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VoLuMe 52 nuMBeR 10 To Advertise Call: (800) 462-8283 ocToBeR 2017 THE GREAT OREGON STEAM UP Alaska Forestry Assoc. Convention Oct. T FROM The Landing hoTeL and ResTauRanT 18-20 BLAS KeTchiKan , a LasKa SSUE! THE PAST I ember 1981 Dec gging Hadaller Lo Dennis he Logging in t “ ne” Volcano Zo see page 14 R o , M e L a s 8 7 1 . o n T i M R e P D I A P 5 2 4 8 - 2 3 5 8 9 a W , c s i L a h e h e g a T s o P . s . u 1 3 6 1 B . o . P x o d T s T R s R P c L L W L d L R o s R e g g o 2 2 acre of timber that was That is what i re - fell and bucked with member about the men hand saws. who were men when i 7 i can remember my was a boy. i remember 1 0 dad coming up to a log the strongest about 2 r Rigging when he was bucking them being tough and e b trees. he'd be carrying hanging right in there. o t not only all day but all C the bucking saw, his o Shack axe, a sack with two week. not only all week but all month. not only d wedges in it, a maul and L r “Classic” a measuring stick. in FINLEY HAYS all month but all year. o not only all year but for W his back pocket would s be a flat pint bottle with saw oil all of their working lives. r e g Originally Printed in what was respected. Tough in it. My dad built a house in among g o enough to work when you were he'd measure out the tree. the stumps and on a piece of L March 1980 sick and hurt. Persistence enough Then he'd select the cut he want - ground that was covered with There used to be a saying so that you tackled the job of tak - ed to make first. Then he'd clear stumps, windfalls, brush and around our family that went ing out a big stump with nothing out all around so that the saw blackberry vines. his only tools to something like: "When you wake but shovel and axe and pry poles - wouldn't get fouled by brush on clear this land was hand tools up – get up. When you get up --- -- and did it. dogged determina - the far side of the log and he'd and a pry pole. his only tools to do something." i believe that most tion, enough so that you would clear around where he was going drain this land was a hand shovel people around the area tried to start digging a ditch 3 feet deep to work so he would have elbow and other hand tools. he talked of live by that. it was sort of dis - and a quarter mile long in your room. Then he'd lay that far end 'next year' and 'in several years'. graceful to be caught in bed dur - spare time and know that you of the saw up on the log and he'd he was setting goals and he was ing daylight hours. were not only going to finish the spray some oil on the upper side setting long range goals. he was i've never figured out why it job but that you were going to of the saw, then he'd roll the saw doing that and neither of us real - was something to be ashamed of split cedar rails and cedar pun - over and oil the remaining side. ized it but it taught me to have to sleep late but not shameful to cheon (in place of tiles) and back Back in his pocket with the oil some patience (i've never had go to bed early in the evening. fill the ditch up again. all by bottle. Then he'd size up the tree, enough) and to do some planning. on top of that it was almost hand. all in your spare time. to make sure he was starting a stump by stump and inch by disgraceful to ever be late for any - i have always been amazed at straight cut and he'd start saw - inch we cleared that land. in five thing. even half an hour early the men who dug these ditches by ing. years or so we had a horse and by was considered late. The idea hand, hour after hour. some of all these movements would be borrowing a horse from our neigh - was, "Let's leave early so we will these ditches were engineering sure and they would be deliber - bor we had a team of horses. now have plenty of time, even if we feats worthy of much publicity. ate. if the cut was five feet if that sounds puny to you as a have a flat tire." one reason for some of these fellows would cross through he'd saw at a deliberate land clearing outfit remember that line of thinking is that there a big field with the main ditch, pace, using all the saw he could, how big and efficient it was to us were many flat tires. and add several laterals with the until he might have to drive in because it replaced a pry bar. Those horses meant we could do The idea was that you were re - right fall in the ditch to drain all some wedges or take the saw out more in less time. We utilized spected as a 'good worker'. You the water in that field. They did and undercut from the bottom. them. could spit on the floor, insult your this without level and transit. This by word was knowing wife, beat your kids and be very one man i remember used a bot - what you were doing and then do - everything took time. But most negative fellow but if you were a tle of water to spill into the ditch, ing it steady. My dad couldn't be things that happened were ac - hard worker you were considered a little at a time, from time to called a high ball bucker. he fin - cording to the plan. Build this a pretty good citizen. i believe time to see if it would drain. and ished the day working at the house and in ten years we will that usually how a man treated it did. same pace as he started the day. build another house and use this his family was considered to be i think what impressed me so he was tough, he was persistent. one for a barn. in the meantime we used a big old barn clear on the sole business of he and his much with these old timers was he held on and got the job done. family. their knowledge that given When he had a day's work done it the other side of the place. We enough time they could do any - was a day's work that most men Toughness. Persistence. (Continued on Page 7) thing. consider the acre after would have been proud of. dogged determination. That was See “Rigging Shack” IN THIS ISSUE 2. RIGGING SHACK “Classic” From March 1980 by Finley Hays Loggers WorLd Published by Loggers WorLd LLC Founded in 1964 by Finley Hays 6. 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