This particular job was a union job and was a by the hour ROW "right of way" job and we where just selling the marketable logs and where chipping the rest.....oh and the boss did let for an added coushion for an accident if it occoured in the bill...as WE where getting PAID to remove the trees and do the brush removal and clearing.....now im sure it would've been different if we where just cutting it for JUST the log money and thats it....i bet i would've got a big time a$$ chewin as well....but on THIS job it wasnt the case....and this kid was also hired on to be a cutter the same as i was....so where really was i wrong to let him cut it?.....remember HE told ME that he could do it better....im not the boss and if i would boss him around i sure that neither him or the boss would've appreciated it....so then i would've been the bad guy....one of those d**ned if you do D**ned if you dont moments....now granted i was working there longer than he was...but that still doesnt mean im the boss....
Maybe so. But you, because you couldn't figure out any other way to teach him, put him in a position where he could have been killed. You had no right to do that, no matter how much of an idiot the guy was. Maybe, just maybe,
because he was an idiot, you might have picked some other method to show him the right way to do things.
I've knocked down a few wires and walked away from it. I used to know two guys who didn't get away with it. In both cases they just barely brushed the wires with the top quarter of the tree. That was enough. It wasn't anything I care to see again.
Mouthy guys and know it alls are a PITA and I can understand you wanting to teach him a lesson. Smart mouthed rookies are always blowing their own horn and sometimes they need a little schooling. But letting him drop a tree across hot lines, when you damn well knew they were hot, wasn't the way to go about it.
I would have fired you for doing it and would have been glad to see you go. Nothing personal.