SILVICULTURE LINKS TO THE WORLD

Of the resource lists Virtual Forestry Library in Finland is one of the most comprehensive, however, the Lindsay List has a number of things especially in the Pulp and Paper end of the Forestry business. There is Swedish collection of forest related information . The Forest Products and Marketing Home Page and the University of Washington is also quite comprehensive. A short list is to be found on the Forestnet in Eugene, Oregon. For the Spanish view of things there is the Mundo Forestall page of Ramon De Zubiaur or if you want to home school in log scaling

you can do that too.

To the North we have a page for British Columbia Wood Design with many useful pointers. . The World Foresty Institute deserves a visit, however, the Forestry Australia is particularly informative as is the very extensive Australian site of CISRO - Forest Products. If you are really into it, you might want to join the Australian Branch of the Institute of Wood Science. For a different look at the industry there is PIRA, a British Consultancy on paper technology and the Alliance for Forest Technology of Canada and the Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria who are involved in forest research. While we are up North we should also take in Natural Resources Canada and if you need a new career you might consider one in Weed Science since there seem to be some openings, otherwise, try the Alliance for America website. If you are into woodwooking, best you visit the Woodworking Catalog.. You might want to look for the Sutherland Steam mill in Nova Scotia which is a museum which leads us to a World Wide list of Museums. There is also Badger Hardwoods of Wisconsin The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is linked in here also. But, what ever you do don't fail to watch the timber falling at North Powder Lumber but ESCO has a site for they products Very special to me, however, is the Alaska Forest Association since my grandfather worked in the Klondike so many years.

Also of interest is the Oregon Department of Forestry which includes a variety of things such as log price information . The Forestry Deparment of Oregon State University has an online Forestry Media Center as well as an excellent series of pages to aid in the indentification of Pacific Northwest Conifers. For a different look at things, it seems that they even grow trees in Iowa, and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has a page as do the Indian tribes and Georgia-Pacific..

In Louisiana we find the Roy O. Martin Lumber Group who is one of the largest producers in the South. Weyerhaeuser is on line as isBoise Cascade .

Other logging links

I get lots of requests for pointers to suppliers of logging tools, chain saw parts and supplies and so far I believe that Eagle USA has one of the best on line catalogs for Logging and forestry supplies. See also crosscut saw If you want a hands on feeling about logging, you might subscribe to the loggers all time favorite newspaper, the Loggers World . If you have a tree that needs help, they can apply the National Arborist Association talents to restoring the tree to health. Now and then forestry can be controversial and the Long Beach Model Forest on western Vancouver Island is designed to address some of those issues, but if North is where you are then the Eric Kay page or Stothert Group might do the job depending on just what North means to you. Now if South doesn't mean California to you, visit the Institute for Commercial Forestry Research in South Africa. I love geography, but it can get me in trouble. I recall visiting Cheyanne Wyoming and commenting that it was the first time I had been 'back East'. By the Way, don't miss the single grip harvesting pictures on the Forest Harvesting Methods page from Thunder Bay, Ontario. I am not sure it fits here, but there is a nifty new link of cone harvesting, and harvesting equipment Which I inlcude here for lack of a better place.

The Iron Guys once sold the stuff on the Iron Page

Heavy equipment folks have found the web so you can look at an free classified site for heavy equipment such as the one sponsered by Oregon Internet Properties or visit more than a few pages of iron merchants such as Prentice Loaders

LinkBelt , Terex,s Volvo, Case Corporation as well as both John Deere (and their Portland Dealer Hessel Tractor ) and Caterpillar Even a few Caterpillar dealers such as Pape Brothers and their sidekick PBI (Oregon and a few other places), Holt-Cat of San Antonio whose family founded Caterpillar and Thompson Machinery (Tennessee and Mississippi), Walker of West Virginia and Ohio, as well as Finning of various locations in Canada. While you are in Canada you should also see Weldco-Beales, a maker of heavy equipment attachments, and Tsuga Forestry, a reforestation company..There is also a budding used equipment facililty here on the web called Tracnet. You should visit AFM-Forest Ltd. in Finland who manufactures harvesting heads for feller bunchers. The Bridgestone/Firestone web site has outstanding technical bulletins and product specifications on off-road tires. If Old iron is your thing, then visit the Historical Construction Equipment Association

for many fine images of old iron. On the smaller side of the logging tool business there is the Peavy which has been around about as long as logs have. A very special place to us, however is Mann Corporation who manufactures a specialized list of things with teeth for excavators and dozers ( Thumbs and rakes). Machinery Auction houses include Forke Brothers, James G. Murphy Co. Auctioneers and Richie Brothers. Even the Machinery Center division of CMI Corportion has a page. and other iron dealers are appearing including Stosik Equipment, Inc. , Triad Machinery who sells Link-Belts and even chain saw dealers such as Madsen's Shop and Supply of Centralia Washington. The most complete Link list of Construction related pages that I know of is the AED list. Even my favorite wishbook, My Little Salesman has a page, and if you want a searchable database of Engines and Generator sets, that exists as well. Pacific Tractor Company of Delta B. C. has a particularly nice selection of photos of used equipment. The inventors are taking to the web and new is the Inchworm Processor designed to limb and buck hardwords.

There are some nifty searchable machginery databases in Australia maintained by RPDATA and also one entitled Australia's Earthmoving and Mining Machinery Database in Australia, but Resale Weekly of the United Kingdom gets an honorable mention. Another fine North American heavy iron searchable database is from Global Sourcing Network, Inc which has a particularly complete site in addition to a searchable database. If pile drivers are you thin then Ingram Equipment Co would be the choice. If real iron won't fit in your living room, you should look at the model iron (more than 300 selections) found on the The Replica Company page. Technology advances never stop, and a page on Advanced Heavy Machinery projects future R & D directions.

If you need chainsaws there is Husqvarna or if you want to know the history of Sawchain there is Oregon Chain who is owned by Blount who makes the Hydro-Ax also. If it is used heavy machinery parts you want, check with General Gear.

Beyond Logging

Once the timber get to market, it becomes forest products under the watchful eye of the Independent Forest Products Association and ultimately may become a home constructed by a member of the National Association of Homebuilders whose rather dramatic page will build right before your eyes. Yet another dimension of the business is to be found in the Stove industry which is ably represented by the Oregon Hearth Products Association and if the pages there look like my style, it is because they are. Loggers are business people, and it is no accident that the Loggers belong to the Oregon Small Business Coalition which is another one on of my HTML projects. I really love Western Red Cedar it it has a page too, as to our friends in the Main Wood Products Association. Always a winner, no one should miss the annual Oregon Logging Conference. To the North we have our friends at Concerned Alaskan's for the Resources and Environment (CARE)

who have a speical message. as well as the Alaskan Women in Timber (AWITS)who have a slightly different perspective. Of course, The Associated Oregon Loggers, of which we are member is all important to us. .

Trucking Links

One of the best truck and tractor link lists is Billy Joe Jim Bob's list, but I have a few of my own just in case you don't like theirs. Go here for a Russian truck page.

More on the Mack B series on the Truck page.

If you are interested in trucks, there are a whole number of pages around dedicated to information about them. The photo on the left illustrates a bad day with a dump truck. Information on a variety of trucks is to be found in the VanNatta Truck Museum located on this site. Elsewhere you can find pages ranging from pages for current manufacturers models such as the famouse Pacific Northwest born Peterbilt to the historic bulldog of the trucking industry, Mack Truck . Locally, (to this writer anyway) is a much newer manufacturer who has become the Mercedes of trucking, Freightliner as well as Volvo and, of course GMC and Navistar International and Kenworth Truck Company. Then, of course there are the truckers such as Keith Hamblin who have a more highway oriented perspective, but if Fleet Maintenance Records are your thing you should look at R*Com Automotive & Accounting Software

Believe it or not, there is even an American Truck Historical Society. Among the specialty truck pages appears the San Diego Fire House Museum with a nice collection of very old fire trucks. If you need components for your truck you might check with the Dana/Spicer folks who are famous for their drivetrain parts.

Scratch built scale models are also interesting. Also there are model trains available.

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