NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2022

EAGLE CREEK, Oregon – Moving into new applications and adding productive capacity with its first tethering machine is expanding Pacific Forest Contractors’ (PFC) capabilities while adding a measure of mechanization and extra safety.

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COVER STORY
  • Pacific Forest Contractors Tackles Diverse Conditions
MY TAKE: ALC Rising To Challenges: Organization gives loggers a national voice

One really bright spot concerning the American Loggers Council is the organization’s resilience as the pandemic slowly fades away: Many organizations and trade associations took a beating during the pandemic, but the ALC is surviving remarkably well and moving ahead on a variety of fronts.

Two news items this month underline the importance of having an association like the ALC to provide a national voice for the logging industry as various issues come up.

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Article by Dan Shell, Managing Editor, Timber Harvesting

NEWSLINES
  • Strategic Biofuels Working On Biomass Standards
  • Appeals Court Denies Maine Transport Law
  • Diesel Fuel Theft Arrest Made In Louisiana
  • Oregon Logging Conference Announces New Technology Program Details
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  • Mississippi Sawmill Will Feed New Pallet Block Facility
  • Interfor Acquires Two Sawmills
  • SmartLam Announces Alabama Glulam Facility
  • UGA Researchers Seek To ‘Reengineer’ Poplar
  • Auburn University Team Looks At Needle Blight
  • Peak Renewables Plans SE Alabama Pellet Mill
ALC Recap

BRANSON, Missouri – Billed as “Back to the Start” with this year’s meeting in the same state where what was to become the American Loggers Council (ALC) held its first meeting way back in 1994, more than 250 timber industry representatives from all over the U.S. traveled to this year’s ALC meeting in Branson.

INNOVATION WAY
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  • Komatsu Processor
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EQUIPMENT WORLD
  • Ponsse NA Expands To Southern U.S.
SELECT CUTS
  • As We (ALC) See It: Get In The Wheelbarrow

Pacific Forest Contractors Tackles Diverse Conditions

Articles by Dan Shell, Managing Editor, Timber Harvesting

EAGLE CREEK, Oregon – Moving into new applications and adding productive capacity with its first tethering machine is expanding Pacific Forest Contractors’ (PFC) capabilities while adding a measure of mechanization and extra safety. While tethered equipment systems for felling and skidding on steep slopes have been around the Pacific Northwest for a while now, PFC founder Brent Parries, 58, and vice president and part owner Alex Davis say they’re both more of the late adopter wait and see a little longer types than many logging contractors when it comes to new systems like tethering.

“We held off at first because of the costs,” Parries says. Davis adds that they not only wanted to see tethering systems at work initially, another issue was getting commitments from landowners to use it as well.

Yet the labor concerns and the promise of enhanced safety and mechanized production on more ground led to the decision. Parries adds that the operator was closely consulted when they began looking at tethering systems before deciding on a winch-assist system from Summit Attachments.

Though both are quick to compliment PFC employees for their hard work and dedication, finding enough employees long term is a big concern.

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