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"A Good Catching Hook" Russell Herman: Sawyer set the wood down and he was fileing the saw. Course, I had my ________drawed out and there was logs there on the skid way and there was a cant hook laying there. So I picked up the cant hook and I flipped it on a log and it was good. Nice cant hook. And I said "God, that's a good catching hook." When they is dull, they's dull. So, Joe Rabbit he was mad to cut the slats and Ellis had files sitting under his bench in there. So, I reached in, picked up a file and started to file the hook. Well, old Burt Jackson was there, course, what he didn't know would make a whole lot bigger book then what he knew! (Laughs) So, I start to file the hook. "Hah"! He says. "I wont be hooking around you filer". I says, "Why?" "You never want to file the hook on the inside, oh…on the outside. You always want to file it on the inside". Well, I said, "I always was told that when you got a good catching hook just keep your inside flush and file them on the outside". "I guess I've used as many hooks as you did, maybe more". I said "Maybe so Burt". But I says, "Ya know, man never gets the will to learn, some of us are too damn eager to learn." (Laughs) Man oh man! Well, he was so mad, he cried. So mad he cried. (Laughs) So, after a while the sawyer come out, "What's going on out here?" "That young man", he said, "Told me I didn't know how to use a hook." I said, "I didn't tell you that Burt." He said, "He's filing his hook on the outside" Well, finally I said, "I worked for a fella one time and if he caught a man filing a hook on the outside, he'd kick the shitter in"! And I said, "And that was another damn fool"! And that didn't help things any. (Laughs) I bet. Them fellas never had a hook to catch and I don't know where that hook come from there but it was an awful good catching hook. But, a good cant hook, well…you can save your life sometimes with a good cant hook. Well, if you got a cant that rolls around when the log rolls, rolls right around, you just mark the bark, that's no good. No, no,no,no. No, not when you depend on them to… No, you can't depend on a hook like that. No sir. Fella by the name of Brown, I think his name was Brown, last name was Brown. He was working for Dickersons. I had a helper in the wintertime on a skid way, working in the summertime I done all my own loading but in the wintertime, it's kind of hard. You roll up there and you're liable to slip and your logs would come back. I went up…oh, I don't know, maybe 4 or 5 trips a day ________. This fella was on a skid way so I went up about, well, it was a little bit early for dinner so I went up to get a load and then I come back and I got my dinner. So, I was quite a while up there. So ah, Bolton come over the house, "What, did you have trouble?" I said, "No, no more than usual." That's all I said. So, God, when I got up the next time, Bolton was right there. So, I swung around and start rolling. I got loaded and I bound up and went on. That night, he come over to the house again. He says, "I see what you meant." I says, "No more than usual" He says, "I see what you meant" He had the hook in his hand and he had the handle up here, ya know and he said, "I could put my hand between that hook" he said, "And he wouldn't even draw blood on it". All he'd done was kept the log from sliding back on that end, that's all. |
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