Cutting winter firewood

Allowed to cut dead trees only by the Dept. of Forestry. The two on the left are my son (works for Forest Service) and grandson, the rest are friends of theirs. Wild and crazy day! It's so much like old logging photos as long ago as the early 20th C., just with better equipment.

I wish my dad could have lived to see this. He would love it! In his younger years (age 11 to about 38) he was a logger. He was a woods foreman, coordinating the operations and also operated the big equipment, CAT D-8, skidders, Skagit loader, trucks and so on. I remember it so well. He would take us out to the woods on occasion. I can still smell the chain grease on the CAT and how it felt to struggle up into the cab to sit beside him. What a machine! I still love them!