Yup...most owners aren't really interested in how much education their fallers have. What they're interested in is good work...and a lot of it. Jameson might want to soft pedal the school thing until he gets his foot in the door. Later on, after they see he can cut, he might bring it up and maybe it would open up new responsibilities and opportunities for him.
Nate, you got the LOGGER DISEASE. There's no cure for it, either. If that guy is behind, see if you can work weekends for him. That might help the symptoms a little. :hmm3grin2orange:
I talked with this particular logger, Pat, for quite a while on the phone. He's a good guy by what I could gather. . . Lots of common sense.
He shut the sale down last fall, and it was sketchy whether or not he'd start up again. His go-to cutters ended up taking other gigs trampin' around. Now they have a good job falling under a K-Max in ID. One of them is very well known around here for his cutting skill, the other guy I grew up with, and didn't even realize he was cutting until last week. Last I saw him, he was doing carpentry next to our framing gig.
Pat told me he thought they would wait for him to start up again, and you could tell he's frustrated. At the end of last week he wasn't even sure if he'd log anymore.
He had a sale under contract with PC, and wanted them to cut him a break to help offset fuel going through the roof. I guess they played ball, cause he's ready to go.
He asked me point blank on the phone, "Can this Jameson guy cut?" I said Jameson wasn't an old hand being only 26 or so, but he did okay from what I had seen -- and would be reliable. I mentioned he just finished school, and he said, "I need someone who won't stand there over analyzing each tree, and will get wood on the ground." I think that may have been a nod to his past experiences with college forestry grads.
