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Going back about 20-27 years roughly $200-$250/day Cdn. Plus benefits. It was pretty good for a young man. That was logging money, fallers made more but I was never able to get a steady gig doing that. I started on the coast at 18. Full union camp, someone made my bed and swept my room...

Some jobs/contractors yes. Sometimes no. Logging always paid well regardless. Otherwise I'd walk. Lol.

That's for falling, those hrs. Logging we did eight hrs on site. Sometimes super long commutes, truck, boat or heli are the only ways I ever went back and forth to the block. Worked many fly in camps but never took a plane to and from the block/worksite. Seen over 2hrs each way many times.

We stopped for a 1/2hr lunch. Only break.

I've done that by accident before. lol. Had our lunch fire get into the roots of a stump.

When I was in highleading we had a fire everyday for lunch in the winter. 1/2hr lunch. You knew it was lunchtime when the fire bucket came down the hill on the carriage/chokers. It had kindling, a few bigger pieces and a bottle of fuel, all in a five gallon pail. Instant fire. In case anyone was...

You're not an ignorant man Jed. Just obstinant. :P

I'm going to guess that it's either access related making the old growth monsters being the only ones worth taking, or location people/political pressure to not clearcut. You posted up that animation recently showing logging in BC. Clearcut is the most common form I see around.

Pre commercial thinning is all I've ever seen/heard of. That's what happens before the clearcut. I understand your point Cory. Industry and governments, economies don't though. I think.

Clearcutting is the best way to make money logging. And that's why it's done here and I bet that's why it's done pretty much everywhere. I'm betting the decision to clearcut isn't based on how the trees respond, it's based on how the pocket book responds. The whole point of logging, milling...

I would hazard a guess that it would take a lot more automation to do a relatively easy talk.

I worked in a sawmill locally for a short stint. It had a bin stacker for the green chain. It was amazing. So all the boards automatically sorted. To their proper bins. Once a bin was full it would be 'opened' and stacked. So one guy could run the whole green chain. Auto stacker so the one guy...

Log on!