I heli logged for several years. Even worked with Bart for a short stretch. This is a true environmentalist.

We need this video nation wide broadcast! Such a good video showing the benefits of proper forest management that so many don't understand. Wish everyone could see this awesome guys! I'm a logger and a environmentalist I love, live and work in the forest what many don't understand is us loggers love the forest, if it wasn't for it we couldn't do what we love! Nuff said!!

That was a great video...Thank you...I am truly sorry to hear about your Pilot Bart...

You’ve made a very educational video that will help environmentalist at all levels understand the benefit of partnering with people such as you and your staff. I started setting chokers at 17 and we selectively logger for poles for the hydro companies and I drive by the areas that we logged 40 years ago and it’s healthy and diverse. Keep up the good work.

treehuggers everywhere need to listen and watch this vid..if it weren't for forestry, how else would you build your home, build a fire in your fancy fireplace, use paper towel to clean up your wine or write a love letter?? not to mention, wipe your ass w TP...that's right, it all was made from trees..a natural, renewable and managable resource. Thank a logger!

Very informative and well-produced video. Everybody in the Country should see this!

Very simple. All those opposed to logging should be prohibited from buying or using ANY wood products. Let em wipe with rocks, build with rocks, burn rocks in their fireplaces, use rock tissues for runny noses, use rock toothpicks and matches, write on rocks, send rock letters and cards in the mail, etc. With no sawdust, they must have rocks in their heads! :-)

Great story. Here is a letter I sent to R&R My name is Pete Hickerson and I live in College Place WA. My brothers and father live in Wyoming and were loggers and went broke due to the crazy forest service policies of the past 30 years. I loved the video about Helilogging. I used to live in Wyoming and work for Wyoming PBS as a shooter editor. We did a show in Cheyenne Wyo. about the legislature. During show breaks I sat in on a meeting the forest service had and it was a report on the Beetle problem. They were looking for loggers but could not find any because they bankrupted all of them due to over inflated stumpage fees. It actually cost more to get the logs to the landing than the lumber was worth at the final "finished" lumber price. I would love to do a documentary on the history of the Forest Service and track the origin of these crazy policies that caused the condition of the nations forests. I would love to see areas in the National Parks where there could be logging to keep them healthy. I believe in my heart that we were meant to be "stewards" of the land. I support your ideas and think the information goes a long way in explaining the truth about the stumbles the men in power have made in the past and how to rectify the situation. I applaud you sir!

I've done a lot of logging for Timberland over the years.

Sorry to hear about Bart. Crashes are a part of heli-logging. In the ten years I did it; I didn't meet any pilots had not had at least a hard landing in the industry. It's very exciting to see new pioneering applications of the trade with integration direct to market. That's amazing actually.

Amazing. Salt of the earth indeed!

Sorrowed to hear about Bart. The guy knew how to move wood!

I'm from Lolo pretty cool seeing this on the tube

We are right up Hwy 93 from R&R. Gotta get my buddy Kevin Reese to introduce me to Ryan.

If you sit and really put some thought to it.. . ...? Everything that operates successfully must be managed. Be it a restaurant, walmart, an actor or musician. Every single thing I mentioned has a manager. It's all the same really.

RENEWABLE RESOURCE !!! Key word here. Hope you guys keep Americans working.

New Zealand forestay gone a similar way Fletcher challenge sold out there cutting right s to Harvard University , Harvard, hired a company call K.T.l Kaingaroa ,timber, land, who come in and just laid off 500 contractors some been there for years

RIP Bart good pilot good man

Earthquake is The Man !!!!

The thumbs down must be from tree huggers.

Sadly, Bart Colantuono, the pilot in this video was killed in what's being called a freak crash about a month ago. It appears the rotor separated from the craft and that Bart knew there was trouble as he released his log load just before the helicopter inverted and crashed. This is the local news story. As of now, there is no further update. LINN COUNTY, OR (KPTV) - A pilot who starred in the History Channel show Ax Men died when his logging helicopter crashed near Oregon's Detroit Lake on Monday afternoon. MORE Photos from deadly helicopter crash scene One person was killed when a logging helicopter crashed in Linn County near the Marion County line.More > Witnesses said Bart Colantuono, of Indialantic, FL, had been transporting logs from a cutting area to a log deck in the town of Idanha. After taking a 45-minute break, Colantuono returned to pick up a load of logs at a logging site on National Forest land near Forest Service Road 1003, about two miles from Highway 22. Witnesses said they heard a snapping sound, followed by logs hitting the ground. They then saw a rotor separate from the helicopter, followed by it turning upside down and falling to the ground. Colantuono was pronounced dead at the scene. He was the only person in the helicopter at the time. Linn County deputies said Colantuono released the logs himself before crashing, indicating he knew of a problem prior to the wreck. His helicopter is owned by Umatilla Lift Services, which was subcontracted by R&R Conner Aviation to fly logs from the logging site for Freres Lumber Company in Mill City. The Federal Aviation Administration planned to inspect the helicopter Tuesday. A representative from the History Channel said the network is "extremely saddened to learn that a member of the Ax Men family, Bart Colantuono, passed away yesterday." "All of us at HISTORY and Original Productions, along with our Ax Men team, would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Bart. He was an important part of Ax Men when he appeared in season three and his talents will be greatly missed," the statement said. A bio on the show website described Colantuono as a former Navy pilot with more than 15,000 flying hours under his belt.

It's sad to say. City state and federal government can't get together on nothing. Look at what's happened in the last 4 years terrible.

14:20 So true

it is a loogging

Definitely not the best heli logging video. snor😴 were i come from we use much larger helicopters, try topping tree's for a 27 thousand pound dead lift, now that's heli logging