Loggers: The Hill Was a Little Steep Hats

Logging has its own geography: the stump, the extraction route and the landing where the timber arrives. OSHA describes grapple and cable skidders towing logs to that landing. Washington State University's harvesting glossary calls the logs delivered in one trip a turn, and the pile ready for loading a deck. Those are concrete working-timber details behind this collection's exaggerated hills and very important logs. The people have distinct jobs, too. The Bureau of Labor Statistics separates logging equipment operators, fallers and log graders or scalers, while truck drivers belong to a separate occupational classification. The Washington Contract Loggers Association distinguishes a chaser from a chokersetter and records crummy as a crew vehicle. A logger badge can carry the wider identity without pretending every wearer does the same task. These logger hats turn that world into personal legends. The hill blinks first, an ego needs a lowboy, and a family tree develops understandable nerves. MY LOGS TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE gives the timber its own inflated importance. LOGGER and TIMBER CUTTER keep the direct badges in the mix. CHOPPING WOOD AND LOOKING GOOD and LOGGING. THE HILL BLINKED FIRST. each come in two colorways, for a confident claim or a dry hillside victory.