Don't tell your wife, but..

[bump_r]

This was a dairy cow.

Still would have been in the freezer by now.

 

[MS-310]

I want to know why fire fighters are not on that list..... seems to me that I seen in my fire school stuff that it was number three. I want to see some more list, I would see logging would out way all of them with out a problem.

 

[windthrown]

Crabbers... and logging...

Met an ex-Alaska king crabber at a party on new year's eve. Man, talk about insane working conditions. He did not go back this year even after making $85k last winter. Says it just plain is not worth it. Banged up, beat up, massive seas, ice everywhere, cold (though he showed me his cold suit and says that you stay nice and warm in them).

So now he is a logger again... but that is not going so well either after the prices have come way down. Rather than sell logs to the mills, at the current prices they are cutting doug fir up for firewood! The trees that they have on their land are amazig; great crowns, low taper, nice and straight. Pole quality trees. Far better than anything that we have on our property.

Ah well, enjoying a rainy 'Gerald Ford' day off here today. Recovering form the hangover from yesterday...

 

[Ryan Willock]

In seven years of logging/tree work I've broken 3 ribs and craked 2 others (spring pole I didn't see, all that in on fell swoop), broken 2 bones in the arch of my left foot (d@mned log rolled on in, would have broken the whole arch if I hadn't been wearing steel toes), cracked main bone below the knee in my right leg (wasn't wearing my calks as I had been running the log loader all day, got out to adjust the sawbuck and slipped on a log). Those are my worst injurys. I've had losts of brusies, lumps and bumps as well, most of those have come from wrenching on equipment though. I've had some nasty cuts on my hands and fingers from sharping my saws. In all of those injurys I have not missed a single days work due to them, I'm too stuborn to go to the doc. As long as I can still walk and am not spitting up blood from broken ribs then I'm good to go (I'll be needing a few IB's though).

 

[1953greg]

1, 6 and 9 here.

#1. weekend warrior w/ only minor scrapes n bruises
#6. grew up on a farm and farmed for 14 years of my adult life. had a pair of jeans ripped off me by a m farmall pto shaft at idle speed. close call but walked away w/ only bruises and scrape/burn on inside of thigh.
#9. dad owned tractor trailers so i started moving them around in the parking lots when i was 14. doubled on the road by 15.5 and solo after 18. over 1.25 million miles logged total. never a chargeable accident, but i sure gave my 70 chevelle a hard time.

guess i have beat the odds. lucky i guess

i will take luck anytime i can get it

 

[Ryan Willock]

In that same time I've also lost friends that worked in the woods, timber cutters and skidder drivers. I bought my tandem log truck from a friend of mine that had to sell his logging business because he was hit by a falling tree and permanently paralyzed from the waist down, it shattered his spine. In four years of mountain logging there have been over twelve deaths in my county alone and numerous serious injures. At any given time if you pick up a copy of Southern Logging Times and read the accidents and fatalities section when there is a death the article literally nine times out of ten starts as follows..... It was a windy day in the Appalachia's.... Or a timber cutter with X years experaince was killed falling timber in the Appalachia's. You would be suprisied at how many people still do not use the open face notch with the bore cut. Also most of the guys DON'T wear calks so they slip and fall when trying to get away from their tree! Even with calks on the STEEP ground that we work in my area alot of times there is NO WHERE to go once you have cut a tree, many's the time when I've had to use a sping board to be able to cut a big double on the side of a mountain and only been able to at most get three or four feet from the stump as it went over!!! I have had a couple of times when I decided that it was safer to stay on the spring board as the tree went over than to jump and try to get away.
For those of you that I know will ask, NO, I do NOT carry an actual spring board with me, too d@mned heavy! I cut a three to four inch sapling, cut one end flat then cut a whole in the tree I'm going to fall then stick about a four foot piece of the sapling into the tree.

 

[davidgpo]

Actually, I feel fortunate to survive 29 years of marriage!

David

 

[musch]

This was a dairy cow. I milk for a livin. When she started to kick I put my back against the stanchions and braced myself. She kicked forward and got me with the point of the hoof trying to drag me down. The doc said if it was a hair more to my left I would have probally had my knee ripped up. I finally got her let loose and she left the barn. If it was my wife or my aunt she would have killed them. I knew the only way I was going to live through that beating was staying up right. She calfed about 3 months before that. She is still on the farm going to calf again soon. I am thinking of shipping her on her marry way in about a week.
Bob

Youre a good man Bob, Id have her on the grill right about now! :jester:

 

[rbtree]

Met an ex-Alaska king crabber at a party on new year's eve. Man, talk about insane working conditions. He did not go back this year even after making $85k last winter. Says it just plain is not worth it. Banged up, beat up, massive seas, ice everywhere, cold (though he showed me his cold suit and says that you stay nice and warm in them).

So now he is a logger again... but that is not going so well either after the prices have come way down. Rather than sell logs to the mills, at the current prices they are cutting doug fir up for firewood! The trees that they have on their land are amazig; great crowns, low taper, nice and straight. Pole quality trees. Far better than anything that we have on our property.

Ah well, enjoying a rainy 'Gerald Ford' day off here today. Recovering form the hangover from yesterday...

Prices we're getting on fir are the best in years-since the initial drop going on 8 or so years ago anyhow. Up to $800mbf for J sort.

I thoughtthat Bering Sea winter king crab fishing was way more hazardous than logging....

 

[Tree Sling'r]

Prices we're getting on fir are the best in years-since the initial drop going on 8 or so years ago anyhow. Up to $800mbf for J sort.

I thoughtthat Bering Sea winter king crab fishing was way more hazardous than logging....

It probably is, but since it is based on statistics it doesn't show. I will bet money they don't let some of the same idiots on the boats as they do in the woods.
I always thought it would be neat to have Discovery Channel make a series about conventional logging. There is still some pretty big outfits around here. But, I know the enviormental aspect of it would ruin the show.

 

[Ryan Willock]

Tree Slinger, you forgot "complacent" in your signature!LOL Couldn't agree more!