How to get into logging

[treeslayer2003]

ky044, 25cents a foot is 250 a thousand, yes that was good money. ya would have got over a thousand dollars a semi load. the best I can get for yellow pine is 300 and that's for big sticks, I certainly couldn't pay 250 for it. I can't get rid of white pine here at all.

 

[ky044]

I'm pretty sure that's what he said I could be wrong that's been a few years ago thanks for the info

 

[treeslayer2003]

you could try for a topper.......hard work tho.....I wish I had a 25 year old to top my trees lol.

 

[ky044]

I could ask I got a pretty big logging company down below me without a doubt there the biggest in this county I think there's about 4 brothers that run it it was started by the dad and uncle I'd even use my own saw if they'd give me a job that 044 ain't doing no good sitting here I don't know what they pay I'm gonna say maybe 12 to 13 dollars tops and I would not complain about the pay that's pretty good for here I'd say like I said earlier I enjoyed the coal mining jobs I had excellent pay and benifits but that's a thing of the past

 

[1270d]

if someone is green they get to limb and top for a year or so. that way you get to see the whole operation work for a while, learn the lingo etc. limbing/topping is hard on saws though, if I was you I wouldnt volunteer to use my own.

 

[ky044]

Well I won't do that the. I'll just use there if I can even get a job all I can do is ask and be honest about my work history and stuff with them

 

[northmanlogging]

Give her Hel ky, doesn't hurt to ask, and if you have any time on a saw its better then nothing.

But like SlowP said logging isn't easy or for the faint of heart. But it sure is a boat load of fun...

Personally I'm not sure I could handle coal mining, have to have room to move. Cold, dark, dangerous I can deal with, not having much choice in direction of travel, or head room not so much. That and the war Dept. has specifically forbade any mining... or comercial fishing, logging she's ok with

 

[treeslayer2003]

no com fishing? more waterman here than loggers lol. I have done a little, it is hard work to.....worse than logging imo.

 

[northmanlogging]

Tis dangerous... or some such, Not much scares me. Fishing would be fun, but water freaks her out pretty bad, and the comercial fishing we got around here generally involves big water, and bigger storms, lots of bad accidents.

Stream fishing she's down with, or ponds and lakes, its that ocean thing she don't like.

Not real sure what her beef is with the mining thing though.

I actually rather like exploring caves, and old mines, just pretty sure I couldn't handle being stuck in one for 10 hours sling'n a shovel... there would be lots of broken stuff from me feaking the F out the second I got stuck in a spot I couldn't turn around in.

 

[ky044]

You would be allright ... You would enjoy a good roof fall it really gets the blood a pumping it's really not that bad you just gotta keep your mind on things kinda like logging always keep your mind on what your doing and never get to comfortable with your work when you get like that your a danger to yourself and you wouldn't use a shovel that much in the mines only people that do that are by beltmen that's usually what you start out as in the mines the. You move on the equipment such as scoop , roof bolter , continuous miner

 

[northmanlogging]

Yeah, I just have to be able to move around a bit, get funny if I can't move my arms and stand up straight.

 

[ky044]

You can move but sometime you can't stand up straight some of the mines around here are only about 30" high you would probally like it though your always learning somthing and ever cut that the miner cuts is a new place to explore I got some nice (kettlebottoms) petrified trees from out of the mines not the whole tree but a small section

 

[ky044]

this is a kettlebottom I'll quit trashing the tread up with coal mining stuff

 

[1270d]

this is a kettlebottom I'll quit trashing the tread up with coal mining stuff

Nah, keep on, its your thread. I think its interesting. That sure wouldn't be my cup of tea being folded into a 30 inch space, me being 77 inches tall. Claustrophobia runs in my blood.

One of the log truckS blew a carrier bearing and was on side of the highway. In order to help you had to crawl under one tag axle and two drives. I made it under the tag OK but the diffs pressed on my chest when I tries to go under. NO Way, couldn't do it.

 

[ky044]

I never was in 30!inch stuff much just a few times when I worked for a contractor that done underground welding and repairing then I went to work for a coal company full time and it was always four foot of higher there. It stays about 65 degrees or so in the mines year round any ways back I've got to continue my search for a logging job

 

[littlejohn]

Ky044 they aint seen fun till there on a pillar section thats been pillard about 10 or 15.breaks before it comes in all at once lol def an adrenaline rush

 

[ky044]

Boom boom boom and then the curtains fly up it the pillar line

 

[littlejohn]

If you really want a logging job even though you dont have much experience, a good attitude and persistance will pay off, just keep trying and eventually your name will get around, wish you the best of.luck. Coal aint doin worth a crap anymore, its bad here in.wv as well

 

[littlejohn]

Boom boom boom and then the curtains fly up it the pillar line

I like the ones when your ears pop and you.dont hear anything and you see all the curtains flappin agains the top lol

 

[ky044]

Yeah i hate it to man wish I was still running a scoop every day but prolly won't ever get to again oh well life goes on I just hate seeming people that's done one thing for so long have to start over