Re: timber!

Posted by rustred on November 13, 2020 at 07:38:37 from (74.214.153.210):

In Reply to: timber! posted by rustred on November 12, 2020 at 18:50:30:

actually my father was a faller working in the lumber camps for over thirty years. from the 40's 50's,60's, and and 70's. from the start he fell them by hand with a cross cut saw. plus those were trees back then. i have a picture of a 48" tree he cut down. also have one of the blocks of wood he had saved , is probably close to 2 ft wide. actually found it couple days ago when i was looking for some weight to weld on the heater. he had homelite saws. i have them also. one c9 he bought in about 1964 and one of the last 922 models he bought in the 1970's. that was his main falling saw and went trough of a few off these saws. dont forget these saws were running steady day after day all winter long. he always had back up saws plus the smaller XL ones for limbing. he used to laugh at the old mac's and pioneer's said once they get wet that was it they would not start. lots of times crawling through snow up to his waist. his brother used to go out and was limbing for him . then when his parents got old the brother had to stay at the home farm and look after them. he never did marry either. past away about 6 years ago at 85 . i found Johnny Cash's Lumberjack song and played that. it really reminded me of those loggers , plus he liked trains also. dad said at times they would buy a loaf of bread and a roll of garlic sausage and catch the freight train to come home. he said it was very cold in them box cars and at times had to make a little fire to stay warm. he used to have a couple of limbers working for him also. and when ever he came home about once a month he would have his truck loaded with blocks for firewood , as that was our fuel for the wood stove. last bush truck was a 1965 gmc 3/4 ton with the 292 6 cyl. engine. those were a power house. one time he drove it all the way home with not one bit of brakes with a load of wood on it. you had to do what u had to do back then. plus not much traffic at night. i am the oldest of 6 kids and it was my job to look after the chores around here. used to bring homework from school and it never got touched. so i just stopped bringing it. had chores to do. but out of the 6 of us kids i am the only one that graduated high school and got a trade motor mechanic and have never smoked in my life. all the other's smoke. parents never smoked either. so this stubborn ukrainian is not a stranger to many types of work and kind of a jack of all trades.

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