Television isn't real life. It's an entire career's worth of shenanigans compressed into one season because nobody is going to watch them drive heavy equipment back and forth all day with nothing interesting happening.

If it were even close to that eventful people would live-stream it. Note the release schedule of all the <insert workplace more dangerous than an office> youtubers and how little of their content is sketchy stuff.

This goes for most jobs. Pilots: endless boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror.

> Television isn't real life.

I'm aware of that. The question was about risky behaviour being more visible in videos from the US than other rich countries.

By volume it's mostly done with mechanized harvesters where the operator is sitting in a cab (and then the rest of the equipment is operators sitting in cabs also).

Indeed, that's the way the big companies do it. But smaller operations operating on private land are often chainsaws+skidders, there is apparently enough money in it to be profitable, and it probably isn't worth it to truck over a large harvester for a small job.