[AT] Logging

[Spencer Yost]

I have worked at sawmills all of my life, but I know very little about the actual harvesting. But I will tell you one story. I used to be an avid hunter, but I don't do much hunting anymore. When I was hunting quite a bit I would hunt grouse in the mountains of North Carolina. One particular track of land my dog and I used to work was a mixture of clear bald, and scrub forest. One early fall, before the season, I took my dog out to do a little refresher training. I ran across an older gentleman. This was the early 1980s, at the time he was probably 80 years old. He told me that all the cleared areas that I saw he logged with a mule over a period of three summers. He lived in a tent while he cut timer and he and his mule drug logs out.

Back when men were men...

PS: For the North Carolina list members, this was the gap between Clinch Mountain, and Elk Knob, between Meat Camp and Zionsville.  I lived there at the time, but I understand it is a state game land now.  

PSS:  For anyone that wants an interesting story, I can be talked into discussing fighter jets, grouse hunting, and Appalachia.  

Spencer Yost

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