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[sound of chains clanking]
[rhythmic acoustic guitar music]
I've always had a real connection to...
to being in the woods,
and care about what's going on with our environment.
About...oh 16, 17 years ago,
our neighbors lived on the Cedar River
and a logger came through and just tore their woods up,
and I asked them if I could take out the firewood.
So I took the horses down to the river
and started pulling logs out, and pulled them out to the road
and when we got a wagon load we'd load them up with the horses
and get them out on the road and haul them to the mill.
[sound of chain saw]
The issues we have here is... we have some oak wilt issues.
So we're going to cut out the oak wilt, or the infected trees
try and do minimal damage when we're felling the trees
and then skid the logs out.
[sound of tree falling]
[directing horses] Haw a little!
[sound of chain saw]
[directing horses] Back up!
[sound of chain being wrapped]
[sound of chain on metal]
[directing horses] Come on!
Good boys...whoa!
I'm going to go get another team of horses
and we'll put four on and see if I can get up the hill.
You know that log probably weighs 4,000 pounds,
then you're pulling it up a hill, you're doubling the weight of it
then you're pulling it up a hill, you're doubling the weight of it
so they had all they could do to get it where they got it,
I was surprised they got it there.
We'll just put more horses on... we'll get her.
It's like working a jigsaw puzzle...
what comes first, what comes second,
and if this don't work what do I do next.
It's just a constant process of problem solving.
[directing horses] Whoa...whoa!
Good boys...good boy... good boy Travis!
Yeah! Good boy Travis!
Look at today, it's just absolutely beautiful.
I couldn't ask for a better day,
and then on top of that working with the horses,
they teach me something every day so...
I couldn't get a better job!