{"id":532,"date":"2020-05-02T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restorationarchives.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2023-03-14T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:52:08","slug":"the-story-of-the-lumberjack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restorationarchives.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/02\/the-story-of-the-lumberjack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Lumberjack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7378\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-532-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/lightandtruth\/www.denversnuffer.net\/podcast\/episodes\/2017.08.20_LT032_Lumberjack-Story.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/lightandtruth\/www.denversnuffer.net\/podcast\/episodes\/2017.08.20_LT032_Lumberjack-Story.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/lightandtruth\/www.denversnuffer.net\/podcast\/episodes\/2017.08.20_LT032_Lumberjack-Story.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/lightandtruth\/www.denversnuffer.net\/podcast\/episodes\/2017.08.20_LT032_Lumberjack-Story.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/restorationarchives.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=532-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/lightandtruth\/www.denversnuffer.net\/podcast\/episodes\/2017.08.20_LT032_Lumberjack-Story.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2017.08.20_LT032_Lumberjack-Story.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 7:44 &#8212; 9.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/light-and-truth-podcast\/id1474389927?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/restorationarchives.com\/blog\/index.php\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These comments were recorded at a gathering at Alturas Lake, Idaho on the day of the solar eclipse, August 20, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>And see that works really well if your watch says 11:28 when it\u2019s 11:28. Mine probably says 11:28 when it\u2019s 11:40. Since this is all over with, and since there\u2019s some kids here, I wanted to tell a story. This, this is true story. I, I grew up in Idaho and I actually worked for the Sawtooth Lumber Company, which does not exist anymore. Boise Cascade bought \u2018em out. But there was a time when the Sawtooth Lumber Company could win a bar fight at Featherville against the Boise Cascade boys.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Female from audience:<\/strong>&nbsp;There are kids here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Denver:<\/strong>&nbsp;Well, that\u2019s who I\u2019m talking to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Denver:<\/strong>&nbsp;So, when you go&#8230; I worked for the lumber company, I cut down trees. When you cut down a tree the tree wants to fall in a very specific place, and when you walk up to it with a chainsaw you have to stand at the bottom and look at it. If a&nbsp;<s>log&nbsp;<\/s>[tree] is perfectly symmetrical and perfectly straight you can make it fall anywhere you want it to. If there\u2019s more branches on one side than another it will only fall that way. If it\u2019s leaning in one direction it doesn\u2019t matter what the branches are doing, it\u2019s only gonna fall that way.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boss, Junior Ownsby, who never came out to watch us work, one day showed up to watch our crew. And our foreman who ran our crew was named Budd. Budd and Junior&nbsp;<s>Ownby<\/s>&nbsp;[Ownsby] were up on the road, the dirt road that had been cut in and they were standing there watching&nbsp;<strong>me<\/strong>.&nbsp; And I\u2019d walked up to a tree that literally \u2013 it didn\u2019t matter how long I looked at it \u2013 it was like the corkscrew tree in the parable. There was no way to figure out where this thing was gonna fall. And I thought, \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll leave this for someone else \u2018cuz I\u2019m kind of afraid.\u201d This, this was a very big tree. It was gonna kill someone and I\u2019d just assumed it wasn\u2019t me. But when I turned to leave it, the foreman yelled, \u201cGet on with it!\u201d So I got on with it, and I cut a wedge out. And it looked to me like this damn thing could go anywhere so what difference does it make, if you don\u2019t know where it\u2019s gonna go, what you do to it. So I cut a wedge out of it and I think, \u201cMaybe they\u2019ll leave and cutting the wedge will be enough,\u201d but they were still standing there watching me, like, \u201cLet\u2019s see what the idiot does!\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to all of the other problems this tree had, termites had it eaten quite a bit of the inside, but the wedge didn\u2019t reveal that. I set about cutting the tree down to connect up with the wedge, and about a third of the way through there was not enough remaining support for the tree to stay up, and it started to move. But it didn\u2019t move like it was gonna fall. It moved like twisting on the trunk which trapped my chainsaw. So I let go of it as it moved around and I was thinking, \u201cWow, this is gonna be a disaster!\u201d And I backed away from the thing with my chainsaw left behind, still running, and this was not a model of how you drop a tree. This was a model of: How much insurance do we have for these guys? The tree twisted, it made a horrible splintering sound, exactly what you don\u2019t want to do to a tree, and then it fell. And, I ran like back and forth trying to figure out where it was gonna land because it was not\u2026 it was shimmying. And when it finally fell to the ground I picked up where it was going and I thought, \u201cOh, good.&nbsp; I\u2019ll be safe here.\u201d Except the tree was like a corkscrew, and when it hit the ground, because of the twist on the tree, it jumped backwards.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still own the orange hard hat I wore that day. The base of the tree, which was bigger around than about two of those, flew back right at my head and hit the bill of that hardhat and sent it flying up the hill. I managed to duck and leave my head intact but my hard hat is now about half way between me, the owner of the company, and my foreman. I left my chainsaw running and I walked up the hill to get my hard hat back and put it on \u2013because you\u2019re supposed to wear it if you\u2019re out there cutting trees down \u2013and I can still remember the quote from the owner to the foreman. But because this is a story for the kids I won\u2019t repeat it. But he was anything but impressed. So, in addition to every other reason why they would leave that tree up in the parable on the hill and not touch it, messing with things like that gets lumberjacks killed. And there was a time when I was, briefly, a lumberjack.&nbsp; Anyway, that\u2019s my story. That\u2019s your goodnight story.&nbsp; So there it is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That really happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/restorationarchives.net\/pdf\/2017.08.20_Eclipse-Camp-Lumberjack-Story_transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRANSCRIPT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These comments were recorded at a gathering at Alturas Lake, Idaho on the day of the solar eclipse, August 20, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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