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  • JANUARy 2018VoLUMe 53 NUMBeR 1 To Advertise Call: (800) 462-8283

    Molalla, Oregon

    Happy New Year!

    From your friends at LOGGERS WORLD

    pRsRt stdu.s. pOstAge

    PAIDpeRMit nO. 178

    sAleM, OR

    lOggeRsWORldllC

    p. O. BOx1631

    ChehAlis, WA 98532-8425

    Jan.16-18

    AnnuAl Meeting

    AssociAted cA LoggeRsAtlAntis CAsinO ResORt spA

    RenO, neVAdA

    Jan.18-20

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    eugene, ORegOn

  • LoggeRs WoRLdPublished by LoggeRs WoRLd LLc

    Founded in 1964 by Finley Hays

    phone (360) 262-3376

    IN THIS ISSUE2. RIGGING SHACK

    “Classic” From June 1980 by Finley Hays

    puBlisheRs......................................Kevin & Nancy core

    editORs eMeRiti..................Finley Hays, Mike crouse

    editOR/WRiteR......................................Brandon Hansen

    AdVeRtising....................................................Kevin core

    OFFiCe MAnAgeR...........................................Nancy core

    LoggeRs WoRLd LLc,P. o. Box 1631, chehalis, WA 98532-8425

    e-Mail: [email protected] RAte (in U.s.A.):

    $25.00 per year; two years for $50.00 lOggeRs WORld llC cannot and does not assume responsibility forthe contents of any adver tising in loggers World. the representationsmade by advertising is the responsibility of the adver tiser and not log-gers World. loggers World does not knowingly accept advertising thatis false or misleading. the limit of loggers World liability in case of amistake made in advertising copy by loggers World will be the chargeof the actual space containing the error or less for that particular adver-tisement

    PostMAsteR: send address changes to:

    Member and Supporter of theAmerican Loggers Council Since 1994

    4. ON THE LINEMENG LOGGING - MOLALLA, OREGON by Brandon Hansen

    23. SUMMARY JUDGEMENTFEDERAL GOVERNMENT DENIES DUE PROCESS IN SHAM MARRIAGE

    by William Perry Pendley

    26. IRON MART

    24. BLAST FROM THE PAST

    28. SHOW AND SELL

    BY QUINN J. MURK FOR LOGGERS WORLD

    22. AS WE SEE IT

    sPReAdiNg tHe WoRdthey say a recession is when

    my neighbor is out of work. A de-pression is when i am out ofwork.

    that sounds reasonable be-cause when i hurt things are seri-ous. When you hurt they aren'tnearly as serious.

    it seems as though we have alot of learning to do in this coun-try. it has been said that the con-ditions as they are now is the re-sult of 50 years of decreasing re-sponsibility for the individual andincreasing responsibility for thegovernment.

    Which proves, i guess, that thegovernment is not able to solveour problems. these economicproblems must be solved personby person, company by company.the government has been grow-ing stronger and larger and wast-

    ing more and more talent, moneyand energy.

    i'm not an economist but thereare some things that are so sim-ple it doesn't take a big brain tofigure them out. For instance wehave a government that owesabout 600 Billion dollars. thatgovernment has the only printingpress allowed to print money.Knowing these two things it does-n't take a mental giant to figureout why we might be having infla-tion does it?

    i know that if i were heavily indebt and i had the official moneyprinting machine i'd print upsome money and pay our debts ---or at least print up some moneyand pay up the interest on mydebts..

    it probably is a mistake to al-low the outfit with the biggestdebt to have the printing press.

    there are many factors thathave to do with a slow down anda shutting down of vital industry.

    it doesn't take muchslow down, many shutdowns, to get the railsitting gloom chasersall stirred up. theguessing game comesalive with a vengenceand although it isguessing it is givenmore respect than thatbecause the guessersare self labeled ex-perts.

    then when enough of thesegloom chasers publicly spreadaround their negative poisons thesituation gets worse and fartherfrom better.

    if enough people tell you thingsare getting bad (that so and solaid off 37 mechanics) enoughtimes it is going to come into yourbrain as truth and go into youremotions as truth. probably ifenough people believe it to be truethen it may become true.

    i have seen many of these slowdowns, recessions and mini-de-pressions, come along. i have al-ways seen things get better andthe positive thinkers and peoplewho look upward and outwardcome out of these things a littlebetter than they went into them.

    i always remember the old say-ing, "the depression of 1958 did-n't bother me. i went broke theyear before it hit."

    What that tells me is that somepeople go broke in good times andsome people get rich in toughtimes. it is too easy for us to getpanicked into negative thinkingand then start to retrench in ourthinking and in our actions untilwe can say, 'by golly they areright, there is a recession'.

    there is an old story about ahappening in the major depres-sion of the thirties. this fellowhad built himself a roadside standand started making and selling

    hot dogs. he added tohis wares and increasedhis services and raisedhis kids and sent his sonto college. the son stud-ied economics and alongcame the depression.

    now the stupid oldman didn't pay any at-tention to the depres-sion but he went alongworking hard and work-

    ing smart and adding on and in-creasing his services and makingadjustments as he went along.his son graduated and camehome to help his dad, the busi-ness was big enough so that dadneeded help.

    the boy expert knew there wasa depression going on so he con-vinced his father they should layoff some help, cut back on order-ing supplies, cut out the advertis-ing, and to re-trench and quit tak-ing chances. the old man knewthe kid had more educated smartsthan he did so he listened to hisson and did what he told him.

    pretty soon the businessdropped off and by golly the sonwas right. there was a depres-sion.

    in business they tell you thatthe way to make money is to finda need and fill it. that is true, anoversimplified truth.

    the thing about business oranything else is that nothing isthe same today as it was yester-day or it is going to be tomorrow.the needs change, the servicesshift and the methods need up-grading. during some years onetype of business is going well andthe very next year another type ofbusiness is taking home the gold.

    not too many years ago there

    FINLEY HAYS

    RiggingShack

    “Classic”

    (continued on Page 29)

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    Originally Printed inJune 1980

    ON THE FRONT: Don Meng is at thecontrols of his Tigercat LS855D FellerBuncher while tethered to the DoosanDX350 equipped with tethering packageby Summitt Attachments & Machinery.This drone photo is by Drew Hansen, aMeng Logging employee. Thanks, Drew!

    See “On The Line”starting on Page 4

    Finley Hays was well known for his ability to tell a goodstory. His unique perspective was gained by growing up in alogging family, and after starting Loggers World, talking tologgers all over the country. Finley went on to his HeavenlyReward in 2008 but we have almost 40 years of his writingand storytelling to enjoy. Finley’s Rigging Shack remainsone of the most popular features of Loggers World and wethink that is appropriate for the man that put so much of hislife into his vision of a “Loggers Magazine”.

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    Photos by Kevin Core

    Story by Brandon HansenFor Loggers World

    don Meng initially got intologging because he was very in-terested in the heavy machinery.it was this curiosity that has al-lowed him to continue to adapthis company to the market. sincehis originaal article in the June1998 edition of loggers World,he’s become one of the first log-gers in Oregon getting into teth-ering.

    “i think what really interestsme is the technology and thegreat thing about logging is thetechnology is always improvingand changing,” Meng said.“there’s always something newand that’s what interested meabout this tethering: putting ma-chines where you probablyshouldn’t be putting them.”

    located in Molalla, Oregon,Meng has been in the timber in-dustry since 1981 when hebought a 1973 Mack truck and

    began hauling logs. now he has acompany with two sides - a shovellogging side and a tethering side -that stays pretty busy for portBlakely and Weyerhaeuser year-round.

    STARTING OUT IN A LOG TRUCKMeng was born and raised out-

    side of portland in happy Valley,Oregon. Meng’s father was thesuperintendent of a constructioncompany and eventually beganhis own company. Being exposedto heavy equipment at an early

    age got Meng interested in indus-trial “toys.”

    Out of high school, Mengworked putting in water mainsand sewers until 1981 when hemoved to Molalla and began look-ing at logging as a line of work.he first jumped into the logtrucking business in 1981, buyinga 1973 Mack truck for $13,000.

    he began hauling mostly fire-wood and selling it since the mar-ket at that time was in a down-turn. When it began to upswing

    he hauled more logs to mills andeven got his brother dennis Mengto haul with him for a year.

    GETTING INTO LOGGINGin 1985, Meng was running a

    self loader and then bought a1980 prentice 410B loader for$42,500. With more work than hecould manage and the jobs weregetting bigger so Meng began log-ging.

    he bought another truck, a1976 peterbilt and hired a seconddriver. then eventually in 1987he bought a third truck. Aroundthis time, he met his future wifelaurie and she now holds downall the bookkeeping for the com-pany.

    in 1988 Meng moved into log-ging full-time, buying a td12crawler and then landed a big jobthat allowed him to rent a Johndeere 792 shovel logger. laterthat year, Meng purchased aJohn deere 640 line machine and

    MENG LOGGING - MOLALLA, OREGON

    ON THE LINEDon Meng has always been interested in new technology, so he got into tethering

    MENG LOGGING -MOLALLA, OREGON

    - Don Meng has been in the logging industry since 1981

    - Began driving a 1973 Mack Log Truck

    - Meng Logging consists of two sides - a shovel side and a

    tethering side.

    - The company has six employees

    - Operating out of Molalla, Oregon, Meng Logging works for

    Weyerhaeuser and Point Blakely.

    READY TO TETHERThis Doosan 350 uses a Summit Tethering System to let Meng Logging’s Tigercat LS855Dcut on steep terrain in the river valley.

    (continued on Page 7)

    See “Meng”

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    Molalla is a town in Clackamas County has apopulation of just over 8,100 people. The postoffice was established there in 1850. The towngot its first stoplight in 2005 but has seengrowth and expansion being near Portland.

    MENG LOGGINGMeng Logging is owned by DonMeng in Molalla, Oregon. Thereare two sides that do productionclear cutting for Point Blakleyand Weyerhaeuser. Meng has

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    THE FAMILY(L-R) Daughter Mickie Meng-Poff,

    granddaughter Dimi Lynn, DonMeng and Laurie Meng. DaughterMickie had been their loader op-erator, but with grandchild #2 onthe way, you can’t be too careful

    so she is temporarily retired.Mickie started for us running skid-

    der. She grew up sitting on herdads lap or her grandfather’s lap

    in a log loader. ”I grew up a loggers daughter,” Laurie said.“Mickie was always better on a

    loader than I was.”

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    YES IT’S STEEPThe tethered Tigercat LS855D on the job.You can get a feel for how steep this groundis if you look at the angle of the tracks.

    SERIOUS GROUSERSDon Meng hooks up the Tigercat LS855D buncher tothe anchor unit on the Summit Tethering package.With track grousers like that you are going to find anytraction that is out there!

  • four people, worked for portBlakely and was keeping prettybusy.

    MENG LOGGING TODAYMeng considers himself lucky

    as both Weyerhaeuser and portBlakely lands are close by to Mo-lalla. Both are tree farms butsome jobs can present some trickyworking conditions with steepground around the Molalla Riverdrainage.

    Meng logging has one shovel

    logging side with four machines.the loader is a doosan 300 oper-ated by Jason green. the proces-sor is a doosan 350 with a log-max 10000 operated by drewhansen, the shovel is a 380doosan operated by don dingus.doing the cutting is a Komatsu445 with a 22-inch Quadco hotsaw that can also be converted toa bar saw depending on tree size.it’s operated by Jack peterkin.

    during the first few years pe-terkin worked for Meng logging,he was diagnosed with cancer,and the company at the time did

    not offer health insurance. stillMeng logging did all they coulddo to help him, paying wages forabout a year while he did treat-ment, and recouped. peterkinwas a young man who had justmarried, and both laurie anddon both knew his grandpa, sothey tried to offer support in anyway they could.

    On the tethering side, Mengoperates his tigercat ls855dwith a doosan 350 and a summittethering system. On the jobsiteas well is a 290 Kobelco with aWaratah 624 head and a 225

    doosan loader. On the loader isstan Fosmark who has been with

    Meng the longest - 25 years.

    TETHERINGMeng made the big shift to

    tethering when Weyerhaeuser ap-proached him and said if he couldtether log, they would keep himbusy. so Meng made the moveand it has paid off. When portBlakely had a lull in logs needingcut, Meng did some jobs for Wey-erhaeuser and they eventuallywanted to give him more work.While originally doing thinning,

    now Meng does a lot of clearcutting.

    “tethering lets us get into alot of areas you can’t get ayarder and helps us work in ter-rain that is steep and rocky,”Meng said.

    At first, he said he was cau-tious at the thought of tether-ing, thinking having a machinedangling over a cliff was not anideal situation. After seeinghow some other loggers weredoing it, Meng got into a tether-ing machine himself and whilehe said sometimes there aresome spooky moments he’s got-ten much more used to things.

    “i like tethering, you have tokeep an eye on ground condi-tions and that can be tricky butyou can get a lot of corner piecesthat shovels cannot get,” Mengsaid.

    tethering also keeps bootsoff the ground and keeps themin a cab. this means companiescan be much safer in this line ofwork.

    Meng got into doosans afterdoing a lot of business withFeenaughty Machinery.

    “My Kobelco’s were gettingold and they wanted me to takea look at the doosans,” Mengsaid. “i thought the machineswere built well and wired well.they’re good machinery andhave a good warranty.”

    his doosan 300 has beenwith him the longest and after9,000 hours of work theyhaven’t had to do any majormaintenance to it.

    the port Blakely land is usu-ally at a lower elevation so theshovel side can handle that ter-rain better.

    TRUCKINGMeng gets his dispatching

    done through Weyerhaeuserand is no longer an owner of his

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    WRANGLING LOGSDrew Hansen uses the Doosan DX300LL/Log-Max 10000 processor to wrangle a good sizedlog. Meng considers himself lucky as bothWeyerhaeuser and Port Blakely lands are closeby to Molalla. Both are tree farms but somejobs can present some tricky working condi-tions with steep ground around the MolallaRiver drainage.

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    i have had numerous con-versations over this pastyear, involving the lack ofyoung people going into thelogging business. everyoneseems to have their own opin-ions about why the problem ex-ists and persists.

    i recently talked with a millrepresentative about this prob-lem. he suggested that the solu-tion is education. he said that"we need to reach out to, not on-ly students, but also teachers.since they are the ones that ad-vise the studnts".

    My reply was "oh, you meanlike we have been doing for thelast 25 years?" i went on to ex-plain that we have been doingthat with very limited success.he was convinced that "educa-tion is the answer to the prob-lem". And didn't really want tohear any more about it.

    it is my contention that theproblem is much more complicat-ed than that. i have a loggerfriend who has three sons thatare involved in the business.From the outside, his companylooks like the perfect example ofa logging company with an effec-tive transition plan. however,this logger confided to me thatone of his sons had recently

    asked him if he thought therewas "a future in logging"? hesaid that the best answer hecould tell his son was "i don'tknow".

    When you think about it,that's a very damning state-ment. But, in a nut shell, it de-scribes where we are at. if wecan't, as loggers ourselves, saywith confidence that there is, notonly a future, but a bright fu-ture, then we are in serious trou-ble.

    i had to get a new phone a fewmonths ago and the young guythat was helping me, started ask-ing questions about my loggingcompany. it was obvious that heknew a little about logging. heasked, "how much he could ex-pect to get paid, if he decided to gologging?" i explained what the av-erage starting wage was, forsomeone with no experience. heimmediately responded with"double that and i'd think aboutit". i must admit, i was a littleshocked by that statement. how-ever, he was just stating whatwas on his mind. his job at thephone store didn't pay much lessthan a beginning logging job,however, it was a lot easier. i felta little embarrassed to explainthat the profit margins are so lowin logging, which we can hardlyafford to pay the going rate.

    then there was the youngguy, with his family, that i metin a restaurant. As we werewaiting to be seated, we startedup a conversation. When helearned that i had a logging op-eration, he told me that he hadlogged for a while. he told methat he liked logging, but contin-ued to explain that he couldhardly pay his bills, much lessget ahead. he explained that heworks for a construction compa-ny now and makes the kind ofmoney he needs. his last word tome were "logging is way too hardof work for way too little money".

    When i talked to a forestryprofessor, at Oregon state uni-versity, he explained to me that"beginning wages in the loggingbusiness have traditionally beenthree times the minimum wage".unfortunately, things have got-ten really out of whack over thelast 25 years. now the minimumwage is only slightly below thestarting wages for loggers.

    i keep hearing about how mil-lennials think completely differ-ently than we did when we wereyoung and that it will take anew approach to get them inter-ested in logging. i don't thinkthey are really that different atall. i think there are a lot moreopportunities for them thanthere were for us, when we were

    young. But i think they reallywant the same basic things thatwe wanted. they want to feellike they are appreciated andthat there is a future in whatthey are doing. they want to beable to make enough money tobe able to buy a house and raisea family. And even be able tobuy some of the finer things inlife.

    in my opinion, until we canprovide those things for youngpeople, anything else we do totry to recruit them into our in-dustry, will fall flat on its face.

    Mark Turner is the Presidentof the American Loggers Council.Mark and his brother Greg oper-ates Turner Logging out ofBanks, Ore. Mark is an activeleader with the Associated Ore-gon Loggers.

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    Recently, declaring, “Oneperson denied due process istoo many,” secretary of edu-cation Betsy deVos restoreddue process rights for thoseaccused of sexual assault atinstitutions of higher learn-ing. unfortunately, an evenmore pernicious violation ofdue process is being waged,not by colleges and universi-ties, but by the federal gov-ernment with its full weight,power, and authority and bywhich citizens are labeled sexoffenders, robbed of their rep-utations, and chained to a lifeof indentured servitude.

    in 1996, Congress passedthe immigration Reform andimmigrant ResponsibilityAct, which requires the spon-sor of an “intending immi-grant”—in most cases the cit-izen seeking to marry the im-migrant—to complete an “Af-fidavit of support” (Form i-864). the citizen avers theimmigrant will have ade-quate means of financial sup-port, is not “likely to becomea public charge,” and pledgesto “[p]rovide … any supportnecessary to maintain him orher at an income that is atleast 125 percent of the Fed-

    eral poverty guidelines forhis or her household size…”A “nOte” warns, “divorcedoes not terminate your obli-gations under Form i-864.”Moreover, the document “cre-ate[s] a contract between youand the u.s. government[,]”which “consider[s] your in-come and assets [available tosupport] the intending immi-grant.” not just the federalgovernment has financial re-course; the immigrant “maysue you for this support,” and“a Federal, state, local, or pri-vate agency [that providesmeans-tested public benefitsto the immigrant] may sueyou for the amount that theagency believes you owe.” Fi-nally, there is liability for“the costs of collection, in-cluding attorney fees.”

    What could go wrong?usually nothing. the citizenfiles a “petition for Alien Rel-ative” (i-130), which beginsthe process by which the u.s.Citizenship and immigrationservices (usCis) finds that abona-fide marriage exists andthat the alien is legally ad-missible. After an interviewwith the couple, the alien be-comes a conditional perma-nent resident (receives a

    “green card”) and, two yearslater, after documentation ofthe authenticity of the mari-tal relationship, becomes apermanent resident. Ofcourse, scoundrels exist, in-cluding those who engage insham marriages not only toenter the united states butalso to dragoon an unfortu-nate citizen into providing in-come for a lifetime. unfortu-nately, as so often happens,federal law provides themmore than adequate opportu-nity to engage in their mis-chief.

    in 2013, president Obamasigned the Violence AgainstWomen Reauthorization Act,which continued a provision,first enacted in 1994, for al-leged victims of domesticabuse to self-report (Form i-360), with “any credible evi-dence,” of the abuse. Cus-tomarily, the “any credibleevidence” accepted by usCisis a temporary restraining or-der (tRO), which is grantedby a court ex parte, that is,without the alleged perpetra-tor present, relying solely onthe victim’s affidavit. Basedon that tRO—the citizen isneither consulted nor noti-fied—the usCis’s Vermontservice Center issues a “pri-ma Facie determination no-tice” finding that the alien isa victim and the citizen is anabuser, and thereupon autho-

    rizes the alien to abandon themarriage and issues the alienthe sought-after green card.According to experts, in 98%of the cases, weeks laterwhen the citizen appears incourt to challenge the tRO,the alien is a no show and thetRO is vacated or the case isdismissed. it is over. Whatis not over is the citizen’sobligation to support thespouse, former spouse, or re-married former spouse forlife.

    A cottage industry of for-profit and taxpayer fundedlawyers aids in this circum-vention of immigration lawsand schools others in it.Worse yet, the deep statewithin usCis hosts webinarson this nefarious process.Meanwhile, left in their wakeare citizens who are labeleddomestic abusers—includingthe “extreme cruelty” of notsigning immigration docu-ments—are regarded in thatdreadful light by law enforce-ment and the public, sufferdamaged reputations, andare on the hook financiallyforever. All without due pro-cess of law.

    Mr. Pendley, a Wyoming attor ney, is President andChief Legal Officer of Moun-tain States Legal Foundationand a regular colum nist in Loggers World.

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