Short Logger

This is logging on Boggs Mountain State Forest around 1975.

The forest manager a that time say this is probably called a short log log truck pulling a short log trailer. There were not too many of these around (nowadays log forks are added onto a flatbed trailer). The operator liked it since it gave a reason to cut everything into short logs to avoid the scaling rules related to taper on the butt logs (the part of the log closest to the stump). Mills wanted 32 foot or 40 foot logs off the butt of the tree since the standard scaling rules specified the taper used. This driver knew the rule favored the mill not him, so he would cut a short log off the butt of the tree. Big operators never took the time to figure this one out, but the little guys had to do whatever they could to survive.