Bad day in the woods. Be careful.

[Haleiwa]

A logger was killed not far from our house today.  Not many details, but one tree fell against a dead/half rotten tree that changed the direction of its fall.  It landed on the victim. That's all I know about it.

[tj240]

So sorry!!!! Accidentshappen and effect more than the person invovled

[Old Greenhorn]

Is this the incident in Altona? Sounds like the victim was from Vermont. What a darn shame. We are all a blink away, keep looking up, and keep your head on a swivel.

[Haleiwa]

That's the one.

[petefrom bearswamp]

An old friend of mine who quit logging at age 85 told me we are only one mistake away from the great beyond.

[starmac]

A logger here has had some bad luck this year,
First we were all going to be logging on the one place as soon as we could get ice bridges in, to try and get it done without having to build bridges next year. Well it has been a warm year and the bridges were very late, but he had bought a feller buncher in Oregon and had it shipped up. 
He walked it in as soon as the bridge would hold it and right as he got to the edge of the sale it threw a rod right out the side of the block, never cut the first tree, so he was back to hand falling.
Last week his skidder operator, who is 79 years old had a minor heart attack, so they had to haul him out to meet an ambulance. He is ok and is actually back to running the skidder.
Four days later his faller, who is a young guy, got a tree on him and busted 6 ribs in 2 places each and a messed up a shoulder, he is still in the hospital, or was yesterday.
I have always heard that bad luck comes in threes, hopefully things will ease up for them.
It has warmed up to the point we didn't haul today, as our road is going away fast, we may be done for the year other than getting the equipment out anyway.

[Logger RK]

I was hand cutting Aspen to big for my shears 20 inch head. Being in a little hurry before the high winds coming with the next storm that's coming. After I dropped one I was cutting some big limbs off. Then as I cut the top off I got a little tap on the back from a 4 inch thick 4 foot long branch I had just cut off. Not sure how it kicked up at me.But I should've seen the hazard if I was paying attention better. After I caught my breath I did cut it in smaller pieces. First time that ever happened. Never to old to learn. And it never pays to be in a hurry. 

[thecfarm]

Sad to hear of this. You never know.

[Frozendozer]

hand falling can be scary stuff
  I've had lots of  close calls and sometimes things happen.  I was on  safety course and learned that construction has the most accidents , but logging has the most devastating  accidents.   Careful.out there.  folks