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 off 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]

This is why I stay home and let my wife work

 

[psinclair]

I was a timber cutter for ten years back in the day. I switched careers when I was in my early 30's with all ten fingers, and no broken bones.

I was lucky....

 

[Islander]

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The is why I stay home and let my wife work

 

[Moserkr]

Car accidents are still the leading cause of death in this country I believe. The scariest thing is watching a car full of teenagers screwing around on their phones while flying down the hwy., esp if you are in a city and school just got out, x100.

One person did make a good point though when they said "The risk of a shark attack is much lower if you don't go in the water..."

 

[Islander]

Car accidents are still the leading cause of death in this country I believe. The scariest thing is watching a car full of teenagers screwing around on their phones while flying down the hwy., esp if you are in a city and school just got out, x100.

One person did make a good point though when they said "The risk of a shark attack is much lower if you don't go in the water..."

Fentanyl is almost twice as many. Dangerous waters for sure.

 

[Caseknife]

The one year that I was logging, was in a Cat 517 grapple skidder, had a drag behind me and crested a knob and headed down the hill, the drag blew over that knob and right through the back window of the Cat, just missed me. Should have lowered the grapple prior to cresting the knob. Numerous times in an old wore out Cat 518 rubber tired grapple skidder had uphill tires off the ground and nothing below me except stumps for a long ways. Wife didn't like it when I took up logging in mid-life.

 

[Sytes]

Top two U.S. causes of death: Heart disease & hellborne Cancer. Fk Cancer.

Live life to the fullest. Live to work or work to live. It's only around once and each second is a second you'll never get back.

 

[hank4elk]

Hell,done most of those it seems.
Nothing beats getting shot at much, besides cancer.
Still have all my bent fingers and limbs. Swam to shore on double overhead days with Whitey about,bleeding. Hit by lightning...
I've got Dotti now. I'm safe.

 

[Salmonchaser]

Hell,done most of those it seems.
Nothing beats getting shot at much, besides cancer.
Still have all my bent fingers and limbs. Swam to shore on double overhead days with Whitey about,bleeding. Hit by lightning...
I've got Dotti now. I'm safe.

Left logging went back to school and then into law enforcement. Getting shot at does suck.

 

[WapitiBob]

I got to try and break the first prototype of an extended wheelbase Cat 518 grapple skidder back in the 70’s. Guys from Cat in a creeper van driving thru the brush recording strain gage data coming off the rear diff and axles.
We were hauling 40 truck loads/day of Pine to the mill back then.