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Plenty of loggers encounter hurdles working in the woods. How many guys on the job have said, at one point or another. “If only this thing would work like this....” When you work in the woods, frustration can be a part of the job. But what sets successful loggers apart from the unsuccessful is what they do with that frustration. You can either throw up your hands and quit, or, if you’re like John Steciak Jr. you can see a problem as your prompt to innovate.
John Steciak Jr is a second-generation logger based in Dolgeville, New York. Like many loggers, he does a little bit of everything to keep himself busy and business strong: bulldozing, excavating, road building, timber harvesting. A few years ago, Steciak had the thought to update his excavator. He also wanted to replace his truck-mounted loader and circular saw with a more versatile crawler log loader. But he balked at the price of the equipment... sold new, the excavator he wanted cost between $250,000 and $300,000 and the crawler loader was $350, 000 to $400,000 Said Steciak, “How does a small operator like myself justify a return on investment like that? Especially when you don’t want to live beyond your means and be a slave to the lender for years? How can anyone in this economy afford both a new crawler log loader and a new excavator?”
For the first time ever now an excavator with a hydraulic thumb can carefully cut timber, furthermore a rear mounted loader on a tri axle truck can drag trees on to the slasher to buck up wood crossways.