reelinron wrote:
Yep, those guys were hearty for sure.................not as good looking as us though! LOL
Always amazed how hard people worked in the olden days, not sure I could have done it for very long!
From reading about the history of our area, not many did do it all that long. It was a dangerous occupation "back in the day". Life expectancy wasn't all that long. Lots of them ended up busted up pretty bad.
What amazes me is to look at the scope of what they did, harvesting the HUGE timbers without the aid of power tools, using horses and oxen to haul the logs out of the woods. When I gaze up to the hills surrounding where I live and imagine how they could have clear cut all the vast expanse of real estate I'm humbled at their accomplishments.