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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1976)
AUGUST 6, 11)78 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON PAGE 3 Newest Logging Outfit Alfred Smith Jr. Logging Company Spilyay Tymoo will attempt to do a story on each of the logging outfits on the reserva tion in seperate issues. Since Alfred Smith Jr. Logging Com pany is the newest, we thought it appropriate to begin with this one. Alfred Smith Jr. Logging Company is the newest of the several privately owned log ging outfits on the reservation. The owner, known as J.R., started officially contracting with W.S.F.P.I. May 1st of this year. J.R. is not new to the logging business, however, as he has about 12 years exper ience ranging from working with crews in the woods; being a foreman for three years; to working at the mill for two* years - first as a log grader, then as a sales and mill re presentative. He currently has 15 em ployees which includb eight skidders, two tree fallers, and one jammer. Presently he has four log trucks sub-contracted. J.R.’s logging company is now working “high country sale” north of the Camus Prai rie area. Tentatively, his next job will be in the Harvey BE» Ridge area, and after that, Beach Comb Springs in the Metolius Bench area. According to Hank Palmer, logging manager at W.S.F.P.I., “J.R. has been doing a really good job and we have good cooperation with him. He un derstands ~what the mill wants since he’s had that experience here.” Though he has breakdowns to contend with (he also does his own mechanical work), and puts in long hours each day, Ätc ; Alfred Smith Jr. seems pleased to own his own logging com pany. Ä £ t " JAMMER, FRED JENKINS, vainly attempts to load this huge Pine onto the truck as driver, Rodney Smith, looks on. The big log dwarfs both the truck and Smith. In the end, the Pine had to Photo by Sandy Rangila be bucked in two. »K AFTER A SHOUT of warning, tree cutter Steve Baker steps clear while this large Ponderosa Pine begins its fall to the ground. Baker is one of the two tree cutters working for Alfred Smith Jr. Logging Company. Photo by Sandy Rangila g PAUL DRURY is setting chokers on these logs which will be hauled to the decking site in the .Camus Prairie area. Driving the cat is Danny Photo by Sandy Rangila Craig. ¡«ai« BOB FOX, who has just felled and limbed this tree marches across it to go after yet another. Even with their heavy saws, FRED JENKINS, jammer operator, found this these tree cutters seem always on the move and are hard to keep log too big to load as it was. He is bucking it Photo by Sandy Rangila in half to front-end it, loading each half up with.- seperately. A good jammer like Jenkins makes loading look easy. The truck driver is Rodney Photo by Sandy Rangila Smith. ■
