Big saw ?!
My initation to the woods was from a man who used to top trees in N. Idaho. They'd take the tops off to keep from shattering them when felling . He was what was known as a free climber. This was in the Coeur D Alene area, trees so tall that they would make Jack in the Bean Stalk walk away :-)
He also was a river hog ie rode rafts of logs down rivers-- very dangerous in the extreme. My dad did that stuff when he was a young man too. The timber was cut in the winter and skidded into a creek bottom that had a dam built to catch the melting snow. The dam was blown with dynamite in the spring and the timber would run into the river at high water. floating to the mill or landing..
The river hogs would ride it down and break the jams ect.......... It's all trucked now. That was before chain saws and power anything.
I learned a lot from him, great guy. I can tell some tales of taking very large trees down from the top ----between houses ect. I'd rather break horses than mess with that stuff but the pay was a couple of hundred a day or more in the winter..
All bucket trucks these days..the woods are for the quick and the dead....I still have my granddads one man crosscut that he used for taking out big trees in town, my dad and uncles climbed for him in highschool.
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