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Started by Tombstone, May 25, 2009, 07:53:51 PM

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Tombstone


I was introduced to a woman the other day and was told she used to fell trees? It made me stop and wonder just how many if any, there were out there. The story goes that the original owner of my skideder back in 76 used to have his wife skid for him when he cut, I thought that was kind of cool.
1976 Clark 666B Cable Skidder,Huskie 372, Old Johnny Red Saw, Old Chevy Ton Truck,1972 Massey 20 Tractor, Cutting keeps me sane!

Ron Scott

I've known a few that were tree fallers, buckers, skidder operators, feller buncher operators, wood hauling truckers, and log scalers. Also some that were coal miners. ;)
~Ron

Jeff

Not uncommon at all around here. Ron probably knows some of the same ones I do.  :)
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Dave Shepard

One of the mills around here, now gone, started out as a mom and pop show. He sawed, she off-beared, railroad ties. :o
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LeeB

I bet he said yes ma'am to her too. :D
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Sawyerfortyish

I have a women that works for me part time. Back about 8 years ago I taught her how to fell a tree. After 9/11 she felt compelled to join the fire fighters now she fells trees for the forest fire service and has been sent all over the west where needed to do so. You would never beleive she runs a nail salon and works for me part time in my sawmill a couple days a week just to get away from those people that come in to get there nails done. You would not want to make her mad or rub her the wrong way she could put a hurtin on ya  :o.

Fla._Deadheader


My small Wife offbears our mill.  8)
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   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

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Jeff

One of the best  offbearers ever to work at the mill I sawed at was a gal.  Her name was Stacey. She had long jet black hair was 6 foot tall, well built, tattoed and chewed tabacco and swore like a sailor. Before she worked at the mill she worked at the Weidman Bar as the barmaid. She left the mill after only a few months to start her own drywall hanging and finishing business.
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Tombstone

 I guess there are more out there than I thought!?? Lee B I am sure he did say yes Ma'am all the time  :D!!!
1976 Clark 666B Cable Skidder,Huskie 372, Old Johnny Red Saw, Old Chevy Ton Truck,1972 Massey 20 Tractor, Cutting keeps me sane!

Ron Scott

Also many woman mill workers, foresters and wildland firefighters.
~Ron

Bro. Noble

Quote from: Ron Scott on May 26, 2009, 11:30:10 AM
Also many woman mill workers, foresters and wildland firefighters.

One of my favorite vacations was a trip around Lake Superior.  What made me most envious of the men who lived there was that it seemed like all the road crews were women. Whenever you saw a woman,  she was usually working often holding an outdoor tool.  Seemed Most of the men seemed to be carrying fishing poles :D :D :D
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Tombstone

1976 Clark 666B Cable Skidder,Huskie 372, Old Johnny Red Saw, Old Chevy Ton Truck,1972 Massey 20 Tractor, Cutting keeps me sane!

stumphugger

Let me see, I've done the following:

Planted trees, cruised and marked timber, ran saw on a thinning crew (first woman there to survive running saw) laid out roads, worked on the line on the occasional fire crew (back when we had to throw a fit to get a shower) burned slash, scaled logs, now I go out and harass loggers,  cut blowdown out when I get a call, and have set chokers when I took pity on the short handed crew (wasn't much more physical than marking timber) and did a little chasing on a couple of days where we were getting a slide cleaned out.


Now, back when I was young, I worked in an orchard.  The boys got paid more to run tractor.  I had run tractor since age 12 and wanted that job.  But I was told that girls can't operate tractors.   :-X  So I went to work in the woods. :)


Woodhog


stumphugger

Quote from: Woodhog on May 26, 2009, 09:13:38 PM
You can go here and take a womans chainsaw course.

http://queenscountytimes.ca/smallfarms/index.html

Why?  I take the same training as everybody else.  We do need to work out or build up strength prior to running the bigger saws. 

Ron Scott

Well done! There's also a woman owned and run Tree Service Company here. She has been in business for a number of years and will usually take anything on.
~Ron

Tillaway

One logger here had nearly an all woman landing.  One ran loader under the yarder and the other chased the landing.  They did not have a delimber so the chaser had to limb and buck.
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baronthered

I knew a few like that one Jeff. One actually ran a bar in town before coming onto my bridge building crew. she was like that old saying "she a burlap bag full of bobcats" We got another woman on the crew a few weeks later to do some runing and light stuff. It was worse than watching two tomcats circling each other with their hair all sticking up. Always got a kick out of that. Wound up dating the first one awhile thank god she didn't chew, but she was a wild woman for sure.
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nhlogga

my girlfriend helps me when I need her to. she handles firewood, works on equipment, what ever I need her to do. Showed her how to run skidder. clark 665d, clark 664c. best machines to learn on. tough and simple to run. 3 levers run the whole machine. She can also run chainsaw a little. One of the best workers you could ask for.
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arojay

My wife never looks hotter than when she is stacking firewood!  Seriously though,  I have met a few women who could work with the boys without being one of the boys, in several lines of work.  About thirty-five or so years ago I knew of a service rig toolpush who had a whole crew of his own daughters.  Yes ma'am, no ma'am.
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Phorester


I may have related this before, but we've got a lady in my area who is now in her 40s, maybe 50s (no, I ain't gonna ask........) who has her own pulpwood cutting company of 2 or 3 people total. This is the size of most pulpwood crews here.  She started in her teens with her dad, who died last year.  She pretty much took over the company a few years ago when her dad's health started failing and now it's hers.

She runs all the equipment - chainsaw, fellerbuncher, knuckle boom loader, bulldozer, etc. They bolted a chunk of wood to the pedals of their log truck so she could reach them. She also buys the wood, handles the bookkeeping, etc. Never married.  I imagine when she was younger that she intimidated all the boys with her man-related abilities.

About 20 years ago the chainsaw kicked back into her face.  She has a scar running diagnonally from one cheek up and across the bridge of her nose into her forehead. Fortunately no serious damage, just superficial to her skin.  Have to look real hard to see it now, but it was a humdinger for the first year or so after the accident.

Tombstone

Nhlogga,

  I run the Clark 666b, wonder if I can get my wife to give it a spin? They are easy to run, good machine.
1976 Clark 666B Cable Skidder,Huskie 372, Old Johnny Red Saw, Old Chevy Ton Truck,1972 Massey 20 Tractor, Cutting keeps me sane!

nhlogga

tombstone,                                                                                                                                ask your wife to bring you lunch, put her on 'ol clarky (thats what i call my old clark)and let her try it. Clarks are tough and easy to run. Best machine for someone to learn on.
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Husky 562xp

Tombstone

nhlogga,

  Sounds like a plan to me! Im gonna give it a rip! How far from richmond is farmington?
1976 Clark 666B Cable Skidder,Huskie 372, Old Johnny Red Saw, Old Chevy Ton Truck,1972 Massey 20 Tractor, Cutting keeps me sane!

nhlogga

wheres richmond near? farmington is just north of rochester and about an hour south of tamworth.
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