Yeah, a day of that kind of work would kill me, in fact, I don't think I was ever man enough to work like that. That old man died in 1922 at age 72, and hacking on a piece of wood was all he ever knew. His father (and the boys in the family) cut wood to fuel the steam boats on the Mississippi River until the river changed course and left Rockwood Illinois high, dry and deserted. I read in an old history of Randolph County Illinois that they sold a 600 foot long rack of firewood to the steamers each day. It was a livelihood for the surrounding community in the days when a chainsaw hadn't even been dreamed of. So - when the river shifted, they turned to hacking out railroad ties and mine props.
Railroading (and river traffic) has certainly changed. Now they make railroad ties out of concrete. Hang on to those date nails!
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