Books about Lumberjacks from Amazon.com

For every man who has ever conjured up a picture of himself felling trees in a roar of chainsaw noise and power, The Backyard Lumberjack is an account of dreams fulfilled. Father and son lumberjacks Stephen and Frank Philbrick have enjoyed the thrilling destruction of felling, bucking, and splitting timber for hundreds of cords of firewood. Together they bring practical instruction and first-hand advice to every man with a chainsaw.

Before there can be any felling of trees or satisfying shouting of Timber!, every potential lumberjack must choose the proper saw. The Philbricks offer buying advice based on the quantity of wood to be cut and the amount of time to be spent on the job. Diagrams of chainsaw parts, functions, and maintenance requirements; tables and charts of saw specifications and firewood volume; and personal cautionary tales of on-the-job injuries arm potential lumberjacks with the necessary tools to make informed choices.

Chainsaw in hand, father and son move on to detailed instructions on managing a woodlot, felling and bucking, splitting and stacking, and even include fun facts on burning. For every lumberjack chore they offer advice on equipment (chaps, helmets, felling wedges, hatchets, mauls, peeves), careful procedural instruction, safety and efficiency strategies, and always their humorous anecdotes and tales of tree adventure.

For the rural lumberjack with acres of woodland, the suburban guy with a cord of wood to split and stack for the fireplace, or the urban guy who just likes to think about chainsaws, The Backyard Lumberjack is as much an engaging read on the legends and experiences of lumberjacking as a practical reference guide..
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Have you ever found it a challenge to keep loving someone through life's trials? Join three women of historical Maine who find themselves loving men whom the world has cast aside. Jack is in prison for murder and scheduled to hang. Edward has been presumed dead at sea for the last five years. Etienne is a lowly immigrant lumberjack whose value goes overlooked. Can faith bridge the road to love?.
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Lumberjack - Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was awarded First Place as the Best Biography/Memoir of 2002 at the Midwest Book Awards of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, St. Paul MN -- May 14, 2003.

A firsthand account of the lumbering era during the white pine boom years of the late 1800s - early 1900s in the northern U.S. Millions of board feet of logs were cut in deep woods camps, driven down the rivers to the sawmills and shipped by schooner and barge to build a nation.

This 50th Anniverary Edition of the original book has been redesigned and expanded, with 78 historic photographs and illustrations, glossary, editors' notes, author bio, map..
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Dan Norman's career in sales began in a logging camp high in the hills of North Georgia Fresh out of college with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing he was making his first sales call as a sales representative with Motorola. Locked in his car, dressed in a suit and surrounded by lumberjacks carrying chain saws, Dan was afraid to open the door! Long since that terrifying beginning, Dan has become a sales performance expert. In this small yet powerful book, Top Ten Selling, Dan examines the fundamental attributes of the very best salespeople that have propelled them to the top of their professions and kept them there year after year. Top Ten Selling is not a book about sales skills but rather a book about the mindset, characteristics, actions and motivation of the very best in sales. After more than 25 years of experience hiring, managing and motivating top-performing sales employees, Dan has been able to catalog the attributes of the very best and brings them to us in Top Ten Selling. Whether you have sales representative on your business card or not, you will benefit from these fundamental principles for success and find that they can be applied throughout the workplace and life..
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Letitia Hunter works as a clerk at her father's lumber company, but her place in society is well established When an intriguing French lumberjack comes to work in the office alongside her, Letitia knows she cannot allow the feelings he stirs within her. Her father would never consider him an eligible suitor. From the moment Etienne rescued the boss's lovely young daughter from drowning in a frozen lake, he has not been able to put her out of his mind. Working with her only complicates things. Yet his feelings for her are so strong. Can he overcome prejudice and prove his worth both as an employee and as a man? God works in mysterious ways, His children to bless. Will He make this relationship work?.
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This fictional story begins in a Michigan logging camp, similar to those in other northwoods states with timber needed to build mushrooming towns and villages after the Civil War. Jake Flareau, the market hunter's son from a pioneer village, goes north each winter to cut white pine. "Lumberjacks and Ladies" includes vivid tales about life in logging camp, whitewater river drives, and wild times when shanty boys hit town with their winter stakes.

Readers will appreciate the tasteful romance, as well as adventure, in the book. Jake's childhood sweetheart is Sally Wilton, the blacksmith's daughter. She makes friends with an old Potawatomi woman, left behind when her tribe was relocated, and learns herbal cures for various ailments. Sally leaves home after hard times but returns as a heroine to treat the sick when an ague epidemic strikes the village.

Jake and Sally then rekindle their love at a secret cove and seal their commitment in marriage. Their relationship matures as Jake builds a sawmill and becomes a wealthy timber baron..
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