multi generation tree person

[prentice110]

how many of you are second generation? or third or fourth for that matter? Im second, if it means anything. Means alot to me , especialy when i watch greenhorn hacks. any hoo, tell me your deal , cuz im kinda interested.

 

[brownm170]

I'm second gen and only 21. However, i don't cut trees full time, my dad made me go to college which was a good idea. My dad has done trees for about 30 years and he started me young. He gave me my first saw when i was 8. It was a homelite super 2 with a 12inch bar. We own a tree service in S.E. Iowa but with the economy in the shape it is my dad took a full time job with the Iowa DOT. Now we do trees part time and pick and choose our jobs, as we are highly regarded as the best in our area. I will have a degree in Ecology this spring and will hopefully find a job with the DNR. I love doin trees and am very good at it but with the overhead and being in a small community it is hard to make a decent living. Also the benefits from a state job are to good to pass up. But i will continue to cut trees when i can.

 

[Blakesmaster]

I'm first gen, which is odd because my brother is in the game too. My family has roots in wood products though. One grandfather was a very skilled woodworker and one great grandfather owned a lumber mill years ago. Originally I fell into this industry but grew into it over the years and it's a huge part of who I am.

 

[beowulf343]

1842

 

[prentice110]

1842

please explain

 

[2brothersyc]

im sorta second and if you count uncles and what not im 4th

 

[371groundie]

7 generations logging, im the first in arborculture.

 

[prentice110]

im sorta second and if you count uncles and what not im 4th

sori. i mostly am lookin at who is the kid of a kid of a kid climber kinda thing. suprised there isnt more. i cant wait to figure out how to put pic's on the web. ive got 60 years of residential removals and commercial land clearing pics i would love to show. some of my fave are 400 clam truck loads in a pile on FIRE!!! also lots of big droppers. daddy was a bad azz! i wish i was born 10 years sooner, i woulda been the biggest tree company in 3 counties. maybe even in the chicagoland area. lessen to all of you, dont have kids in your 50's. its not a good idea.

 

[tree md]

Prentice, check your mailbox.

My grandfather was a climber when he was young. He worked doing logging and fighting forest fires at a CCC camp in California when he was young. He worked the coal mines most of his life but he still did a little climbing. He came up in the time of the misery whip. I still have his handsaw hanging in my shop. Never saw him work. He was old and was paralyzed by a stroke by the time I was old enough to really get to know him.

Dad was a telephone guy.

 

[prentice110]

Prentice, check your mailbox.

My grandfather was a climber when he was young. He worked doing logging and fighting forest fires at a CCC camp in California when he was young. He worked the coal mines most of his life but he still did a little climbing. He came up in the time of the misery whip. I still have his handsaw hanging in my shop. Never saw him work. He was old and was paralyzed by a stroke by the time I was old enough to really get to know him.

Dad was a telephone guy.

thats bad azz! my old man started in the late 40's, and never stopped blabben about how when he started, there were 3 crews and 1 saw, and nobody wanted to use the saw cuz it was so heavy, awkward, and slow. Its was hand saws and axes for them. the pics i got are unreal. I still have one of his first saws. a mercury disston 2 manner. hell , i got his saddle from the fifteis. im gettin teary, gotta stop. miss ya pop! I cant find it but there was an old black an white, mid fifties pic of the old man doin a hand stand on a cottonwood trunk , 50-60 feet up , not tied in. he was nuts , and everyone round here knew it.ran into 2 former employees the other night . both ranted and raved about how crazy/hard workin/cool/ damn good he was. them old timers!