In Highschool and the year after we cut way north of 400 cords of wood . Going into my Jr year we had delivered 97 cords and had 127 for sale and 8 for the house and shop from 6/10 to 9/1 . In that run I found 3 saw bites in my boots , 6" heavy leather with Viberam soles .
It was some Summer of 17 ........ We went on a cross country trip from just south of Reno to just south of Terra Haute Indiana and hauled a cousin back ........ Flying was exciting coming home , we got trapped between weather layers , flying the I 80 median , waving at truck drivers as we went by ....... The real thrill was that interchange . See there aren't any high tension lines across the freeway but the 60' ceilings just west of Sydney Wy were hiding the light standards up into the soup 90° to the ground .........dirt road ..... Big berm with fence ........ Whowhohoho run way , hard left , flaps ,power off , touch down !
0600 , 59° density altitude 10,300' ......... Thank God for 6,000 ' of runway .
3 weeks into the Cousins stay we dumped a truck and 3.5 cords in a trailer wags the truck roll over . He left 10 days later unscathed but I had 21 stitches across the bridge of my nose and into my eyebrow . Back to the woods , where I almost immediately found a stump full of yellow jackets , I don't know what variety of wasps they were but they looked very much like yellow jackets . Stung twice in the right side of my face and once on my right hip . I blew up like a balloon and swelled that eye shut that was barely healed up and still green from the roll over . The stitches had been out 4-5 days ........ I looked a little bit like the elephant man actually .
At that point we were driving the rolled truck and a buddy came out to help in trade for getting his folks a 2 cord load . 3rd tree down walked one side to clear brush , went back to clear the other side and started cutting the small stuff from the high side . A limb popped underneath and the tree rolled towards me , hooked the brake/hand guard and shoved the saw into my knee totaling a new pair pants and getting me 21 stitches to pull the gash together , marble sized chunk of shredded skin and skin fat cut out too .
The age of enlightenment as they say . Been a lot more careful with saws , trailers , driving in the fog , and hollow logs since then . That summer probably saved me a lot of life grief .
The floor has always escaped me , I always thought that they were cut in captured slab or "t&g" inleted half rounds with as needed joists . I guess plywood speeds up the actual floor a lot .
