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Wearing a suit to work
« on: February 22, 2005, 05:00:06 pm »
I have heard a few of you talking about your past lives having to wear a suit to work and even though I've been a logger all my life,I can sure relate to why you were glad to be rid of it.
Back in August of 1984 we were logging in the back of Furry Creek and we got talking out in the rigging one day about how in the old logging pictures we had seen,the oldtimers looked dressed up so we thought we'd give it a try on the last day of the setting we were on.

All of us were nervous that morning that we would be the only one showing up in a suit

I'm second from the left,Grant on my right is wearing one of my Dad's old suits from the 50's Kevin,far right and Guy,next to me picked up theirs from the thrift shop



Guy and me setting chokers(1"x24' under the butt rigging.

 
Hard to move around in a three piece suit



Dinning in the coperate lunch room



The oldtimers on our crew had us sit on the log pile after lunch for a picture




Here is Sonny.I have worked with him since I started working in the bush.He was a DanG good logger and just turned 70 last week.I called him first thing in the morning to wish him Happy Birthday and he brought up our Suit Day and told me he still pulls out the old logging pictures. He said he liked working with us "kids"




This was the end of the day and the end of the season for this company,we all had to find other jobs till Winter because Suit Day was August 31.We had a lot of fun that day but we didn't get home until early the next morning.

I had the pleasure of working with these guys for a long time.


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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2005, 05:30:57 pm »
  :D  :D  :D  :D  I love it.   :)   In dat first shot you guys look like an early pic of da Beatles.   ;D
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2005, 06:11:20 pm »
All mops and bad moustaches  :-X :D

We figured Grant looked like a mobster in the 50's suit and the ever present cigarette butt hanging from his mouth.The oldtimers made him take the tie off because he was chase and second loading and they watched him running the saw with the tie dangling over the chain.

It could have been deadly  :)
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2005, 06:21:32 pm »
GREAT!

Thanks Paul, ya made my day. :)
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2005, 07:58:59 pm »
That youngster in the first picture looks like your Tom. 

That sure beats the setup pictures that get taken at the carnivals, Eh?  Bet y"all were Danged uncomfortable that day. :D
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2005, 08:23:20 pm »
Great Pictures!! Executive Loggers.  :D
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2005, 08:35:53 pm »
I'm glad you all liked them because I had been debating whether or not to post them for a long time but when I talked to Sonny the other day it got me thinking about it again and I thought,why not?  :D

They were a really good crew to work with and there was always a lot of yelling and laughing going on as well as hard work and good production.If there weren't logs in the landing for Sonny to load out,he'd get awfully cranky so work came first,even on Suit Day.
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2005, 09:05:29 pm »
You've been sandbaggin big time there bud.  What else ya holdin back? ;)
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2005, 10:17:24 pm »
The pictures are great. I like people that can put a little fun in their work. 
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2005, 12:57:20 am »
Sonny and John the Donkey Puncher seemed to enjoy it more than we did  :D

I wish I packed a camera more back then and took more pictures of the people I worked with.I usually didn't take a camera unless we were handy to the pick up so it wouldn't get smashed or lost.

I still see some of the oldtimers from time to time.Bill the catskinner is still alive and well in his mid eighties now.He had a wicked temper and any little thing would turn him Red as a beet and growling and snarling,ranting and raving.!0 minutes later he would be laughing and smiling like ol'Santa Claus himself.They called him Badger Bill as long as I can remember.

He wasn't very tall and he had a round face.One day him and I were driving down the hill in the Brown GMC Crewcab(first pic) The truck was a full time 4x4 and you just had to kick the transfer case into 2 HI but it helped if the colum shifter was in neutral.
Problem was,the indicator was broken and you had to guess which gear you were in.We were sailing along at around 25 mph and at the bottom of the hill,I figured I better take it out of 4 HI so I put the column shift into what I thought was Neutral but was Reverse and we came to a skidding halt  :o

Like I said,Bill was short and his feet didn't sit on the floor and I saw him slide off of the seat and fly into the windshield.Then I saw his ears turn beet Red and continue up to the top of his bald head.

I braced myself for a barrage of cussing and blame but he never said a word and never looked my way for the rest of the trip home.The silence was deafening :D

I like old Bill.
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2005, 01:03:28 am »
Hey Paul,
Thats great!  Gave me a real good laugh! :D ;)  That second picture with the sleeve ripping off is hilarious!
Ive done my time in a suit, and I can tell you from the bottom of my heart - been there, done that, NEVER AGAIN!  Except for weddings and funerals, they stay in the wardrobe!
Cheers
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« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2005, 01:19:58 am »
 :D That's Guy in his undersized suit and he had that thing ripped before we even got our boots on.
We grew up together and we were best man at each others weddings.He could keep us laughing out there pretty good.


One time we were trying to move the yarder(the big Red machine in the picture to the right of Sonny) but the tracks were bogging in the mud and we had to mess around with chunks and puncheon to get it out of there.Finally it started to slowly pull out of there and could hear someone yelling "Hyaah,Hyaah" and I looked back and there was Guy with a big Fir limb,beating the back end of the machine like it was a Mule  :D
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2005, 07:42:57 am »
Thanks for a great story Paul. :) I sure like your corporate lunchroom better than any I've spent time in. :D

About ten years ago I swore I'd never wear another tie again, so far so good. ;D
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2005, 08:05:14 am »
What a hoot :D great story Paul :D good way ta start a day
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2005, 02:27:28 pm »
I'm glad you guys enjoyed it and I had fun posting it because it made me remember it all over again. I had made a typo in the first post,Suit Day was actually in 1984 and we were all in our early twenties.

The old 90' Madill yarders like the one we're having lunch on,used to sit in one place for 2-3 weeks when we were yarding a setting.In the morning we would put our lunch boxes and thermos on the track just under the running board because it kept things cool and out of harms way.The saws were tucked in close to the track when not used too

After a few years the 90 footer was replaced with a grapple yarder on tracks that was always on the move,sometimes several times a day.We lost a few lunches and thermos and a couple of saws before the habit of putting things on the track was broken.  ???
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« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2005, 03:15:20 pm »
I was wondering about that date.  :)
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2005, 04:35:58 pm »
This is truly an enjoyable thread!   smiley_hairbow
Sounds like you made friends and memories that will last a lifetime. 
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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2005, 04:50:15 pm »
The people you work with can make a good job miserable or a miserable job good.  From his past posts and meeting Paul in person,  my guess is that everyone that he worked with had a good job :D


someone that knows how ought to post a link to Paul's house remodleing story.  The newer members missed a good one there that shows what kind of imagination this character has 8)
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« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2005, 04:53:05 pm »
Here ya go.

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Re: Wearing a suit to work
« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2005, 07:43:41 pm »
 Do you still own that logging company Paul? I haven't herd you mention it lately.  ???
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