Bruce,  We have "Lumberjack Sky Pilot," it is one of Merrill's favorites.
I also enjoy it as my Dad used to do some logging and we even have a
sawmill, which hasn't been used for years but it's still here. Ruth



At 1:52 PM -0500 12/23/05, Bruce Marcham wrote:
>cp:
>
>Now you're running a farm and farmers have a high accident rate too
>(though not, I would guess, as high as loggers).
>
>The Adirondack Museum has a video on logging with lots of footage showing
>them moving logs through the woods on heavily loaded sleds in the winter
>using a pair of horses or a small crawler--amazing what you can do with a
>little power if the tracks are iced.  Also lots of scenes of them floating
>logs in the river and the dancing they would do on the logs to get them
>moving.  You could see why the work was so dangerous.  The video dates
>from the 20s and 30s and is called "Lumberjack Sky Pilot" (the title
>intrigued me--apparently the "sky pilot" refers to the narrator being a
>preacher--I was watching it with the sound turned down so Christmas Carols
>could play for the benefit of those baking Christmas cookies while I lit
>the tree).
>
>bm
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