must be the folks on that other forum keeping the stats so high...

[Finnman]

I logged for 25 years. Falling trees with a chainsaw and skidding with a rubber tired skidder with a winch on it. I can't count the number of close calls on two hands. Hairline fractures in two vertabraes from a tree coming down on my shoulder, pile driving me to the ground. Almost getting knocked out from a baseball bat sized limb falling from about 80 ft up. Hitting me on the top of the head. Made my ears ring and my vision went black for about 5 seconds. Had to get stitches in my scalp. I could go on and on. Hard work, kept me in shape though!

 

[mtmuley]

Yep. mtmuley

The logging workers usually holds multiple categories underneath it and the urban tree pruning and removal section is scary when you read stats. There are large items flying through the sky all day with people working on the ground, chainsaws inches from the body way up in a windy tree, and tripping hazards galore. Those damn lawn ornaments will mess a guy up carrying a heavy log.

My mother gets nervous when I go hunting solo, I don’t think she really understands what I do. She has only seen me at competitions and I think she prefers to keep it that way.

It’s not a good job to bring outside stressors into it. There are a lot of days when a jobsite therapy session is necessary to keep people from getting hurt.

Yep. mtmuley

 

[reallyoldman]

In construction changing big tires is one if not the most dangerous. I did it from my sophomore year in high school until I graduated from college. I was paid very well but I had a number of times where I could have got killed or injured. We didn't have the hydraulics that they have today. I wish I had a dollar for every time I swung a 10# hammer. Machines falling of the jacks, broken wheels, cracked lock rings and difficulty seating the beads on those big tires gets your attention.

 

[Nick87]

In construction changing big tires is one if not the most dangerous. I did it from my sophomore year in high school until I graduated from college. I was paid very well but I had a number of times where I could have got killed or injured. We didn't have the hydraulics that they have today. I wish I had a dollar for every time I swung a 10# hammer. Machines falling of the jacks, broken wheels, cracked lock rings and difficulty seating the beads on those big tires gets your attention.

Seen several really large tires blow. Gives you a lot of respect anytime your up close to one of them. Those tire guys are have one of yhe most underpaid professions I've seen. I wouldn't do that for double my pay.

 

[Eric Albus]

I googled it. Agriculture forestry and outdoor(hunt/fish) are the most dangerous ways to make a living

Must be why I know so many ranchers and farmers killed/crippled/maimed

 

[Sytes]

Dangerous jobs... Catching crabs! Hmmm...

Each occasion this thread pops back anew, I ponder, "that other forum" What other forum is that?

I bet this guy frequents that forum.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7023492667074006277

Yes, I'm literal.

 

[Eric Albus]

Seen several really large tires blow. Gives you a lot of respect anytime you’re up close to one of them. Those tire guys are have one of yhe most underpaid professions I've seen. I wouldn't do that for double my pay.

If you ran a farm and ranch you could add tire fixing to your resume. Just another great way of getting crippled,
Maimed, killed

 

[gouch]

How many hunting jobs are there? A few guide jobs. What else is there, outdoor writer or influencer maybe. I can't imagine very many people die from hunting related jobs each year. Commercial fishing on the other hand takes a few lives every year.

 

[Salmonchaser]

My first day logging, summer my senior year in high school. In the crew cab at 0430, drive up a series of logging roads up out of Alsea, Oregon. Going to be an easy day, moving equipment. About 0700 hours back in the crew cab following a D-8, following the loader down a steep grade. Loader stops, cat skinner gets off wraps a chain around the back of the loader, throws the other end over the blade of the dozer, boss said “ wish he wouldn’t do that” as the cat skinner gets down to pull the chain under the blade. One of the guys jumps out of the crew cab to hop on the cat and hold the break. Too late, cat rolls forward just enough to crush the guy in front of the blade.

 

[sccritterkiller]

Interesting...left WV because I didn't wanna work in the mines..moved south got in communication tower construction, stacking steel..it seemed safer at the time..lol

 

[rmyoung1]

The is why I stay home and let my wife work