Alan Lott said:
Fascination video Tom, thanks for sharing … WOW! how hard our forebears worked and in frequently in such dangerous conditions.
Those brake ropes: I wondered, at first, whether they were for lassoing kangaroos. ha! ha!
Even today the Timber Industry has the highest fatality rate of all occupations.
Here is a quote I found from the BLS:
"A recent report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics lists the job of timber cutters as the most dangerous occupation in America.
Reports showed a fatality rate nationwide of 117.8 per 100,000 workers, 26 times that of the average worker. Following that were commercial fishermen with only 71 per 100,000, pilots and navigators with 69 per 100,000, metal workers with 58 per 100,000 and driver-sales workers with 38 per 100,000.\par }{\plain While the logging industry may well be dangerous in other parts of the country where heavy equipment like feller bunchers can’t be used, in the south the fatality rate in the logging industry has fallen dramatically. Louisiana only had two fatalities in the year 2003."
DocTom