Falling pics, falling vids, and consequences.

[Greenwedge]

Although I'm not given much to thinking a thought did actually form inside my brain although it is filled with sawdust and dulled by many past years of overindulge in alcohol. I was going through the videos I have posted on You Tube, and in everyone of them I could be ticketed for an OSHA violation. To anyone's knowledge has this ever happened? My biggest fear is it falling back on my employer. It is the best job I have ever had, and I would sure hate to lose it due to OSHA mailing him some tickets due to some silly Vids. Thinking of pulling my vids offline unless my fears are unwarranted.

 

[forestryworks]

Unless they can prove who you work for I'd guess you should have no fear.

I could be wrong.

The way I see it, any video a faller takes of himself is for his educational purpose; like watching film in football.

 

[RandyMac]

How ever remote, the possibility is there. I have been cautioned about some of my old photos that were taken on company land, that they might show things that the company didn't want shown. Good thing they are all but gone now. Bastards anyway.
If OSHA ran everything, nothing could get done.

 

[slowp]

I've wondered about that when videoing different outfits. I don't mention who they are, and have asked if they minded being filmed, or even, "Any of you guys have warrants out for you?" In our area, there's a good chance that last one might be true.

If there was such a problem with OSHA, why aren't the Axmen outfits bankrupt from fines by now?

 

[Gologit]

Although I'm not given much to thinking a thought did actually form inside my brain although it is filled with sawdust and dulled by many past years of overindulge in alcohol. I was going through the videos I have posted on You Tube, and in everyone of them I could be ticketed for an OSHA violation. To anyone's knowledge has this ever happened? My biggest fear is it falling back on my employer. It is the best job I have ever had, and I would sure hate to lose it due to OSHA mailing him some tickets due to some silly Vids. Thinking of pulling my vids offline unless my fears are unwarranted.

I've never heard of it happening but in today's world it's always a possibility. And that's just a damn shame. I've seen your videos. There was nothing there that I don't see, and do, every day in the woods. There was nothing that was so blatantly unsafe as to stand out. But...that's a logger talking, not a government weasel.

I doubt if OSHA, or any of the other regulatory agencies, spends much time looking at You-Tube. If they did they could probably bust every faller that ever made a video...me included.

Our job, by it's very nature, is unsafe. Nothing will change that.

Maybe having the videos on a less public site, like Photo Bucket, might be a good idea.

 

[slowp]

About the only "Agency Use" of youtube we had was one of a crew guy singing and cavorting with his heavy metal band. Somebody had googled it at home and it popped up. His supervisor saw it and said, "No wonder he calls in sick on so many Mondays, he has to be tired after all that jumping around."

Back to here, the only thing I notice, is the threads that show up or comments about the lack of chaps and glasses. Those appear in the Chainsaw Forum.

 

[hammerlogging]

Since all your videos are on your friends back 40 and you are volunteering to get some wood on the ground for him, I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Without proprietary info, company names, locations, or anything else that pegs a target, I'd say it'd be tough to match up a story for anything like that to happen.

 

[floyd]

Yeah, like anyone can't see their screw ups from the air or some road.

 

[Joe46]

Not really OSHA, but the word here in King Ct was enforcement people were looking at some layoffs because of the budget crunch.So they became quite vigilant.

 

[Metals406]

You must be punished for your transgressions Pat. Therefore, you are hereby ordered to make even more videos than you already do, and post them by no later than every Friday of each week.

Thank you for your cooperation.

 

[HILLBILLYREDNEC]

Osha

This why I do not show or divulge my work history. I do not want people coming after me or my former employers. I have a few vague pictures of a few trees and nothing else.

 

[Gologit]

This why I do not show or divulge my work history. I do not want people coming after me or my former employers. I have a few vague pictures of a few trees and nothing else.

Oh. And all this time we thought it was because you were a phony poser who didn't really have a work history. Wow.

 

[HILLBILLYREDNEC]

How many fallers making money have time to get the camera out? I was always going after dollars not fame or bragging rights. If I am doing a job for my self and can get the camera out great most time it is extra weight and I do not want to destroy my better halfs camera:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Metals406]

Oh. And all this time we thought it was because you were a phony poser who didn't really have a work history. Wow.

:jawdrop::jawdrop:

 

[Gologit]

How many fallers making money have time to get the camera out? I was always going after dollars not fame or bragging rights. If I am doing a job for my self and can get the camera out great most time it is extra weight and I do not want to destroy my better halfs camera:hmm3grin2orange:

How many? Quite a few actually. But those guys were real fallers and not some delusional phony who covers up his lack of experience and knowledge with parroted phrases and outright lies.

 

[GASoline71]

If I have to stop this car...



Gary

 

[Metals406]

If I have to stop this car...



Gary

:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange:

He won't stay on his side!!! I have to pee!!

 

[Gologit]

If I have to stop this car...



Gary

:msp_smile: Do what you need to do, Gary. I won't fault you for it.

But the truth is the truth. The general consensus is that HBRN is a poser. I'm just saying what other people are thinking.

 

[HILLBILLYREDNEC]

I said I would rather not get friends and former employers in trouble. If I had pictures of jobs and or someones equipment then I need permission to show them. I am not a fan of public space videos do to all the arm chair tree cutters. Cutting trees is what I do for a few buck here and there. If I am such a poser how is it I am still alive, because I know how to safely fall most any tree. Pictures can be faked or altered to easily, so can videos.

 

[056kid]

your #### is unbelievable, do you have any documented psychological problems? If not, you aught to get checked out. .