Where is everyone #5

shooter19802003 · Apr 2, 2022

tramm01 said: ↑

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Because your a bad influence.

shooter19802003 · Apr 2, 2022

RGN said: ↑

Don't forget the singing Clint in Paint Your Wagon
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CAXPT · Apr 2, 2022

PoleCrusher said: ↑

I use my phone for 99% of anything I do online now. We carry a laptop in the truck, but it's been in the case for probably 6 months.
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Well, I keep important stuff on the puter not the phone. Especially nothing financial or pertaining to important documents. Touch typist, and the phone slows me down.

tramm01 · Apr 2, 2022

REO6205 said: ↑

I think so. There's a lot of them I've never watched and probably wouldn't know much about what I was seeing anyway. I don't have a TV in my house. The only two that I can relate to from an actual experience level are AxeMen and Deadliest Catch. Some of what you see on both of them is very real...the weather, the terrain, what it takes to just do the job is pretty accurate. The beating the crew takes is shown honestly but sometimes downplayed. I've seen guys get pretty banged up and hide it so they wouldn't get taken to town and lose their job.
The personal drama is way overdone. Greenhorns get harassed a little but never to the extent that the show portrays. At least I've never seen people treated like that. You want to get your rookies dialed in fast and early. That way they can be more productive. Logging or fishing, you're after production and a pissed off defensive newby just slows you down.
It's like trucking...if a boat or a logging outfit can't keep a crew there's usually a pretty good reason.
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And someone’s got to do the job when we all get to crippled up and senile— best to train up what youngsters are willing to put the time

REO6205 · Apr 2, 2022

tramm01 said: ↑

And someone’s got to do the job when we all get to crippled up and senile— best to train up what youngsters are willing to put the time
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Exactly. The problem isn't finding good people, it's keeping good people.

AModelCat · Apr 2, 2022

cke said: ↑

View attachment 406581 View attachment 406582 Maple syrup season is here.
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Do you southern folk have a maple syrup mafia like we do in Canada?

AModelCat · Apr 2, 2022

REO6205 said: ↑

I think so. There's a lot of them I've never watched and probably wouldn't know much about what I was seeing anyway. I don't have a TV in my house. The only two that I can relate to from an actual experience level are AxeMen and Deadliest Catch. Some of what you see on both of them is very real...the weather, the terrain, what it takes to just do the job is pretty accurate. The beating the crew takes is shown honestly but sometimes downplayed. I've seen guys get pretty banged up and hide it so they wouldn't get taken to town and lose their job.
The personal drama is way overdone. Greenhorns get harassed a little but never to the extent that the show portrays. At least I've never seen people treated like that. You want to get your rookies dialed in fast and early. That way they can be more productive. Logging or fishing, you're after production and a pissed off defensive newby just slows you down.
It's like trucking...if a boat or a logging outfit can't keep a crew there's usually a pretty good reason.
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You ever watch Mud Mountain Haulers? That and Big Timber are the only 2 shows I've watched that are somewhat close to being realistic.

cke · Apr 2, 2022

AModelCat said: ↑

Do you southern folk have a maple syrup mafia like we do in Canada?
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Don’t know

BigBob410 · Apr 2, 2022

D.Tibbitt said: ↑

Ive always been facsinated by commercial fishermen . guess its kinda like im fascinated by trucking.. But I get sea sick real easy, just on a lake. The ocean i could never do it
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I got a friend that goes boating with us. We go out in the bay and the Atlantic and he’s sick almost constantly but he swears it’s worth it. I ain’t so sure.

MACK E-6 · Apr 2, 2022

tramm01 said: ↑

And someone’s got to do the job when we all get to crippled up and senile— best to train up what youngsters are willing to put the time
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I’d personally love to pass on what I know to someone willing to learn. I call that a duty, because someone had to teach me.

The issue I do have though is this. A man’s work ethic tends to tell me a lot of the story, and I don’t have the patience for lazy. I don’t feel any compulsion whatsoever to take the time to explain anything to some idiot who would only turn around and try and shoehorn a 13’ truck under an 11’6” bridge. That type of “driver” deserves to get starved out.

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