NOT quite as old, but the guy we buy our firewood from is 87, and still chopping, stacking, loading tons of firewood six days a week. Sunday he rests.
He’s quite a guy. Hope to be in his condition with his attitude in a few years when I’m that age.
My ex-wife’s grandfather was still stacking hay bales on a wagon at 94. Smoked a pack of Chesterfield Kings every day from when he was 12.
He got caught the next year by a bale coming from the baler, and it knocked him off the wagon and broke his hip. He was gone in less then 18 months.
God bless this man, and may he work for as long as the spirit moves him.
In 1987 I fenced our 40 acres, RR ties every 32 feet. I took our PU box trailer up to the quarry, and had the old man load it with 3/4 minus many times. We got to talking, and he was in his 90’s. He said in his youth, he use to cut cord wood, and sell it to the steamboats on the Willamette River, near the confluence of the Santiam River.
NOT quite as old, but the guy we buy our firewood from is 87, and still chopping, stacking, loading tons of firewood six days a week. Sunday he rests.
He’s quite a guy. Hope to be in his condition with his attitude in a few years when I’m that age.
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It’s good to work jobs that aren’t easily outsourced.