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Originally Posted by Ron61
Scott,
That might work if you cut the logs into short pieces. I have watched every episode of the AxMan show and like it. I worked for a week or so one Summer in the logging here and set chokers for a couple of days before they moved me to another job. I have worked at a lot of hard and miserable jobs for short times. But I believe that was one of the most dangerous and hardest ones I ever worked at. Some places we had to have ropes tied to trees to hold to as the canyon walls were so steep. I think back over all the types of work I did when I was trying to get through school and it amazes me at all the different jobs and states that I worked in.
Ron |
I know many of the guys shown on the program and Vernonia is my home town(I was Mayor there for three terms).
The most talked about issue around my crew is the OSHA violations by Stumpbranch and the Phil crews. I think there are many of us in the industry that will make safety videos around the program.
I have met Jay Browning before he lost his hand, how could one of the toughest guys I have ever met produce such a wimp for a son? His boy is the laughing stock of the industry....
The kid(do-wap) on Phils crew that made fun of the bosses son-in-law was canned the day after the that show aired. My oldest son went to school with them both. My sister babysits for Mike Phil and the video doesn't do him justice, he is one of the biggest men I have ever met somewhere around 6'5 and 280, nice guy too.
The owner of Stumpbranch did some timber falling for me years ago, I would bet he weighed around 140 then
Nice guy, some of his crew members are kids of guys that worked for us, Dustin Titus one of the cutters is the the son of a guy I hit with a tree and had to take to the hospital. Eric Davis is the son of a guy that fell with a saw on his shoulder and it split his femur a couple on inches. We were 60 miles from a hospital so I bought a bag of ice and a short-case for him. After all we had to keep the beer cold.
Keep watching Ron, my home town needed a fire much more that it needed a enema....
Scott s