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fearofpavement

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On this forum, everyone is talking saws, mix oil and so forth. But what do ya'll do when you're not messing with saws? I realize that some of you do saw stuff all day every day but to many of us saws are a hobby or moonlighting and we have our "other life". So what do you do for your paycheck?
 
I'm a County Ranger for the NC Forest Service. That consists of mostly helping private landowners with forest management recommendations and wildland firefighting. I do use chainsaws every so often on fires as well as doing timber stand improvement work but more so as a weekend warrior and firewood cutter. Almost got my federal certification as a class c faller for wildfires.
 
Chamin application engineer or Mechanic, diesel -Car hauler, Mostly Hydraulic and electrical work, a fair amount of road work also. Man steering wheel holders can screw some **** up in a hurry! I don't have any pictures of anything real good, but at 65-70 MPH you can make convertitables out of 3 Surburbans. or if the ABS light is on, just cover it with black tape it don't mean anything, wonder why my trailer tires are smoking, Poof a 3 lb fire extinguisher don't go far in a tire fire. Man I work with all the smart ones!!
 
i was doing building maintenance for a number of years but have since decided to change my way of being. from age 10 i've been fixing things for people and made real good money at it so i have just jumped back into that. making way more money then i was at a day job and i'm my own boss. only thing is i'm more cheap because i know work booms hard or slows down to nothing being self employed. it sucks but if ya know how to work around it it's awesome. i hate working for a boss who is some kind of brain dead idiot who can't even change a damn light bulb so it suits me well. gonna be going back to my falling tree's thing for a living in april or may i figure. just finished a contract engineering a few cut blocks as an apprentice with a veteran engineer and man was that a blast. man those engineers got it easy. still like falling more though. :)
 

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