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General Forestry => Forestry and Logging => Topic started by: craigc on June 10, 2011, 09:44:57 PM

Title: Swamp Loggers
Post by: craigc on June 10, 2011, 09:44:57 PM
I just saw Swamp Loggers will be starting again next friday.  In my opinion this is by far the best logging show on tv.
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Post by: paul case on June 10, 2011, 10:38:07 PM
yep
that and dirty jobs are my most favorite shows on discovery. they seem like real people. pc
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Post by: ellmoe on June 11, 2011, 07:10:01 AM
I guess I like all the red-neck reality shows. Especially anything with "swamp" in the title. It is good to hear this show will be back. Now if I could just keep my wife from canceling my DVR recordings so she can watch some dancing, singing, weight loss, etc. show, I'll be in hog heaven.

Mark
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Post by: thecfarm on June 11, 2011, 07:30:20 AM
A very nice clean show. I did notice in the last season the few times I saw it,some bickering was going on with the help. I guess that is life in the working world. I will try to watch it again. My 10 year old Grand Son loves it. ;D
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Post by: Dan_Shade on June 11, 2011, 08:23:38 AM
I like watching swamp people where they hunt alligators.  I guess they don't need people drama when you're fishing for alligators.
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Post by: treefarmer87 on June 11, 2011, 08:49:50 PM
Its a tie between swamp loggers and swamp people for me. i like hearing troy landy from swamp people hollerin shoot em shoot em :)
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Post by: tonto on June 11, 2011, 10:04:42 PM
great show, can't wait for the new ones. Tonto.
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Post by: Buck on June 11, 2011, 10:08:28 PM
TF..dats CHOOT EM LIZBET!...CHOOT EM!
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Post by: treefarmer87 on June 12, 2011, 03:57:55 PM
YEA :) how far do you live from where he is?
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Post by: instagator on June 12, 2011, 06:55:17 PM
Hey guys Swamp Loggers has a web site.
goodsonsallterrainlogginginc.com
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Post by: clww on June 13, 2011, 07:07:42 AM
And they sell gear, too! I got a t-shirt from them a few months back.
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Post by: wwsjr on June 13, 2011, 12:20:48 PM
I met Bobby Goodson at the Forestry show at MS State University last year. I think he was there with Timberjack equipment display. Great guy. I like the fact that the show does not include a lot of cursing and bad language. They also seem to really pull together to get the job done without bickering and arguing like some of the other logging shows.
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Post by: red oaks lumber on June 14, 2011, 06:02:34 PM
iv'e yet seen bobby have any good luck :D they sure have alot of class compared to say axmen
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Post by: mahonda on June 15, 2011, 12:34:50 AM
I like watchin just to feel better about what I broke that day. Bobby always has something broke sunk or not working.
Title: Re: Swamp Loggers
Post by: plasticweld on June 16, 2011, 07:57:48 AM
Quote from: mahonda on June 15, 2011, 12:34:50 AM
I like watchin just to feel better about what I broke that day. Bobby always has something broke sunk or not working.

I agree; nice to be reminded that being a mechanic and having a tool truck and spares is just part of logging,  its not bad luck, it just logging
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Post by: mahonda on June 17, 2011, 12:17:57 AM
Hence the term MECHanized logging. gotta take the good with the bad though. O bobby is a patient man.
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Post by: Buck on June 17, 2011, 08:52:17 AM
TF..hundred miles or so
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Post by: Phorester on June 17, 2011, 12:51:46 PM

I'm waiting for Swamp Wives.
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Post by: clww on June 17, 2011, 09:08:18 PM
On the Discovery Channel in less than an hour! :)
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Post by: Phorester on June 18, 2011, 09:42:25 AM

Stayed up all night waiting for it.  Darn.....Must've dozed off when it came on.
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Post by: paul case on June 18, 2011, 12:51:39 PM
i stayed up to catch it on the 12 to 1 rerun. i was gone getting groceries with the family when it aired the first time.
ol bobby was really getting the short fuse with the landowner saying they could trim their trucks here and then want ing the wood pile cleaned up.  that is just exactly the way i got pushed around when i grew chickens on contract. one company rep(who knew nothing) would come out and tell you to do one thing and then someone else call or come by telling you to do something different. really gets under your skin after a while. looks to me like the way to do it would have been when there wasnt a truck there and the skidder came in with a load he could grab some sticks to take back to the brush. easy to say from here but maybe more tough to do.
pc
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Post by: treefarmer87 on June 18, 2011, 12:56:17 PM
I watched it this morning on disc. channel. snow was slowing them down
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Post by: Bobus2003 on June 18, 2011, 11:05:44 PM
what i wanna know is.. Do they know how to use tire chains? Mud and snow like that we just chain trucks up to get the wood movin
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Post by: Don K on June 19, 2011, 04:55:50 AM
Chains are a rarity in the south. Even most skidders don't bother with the hassle.

Don
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Post by: mahonda on June 19, 2011, 09:16:41 AM
Chains here are a necessity almost year round on trucks and skidders. I wonder if the air pressure adjustment they use down there keeps them from throwing chains? Or they might just be typical truck drivers and don't want to get out of the cab ;)
Title: Re: Swamp Loggers
Post by: Bobus2003 on June 19, 2011, 12:31:50 PM
Quote from: mahonda on June 19, 2011, 09:16:41 AM
Chains here are a necessity almost year round on trucks and skidders. I wonder if the air pressure adjustment they use down there keeps them from throwing chains? Or they might just be typical truck drivers and don't want to get out of the cab ;)

With all the wet weather we've been gettin.. chains havnt come off my 440  for the summer, and were gonna re-chain the 450 Timberjack at work