You can take the city out of the boy after all. We could use a few more converts like Al Falewitch, who now logs just over the Canadian border in UP michigan.
Al Falewitch was a city boy born in Chicago. He didn't grow up in the business, and nevet touched a chainsaw until he was 19 yeats old. Yet at 40 he is a successful logger in Marquette, just over the Ontario border in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP), subcontracting for J.M. Longyear LLC.
After a two-year program studying heavy equipment, maintenance and business, he started out 19 years ago working by himself with a chainsaw and pole skidder. Eventually, he hired help, but employee problems and workers' comp issues …
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