07-11-2016, 02:13 PM
(07-09-2016, 01:05 AM)grampahol Wrote: That's a lot of getting those muscles into working shape cutting logs. Strange, you can be in great shape, but certain jobs can still sap your strength and make you feel useless. Folks don't seem to appreciate just how hard people used to work every breathing moment of the day. At one time everything east of the Mississippi river was pretty much old growth forests and they cleared most of it without power equipment. My grandfather was a lumber jack in Canada as a young man.. Tough old bird..
My grandfather was born in 1879. He claimed that when he was a young man cutting virgin timber in Kentucky they had to bolt together 2 six foot cross cut saw blades in order to cut through some of the trees.
They built dams in the North Fork and the Middle Fork of the Kentucky river to float the logs out because there were no roads.
