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    Site visits by OHS

    i know here theres a person with OSHA you can call and they will come out and give your company a mock inspection and give you a report on everything that needs fixed and that will give you a good chance of not getting too big of a ticket when they show up for real. i know here OSHA...
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    starting a new business ?

    Thanks for the advice. Im looking at getting a dozer and a knuckleboom loader, a couple of chainsaws but my cousin owns a stihl shop so thats no problem, but for now just the loader and dozer maybe a skidder
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    starting a new business ?

    Im thinking about starting my own logging business and I have a few questions would I be better off trying to find some used equipment or just lease new? with the economy the way it is right now is there even any chance of me getting approved, I have great credit but no money for a down...
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    Who Backdrags?

    we contract log here in wv and we actually contracted for one land company where we had to back drag EVERY road on the job, when you leave youre not supposed to see a dozer or skidder track anywhere
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    Welcome!!!

    lived in West Virginia all my life, logged all my life, I do everything there is to do in the woods, run skidder, loader, dozer a little, even cut timber but not enless i HAVE to.
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    Tigercat 630 vs. Cat 545

    i saw my uncle have a JD cable skidder up in the air like that pulling a tree and then the choker broke... I had no idea that a skidder could bounce that high
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    2 trees to a load?

    nice red oak, we cut one a few years was 6'6" on the stump
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