[Takigami -cho] The entrance to forestry seen in "Kakke".Ride the longing Harvesta | People in Hokkaido, living, work.Livelihood

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Police cars, fire trucks, bulldozers...。There are many children who are crazy about "hard cars".I often get interested in the pure longing of "cool!"Kenta Nishida, who fell into the world of forestry, who fell in love with the powerful forestry machinery who is active in the forest, may be one of them.The smile shown in front of his favorite machine is carefree.

Mr. Nishida lives in Takigami -cho, famous for Shiba Zakura.Surrounded by mountains on all sides, the forest area of the town is 88 %.The center of the town also has a soil (tag) and a processing plant that collects wood, and has a refreshing fragrance of conifers.

This time, I visited Mr. Nishida, who works as an employee of Shinkai Hayashi, a forestry business in the town.He ran on a bend forest road for 20 minutes on a steep slope, and guided me to the workplace that thinned the artificial forest of state -owned forests.

Mr. Nishida, who stopped the car on the slope, greeted the seniors of the company.You all pulled down the felled toodomatsu on the slope with a forestry machine or cut it with a chainsaw.Nishida gave his colleagues and showed his workplace.

There was one harvesta on the steep slopes that seemed to be unable to climb on the truck.It is a powerful machine that cuts trees, pays branches, and hands "ball cutting".This is the "Working Car" that triggered Nishida to forestry.

I fell in love at first sight in an agricultural high school class.To Takigami -cho with momentum

The body part was yellow, which is often seen, but the eye is the arm part at the tip.It is a bright pink color reminiscent of turf pearl.Mr. Nishida boarded the cockpit.Turn the arm that has been felled down, grab it lightly, move it horizontally with the sulum, and cut it into a certain length.As if you move your arm, you will accumulate instantly without a moment.You can see it in a delicate and delicate movement.

"If you ride this, it looks cool. It's good, I want to ride!"

Mr. Nishida had such a longing when he was a freshman at Iwamizawa Agricultural High School when he visited the forestry site in class.I was immediately fascinated by the power, and I was intensely inspired by her eyes on her cockpit and lined up with her eyes.

After cutting, the sound of "Dosun" that the tree fell on the ground, and he handled logs lightly enough to notice that it was very heavy.

Originally, when I entered high school, I thought that building a garden in a graduation task was "Kake", and I wanted to be in the Environmental Remarks Department.However, there are many applicants and go to the Forestry Science Department.This shift change was all the beginnings.

In the winter of first -year high school, we visited "Shinakayashi Ko" in class.The current chairman asked, "Harvesta, do you want to ride?"Just a flower -shaped job.The longing was raised.Mr. Nishida, who had been watching the machine at the road construction site since childhood.It was natural that I was more interested in "hard cars" than chainsaws.

In the winter of the second year of high school, he participated in a full -fledged internship at Makai Forest and experienced actual work for one week.During his stay, he stayed asleep at a young employee's home and was treated like a friend.

At that time, after graduation, I was also an option to find a job in a hotel relationship, but this internship was a major opportunity to decide on a course."I actually worked and got on the machine. After all, I thought I had to do the job I wanted to do.It was. I don't have that, I don't think this is not enough, it's the momentum because of youth...That's important. "

This is Kenta Nishida, the main character of this article.

Know the feelings around you.The attitude cultivated in club activities

Mr. Nishida joined Makai Forest, imagining himself in Harbesta.Of course, the operation of the machine was not assigned from the beginning.

Regardless of summer and winter, I had been cut with a chainsaw, and in the summer, I had a variety of jobs for about three years, such as cleaning the ground with a mower."I felt like I had to do it to get on the Harvesta."However, I was confident in my physical strength.

Mr. Nishida, a catcher who has been in baseball for a long time, captains in junior and senior high school activities, and now a local professional baseball team, have been trained.

In addition, there was a reason to cherish work other than riding a Harvesta.This is because I have a certain attitude that I learned in club activities.

"It's hard to pass the opinions of first -year students in club activities because I haven't experienced much. If you become a senior student, you will increase your speaking skills, but it is hated by junior students to follow what senior students who do not have enough experience."

Certainly, it can be used to replace club activities with work.Even in the position of turning around the company, gaining a wide range of experiences will lead to persuasive and trust.In both sports and work, there are friends in front, back, left and right.

Colleagues were working on chainsaw work and collecting materials using wires on the day of the interview.

"Before the work in Harbesta, there is a powerful job of collecting materials, and these are closely connected. If you do not understand the feelings of the work, you will not be proud of each other and will not work.If someone makes fun without thinking about it, the whole will be clogged. "

President Makagai says, "Forestry is a job involved in the people around me in the company. If you are on a machine, you have a lot of work alone, but inherit the wood from people, people.I still give it to you. I don't want you to do it at your own pace. "

In that sense, Mr. Nishida's work is "I care about this, so I am saved because I can be attentive to my surroundings. In high school, I convey the charm of work to young people as a real senior.I can do it. "

Nishida -san puts his hand on his shoulders is Makagai Makagai, President and CEO.

Special training.Draw a circle with a compass and keep an eye on it

In my fourth year since I joined the company, I was finally assigned to the longing job of riding a Harvesta.

"I was so happy that I was so excited, but I was wirelessly angry from President Makagai, who carried the material."Every day pointed out that "the length is different", "the rotten material is mixed", and "the diameter (thickness) is not suitable".I started a special training to improve my accuracy and manipulate Harvesta to move my arms.

"I drew a circle on paper with a compass, paste it on the machine, look a little away, and try to say how many centimeters."

In the forest, you actually see the tree and imagine the thickness.When I was in the office of the company, I trained with President Makai to measure the thickness of the telephone pole.

According to Mr. Nishida, the sensor that measures the thickness of the wood is attached to the Harvesta, but the tree is different one by one, so it is not versatile, but finally the human eyes are relying.In addition, since the application is straight or bent, and the use of "pulp" and "for material" depending on the diameter, we have just looked at it to sort it accurately before loading on the truck.

Nishida -san, who has been in the middle of the middle, has been in the middle range for 11 years.

"If the number of years of experience goes up and you can turn around the site, it will be more interesting. It looks cool (laughs). It's only Harvesta, but if you are long, you will be involved in a different job. Besides the mountains.I also go to a delivery class in high school, so I like that. "

As I gained experience, my field of view and the more I have become more expanded.

Since 2021, he has become a member of the "Forest Charm of the Forest", which is the secretariat of the Forestry Wood Division of the Road Agency."I want to hear my thoughts on machinery and work, but I want to know the true intentions while drinking alcohol rather than serious stories."It seems that there are few private forestry officials of the same generation around the waterfall, which is a valuable network.

Whatever the trigger.Young power to raise forestry

For a long time, Makai Forest has been actively hiring young people in the middle.Mr. Nishida joined the new graduate, and since Nishida joined the company, he visited high school with President Makagai to convey the appeal of work and work style, and a junior who is close to the year joins the company with a new graduate.I came to do it.

When Mr. Nishida joined the company, many employees are in their 30s, more than 10 years old, and the youngest is the oldest in their 50s.One of the reasons why young people are more likely to enter is the soft atmosphere throughout the company, led by the chairman and president.

There are not many employees, and the role of each person grows and is directly linked to manage vast forests.Mr. Nishida says, "If you get off the machine and replace it with an inexperienced person, your achievement will not increase in a few years."

The aging forestry industry is one of the characteristics of Makai Forestwork, which has many young people.

"Especially young people are valuable. Otherwise, forestry itself will not grow and will not be able to raise the bottom, and it will not be exciting."

It is said that President Makagai is showing videos made by President Makagai in high school."If you show the machine, the student's bite is good.

I also want to convey it to the younger generation.

"In forestry, there are many cases where I get a job away from the locals and get a job on the I -turn. In order to grow quickly in that environment, I think it is better to firmly and declare what you want to do.Even if you say only what you want to do, if the company does not look at it, it will not be anything. Even if you endure at first, it is important to accumulate experience and increase your value. "

It is also said that the size of the company is not large, and the more young people in the company, the more the merit of getting on the machine early.Mr. Nishida advised, "If you have your own vision, you should choose an entrepreneur that lets you do what you want to do."

Mr. Nishida felt the strong desire to convey the forestry path that he had walked to the younger generation.

Living with people and "human work"

It is said that there are almost no employees from Takigami -cho in the current shogi forest craftsmanship.Mr. Nishida was also young and moved to a small town with a population of about 2,500.Did he be confused or anxious when he graduated from high school?

"Thanks to getting used to it and baseball, I was able to get acquainted right away. I don't have any time to play, but I have little time to be alone, and I have a deep connection with people.Hey. The density of people is different in the city and the countryside, but there are many people = there is no connection. Even if you are in Tokyo, it is not enough. "

The big shopping is Monbetsu City, which is about 80km round trip, and sometimes to Asahikawa, a 200km.Because I like cars and drives, I run around 20,000 to 30,000 km a year with my favorite car.

In addition to practicing professional baseball on weekday nights, I teach local elementary school students.Holidays are almost open on the drive, and both public and private are fulfilling.

It is said that the impression that the machine broke down, and the person in charge of the manufacturer who came to repair it said, "You are doing the most human work."Forestry is early in the morning, but in the evening, you can have your own time.It seems that the way of working that is easy to prepare a life rhythm is suitable for Mr. Nishida.

Gotatch that Nishida exchanged with his colleagues in the forest.He was interviewing and said, "I'm thoroughly taking Corona in such a mountain....I was surprised, but when I heard it was actually a routine born from "Kake".

In the second year of high school, he described the struggle of the diver at the forefront of the rescue of the sea, and saw the movie of the "Sea monkey" that was also made into a drama, and thought that it was a unique communication.Says.It is said that elementary school students teaching baseball have come to do it naturally.

The poses, which are performed as if to check the unity with friends, fulfilling their goals on the harvesta, and living to enjoy baseball and cars, can not help but feel "Kake". did.