eelgrass
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LAST EDITED ON Jul-25-18 AT 07:48AM (MST)[p]May not be suitable for all audiences. Trees were harmed. I was just a kid who got a job that paid $5.25/hr. That was big money back then. When in Rome do as the Romans.
I vaguely remember taking a few photos when I worked on a logging crew back in the late 60's, but I hadn't seen them since I took them. My daughter found them the other day and had a DVD made and then she put them on my computer. What a surprise. She wasn't even born yet when I took them.
I remember I wanted to "document" a tree being felled, but duty called before it actually hit the ground.
This wasn't a particularly big tree, just a tree he was falling that day.
The fallers name is Don Jackman. I didn't remember his name until I saw the photo and then it immediately came back to me. Fallers usually worked in pairs but for some reason Don always worked alone. I never saw him with a partner. Standing on spring boards making the undercut.
Using a gun stick as a line of sight to determine precisely where he wanted it to fall. He was a true master at it.
Putting in the backcut just minutes away from the big crash. Duty called so I never got a photo of it actually falling.
I have a few more photos and maybe I'll add to this as time permits. I'm pretty busy these days.
I vaguely remember taking a few photos when I worked on a logging crew back in the late 60's, but I hadn't seen them since I took them. My daughter found them the other day and had a DVD made and then she put them on my computer. What a surprise. She wasn't even born yet when I took them.
I remember I wanted to "document" a tree being felled, but duty called before it actually hit the ground.
This wasn't a particularly big tree, just a tree he was falling that day.
The fallers name is Don Jackman. I didn't remember his name until I saw the photo and then it immediately came back to me. Fallers usually worked in pairs but for some reason Don always worked alone. I never saw him with a partner. Standing on spring boards making the undercut.
Using a gun stick as a line of sight to determine precisely where he wanted it to fall. He was a true master at it.
Putting in the backcut just minutes away from the big crash. Duty called so I never got a photo of it actually falling.
I have a few more photos and maybe I'll add to this as time permits. I'm pretty busy these days.