Farmer Logger--a derisive term in my area. To be called a Farmer Logger is not a compliment. Does anybody know the origination of the term?
Farmer Logger, Local Term or Nationwide?
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RandyMac
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I think we will be blaming it on you.
Et tu, Randy?
RandyMac
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I could say Bob did it, but he lives closer to me.
I was just itchin' to look smartified is all.
its a laughing term if not understood where it came from! many farmers were handled with this name back when the times were tough , like here in the upper midwest. my father was handled with thisfine name raising 6 girls and 6 boys on our 80 acre farm.. worked the farm all summer as well in the winter ... winter was not as productive as summer months so farmer/loggers hired out with their teams of horses to make ends meet! felling timber as well as skidding and piling short wood to be picked up by the local mills or private buyers.. its still in practice today with falling incomes and our great economy.. so "laugh" or cherish what you have!
Sport Faller
Gate Pimp
Even worse, can you imagine a Logger Farmer?umpkin2:
"hey whattaya got planted there, cabbage?"
"nope, larch"
"well what about there, carrots?"
"nope, doug fir"
"did you plant anything to eat?"
"well, there's some juniper planted over there if you want some berries"
Even worse, can you imagine a Logger Farmer?
I wish I could remember jokes. There's one that I think has a logger, a 2 ton steel ball, and an 80 acre fenced field. The story/joke ends with something about all the fences being broken? Oh, and the ball broken as well.
Oh well, I tried. :help:
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bitzer
******** Timber Expert
Theres still plenty of farmers that cut timber up here. Pisses me off when I hear my trucker say, "no I can't make it down by you tommorrow, I've got to pick up some farmer's logs." WTF? All I can do is shake my head. ####### sodbusters.
I heard it from Slowp, it's all her fault. :hmm3grin2orange:
Even worse, can you imagine a Logger Farmer?
In the fall the logger farmer fells the corn stalks and bucks them to length. Then the stalks are stacked with a shovel, the skidder comes in and brings them to the landing. The corn stalks are then taken to the mill for processing. :msp_rolleyes:
I'd heard it before but not quite the way Slowp mentioned. The first time was when I went with a forester to walk a job. We passed through a unit that somebody else had done and he looked at the jack-strawed mess and busted logs and muttered "F###ing farmers".
The next time I heard it was from a side rod chewing out a catskinner for gouging up the haul road..."If I wanted to plant wheat on that road I woulda' hired a "f###ing farmer"!
So...there's usually a word that goes in front of farmer...you just can't say it at the supper table.
The next time I heard it was from a side rod chewing out a catskinner for gouging up the haul road..."If I wanted to plant wheat on that road I woulda' hired a "f###ing farmer"!
So...there's usually a word that goes in front of farmer...you just can't say it at the supper table.
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When it was used in my presence, chew was spit onto the ground, and followed by They Look Like Farmer Loggers.
Then a few more times, always about the same guys, spit and Farmer Loggers muttered.
Then a few more times, always about the same guys, spit and Farmer Loggers muttered.
paccity
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what if the person has a treefarm "timber" . and log's it himself? farmerlogger. we have a few families around here that do that. and also log other peoples timber. p.s. they don't really like to be called farmerloggers.
Of course there's always the Franklin Tree Farmer skidders:
the users of which, would, logically, be "Tree Farmer loggers".
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the users of which, would, logically, be "Tree Farmer loggers".
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And I am a member of the Warshington Farm and Forest Asc. I think that's what it is called.....:msp_ohmy:
LOL !!! logger farmers ?? no wonder they cant grow their own chew to be able to spit ....??
