There is another good lumberjack song, by the old metal band Jackyl. It features a lot of juvenile but amusing double-entendres about getting wood and how long and hard my log is. It also features a chainsaw solo.
As 5th graders we were required to do a week of outdoor education at a camp in the mountains. On sketch night the boys in my cabin performed the Lumberjack Song
Someone had to explain to me what scones were because I hadn’t heard of that word before
Don't feel bad! I was neck-deep in Python appreciation since middle school and was a whole-ass full-grown adult before I learned what a scone was!...not impressed.
The people in my region who make their living in the woods will be interested in hearing that they don't exist anymore. Do tell us more about that, please. The working class is more invisible than ever.
When I briefly worked on a small town community weekly (many decades ago), the lumberjack competition was one of the big annual deals, and I’d be assigned to photograph it. Men and women’s events as I remember, various lumberjacky things. Did think the thing where they had to cut a notch for a springboard thing, stand on that, cut a higher notch from standing on it, move a springboard into that, stand on that, then cut the top of the post off from there was kinda cool.
I believe they still have the lumberjack games between the various Forestry Schools. I tried out for the logrolling team back during my stint at SUNY Forestry in Syracuse. Back then, the star of the sport was "Mountain Mary" at the U of Nova Scotia. Apparently, the queen of axe throwers.
Hasn't anyone mentioned Sean Duffy, former World Lumberjack Champion who is now the Secretary of Transportation? He was the congressman for this northern Wisconsin district and is now trying to foist his 26 year old son in law on us. Campaign contributions falling like pine trees from companies with applications before the US DOT!
The Log Driver’s Waltz. 1979, Canada. Another lumberjack song. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/KDlPtJw0vQE?si=NNleqD4_qhOOVzM3
Actually, there are still lumberjacks. Here's a lumberjill with her dog.
https://youtu.be/jLIzJxWSoUE?si=0CeQlazBnlaw9Lo9
I fear “clowny clown clown” will embed in my lexicon.
There is another good lumberjack song, by the old metal band Jackyl. It features a lot of juvenile but amusing double-entendres about getting wood and how long and hard my log is. It also features a chainsaw solo.
As 5th graders we were required to do a week of outdoor education at a camp in the mountains. On sketch night the boys in my cabin performed the Lumberjack Song
Someone had to explain to me what scones were because I hadn’t heard of that word before
Don't feel bad! I was neck-deep in Python appreciation since middle school and was a whole-ass full-grown adult before I learned what a scone was!...not impressed.
If there are any Wonketteers out there who are triggered by both lumberjacks and clowns, Robyn just handed them the perfect storm of psychosis.
The people in my region who make their living in the woods will be interested in hearing that they don't exist anymore. Do tell us more about that, please. The working class is more invisible than ever.
I had to work today removing six infested ash trees. I'm a landscaper, not a lumberjack, but feel free to celebrate me today anyway.
It's not lumberjacks, but it's a show about cutting down trees.
https://youtu.be/-swFnrFptc4?is=oapxHAhoKLpPYbfr
When I briefly worked on a small town community weekly (many decades ago), the lumberjack competition was one of the big annual deals, and I’d be assigned to photograph it. Men and women’s events as I remember, various lumberjacky things. Did think the thing where they had to cut a notch for a springboard thing, stand on that, cut a higher notch from standing on it, move a springboard into that, stand on that, then cut the top of the post off from there was kinda cool.
Crispin Glover is one strange dude.
O how I long to participate in games with saws!
I rented a chainsaw from Home Depot to take down an overgrown bush turned into an undergrown tree about to do mayhap on the housing unit foundation.
I found it to be much like work.
I do not much like work.
I believe they still have the lumberjack games between the various Forestry Schools. I tried out for the logrolling team back during my stint at SUNY Forestry in Syracuse. Back then, the star of the sport was "Mountain Mary" at the U of Nova Scotia. Apparently, the queen of axe throwers.
Are you sure it wasn't UNB?
That Crispin Glover song is like if Prodigy did an album of children’s songs
Hasn't anyone mentioned Sean Duffy, former World Lumberjack Champion who is now the Secretary of Transportation? He was the congressman for this northern Wisconsin district and is now trying to foist his 26 year old son in law on us. Campaign contributions falling like pine trees from companies with applications before the US DOT!
Please to enjoy the song (and video) of our log driving forefathers:
https://youtu.be/i3C_XH4Bu88?si=-aA1r-x2ihdDFiGI