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aauGuStuGuSt 20152015Volume 50Volume 50 number 8number 8 To Advertise Call:To Advertise Call: (800) 462-8283(800) 462-8283

Prsrt stdu.s. POstagE

PAIDPErMit nO. 178

salEM, Or

lOggErsWOrldllC

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ChEhalis, Wa 98532-8425

August 6-9

August 14-15

morton loGGerS jubileeJubilEE arEna

MOrtOn, WashingtOn

For InFormatIon: (360) 523-4049

Gene Campbell memoriallumberjaCk Show

WOE FairgrOunds

COttagE grOvE, OrEgOn

For InFormatIon: (541) 520-0103

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Originally Publishedin March of 1985

Weary at Work

some of us in our line of workdon't have a decision aboutwhether we are going to work to-day or not. We are! We are be-cause the machinery for our partof the total job has already beenset in motion. We have madecommitments, so ready or not,we are bound to report for workand to do the work. almost ev-ery logger must go to work everyworking day. that is becausemost logging operations are sofinely tuned that he will hurt theoperation if he doesn't show upand do his part.

this is powerful motivationand it is a bringer of discipline.the business of making a com-mitment and having other peoplecount on us. there is a job to bedone --- we do our part of thatjob.

We do it on those days wedon't feel like doing it. We do itwhen we feel slightly ill. We doit when we are tired and weary.

in our business, the businessof publishing, we make commit-ments a long ways down the road--- far into the future. then

ready or not, we are bound to dowhat we said we were going to doand do it when we said we weregoing to do it.

the thing that drives us toget the work done is the dEad-linE. We have several dead-lines but the most important oneis meeting the deadline at theprinters. if we miss that one, weare in trouble.

Over the years of watchingthe performance of the peoplethat work here at loggers World,i have become convinced that weare much tougher than we thinkwe are. as the days are counteddown, the pressure gets a littlestronger. during the last weekor so of putting together andputting out an issue of loggersWorld, there is no one that miss-es any work. never! (at leasthardly ever). When the deadlineis coming up, we work sick or not--- tired or not. not only work butdrink lots of coffee and put inmany many hours.

there are many different jobsto be done that must come to-gether at the same time.

bill and vi iund come back tothe office from calling on adver-tisers. they start making upads, doing telephone calls to getmaterial coming in our direction,

and planning outwhere advertising willbe displayed on eachpage. this is a busytime for them and al-most without fail(good weather or badweather, sick or well,tired or full of energy)they make the dead-line. sometimes it isclose but it comes off on sched-ule.

the writers and photogra-phers bring in their stories androlls of undeveloped film. Whilethey bang on the typewriter,randy apperson is in the dark-room developing film and mak-ing pictures. the writers and ed-itors then design their storiesand pictures to be fitted into thepages along with the advertising.the people that set the type andthe people who take the pages ofrough layout and make them in-to a finished project go to work.those people are Jean hays, viandrews and gail holding.they lay up the pages, place theheadlines in place, trim and putin the half tones, set type and fitit into its proper slot. they allwork together along with billand vi until the finished productis ready to be taken to the print-er and made into thousands offinished loggers World Maga-zines.

Once the printed material ishauled to the office from theprinter, the deadlines still exist.next deadline is to get the maga-zine put together from the print-ed sections, to address each andevery copy, bundle the addressedcopies, label the bundles, putthem into the correct sacks andthen take them to the post officeand pay heavily for the post of-fice to deliver each magazine to

you --- the reader. thErEadEr --- the oneswhom all this is done for.

time after time aftertime i'm amazed at thestrength and the tough-ness of the people thatdo this work. that in-cludes the people whoare not directly involvedwith loggers World but

who also are wonderfully de-pendable in doing their jobs.the printers and the people inthe post office department aretwo groups who do a tremendousjob.

after the Magazines areprinted and stapled together andmailed out, a sort of letdowntakes place. if anyone is going tohead for the barn with the flu orcatch a bad cold --- then is whenit happens.

the toughness of people withan important job to do is beyonddescription. the more importantthe job, the tougher the people.in battle many soldiers havegone for 3 or 4 hours after beingshot. they went until there wasa lull and they could then backoff and answer the needs of theirbodies. this must be the way inhospitals with nurses and doc-tors. they must be able to workright on thru physical barriers ---until the emergency is over.

the more important the job,the more able people are to reachdown and grab onto somethingwe all have inside of us. to gainand get the strength and the en-ergy needed to get the job done.

before the last log truckerMagazine left for the printer,

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FINLEY HAYS

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See “Rigging Shack”

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COVER PAGE PICTURE: Levanen’s 1973 Skagit GT III gets to work ona landing near Naselle, Wash. Kyle Uskoski operates the machine andhas been out in the woods for a year and a half. See “Words They Live By” starting on Page 6.

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Rigging ShACk “ClASSiC” – by Finley Hays

“wordS they liVe by”lEvanEn inC. • battlE grOund, WashingtOn

– by Brandon Hansen

SCotuS playS humpty dumpty– by William Perry Pendley

aS we See it...

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loGGerS worldPublished by loGGerS world llC

Founded in 1964 by Finley Hays

Phone (360) 262-3376

PublishErs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kevin & nancy Core

EditOrs EMEriti . . . .Finley hays, mike Crouse

EditOr/WritEr . . . . . . . . . . . . . .brandon hansen

advErtising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kevin Core

OFFiCE ManagEr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .nancy Core

loGGerS world llC,p. o. box 1631, Chehalis, wa 98532-8425

e-mail: [email protected] rate (in u.S.a.): $25.00 per year;

two years for $50.00 lOggErs WOrld llC cannot and does not assume responsibility for the contents of anyadver tising in loggers World. the representations made by advertising is the responsibility ofthe adver tiser and not loggers World. loggers World does not knowingly accept advertisingthat is false or misleading. the limit of loggers World liability in case of a mistake made in ad-vertising copy by loggers World will be the charge of the actual space containing the error orless for that particular advertisement. We assume no liability for errors beyond 31 days.

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Founded by Scott and Mark Levanen in 1988,the Battle Ground, Wash.-based company hassince grown to 35 employees with three sidesand 10 log trucks. The company focuses onshovel logging, tower logging, thinning, refor-

estation, road building and log trucking.

LEVANEN, INC.

Battle Ground is located inClark County, Washington

just north of VancouverWash. The city, ironically is

the site of no battle except foran 1855 incident where the

settlers expected a battle withthe Yakima Indian Tribe that

never happened. BattleGround was first officiallyincorporated in 1951 and

has a population of 18,900people. This is up from 9,322people in 2000 and 3,758 in1990. Every summer, Battle

Ground puts on their commu-nity festival Harvest Days.Consistently seeing growth,the town has become an ex-ample of urban sprawl fromthe Portland metropolitian

area.

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Jim holding worked straightthru one whole night to meet hisdeadline. never got a drop ofsleep but drank about 3 quarts ofcoffee. the interesting thing isthat once log trucker was print-ed, Jim caught a doozy of a coldand gave in to it for a day.

the world is full of peoplewho take their jobs seriously andare to be counted on. the log-ging industry is full of thesekinds of people. they come towork no matter what and theygive it the best they can whilethey are at work. this is so usu-al with loggers that outstanding

effort don't rate a compliment.Outstanding effort is the normalthing.

during the past month i hadthe pleasure of visiting half adozen logging operation in West-ern Montana and northern ida-ho. Many of these loggers worklong days in below zero tempera-tures and waist high snow. theyseem to choose to ignore theweather and to concentrate uponthe job. remarkably cheerful,considering the conditions, theyenjoy their work, do it well andlike working with each other.

i watched fallers and shovel-ers working on steep sidehillswading in snow, slowly but

steadily, to get from tree to tree.not dismayed, they continue towork with a ready wisecrack andconcentration upon their chosentasks.

it was bitterly cold in themornings and started gettingdown there again about mid af-ternoon. however, the middle ofthe days were enjoyable. Pureair, bright sunshine and liveabletemperatures. One timber fallersaid, "We are lucky to be able toget out here and work in thesewoods in this weather." i had toagree. if he thought he was for-tunate then indeed he was.More than that, i was very fortu-nate to meet and visit with thesepeople.

up on top of one of the moun-tains a bunch of people workingat stevens logging Companywere sort of camped out in trail-ers and other types of shelter.the snow pack is deep and heavythere and there was about 6 feetof snow perched and balanced ontop of the outdoor privy.

One man told me that whenhe woke up that morning it was28 degrees inside his trailer.that was with the heater work-ing overtime.

the story is told that duringthe old days the loggers in thesemountains never missed a daydue to cold weather. theytoughed it out, waded thru thesnow and put in a full day's workevery working day.

One day someone showed upwith a thermometer. First oneman looked at it, then anotheruntil the entire crew had readthe numbers on the temperaturegauge. One by one they laiddown their tools, started up thecrew trucks and headed for thevalley and the towns.

Once they knew how cold itwas they didn't want to workanymore. From that day on,there has never been a ther-mometer allowed in the winterwoods of northern idaho. Or sothey tell me.

J.C. ryan, noted historian onthe Midwest logging scene, toldwhy the old time loggers innorthern Michigan could workright thru the bitter cold days."they dressed as warm as theycould, they worked as hard asthey could, and they never knewhow cold it was."

there is no one i know of whocan beat the loggers at workinghard and long when ill andweary. no one but perhaps thecrew here at loggers World.

Far as i am concerned, it is adraw!

i feel sorry for anyone whodoesn't have a job of more impor-tance than their comfort.

the job of logging comesahead of being comfortable.

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WATCHING FROM AFAR, long-time employee Lyle Abernathy watches hisnephew Mark Abernathy process logs with his Madill 2850C with a LogMax head out on a private tree farm near Vader, Wash. “I like being out inthe country and being able to do your own thing,” Mark says.

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exactly where he wants to be. the owner of levanen, inc.

was born in 1960 to ray andruth levanen. ray himself wasthe son of Finnish immigrants inthe upper Peninsula of Michi-gan, had served in the armyfrom 1946 to 1949 in germanyand eventually moved to glide,Oregon in 1952 after his brother-in-law rudy arvonen told him“...come out West where the treesare big.”

“We were raised quite conser-vative,” scott told loggers Worldin 2009. “Faith, family and work”continues to be the family mottoto this day as its ranks grow.scott and his wife Wendy nowhave 11 children and 25 grand-children to add to the familytree.

Faith, family and work alsoseems to be the cornerstone forlevanen, inc. as well. You’ll behard-pressed to find a friendliercrew which currently consists ofthree sides, ten trucks, a shop lo-cation and a firewood business.

“in 2014, it felt like we reallystarted to see the industry comeback and we hope it can stay,”levanen said.

scott has seen plenty of mar-ket ups and down. after growingup helping out in the woods, hegraduated high school in battleground in 1978 and spent thefollowing year at Clark Commu-

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ABOVE: Fresh off showing Levanen Inc.’s 1994 Kenworth W-900 at the Territorial Day’s Logging Show in Amboy, Wash.Charlie Domblewski has been Scott’s backup driver, filling inwhen needed on any given day.

LEFT: Company owner Scott Levanen poses with longtime em-ployee Lyle Abernathy, who is a cutter by nature but now fo-cuses on the safety of the operation and lays out unit harvestlines.

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nity College studying engineer-ing. his father ray - who hadestablished his own logging op-eration in 1967 - suffered aheart attack in 1980 and soscott returned to the woods tosupport his father.

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Even after his father re-turned to the woods six weeksafter his heart attack, scott ex-plained that “it got me back inthe woods and i liked it. ididn’t want to go back toschool.”

levanen joined abernathytree-O owned by Mark andChester abernathy and workedrigging and hooking on ayarder side for the first time,then moved up to running ashovel.

“that’s where i really gotmy feet into the business, myfirst experience where ilearned about yarder logging,”he said. “...and i still liked it.

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STANDING IN FRONTOF HIS CAT 330B, GaryBalch of Woodland runslog loader for Scott outon the Vader site, andhas been logging since1980 just before Mt. St.Helens relocated its top.Balch started as a chok-erman before moving toinside the cab of ayarder and then finallyto the shovel.

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You go through a winter or soand if you still like it you’re kin-da hooked.”

scott learned how to cut tim-ber from bill nelson and alsoworked a stint with Kyser log-ging out of Woodland doing rig-ging and skidding. in 1985, hedecided that with their thirdchild on the way he might wantto try something different. Withthe timber markets down, hefound a position at a grain eleva-tor in Kalama, Wash. handling

export grain.

A NEW COMPANY

after three years away fromlogging, levanen said he missedthe woods. since the grain eleva-tor was a seasonal job and laidoff their workers during thesummer months, scott partneredwith his cousin Mark levanen toform levanen inc. in 1988.While he continued to work forthe grain elevator until 2003, thetwo had opposite schedules thatcomplimented each other.

“We went back to our roots, askidder, a loader, and we picked

up another dozer, with just thetwo of us,” scott said. “i did a lotof the bidding and paperworkwhen we started and Markwould work in the woods.”

While the business primarilybegan working with private treefarmers, they eventually movedinto contract logging. the firstprocessor they purchased didn’tmake them any money, but in1997 while working for bankslumber on three different dnrsales they had more volume tomove and ending up purchasingthe Fabtek Ft240 processor andmounted it on a link-belt

ls3400. levanen inc. also purchased a

‘95 hitachi uh123 yoder andthinned for Plum Creek andlongview Fibre with that.

“it was a good little machine,and when we were done yardingwe could load with it,” scott said.

they also purchased an olderEdco double drum yarder with a70-foot tube on an autocar truckbody. they put an Eagle carriageon it with a 1 ⅛-inch skyline towork over big spans and also did

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ALL SMILES, Randy Rito-la of Battleground,Wash. is originally fromWisconsin but now callsthe Pacific Northwesthome. He’s out on theNaselle jobsite running aCat 325 with a Log Max10000 XT processor.

THE FIRST GUY on theNaselle job site to com-municate with DNR,Forestry and L&I reps isusually Doosan logloader operator JeffPalermo of Toledo,Wash. He’s been in thewoods for 35 years andhas worked for Scottfor five years.

STANDING TALL,is the refurbished1973 Skagit GT-3swing yarderwhich Levanenpurchased fromMontana in 2008.Levanen refit theyarder over 2months thanks tothe efforts of sixmen.

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GETTING BUSY

in the late 1990s, many of thetree farms that ray levanen hadreplanted in the 70s’ neededthinning.

“it was a need from the pri-vate tree farms we dealt with,”scott said. “as well as PlumCreek having some thinning bet-ter suited towards mechanical

(treatment).” scott and Mark added cut-to-

length harvesting systems, buy-ing a ‘95 timberjack 1270 har-vester with a Koehring 762bprocessing head and a 1210 for-warder in 1999. they also no-ticed that their Fabtek processorwas being taxed by the big woodthey were running through, sothey changed to a Waratahhth624 mounted on a Kobelco300 carrier in the fall of 2003.

scott said he’ll buy all differ-ent types of machinery depend-ing on the cost, the need and the

preference of his operators. healso tries to maintain the ma-chines through the years untilit’s time to upgrade.

the Waratah’s performanceled to levanen to buying twomore Waratah heads to bemounted on a link-belt 4300and a Madill 2850. these headshave been strong performers.

PARTING WAYS

Mark and scott split ways in2003, and Mark formed Marklevanen Forestry which contin-ued with a cut-to-length system.

the two still collaborate togetheron some projects and remainclose friends.

“We had a good 14-year part-nership together,” scott said.

scott, meanwhile, left his jobwith the grain elevator and wentinto logging full time.

GOING TALL

levanen had used a 42-foottriple drum Edco Mustang buthad felt his operation needed abigger tower so in 2006 he founda new one in a rock pit in Col-orado.

“they were at 6,000 feet ele-vation and logging boulders andselling them for landscaping,” hesaid.

scott purchased the rock pitEdco Wildcat iii with a 70-foottower. they had McPaul Ma-chinery in Centralia, Washing-ton work on the machine and re-certify it for logging.

ON THE LANDING

Currently, levanen has threesides going and at the time ofthis issue’s print he had jobsitesin Washington near vader,naselle and the south toutlearea. he’s got two towers - whichcame in extremely helpful at thenaselle jobsite which featurednarrow fingered units on steepterrain.

those towers are a 1986 WestCoast hawk and his recently re-furbished 1973 skagit gt-3swing yarder which he pur-chased from Montana in 2008.While the West Coast hawkstarted the naselle job, he wasable to put the gt-3 in the shopfor two months and six peopleworked on it.

levanen inc.’s Ward aber-nathy - and member of the aber-nathy family that scott used tobe employed by - worked withthe gt-3 in Montana for buck-horn logging in Kalispell andwas around the machine for itsfirst refit. this time around,Ward wanted to do some prettyextensive things to the machine.

Ward grew up in the Pacificnorthwest and moved to Mon-tana in 1993, then back to Wash-ington state in 2005.

“some people rebuild cars andi apparently rebuild yarders,”Ward said with a laugh. “i spentmost of my career with yardersand have a passion for cable log-ging.

Ward and other crew mem-bers put a new John deere rear

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entry log loader cab with mod-ern conveniences such as aCand two lever controls on themachine. there was a big effortto make the controls and shift-ing easier for the operator as op-posed to the dancing you’ll see ayarder operator do sometimes.

they put a water brake onthe haulback of the machinesince the interlocks would gethot after hard use. they put in ahydraulic pump clutch insteadof an air pump and gave the ma-chine a dual yarding system.they also installed a guyline re-mote system allowing the opera-tor to guide and tighten themwithout requiring the crew’shelp.

levanen also uses a Fortron-ics Electronic choker system,further improving the efficiencyof each turn.

Operating the yarder is Kyleuskoski - appreciating the aCcab very much after this warmsummer on the west coast - whohas been out in the woods for ayear and a half but has a strongbackground in mechanics -which is a plus for a yarder op-erator.

the yarder also got a sharpnew paint job and some tree lo-gos fabricated by arrowheadiron of duluth, Mn owned byscott’s brother grant welded onthe back. While most jobsitesmight have a yarder that looksa little rough around the edges,this one looks like the sharpestmachine on the landing.

russ smith, Chuck hopkins

and dale badger of Medern Ma-chinery in rochester, Wash.were a big help in putting thenew yarder components togeth-er with their experience andideas. Jesse severson of brakesystems inc. did the brake workon the machine while Mark’sEquipment Painting in Chehalisput the paint to the metal.

“the workmanship that wentinto this is incredible,” Wardsaid. “Everybody was 100 per-cent in on working on this thingand they did everything wewanted.”

CREW TIME

since moving to logging full-time, levanen now has a crewof 35 employees and can doshovel logging, tower logging,road building and reforestation.scott tries to keep his eyes andears open for the needs of thecrew and offers medical, dentaland vision benefits for his em-ployees.

helping with the safety oflevanen’s operation is longtimeemployee lyle abernathy. he’sbeen out in the woods all hislife, starting by cutting snagswith his dad while he was stillin school. lyle also helps withcutting in a pinch if somethingneeds to be done. he says his fa-vorite part of the job is layingout the unit harvest lines anddetails.

“i like when scott gives me amap of some state sale,” lylesaid with a smile. “Walkingaround the woods, that’s justsomething i’ve done all my life.”

While lyle is a cutter by na-ture, two of the workhorses for

levanen are 22-year timber cut-ter bud beck and young gunronald tikka.

“it’s always something differ-ent and you learn something ev-eryday,” beck said.

Mother nature though, tikkaadmits, can be a challengesometime. both said the mellowground on the job at vader wasnice, but then immediately tack-led a gnarly tree that hadbranches trying to hold it upeven after the application of thetree jack.

having experienced cutterspass their trade on to youngerguys is important, scott adds, asit's becoming something of ararity since automation has tak-en over.

the industry has a bit of a la-bor shortage as it's gettingtougher and tougher to findyounger workers to learn thetrade. levanen tries to foster anenvironment of communicationwith the crew and doesn’t par-ticularly care for some recent re-ality tv shows portraying theindustry as a hard-yelling,greenhorn-razing bunch. log-gers are professionals and take

their work seriously. “We try to keep guys commu-

nicating, if you got a problemwith how something is workingor going we want to work withyou,” scott said. “We don’t wantto have competition or resent-ment. We want all the guyscommunicating and that’s a re-ally big safety thing too.”

the first guy on the nasellejob site to communicate withdnr, Forestry and l&i reps isusually doosan log loader opera-tor Jeff Palermo of toledo,Wash. he’s been in the woodsfor 35 years and has worked forscott for five years.

“these doosans are good ma-chines and we’ve had three ofthem,” Jeff said. “they’ve beenreally reliable. scott’s a greatguy to work for and has veryvery conscious of the people wehire. We don’t have many block-heads up here. he really takescare of his staff and that’s themain thing.”

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17LEFT: Donny Wieboldand his dad George in-dependantly haul forLevanen Ic. Donny hasbeen working for his dadfor two years and drivesa Peterbuilt 378.

RIGHT: Shane Haber-nathy of Shane Enter-prises Inc. goes back andforth from Montana andWashington to haul logsin his 2000 Kenworth T-800 with a 550 CAT En-gine and 15-speed trans-mission. “It has runsteady and it’s hardly ev-er let me down,” Haber-nathy said.

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vader site, and has been loggingsince 1980 just before Mt. st.helens relocated its top. balchstarted as a chokerman beforemoving to inside the cab of ayarder and then finally to theshovel.

“it’s just a passion of mine,”he said. “i’m a third-generationlogger. it’s something my grand-pa, dad and uncle have done.”

lyle abernathy’s nephewMark of Yacolt runs processorfor scott, using a Madill 2850Cwith a log Max head. While heclaimed 30 years of experienceout in the woods, he eventuallybroke down and told loggersWorld he’s actually been loggingfor eight years.

“i like being out in the coun-try and being able to do yourown thing,” Mark said. “bouncedaround for a few different posi-tions. Just started from the bot-tom.”

always important to any log-ging operation is the riggingcrew. the naselle side had lo-gan homola, tim heidegger,Clay sarkinen down in brushworking hard. heidegger hasbeen with the company for 3years. heidegger has been withthe company for three years.homala has been working withthem for a year, starting in theshop and in the woods for aboutsix months. sarkinen is the newguy on the crew but is fitting inwell.

“it’s pretty tough with theheat we’ve had but you just got-ta take water breaks if you need

them,” heidegger said. homola and sarkinen are

from la Center while heideggeris from Yacolt.

randy ritola of battleground,Wash. is originally from Wiscon-sin but now calls the Pacificnorthwest home. he’s out on thenaselle jobsite running a Cat325 with a log Max 10000 xtprocessor.

the log Max 10000 xt hasan integrated top saw and a sin-gle-grip system that reducesmarks on the wood. it can han-dle logs up to 35.4 inches andscott said he recently purchased

the log Max since the compa-ny’s north american headquar-ters are in vancouver meaningthey’re close to the excellent cus-tomer service of the company.

Working on the south toutlejobsite is longtime employee EdKysar, running a tigercat830lx feller buncher whiledustin tomasini runs a hitachixaxis 250 loader while nate de-rocher operates a Cat 330dshovel.

daryl Zumstein of Woodlandworks on the road-building sideof things and he’s been out inthe woods all his life. nathan

Milton Jr. also runs a 300 Kobel-co on the south toutle side witha 624 Wartah processor and isan all-around handy guy forlevanen. he runs the lowboy,drives truck and is a good equip-ment operator.

ON THE ROAD

levanen has ten trucks totaland seven of those are runningevery day for the operationalong with a handful of indepen-dently owned trucks. Fresh off

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(Continued from page 16) TWO CUTTERS, TWO DIF-FERENT BRAND OF SAWS,here are two of theworkhorses for Levanen in22-year timber cutter BudBeck (left) and young gunRonald Tikka. “It’s alwayssomething different andyou learn something every-day,” Beck said.

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showing levanen inc.’s 1994Kenworth W900 at the territori-al day’s logging show in amboy,Wash. Charlie domblewski hasbeen scott’s backup driver, fillingin when needed on any given day.

nicknamed the Chelatchieapache, the amboy resident hasdone everything from cuttingwood and being an equipment op-erator. he started for scott in2013 but has been out in the

woods most of his working career.“being out here has a nice view

and everything smells good,”domblewski said. “ii’ve been log trucking a long timeand i try to keep good care ofscott’s truck. log trucks are likerolling billboards, people seethem out on the road.”

Marcus Wirtanen has been logtrucking for levanen for eightmonths, but has been working forscott for five years.Wirtanen hasbeen driving the no. 3 truck - a1999 W-900 with a Cat engine -

for the company.“i ran processors a couple

years back and have always beeninterested in a change of pace,”Wirtanen said. “i had driven alittle bit between jobs and it hasbeen good. i’ve had very littletime off which is nice.”

terry McClellan of amboy,who operates the no. 11 truckwhich is a 1996 t-800 Kenworthwith a n14 Cummins engine, hasbeen log trucking for scott off andon for 12 years but has been intrucking for 40 years.

“i like how this is a familybusiness,” terry said whileadding with a chuckle “and idon’t like going to town very of-ten.”

McClellan has also taken ahand in running processor andyarder before log trucking. Cur-rently the Kenworth he drivespulls the mule train that convertsto a long log trailer.

“scott is a really good person,”McClellan said. “he’s got a lot ofhonesty and integrity. i enjoyworking with him.”

ron buck also runs the no. 6truck for levanen, a 2006 Peter-bilt, and has been log truckingsince 1984.

andy uskoski drives truck no.2, a Kenworth 2000 t-800 longlogger. he started with lebanenfour years ago as a fresh truckdriver and has developed into agreat log truck driver.

steve Funk drives the no. 8truck, a 1999 Kenworth. he’sbeen with the company for ayear.

IN THE SHOP

levanen’s battleground shopkeeps two mechanics working fulltime for the company and anoth-er out on the road. terry Mc-daniels and tracy downing keepthe machines running while bri-an buck runs a field servicetruck.

scott’s son dale and Colinbright also help out in the shop.While scott’s wife Wendy workshard being a grandma of a partic-ularly large family, levanen’sdaughter Kylie Pegoraro headsup the company’s office while hisother daughter Cori and ailalindberg also work in the office.

FIRED UP

beginning in 2007, scott leva-nen suggested that his twindaughters - amy and amber, whohad recently attained drivers li-censes - help name a firewoodbusiness. the result was Fire-wood guys.

Partnering up with Kylie Pe-goraro’s husband tony, levanenpurchased a blockbuster Model18-20 for firewood processing andthe business began cutting, split-ting, processing and selling fire-wood.

“i had always dabbled in fire-wood,” scott said. “but in 2008when the economy took a fall, wehad nothing else to do and thewoodlot helped us keep our sani-ty.”

levanen estimates theymoved 1,500 cords a year and thesite has grown to roughly twoacres in size. they employ fourhigh school kids to bundle andstack the wood and have a selec-tion of douglas fir, alder, cherry,ash and oak.

they’ve seen growth in busi-ness selling campfire bundles andare selling to a handful of restau-rants, some with brick ovens.seasoned wood is obviously theproduct of choice and scott saidthey let their wood do that foreight months to a year.

they recently have on orderfrom iowa a blockbuster 22-20that should help production onthe site. levanen said block-buster has been wonderful towork with.

POWER OF FAITH, FAMILY AND WORK

things have changed since thecreation of the levanen in 1989but one thing that hasn’t changedis the principles of the company.since levanen operates with a lotof private landowners and treefarmers, scott markets all of thewood of these private jobs andmakes a point of being completelyhonest through the entire pro-cess.

it’s a point that isn’t lost on thelandowners and it’s probably areason that levanen finds itselfstill out in the woods.

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the nation learned last weekthat the ObamaCare phrase “anExchange established by thestate” used seven times to referto an exchange established by astate as opposed to one estab-lished, in the absence of state ac-tion, by the u.s. department ofhealth and human services(hhs) does not mean only theformer but means the former andthe latter. neither citing tohumpty dumpty (“[a]word…means just what i chooseit to mean—neither more norless.”) nor conceding to the irs,the Court discerned Congress’strue intent, distorted the law tosave it, and defied the Constitu-tion.

that approach should not beavailable to the Coloradosupreme Court as it faces thequestion of whether the generalassembly, under the control oftax and spend liberals, may cir-cumvent the will of Colorado vot-ers in amending their Constitu-tion to include a taxpayer’s billof rights (tabOr). althoughearlier in the week five of thejustices over a justice’s dissent

delayed that day by declining tohear the first of two lawsuitsfiled to determine the differencebetween a tax and a fee, that theday will come soon enough be-came clear with the filing of athird lawsuit last week by thetabOr Foundation. althoughColorado governments arebarred by tabOr from levyingnew taxes (or in-curring new debt),they may imposefees; it is this loop-hole through whichthe state and itsmunicipalities haveburdened Col-oradoans.

the latest ta-bOr lawsuit al-leges in denverdistrict Court thatmembers of the ta-bOr Foundationshould have beenallowed to vote on whether a“hospital provider fee” may beimposed on Colorado hospitals.since its enactment in 2009, tensof millions of dollars and perhapsa hundred million dollars have

been collected by the Coloradodepartment of health Care Poli-cy and Financing. although fed-eral law allows Colorado andother states to impose a health-care assessment to pay for Medi-caid services, the regulations ex-pressly provide for taxes; howev-er, to avoid tabOr, Coloradocalled the taxes “fees.” Further-more, although the 2009 act pro-vided the fees would be kept sep-arate from the general fund, infiscal years 2010, 2011, 2012,and 2013, some of the proceedswere put into the general fund,in clear violation of tabOr. theFoundation seeks declaratoryand injunctive relief and the re-fund of revenues collected, alongwith the payment of interest, asrequired by tabOr.

Federal regu-lations allow thestates to imposea “tax” (their on-ly reference to“fees” relates tothose for licens-ing); in fact, thegeneral assem-bly incorporatedthat language inits bills. Fur-thermore, thefederal regula-tions prove thehhs intendedthat states im-

pose taxes, not fees, on hospitalservices because, to remain eligi-ble for federal Medicaid funds,the state health care-related“taxes” must be broad based,uniform, generally redistribu-

tive, and cannot violate the “holdharmless” provision of the regu-lations, that is, a state cannotguarantee that it will reimbursea hospital—either directly or in-directly—for taxes paid to thestate.

although, under federal regu-lations, Colorado may not pro-vide services to a hospital in ex-change for the “fees” collected atthat hospital, the provision ofservices in exchange for a fee iswhat causes a fee to differ from atax. instead, Colorado—consis-tent with federal regulation ifwhat it is imposing is a “tax” butin violation of tabOr if it ischarging a “fee”—charges all ofthe hospitals in the state uni-formly, and then redistributesthose funds in a way that guar-antees some hospitals will notreceive any funds in return. Forexample, a Jefferson County hos-pital paid $2.1 million and re-ceived no services; ten other Col-orado hospitals paid more in tax-es than they received in servicesfrom the state.

the tabOr lawsuit may bethe least of Colorado’s problems.as the CatO institute docu-ments, Medicaid expenses aregrowing like topsy; furthermore,Colorado’s attempt to avoid ta-bOr may mean it violated feder-al law.

mr. Pendley, a Wyoming attor -ney, is President and Chief Legal officer of mountain States LegalFoundation and a regular c olum -nist in Loggers World.

Summary Judgment....

by William Perry Pendley

SCOTUS Plays Humpty Dumpty ButCan Colorado Do

The Same?

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growing up in a small rural town innorthern California i have seenfirst-hand how well intended regula-tion can destroy jobs once manipu-lated by the regulatory agencies andthe environmental industry. re-cently we saw how dwindling popu-lations of the northern long earedbat pushed Federal Fish andWildlife to take immediate action.Many of us were to be impacted bythis action, which raised the ques-tion of the quality of science, theproposed restrictions and the realreason for the decline. this actionsent tremors across the wood prod-ucts industry of our nation. indus-try professionals from across ourcountry began to see first handwhat those of us in the Pacific northWest have been dealing with forover 25 years.

the Endangered species act of 1973was signed into law by Presidentrichard nixon on december 28,1973, it was designed to protect crit-ically imperiled species from extinc-tion as a "consequence of economicgrowth and development un-tem-pered by adequate concern and con-servation." the u.s. supremeCourt found that "the plain intent ofCongress in enacting" the Esa "wasto halt and reverse the trend towardspecies extinction, whatever thecost.”

the summer of 1990 on the northCoast of California was a time that

would change the course of our re-gional timber industry forever dueto a pair of events. the first wasredwood summer, where a fewhundred college students decided tospend their summer vacation insunny California protesting the na-tions most stringent forest regulato-ry system and sampling some of theregions local produce. the secondevent was the listing of the north-ern spotted Owl as threatened un-der the Endangered species act.amongst other factors these twopropelled the California timber in-dustry into a death spiral, which ledto the closure of 84 out of 117sawmills and reduced the industryby 70% in just 20 years.

in order for any timber harvest innorthern spotted Owl (nsO) terri-tory to take place survey protocolsmust be followed to locate and pro-tect the species. this process hasevolved over the years and has be-come very burdensome; however thelevel of thoroughness has providedsome very interesting data, collectedmostly by biologists employed onprivate land. this data shows thatthe species is declining on FederalForests, Parks and areas wheremanagement is nonexistent. Whilethe opposite is true for privatelandowners that have continued tomanage their land and are seeingnsO populations increase. as withall species they need life’s essentials

to thrive and they are finding thatin our managed forests.

More recently the finger has beenpointed at the barred Owl as onereason behind the decline of north-ern spotted Owl, and the solutionhas been to authorize managementof the barred Owl species by termi-nation. a logical person has to askhow many years this terminationpolicy will take to produce anotherendangered specie for us to protect.termination seems like a simple so-lution because the barred Owl isnot a listed species but it begs thequestion, what do you do when afederally listed southern sea Otteris eating a federally listed Cohosalmon? history has shown that bi-ologists, usually through the help oflawyers, add regulation to the fish-ing industry and others to make upfor this natural process. Currentlyunder the Esa it is not uncommonto shut down timber operations formonths to protect potential habitatfor species in areas that representthe extreme reaches of their range.

after 40 years of living and workingwith the Endangered species act ithink it is time to revisit the actualintent of Congress. if nothing elsewe need an Endangered Workersact, designed to protect criticallyimperiled humans from extinctionas a consequence of overzealouslaws and regulations. after a 70%decline in the last 25 years it is time

to petition the California state Fishand Wildlife to list the Californialogger as an endangered species,but we wouldn’t stop there becausewe would have to add mill workers,log truck drivers, foresters andmany other professions specific tothe forest products industry. Wewould also have to look at indirectjobs that have been affected andwhy whole communities have be-come dependant on the governmentfor support rather than their owninitiative.

this trend is on the move across thenation, and many states are al-ready seeing the impacts from regu-lations like these being used for pur-poses other than their intended use.Perhaps if proper science ratherthan political science was the deter-mining factor for these listings, theensuing regulations and restrictionswould actually help the species andlead to their recovery. at that pointperhaps both the imperiled speciesand imperiled workers could be re-moved from their respective endan-gered list.

Myles anderson is the current Pres-ident of the american loggersCouncil and he and his father Mikeown and operate anderson logging,inc. based out of Fort bragg, Ca.

the american Loggers Council is anon-profit 501(c) (6) corporationrepresenting professional timberharvesters in 30 states across theUS. For more information, visittheir web site at www.americanlog-gers.org or contact their office at409-625-0206.

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The Endangered Species Act– Second Take

BLASTFROM THE PASTBY QUINN J. MURK FOR LOGGERS WORLD

It looks like everyone wanted to get into thispicture. A 1947 Ford cab-over is carrying awhopper of a log. Obviously, the driver isleaning on the cab guard. Next to him issomebody in every day clothes, holding adog, and leaning against the fuel tank. Abusiness-suited gentleman, striking a formalpose, stands near the trailer. One bravesoul climbed up on the log. Even though thelog has a serious ring check, and is weepinga lot of pitch, several thousand board feet ofprime lumber will be cut out of her. A loglike this would never go to a plywood mill,even though that was a booming business atthe time. Plywood production would be aphenomenal growth industry for the nexttwenty years, and starting in the 1980’s itwould die out faster than it originally grew.Very few plywood plants are around any-more.

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