#067-008 BLM Pink House Camp, Orofino, ID

#063 Large Old Willow. Storm Victim. Moscow ID

Start 08-29-08. 12 man hours. Reuben and Kathleen get tree down. Storm knocked a lot of it down and in the street on the evening of 08-21-08. Jeremy cut up the wood with the 88 and 66 Stihl.

#062-008. Sick Aspen. Wires everywhere. Moscow

Start 08-28-08. 12 man hours. Reuben and Jeremy. Take down. Clean up.

#061-008. White Ash. Storm damage. Moscow ID

Start 08-27-08. 12 man hours. Good size limb broken and hanging down in front of the front door. Customer consented to trim the WHOLE tree for health and safety. Found another large broken limb closer to the top. Tree was too thick and overgrown to notice it before. Lightened up the top. Reuben and Kathleen.

# 060 - 008. Silver Cottonwood. Windfall. Moscow

Start 08-22-08. 16 man hours. Victim of storm on the night of 08-21-08.

#058 - 008, Perpetual Mess Linden. Moscow ID

Start 08-22-08. 16 man hours. Linden rained down perpetual mess on patio. Much better suited for lawn area. Jon and I were both up in the tree to start with. This is very efficient if you can get everyone up in the trees right away. We try not to have grunts to do the ground work that can't climb. Our main focus is training climbers. There is a tremendous growing demand for arborists in other parts of the country. Kathleen and Natalie tend ropes and process limbs, brush, and firewood. It's fun to do little jobs like this in a more labor intensive, simpler, safer, quieter way. No chipper. No bucket truck. Mostly hand saws.

Natalie. Stomping and chomping the trailer.
This trailer is the best tool I ever bought. We use it to haul horses, hay, lumber, furniture, brush, you name it. Cheapest dump truck in the world. Nice and low to the ground because there's no hoist. [Guy working for an outfit in Lewiston was killed last year when a dump bed came down on him.] We unload it with the cable that runs under the brush. You just need something to hook on to, or another truck to pull it off.

#026-008. Horse Logging. Koehler. Deary ID

Photography - Carrol Koehler.
Natalie [12], Reuben [18]. Daughter and Son. Natalie's last day helping Dad before school. She'll be 13 tomorrow. Last day of not being a teenager!

Leonardo on the left. His Mamma. Mona Lisa on the right.
Chuck and Carol Koehler graciously conceded to have their name on our job blog. I said, "Great. I'll get your pictures on and quotes. You'll be famous!" They have a nice quiet little 5 acre piece. Too small for most logging companies to look at. We put up a quick temporary electric fence this spring. There's a nice pond there. The horses think they're in Horse Heaven. Everyone is glad to have the grass mowed. It's absolutely crucial that horses get virgin pasture every year. No parasites. No deficiencies. Mona Lisa is 29 or 30. Never seen the vet. Never had worm medicine. Never had shoes on. Never had a bit in her mouth. Since we've had her. 12 yrs. Same with the other horses.
Never spent one penny on them, other than feed and a lot of work. If you want to know how to take care of horses. Just learn to think like an Indian. I had so much fun out there with the trees and horses. I could hardly stand it. Cutting some of the over mature White Fir. First one was rotten for 15 ft. or so on the bottom. The second one about 24" DBH. Looked like it had been struck by lightning. Scarred all the way down. Also. Cutting over mature Black Pine. Unless they are in the open. Then they will stay for shade and wildlife and to attract moisture, buffer the wind, etc.