SWAMP LOGGERS NC / "HALLSBORO BLUES"

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Good Times foreign Bobby and the crew begin the task of pulling up the log word off this track and moving to the very last one here in hallsboro this last track consists of a lot of Pulp wood and a lot of pine there's about 800 acres of it so it's to his best interest that he goes ahead and get it done as fast as he can to get out of here [Music] thank you being this far out really isn't the ideal situation and prices at the pump isn't doing him any favors either especially with the commute and all that heavy equipment stays thirsty on this particular track Bobby actually had to go in and build a road to the dead and I tell you when it's dry it's dries baby powder when it's wet it's slick it's fried okra hey guys how y'all doing out there we are in the third month of the new year and we have finally got moved on to the last uh 150 175 Acres of this track that we're on it's been 800 acre track we've been here way too long too far from home it's uh it's wearing on us all but uh we're on the last well well this time it backfired on me most of the time whenever we go to a track of wood always try to get the worst first that way it can only get better supposedly but we all know that Newton was a logger because we have dealt with for over a year all the puntwood the long poles everything the back half of this track had to deal with is saving this 175 Acres of mixed Pine and hardwood is the best the better ground the better wood by far on the whole track and uh we've been on this deck now for I guess a week or two maybe week and a half but uh as soon as we moved up here they the Mills went on a schedule shut down uh they're not buying any pine and as I'm sure you'll be able to see through uh some of the filming here that we're actually having to drive a quarter of a mile uh well at least the eighth of a mile through the pine to get to the hardwood which was supposed to be a big help to us because it was going to be a close pull of good ground you know everything was going to work out and now end up starting out on a eighth of my pool you know because we can't cut the pine and uh thank you very frustrating and again you know we're down five people in the woods I'm actually running the loader now uh Justin or they're doing everything really Justin like today he's he'll pull with the grapple tractor and he'll pull up five or six big pulls up to the old 250 loader and once he gets it pulled up there then he'll jump in the loader and cut it all up merchandise and stack it up and go pull some more and uh it's Metro is stomping once he gets enough wood stumped ahead he'll jump on the shovel and bunch the wood and you know the guys are are doing good I mean well actually we're still out producing the trucks I mean when there's only four of us out here uh me Justice Mitchell and Darley the early's the only protractor and Justin you know everybody's helping him where they can but uh it's just uh I'll be so happy to get done with this track of wood it's so far from home and it's just can't get any trucks oh it's killing us but uh and also we lost a truck driver upon the had some issues and he's no longer driving and so we only got four of our trucks pulling and we supposed to have some extra trucks coming in today they hadn't showed up yet uh but maybe they'll come in and help us out some but uh you know we're staying around I guess 40. well if we had the trucks we could stay around 60 loads a week but we just ain't got the trucks we've been running about 40. one whip we got 50 but uh just starting at the third month being short-handed like that but it's not the woods I mean we're still getting the wood out just can't get it home just can't find enough trucks to get it hauled but uh y'all say a prayer for me and um you know maybe maybe something will happen maybe some trucks will show up I don't know what to do there's I've been doing this for 36 years and I just really don't know what to do anymore um just keep getting up coming out here and hopefully something will happen we'll see guys uh as you can see behind the controls of our new loader is the 865 Tire jet and looking out my window here you see a bunch of pine and uh Pine is a almost a cuss word right now we can't get rid of it we get one load of pound pot wood a day one load of armor which is like chip and salt so we got to try to work that in but it's just like every time we get ready to load the load of armor they shut the mill off they started out suppose they've stayed at 4 30. it started out it did beginning of the week they had stayed up to 4 30 the next day they started something happen they closed at one the next day they closed it nine and today they just stayed by now so it's uh it's hard you know we got no help anymore that's actually why I'm running a loader we're down to four people we got Justin is on that the old 250 but he brushed the loader he runs the tractor in the mornings he'll jump in the smaller truck and I'll load what would I got and he'll spot the loads out trim the glove and after he gets that done then he'll you know pull a four or five point what he does is pull through the whole loader but he gets five or six seven pulls up there then he'll jump in the loader merchandise it all out and stack it up the early pulls to me Demetrios down there stopping and running the shovel and with the stomper when he cuts it down because we're in a lot of wide open stuff and the ground is actually pretty good and we don't really usually cut white though but it's real Lemmy it's Metro take the Cuttery because what lips you can off with the cutter everybody's doing multiple rolls right now the systems the sign of our times right now I mean to be perfectly honest uh the five people that we lost which was uh Abraham Antonio Raul and uh Antonio's uh brother-in-law and Fred if we had all those guys still out here I don't know I couldn't pay it because we can't we still can't haul enough wood you know we won't quote it for one thing and now we still can't don't have any trucks um we've been standing around anywhere for 45 to 50 55 loads a week is all we can get because can't get no trucks can't find trucks it's just uh and it really is not it made us everywhere it's not just the woods you know in the top of that up which we had you know of course we got six trucks we had all of them running well before the fuel got to five dollars a gallon the shortage of trucks even then uh we've had two well actually three of our guys quit two of them bought their own trucks because they see these big flatbed right you know people getting seven million dollars a mile I don't blame them you know if I could do it I probably would but uh but now he was five dollars a gallon I don't know if they're getting a surcharge we're not getting one in the woods yet they're supposed to be working out something for us to help us out the deal but uh to get the example of how much the fuel really affects us now this is nothing but peel this is not how much the oil is going up tires has gone up everything else has gone up but just the fuel itself on on this size drop right here same time last year it's costing us 5.44 a time just to stay even in other words if they gave us a 5.44 a ton raise all that would do is cover the cost of the fuel that we're burning in the woods right now nothing else it ain't going to cover the cost of how much tires has gone up how much everything's going on just for the fuel that's how much is that's how critical it is I mean this country runs on fuel and then you got the administration the first thing that first day on the job he shuts the pipeline down you know starting from building and it's just been a trickle-down effect ever since then it's uh I don't I don't know what this country's coming to be honest with or try to keep working I mean we we need truck drivers uh if we could get the trucks back going then I could hire people in the woods but I'm scared to hire anybody in the woods right now because we're so limited on what we can haul I don't know guys uh y'all say a prayer for us for everybody in that industry because we sure need it [Music] yes Believe It or Not Bobby cuts out a lot of these tree cookies we ship out to y'all [Music] paint stick you all right you know if y'all follow this channel it seems like there's always something out here just tearing up just like the day for instance the mystery leak and the pressure washer hose no one knows how it got there but yet it's there I'm a firm believer if you ain't using it get rid of it right here Justin is removing some old Plumbing from the pressure washer with only three drivers on this last job moving a lot of wood quickly is going to raise a lot of challenges on a good day they're able to move about 10 to 12 loads not a slow leak in series foreign foreign okay [Music] foreign I said look dirty it's seven o'clock like he thinks it's 12 o'clock and I looked at my wife took me in my phone and it was fun another guy in your truck Justin just don't do it ain't no telling what I got what are you what I cut him one day you can punch it in one day it's amazing man this because it ain't wet you're just rolling through it but uh I guess because I cut it one day and today I'm doing Justice that's what you put back in here huh stripped looking no it's not maybe I still want him shot trying to find some Closer by well a month went by I ain't heard from him and all of a sudden he calls me back and says he can't find nothing man I really need that job but you know to still need somebody because yeah I said I do need somebody he goes uh listen man uh I said I need to know if I got the job now I said because I I want to go to West Virginia and work with him but you know I don't worry about that you really not plan on getting me a job I said look you did work you got a job I would need help and he says okay and uh shut up and he just all of a sudden he just shied down on both blacksmoke Road I see that front end breaking it just jumped straight up now I just about knocked the ball joint out of the spin yeah broke so hard horsepower horsepower gets you through some holes [Music] [Music] before it is the heaviest thing on this one though if a diesel truck is going to go down the road and two-wheel drive that's a good rule of fall do you ever snipers one of these you have a car goes he's right here next time you go on what would you pick up do you ever have one you hear a pop when the car up will bounce over like a bubble yeah [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] victory no we still having a few issues with our e-tracker it's the newest track that we've got it's a 2014. um we had the the bogey arm broke off out again to something the machine is not done right on the casting and it's putting the bolts in a bind and you know because it's like 18 volts maybe more that holds that thing home there and they all snap off when it does it messed axle up and just food bars everything but we had it broke that was right at Christmas we got that fixed and here I guess it's been uh about a week ago Dollar's out there pulling matter of fact it's the first pull he made on this deck right here uh he went down there to get a full of wood and uh he could he said he felt like the brakes was locking up which is a red flag because these tractors don't have brakes like that it's hydrostatic and anyway Justin gush checks it out and uh the hog head then this the the variant in this fat is just like in a big drawer in the center it's got this big round thing we call it a hockey I'm not sure why it's called differential anyway it uh the pinion bearing went out messed all that up so we had to buy a new uh hog head for that which was 8 500 bucks and it was down you know thank God it wasn't the D tractor because they don't even have a version for the Detroit Tiger cat um axle Tech nobody's even got one of them and it was twice as much as the e-tracker so I guess if there's one right side to it it was the e-tron that broken not the D but uh but we got that back going and uh and we got the clan monk going there was actually pulling with it some today um you know just to make sure everything's still good with it but anyway we got a truck in so we'll see if we get a truck loaded and y'all stay tuned now foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] guys thank you all for watching uh the video just remember y'all say a prayer for us I mean for everybody in our industry or for our country really everybody's suffering right now but uh I don't mind running this new loader actually I like it but there's a lot of things to do to run the business and it's hard to do it for the cabinets longer but uh thanks for watching the video and y'all hit that like button and let's get some uh describe so I can't get it out subscribe stay tuned for the next one we're going to keep working as long as we can see what 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Channel: SWAMP LOGGERS NC

Views: 257,105

Keywords: swamp logger, bobby goodson, tigercat, logging

Id: mNTXQZguAdk

Length: 30min 0sec (1800 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 29 2022