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TheHoneyBadger
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on average per year, I am just curious.
how much do loggers make
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i run a feller buncher and make 27 per hour about 70 thousand a year
Hmmm,in this economy wages and unenjoyment insurance= one and the same. Been there done that got the gray whiskers to prove it
Friend of mine said he could make about 6,000 a month when he worked. In this great state of Washington he was working less than have a year.
with the price of fuel and the price of raw logs we will be making less in the near future because we will not be working much.That AXE man show is a joke
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decarls
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i've been wondering what you guys, who actually do this for a living, think of this show. i've been watching it and kind of enjoy it but how accurate is it. kind of like the deadliest catch and ice road truckers... how accurate are these shows?
i'm with decarls here. I think it's been neat as hell to see a bit of how stuff is logged out west. Just know how it's done in MN.
And to answer your question for pay, I know in MN you make enough to get drunk or high on and that's about it. Unless the pulp market is up it's a tough go.
The Axmen show is a joke. I have worked in the forest industry for 15+ years. BC loggers are on the higher end of the pay scale, US loggers are making wages from 20 years ago. They should show some heli-logging and swing yarders to make the show more interesting.
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RMK7SledHead
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the guys who actually do this for a living, out west at least, don't have time to watch the show. They have to work too dam hard to make a living to support a family to have time for TV.
Spent 4 years with a girl whose Dad is a faller...when he was home, he was working around the house, taking his girls to rodeos, mowing the lawn, keeping the wife happy, etc. Usually he was gone for 14 days, home for 36 hours. repeat. It was a miracle if he was actually at home on Christmas day. They lived well, but he had to work way to hard for it...hardest working (physically) guy I've ever known.
I didn't think it was a joke, sure some of the crews they decided to film leave something to be desired though. The show wants drama, and its easier to get said drama on a mom-pop type logging outfit.
I worked under a swing yarder and hydrolic carrage with talkie tooters, that show brought back memories for me!
skylines breaking was one thing that had me going OMFG I remember that happening to me once. We used a big dozer to secure the skyline, we'd bury the blade against a tree in the dirt and it'd still creep the dozer forward and lean the tree. The skyline was hooked to the top of the blade.
I remember watching them trees the size of toothpicks falling out of the sky getting bigger and bigger, the hydrolic carrage hitting a huge stump and plowing right thru it, trees crashing down... Lucky the skyline pulled the turn up the hill some as it fell, so I wasn't right under the turn anymore. It hut just up the hill some 15-20 yards away from me. The ground shook when it impacted.
spoooky!
I messed up one time and had the skyline peel all my finger nails off, there was a long delay getting the chokers off at the landing and I forgot they hadn't dropped the skyline yet to turn the yarder...I was looking at my next turn and had my hand on a log, the skyline dropped and ticked the top of my hard had and landed on the tips of my fingernails. The skyline doesnt just drop straight down though, it's zinging down the hill at the same time...it would have killed me had I been just a few more inches forward...
I remember a 'green' loaded operator loosing a log, I was on a fresh line working close to the yarder and the tree came down the hill at me, kicked loose a huge rock and both were coming at me...I ducked behind a large aspen. The log hit my tree I was hiding behind and the rock was very close on the other side.
I made my hookin partner mad as hell, I was green and was using the working line to suck a log out from under a mess of crap, when it finally came loose the whole works swung across and right over my partners head. After that I ran the carrage up the line and pulled from a different angle lol
I got a lot of stories, and I thought the first episode was good, I havn't watched any more and hope it didn't start getting stupid?
I'll be getting the whole season on DVD
I worked under a swing yarder and hydrolic carrage with talkie tooters, that show brought back memories for me!
skylines breaking was one thing that had me going OMFG I remember that happening to me once. We used a big dozer to secure the skyline, we'd bury the blade against a tree in the dirt and it'd still creep the dozer forward and lean the tree. The skyline was hooked to the top of the blade.
I remember watching them trees the size of toothpicks falling out of the sky getting bigger and bigger, the hydrolic carrage hitting a huge stump and plowing right thru it, trees crashing down... Lucky the skyline pulled the turn up the hill some as it fell, so I wasn't right under the turn anymore. It hut just up the hill some 15-20 yards away from me. The ground shook when it impacted.
spoooky!
I messed up one time and had the skyline peel all my finger nails off, there was a long delay getting the chokers off at the landing and I forgot they hadn't dropped the skyline yet to turn the yarder...I was looking at my next turn and had my hand on a log, the skyline dropped and ticked the top of my hard had and landed on the tips of my fingernails. The skyline doesnt just drop straight down though, it's zinging down the hill at the same time...it would have killed me had I been just a few more inches forward...
I remember a 'green' loaded operator loosing a log, I was on a fresh line working close to the yarder and the tree came down the hill at me, kicked loose a huge rock and both were coming at me...I ducked behind a large aspen. The log hit my tree I was hiding behind and the rock was very close on the other side.
I made my hookin partner mad as hell, I was green and was using the working line to suck a log out from under a mess of crap, when it finally came loose the whole works swung across and right over my partners head. After that I ran the carrage up the line and pulled from a different angle lol
I got a lot of stories, and I thought the first episode was good, I havn't watched any more and hope it didn't start getting stupid?
I'll be getting the whole season on DVD
Bet he had shoulders and a back like a damn line backer. When my old man sawed for a living he had to start buying XL shirts just to fit over his shoulders and the hung way down his legs. And he was only using a 2o inch bar at max.
yes was a hand faller for 6 years lots of danger and like someone said the hardest work you ever done ran a husky 288 xp with a 24 inch bar
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