Originally Posted by
LL2
When I was a kid our family lived in northern Wisconsin and we knew several loggers. They do not make squat for the hard work they do and the risk they take. When I was fifteen for the summer I followed a logger that cut down poplar trees, and I was a "peeler." My job was to peel the bark off the trees that were cut down, and I got paid $.15 cents a stick (a stick was an 8 foot log). That work was brutal, and never did it again.
I love watching those shows on History Channel. I also liked the one with the fishermen risking their lives out in the ocean.