I live in Eastern ky I have always wanted to be around logging I used to weld and work at a surface mine and worked In the underground mines as far as logging I've never done that is there anyway I could get a job with a logging company or would I be wasting my time
How to get into logging
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call a few up, ask for a job. You'll need to have experience with saws or equipment, preferably both.
Well, you could introduce yourself, and maybe offer to learn for free, or at a reduced wage. How old are you? What logging job do you want to do? Operate a processor?
Run a skidder? What kind of physical condition are you in?
But first, and I'll try to remember what Gologit wrote, douse yourself with a bucket of cold water, roll around in the mud, slam your hand in a car door a few times, and then ask yourself if you want to be a logger.
It isn't like axmen, and it gets boring for some people, out here, the wages used to be really good--in the 1980s, but they haven't changed much since the 1980s. Mechanization is taking over on the flatter ground, and the National Forest is pretty much off limits now.
Run a skidder? What kind of physical condition are you in?
But first, and I'll try to remember what Gologit wrote, douse yourself with a bucket of cold water, roll around in the mud, slam your hand in a car door a few times, and then ask yourself if you want to be a logger.
It isn't like axmen, and it gets boring for some people, out here, the wages used to be really good--in the 1980s, but they haven't changed much since the 1980s. Mechanization is taking over on the flatter ground, and the National Forest is pretty much off limits now.
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From what I have heard on here it is hard to get started in logging. If you have good work ethics and a old employer that would be willing to vouch that you work your tail off maybe someone would be willing to take you on.
If you are in KY i am sure you have pine logging companies around there. That would be where I would start.
If you are in KY i am sure you have pine logging companies around there. That would be where I would start.
I'll look Into it I hope I can find a job doing that I'll ask around and look if I can't find one pretty quick I'll try to get another Welding job or truck driving job I got a few small logging companies not far from my house I'll try to get up with the owners or bosses and see if they need anybody thanks for all the advice
tbow388
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Get ready to work!!! Just cutting firewood is one of the most physically demanding things I have ever done.
As far as the pine logging I've not really seen no logging companies around here fool with i know a local logging outfit logged at my neighbors about 1 year ago and he ask about my parents property if we wanted it logged I said I doubt it but I'll let you all cut the pines if you want them we have about 125 behind t our houses he said he would give us 25 cents a board foot for them I don't know if that's good I not most of them is around 80' tall oh yeah forgot to mention there white pines
Pine logging around here is done with harvesters, no saws. they don't even carry a saw on the truck. You would have to work heavy machinery. Unless you are Hispanic and can plant seedlings. That would be a no experience job and a backbreaking one at that.
That's how a few of us got our foot in the door. Forestry jobs, that is. My first job was on a tree planting crew. It is easiest on steep ground. You don't have to bend over so far on steep ground. Back breaking? Sore muscles for a bit, but the OP is young, as I was, but he now sounds like he is not into hard work. If tree planting is too hard of a job for you, might as well forget about the whole thing. Unless you are on a piece of equipment, logging is a physically demanding job, about on par with tree planting.
I still volunteer with my trusty hoedad and do some tree planting. But I can leave when I'm tired, and I don't have to make a quota.
Go to school and study forestry if you want to work in the woods. If you are not good at math, get a tutor and take some basic math and algebra classes, first. Forestry schools will often help you get a job, and some, like Oregon State, have logging classes. OSU has or had their own yarder.
Don't care to work and I'm not getting upset for the information you all have given me I worked in the coal mines for several years on it's not logging but walking around in the dark in a coal mine four foot high ain't easy neither but I will ask so e of the logging company's around here all they can say is yes or no agian I don't mean to be rude in anyway thanks for the information
So you don't want to work, but want to log? How is that possible? By the way, the machinery breaks down, and you do have to get out of it and wrassle parts off and on.
Think he worded it wrong.
No I enjoy working I like being outside I've helped work on equipment some when I worked at a surface mine nothing major just simple thing like greasing chainging parts and stuff I think I could do the work if I could just get my foot the door as far as afraid I getting muddy and nasty being tired for. Working I know about that and that just means you put In a good days work and if I was to sorry to work I would have never made it in the coal mines we worked 60+ hours a week and 10 hour shifts it was always something different everyday I really enjoyed I I'd still be doing it but I got laid off because the coal business isn't doing so well anymore it's hard tryin to start over especially when that's all you have ever done since you have got out of school. But all you can do is try to look for other jobs that spark your intrest and not give up
And sorry for all the misspelling all I have is a iphone again thanks for the information slowp and stihl sawing and to others that have chimed in ill quit bothering you all and if I sounded rude in anyway I apologize I didn't mean it
