Hello Every one,
My name is Taylor Johnson and I have been reading this board for a long, long time so I thought it was time to join the board so I can talk to you guys . So hello and I am glad to be on here .
Right now I am logging with horses my self but I also had a processor crew working for me on a job this winter and have owned and run some of them my self . I am a 5th generation logger so like most of you I would probably log for free if I had to ;D . Well hello again and I look forward to being part of your board thanks for having me . Taylor Johnson
Welcome! What breed of horses do you have?
Dave
Welcome Taylor. Looking forward to hearing about the horses & were you are from. ;D
Thanks for the welcome ,
I will run any kind of horse or mule. Right now I have Belgians and 1 Norwegian Fjord . I live about 15 miles out side of Hayward WI . Taylor Johnson
Welcome to your other home... ;D ;D ;D
Man I am glade to finally be on here , I have been reading it for years off and on just didn't have the right kind of email ( I think that is what my wife said ) to sign up so she got me what I needed and here I am . In the past there were things I wanted to ask and could not but that is know longer the case . Taylor Johnson
Welcome to the forum.Ask away,we are here to help.Don't be afraid to jump right in with a few answers.Norwegian Fjord,they are a light brown horse with a black streak of hair down the middle of the mane,right?
Welcome Taylor Johnson ----------- it must be quite the deal loging with horses my wife is a horse lover. ;D
Kudos to your wife for getting you on the right path 8)
Welcome. Ask away - if we don't know the answer we will make one up :D
Welcome to the forum Taylor. If you ever run out of trees to skid with those horses just bring them on up north. We still have lots of trees up here. ;D
Welcome Taylor.
Would like to see your pictures.
Welcome to the forum Taylor.
John
Welcome to the Forum, Taylor. My Grandaddy logged with mules when he got started logging. By the time I came along he had stepped up to gas powered equipment. Sure hate I missed that era.
Don
Glad you stepped forward, Taylor. Between the Forestry Forum and Rural Heritage, there may be hope for this country yet.
Greg
welcome taylor ,great bunch of guys here with alot of info on most anything you need to know enjoy!! scot
Yes,
The Norwegian Fjord is usually a buck skin colored horse with a black strip down the middle of his mane some time they even have some striping on there legs . When you cut the mane like it is suppose to be cut it looks like a mo hawk . As far as going up north to cut trees well that might be something I want to do any way ( I don't have enough horses to cut all the trees here right now I would need at least 2 more ;D ;) ) . Taylor Johnson
Just think by the time you got this far north the snow may even be gone. ;D We got some interesting terrain on our farm where the only way to justify removing some of the timber would be to skid out with horses. On the 160 acres we have I know of atleast a dozen springs. There's no possible way to get even the smallest of a tractor in there without getting stuck. The last time we even tried the one area it was late fall on a dry year and we were stuck more than not. We just gave up and thankfully we never had a bunch of timber cut ahead of time.
My s-i-l and her husband are into Belgians and I have been trying to convince them to do some skidding for me. They don't seem to have the time right now especially with the oil boom moving in from Alberta. I have helped Randy do some haying with the horses in the past just to keep them in shape. I like to see them earn their keep. :)
Quote from: Coon on March 21, 2008, 03:15:39 PM
.....................They don't seem to have the time right now especially with the oil boom moving in from Alberta. ........................
What is this about? just curious. :)
Quote from: Taylor Johnson on March 19, 2008, 08:44:41 AM
I am a 5th generation logger so like most of you I would probably log for free if I had to ;D
Gads! That is too funny!
If I won the lottery, I'd probably buy all new logging and milling equipment, and keep using it until I went broke again!
There is no doubt about it!
Nate
Well as they claim the oil boom is moving to Saskatchewan as we have alot of oil and gas resources. Our new government has opened it up to allow more exploration and drilling to be done. Although there currently is drilling going on in southern Saskatchewan and has been for quite a few years it is nothing compared to what will take place in the next three or so years. The government released their new budget this past week and have put $240 million dollars into the roads alone for this year. I am not sure what they have been spending on roads prior to now but I do know that they never put anywhere near that in 5 years. Finally we should get some decent roads.
There has been alot of exploration done in the past few years in our area (east central Saskatchewan) but not to the extent that is to come. Last summer there was about a half a dozen oil rigs drilling in a few areas to do alot of the preliminary testing and such. They obviously found the results they were looking for. Saskatchewan is also home to a future tar sands project north of the town of Hudson Bay some 60 or 80 miles. They have logged of a huge area in the past few years for the site and a pipeline. They had loggers on each end working towards each other. From what I hear they logged a path of a mile or so wide the entire distance and have benn building a road as they logged.
Needless to say this area is about to change drastically. Most of the land prices have nearly doubled in the last year alone. I know of some land that was advertised at $40,000 for a 160 acre parcel two years ago, it sold this past summer for $120,000. The land is only good for pasture and such until the oil companies want to drill on it.