:40 pm to Jack Daniel
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Sta-bil = no carburetor problems
exactly...I have a stihl pole saw, straight shaft string trimmer, and a chainsaw from the late '70s and have never had one carb problem...I have always mixed double or triple stabil in every tank full of gas that has ever been put through them, though...
Posted on 7/8/15 at 7:33 am to White Bear
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Wow, big arse log. Are you in LA?
Cut in Costa Rica, and the log is now in LA.
Posted on 7/8/15 at 7:38 am to stout
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Not clearing rainforest so it's not like I need the biggest saw they make
I don't clear rainforests, just remove dead trees under strict government environmental impact studies.
Having a larger saw for my workers, has paid for itself many times over. If you pay people by the hour, a bigger saw will get the job done pretty damn fast. My old small saw takes 3 times as long, on average.
Posted on 7/8/15 at 9:12 am to Sparkplug#1
Cool. I knew of some dudes out of MS my dad used to hang out with that were supposedly logging down there somewhere.
Posted on 7/8/15 at 9:44 am to White Bear
Good money, but dangerous and complicated
I actually looked into logging in Russia when I was coming out of school, but I didn't like the idea of the Kremlin taking all of my money and sticking me in prison in Siberia because I don't like vodka
I actually looked into logging in Russia when I was coming out of school, but I didn't like the idea of the Kremlin taking all of my money and sticking me in prison in Siberia because I don't like vodka
This post was edited on 7/8/15 at 9:50 am
Posted on 7/8/15 at 11:24 am to Hammertime
Are you logging now or an arborist ?
Posted on 7/8/15 at 12:12 pm to White Bear
Was a forester, but not anymore. Some of the bigger companies like Weyerhaeuser were trying to get set up over there when I was graduating
This post was edited on 7/8/15 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 7/8/15 at 12:27 pm to Hammertime
Interesting, I got the degree but never could find a job in the woods.
Posted on 7/8/15 at 2:32 pm to White Bear
Was very tough. Zero companies were advertising because it was right after the housing crash. Cold called about 30 different places, and ended up with a shitty one and an awesome one. I was the only one out of our class that had an offer, and I passed the shitty one onto a buddy. Money wasn't good enough for me to stay in it though
Posted on 7/8/15 at 2:53 pm to Hammertime
When I started school in '94 every swinging dick was getting jobs. Got out in '98 and I couldn't buy a job. So I got a job doing veg mgt. running trimming crews. It worked out though, I'm too fat and getting too old/spoiled to be sweating my nuts off in a different briar patch every other day. I remember we'd go to the job fairs at LaTech when GP, IP, Plum Creek, Willamette etc. would come and they'd only be looking for engineers, finance (anything but foresters) - I should've been paying closer attn. then. 
This post was edited on 7/8/15 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 7/8/15 at 3:21 pm to White Bear
Honestly, there were a couple of jobs working with REITs and TIMOs, but I wasn't about to be posted up in an office all day while someone else did the fun stuff. Wish I could still be doing it, but had to move on. I'd do it pretty cheaply now though 
Posted on 7/8/15 at 3:24 pm to White Bear
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Cool. I knew of some dudes out of MS my dad used to hang out with that were supposedly logging down there somewhere.
They probably did teak and mahogany tree farms. I do primary rainforest old growth (but only dead tress). The CR government is super strict on removing any trees (which is great). If a tree falls across one of my roads, I can cut it to move out of the way, but a permit to harvest it would take over 6 months and involve my forestal engineer, their forestal engineers and the University of Costa Rica.
Its really a great thing, but they can get pretty extreme. If a tree is about to fall on your house, you have about a 20 percent chance of getting a permit to remove it. They want it to fall first. People are always cutting them down for profit, and they were never in danger of said trees actually falling on their houses. That really sucks for the honest ones.
The strangest thing is, I can cut any live fruit tree down without a permit. Why in the hell would I want to cut a fruit tree down, that helps the local wildlife survive?
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