Dirty Jobs

My kids and I watch the show and missed that one and am glad cause i would really hate to interupt a show and tell them all the wrongs with it. I do that enough when watchin you tube with then and they really are interested with saftey and to have a show lik ethat tarnished for them would be bad.
 
Anybody see tonights episode "logging with donkeys". This one is worse yet. No PPE of any sort and Mike goes on to talk about logging as being the second most dangerous job. I guess no one sent him any letters since his last episode with cutting trees.
 
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It was bad so bad its hard to believe that the discovery channel does'nt have a saftey thing

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Call em up !! I missed these to cra p
 
I missed the show with the arborists. But I watched the logging show last night. I couldnt believe that they were talking about how logging is the 2nd most dangerous job, and there they were with zero ppe. Except the one guy who was wearing a hard hat.

I wonder how many jobs they go to they are using unsafe practices like the logging and arborist episodes?
 
I wonder if the septic cleaning guys have a forum, where they talk about the show?

Hey did you see that, that guys boots were too short. He was standing too close to the hole, he's lucky he didn't fall in. Why wasn't he wearing a mask? Where was his eye protection? Those gloves are not ansi approved.
 
So much of it is done just for the camera. There was one where they were inside of a septic tank with the respirators hanging around there necks. It would not be good television to watch guys trying to talk with masks on.

If he was cutting a tree with a helmet on, with eye and ear protection, again it would interfere with the filming.

I did not see the episode in question, but it is tv.
 
I just saw the Logging with Mules episode and wow I am glad OSHE was not watchin cause man there was a list of things that was not cool.
1. no PPE
2. drop startin a saw
3. total disregard for serounding trees
4. ppl all around the drop zone area
you could go on with things that make you just wonder what would happen if.
 
I just saw the "Logging with Donkeys" and well with that kind of exposure, its easy to see that we will always be considered unskilled labor. No disrespect to the two men who use the donkey's to skid the logs around. I like that. What I don't like is watching blatant disregard for safety. Standing a bars length away from a rook cutter, geez! As far as good TV is concerned...what a detriment to our industry.
 
I just watched the mule logging show tonight, had it on Tivo. After seeing it I jumped on treebuzz and searched to see if you guys already started a talk about it.

Unbelievable!

I have both of them saved on Tivo right now, the Florida tree service and the mule logging.

1.NO CHAPS ON ANYONE.

2. They give Mike the saw and tell him to start it. He tries to drop start it several times, they choke it, then lock it full throttle. He flails it all around and I'm glad it didn't start on those uncontroled drop starts (now I see how people cut themselves drop-starting). It starts on a drop start and the chain immediately runs, NO CHAIN BREAK OR the CHAIN BREAK was NOT ON. Made me cringe.

3. While Mike is bucking the logs, he holds the saw right smack in the middle of his body. I was worried that when he did the under cut, he was going to pull the tip back too far and get a big kick back, nailing him right in the for-head. He was wearing a baseball cap, no eye protection, no chaps.

4. When Mike felled a tree, he just stood around fairly close, they obviously did not talk about an escape route ahead of time. Most of the guys did not wear hardhats, I saw one.

THIS ONE WAS WAY WORSE THEN THE FLORIDA EPISODE. TERRIBLE.

When the mule kept taking off with the logs and almost catching people's legs, Mike said, "no OSHA in these woods, let me tell ya".

This work is all documented on film and in view of the public on TV. I would think that this is all the proof OSHA would need to site this logging company.

Yes, they kept saying logging is the second most dangerous occupation. Yeah, with doing things like that, no wonder.

Dirty Jobs was one of my favorite shows. Real shame, does make me wonder what safty violations they are doing on the other occupations that I'm not familar with.

Someone should give them a link to this forum so they can read these comments.
 
Our crew was doing a job last summer I was running ropes and the customers were in total amazement that a woman was doing this type of job and I explained to them that it was more common everyday to find women doing tree work. Anyway they took pics and said they were going to send it to the show so I am just wondering if thats where they got the idea? I was kinda pissed I saw the end and not the whole thing.
 
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