$18 an hour for a logger? What’s that after taxes? 10 bucks an hour?? Good grief!
Those people are being robbed...
Setting chokers is the entry level job in the logging world.
When I got my first job setting chokers, in the mid 60s, it paid $3.75 an hour. Minimum wage at the time was $1.25. It took less than 20 minutes to show me the basic skills for the job. The big money in logging was in falling timber and bucking logs.