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Rygaard, Papac, Swamp Man, and the Dreadknots appear in this season, with three new crews, Kelly Oakes & Sons Logging, Chapman Logging, and Ax Cut Lumber. Dave Stone briefly goes into business for himself, using the old S&S boat, but it sinks under the weight of a load of logs.
Swamp Man pushes through alligators and strong currents in search of wood to help build a camp for people displaced by the hurricane; after a processor breakdown and a hectic day of logging, Craig surprises the Rygaard crew by announcing his decision to quit the business at season's end; Stacey volunteers to make a risky yarder move and run the ...
Todd Dewey: Dewey, a logging trucker from Washington state, started his first year on the ice road to work for Rowland. He is also featured in Ax Men season 8, especially driving logs for Rygaard Logging into the saw mill during the warmer months. Dewey is the nephew of Craig Rygaard and cousin of Gabe, Jason, and Burt.
Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated IRT) is a reality television series that aired on History Channel from 2007 to 2017. It featured the activities of drivers who operated trucks on ice roads crossing frozen lakes and rivers, in remote territories in Canada and the U.S. state of Alaska.
With their companies Gerald Pelletier, Inc and Pelletier Brothers, Inc they have a long tradition of logging in the North Maine Woods region of northern woods of Maine. Meanwhile, the family has expanded the fields they work in. Trailer manufacturing and a restaurant business (now closed) and possibly insurance have been added to the business.
Equipment such as logging machines and chainsaws, while they have come a long way from the days of homemade choppers, still pose a threat. Add the force of Mother Nature to that.
Simpson was a prominent forest products company in Northern California for much of the 20th century, after first acquiring California timberland in 1945, eventually managing more than 450,000 acres of forest in California, in what was then known as the Redwood Division and is now mostly part of spinoff Green Diamond Resource Company.
Logging is the beginning of a supply chain that provides raw material for many products societies worldwide use for housing, construction, energy, and consumer paper products. Logging systems are also used to manage forests, reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore ecosystem functions, [2] though their efficiency for these purposes has been ...