Learning the Wood Mill

To think, a male and female in the woods; An elemental paradigm, an AdamEve encounter, down to bare essentials.

Peripheral, the closer ones, just family, Just friends. A safety back in case it doesn't Work; in case the call is blemished by Some civilized contaminant, a lust Less muted than the native woodnotes wild…

The anonymity vouchsafed by that Ravine could hide a multitude of sins.

How could you, even in your heart, respond This way, Addie, presenting from afar!

Jack is back in the mill every summer. He works on the pond usually, floating the logs to the winch ramp, selecting what will be cut next. This is easy work, and he enjoys it.

From this vantage point he can see the logging trucks as they drop their loads. These trucks haul log length wood, not tree lengths such as the larger companies are starting to transport.

The bed of the truck consists of two flat horizontal bunks, each ending in a square upright steel post which is hinged to the end of the bunk. A thick steel cable runs from one side of the bunk up around and behind each post about two feet up and back down to the other side of the bunk, following it to the opposite side of the truck, where it is secured by a trip attachment, designed in such a way that the driver can dislodge it. This arrangement is symmetrical all around, so that all four posts are releasable from the opposite side.