Not out of the woods - Logging industry observers expect a wave of layoffs in Maine

James Hogan was a logger at Louisiana Pacific Corp. for 21 years when he was first laid off in 2004. He spent four years scrounging odd jobs and selling personal property to keep solvent before getting hired as a woodloader at Treeline Inc. of Lincoln in July 2008.

The 46-year-old town man had almost recovered from that financial disaster, clearing $600 for a 55-hour workweek, when Treeline laid him off on Jan. 28. Since then, Hogan has searched for logging work from Fort Fairfield to Bangor without success.

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[mortie806]

the machine that worked the man out of a job, it can run itself

[KB1PTH]

@Rhinoch8 It may have been cut down While try to get to bigger timber. Why waste it They can still chip it.

[Rhinoch8]

Why cutting an immature timber 0:30? It's not good at anything except firewood, wich is stupid because you could've let it grow?