SUNNY's LOGGING

SUNNY'S LOGGING

Listed below are thee assorted jobs we performed at the sawmill/shop. It definitely kept us kids and Dad busy and out of trouble but time well spent together as a family. NO REGRETS.

Thank You DAD for teaching how to work for what we wanted out of life........I look back at the way I was raised as a child and use to complain about always hacing "chores"to do and then I look at my children now-a-adays and their peers and wonder if they even know they word WORK*S* -- Just kidding kids --

*PALLET & PALLET PARTS

*SKIDS

*MINK BOXES

*CHICKEN BARN SLAT FLOORS

*HOME SAWED LUMBER

*KILN DRIED LUMBER

*HOME SAWED LUMBER

*WOODEN TOBAGGAN

*BUYING & SELLING of LUMBER

*TREE CUTTING & HAULING
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DAD STARTED HIS BUSINESS ON A FARM PLACE
THAT WE LIVED ON WHEN I WAS ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD WITH A PORTABLE SAWMILL SET UP IN THE PASTURE.... CUSTOM SAWING FOR NEIGHBORS, DOING HAYWAGONS ETC.... I REMEMBER PLAYING IN THE SAWDUST PILES AND FEELING THE HOT SAWDUST BETWEEN MY TOES IF YOU DUG DEEP INTO THE PILE OF SAWDUST/SHAVINGS. IT DID MAKE A NEAT PILE TO BUILD YOUR ROADS ON TO PLAY TRUCKS ETC..YES EVEN I AS A CHILD LIKE TO PLAY WITH TRUCKS AND NEVER WAS ONE FOR BARBIE DOLLS! HAHAHA
THEN WE MOVED OVER TO THE CURRENT HOMEPLACE WITH THE CHICKEN BARN AND HE SET UP SAWMILL BUSINESS AND SHOP FOR PALLETS. HE ALSO SOLD STIHL CHAINSAWS AND WOOD STOVES. ALSO DIG SOME WOOD CUTTING AND CLEARING AND THOSE DAYS WERE ALWAYS INTERESTING TRAPESING AROUND IN THE WOODS AND HEARING DAD YELL " TIMBER!" I REMEMBER ONCE DAD CUT INTO A POPPLE TREE AND THERE WAS A BEE HIVE IN IT AND WE ALL GOT STUNG OVER AND OVER.

I REMEMBER AS A CHILD GROWING UP AT HOME WITH THE SAWMILL BUSINESS AND WORKING TIL 10 PM OUTSIDE WITH MY DAD AND MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS. FORGET ABPOUT HAVING HOMEWORK BECAUSE YOU NEVER GOT TO DO IT ANYHOW. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG WE WOULD NOT MISS SCHOOL DUE TO THE FACT THAT IF WE DID WE WOULD BE WORKING BY NOON.
WE WOULD BUILD OAK PALLETS IN THE CHICKEN BARN WITH CEMENT FLOORS AND I DROPPED ONE ON MY FOOT AND IT SPLIT MY TOE. IT DIDN'T HURT THAT BAD AT FIRST TIL WE WENT IN FOR DINNER AND THEN I TOOK MY BOOT OFF AND THEN SEEN THE RED SOCK AND PEELED THAT OFF...BOY ! ONCE AIR GOT TO IT; IT HURT THEN!

WE WOULD LOVE IT IN THE WINTER TIME WHEN SNOWMOBILES WOULD COME DOWN THE ROAD AND SWIPE OUR ELECTRICAL CORDS THAT WE HAD STRUNG TO THE SAWS THAT WE WERE CUTTING LUMBER ON FOR PALLETS.
THAT ONLY LASTED ONE WINTER THEN HE DECIDED WE WWOULD BUILD A SHOP ACROSS THE RAOD AND HAVE ELECTRICITY PUT IN OVER THERE.BUILT THAT IN 1976 AND THEN WE DID LOST MORE WORK. AT THE TIME I WAS ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD.
THEN IN 1979 HE HAD TWO MISFORTUNES ... FIRST OFF IN MARCH: HIS CHICKEN BARN COLLAPSED WITH ABOUT 4000 BIRDS IN IT DUE TO HEAVY SNOW AND ICE ON THE ROOF; AND THEN HIS MILLED ALSO BURN DOWN. SO FOR THE NEXT FEW SUMMER MONTHS WE DID ALOT OF REBUILDING AND THE YEAR BECAME VERY PROFITABLE WHEN ALL THRU.
ONE THING ALL OF US KIDS LEARNED FROM GROWING UP WIHT THE SAWMILL WAS HOW TO "WORK HARD FOR THE MONEY!"

~ to be continued ~

But for now Til I have updated this site with more memories of my childhood days and family raised values - and put some on these pages for my children and myself...Please visit DAD'S other websites along with my Family pages etc...

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October 1999