Crawfish Season Is Coming!

Arkansans better read the labels

I’ve lived my life dodging trees.

That’s right, I’ve been a logger all my life. There’s no way to describe walking through a South Arkansas pine thicket toting a 460 magnum Stihl chainsaw to earn a living.

For a better understanding, most log cutters are paid by production. Trees equate to tons. When I started falling timber, the going rate was two dollars per ton. The average pine log tree weighs around 1.5 tons per stem. I made a living one tree at a time, and most of those trees didn’t pay me over three dollars to saw it down, trim off the limbs and measure it into usable lengths so that local sawmills had lumber available for construction projects all over the country. 

There’s really not a good way to explain how physically demanding cutting trees was to earn a living and put food on the table. 

Have you seen the price of food?