Karl's Korner

MLA President, Karl Kanduch

For the past couple of weekends, my kids have been participating in basketball tournaments around Dillon and Twin Bridges. Watching them play has been an enjoyable experience, especially since I haven’t gotten to see many of their games during their regular seasons with the school. It has been fun to witness their growth and experience over the past couple of years. These weekends tend to be busy and long but making memories with them makes it all worth the craziness.

The logging sides in my company are now in full spring breakup mode.   The last logging side that was working just finished a job that we were at this time last year while I also finished a masticating job in Missoula. As the equipment returns to the yard, we are washing it and preparing it for next season. I’m looking forward to this breakup because we are able to work on the trucks and some equipment indoors, since our shop is now finished. While we work on the logging equipment, our dirt side is hitting the ground running with a busy season lined up.

In our office, we have a few old-time pictures hung up to show the history of our company.  One picture shows a couple of guys sitting on top of logs on horse-drawn sleighs while another picture features three big logs on an old 1920s or 1930s International Harvester truck. We have come a long way since then and it will be interesting to see how future generations will work in this profession we call logging.

 Catch you later, 

 Karl