cp:

Now you're running a farm and farmers have a high accident rate too (though not, I would guess, as high as loggers).

The Adirondack Museum has a video on logging with lots of footage showing them moving logs through the woods on heavily loaded sleds in the winter using a pair of horses or a small crawler--amazing what you can do with a little power if the tracks are iced.  Also lots of scenes of them floating logs in the river and the dancing they would do on the logs to get them moving.  You could see why the work was so dangerous.  The video dates from the 20s and 30s and is called "Lumberjack Sky Pilot" (the title intrigued me--apparently the "sky pilot" refers to the narrator being a preacher--I was watching it with the sound turned down so Christmas Carols could play for the benefit of those baking Christmas cookies while I lit the tree).

bm

P.S.  It occurs to me that Eric Burden and the Animals had a song called "Sky Pilot" about the chaplain on an aircraft carrier.  Is it common to call a man of the cloth a sky pilot?  http://www.rjsmith.com/skypilot.html

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> Tree killers?
>
> Anything like cereal killers?


Yeah, I guess so.   We grew plots of historic wheat varieties too, using
historic reapers and threshing machines to accomplish the cereal killing.
I just told the Worker's Insurance people it was a "Living Museum" and the
entire operation was judged to be a $0.03 /$100 museum operation.   Little
did they know about the flying steel teeth or long open belt drives of the
steam tractor driven threshing machine!   If it was a museum, it must have
been dull and dusty in their eyes, a low risk.

cp in ancient bc

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