Fargo?
Wood chippers are like feminists, they don’t like men, this is primarily a male type death.
Improper or lack of training! Totally avoidable!!!
What a horrible thing to have to deal with for all parties.
In college I worked in a sawmill and one of the jobs I frequently performed was running an industrial-sized chipper to dispose of edgings and trim pieces. “Not survivable” is an understatement. A 8”-diameter log could come down the conveyor belt around walking speed, into the throat of the chipper to the blades and not slow down, coming out the other side as cornflake-sized chips.
We contort ourselves in appreciation for first responders, when foresters, fishermen, and agricultural workers generally have riskier jobs.
Here we seem to have a firefighter re-tasked as a forester.
Of course, all workers in any category should be appreciated—and protected as much as possible.
I spent most of the summer of 1985 in Alpine for geology field camp, staying at the 4-H camp about two miles north of town. Beautiful country. I wonder if Jeep’s Bar is still there.
Wood chippers scare the hell out of me.
Sounds like really throwing yourself into your work
Are there any wood chipper accidents that aren’t tragic? No idea.