Today's story features an Alberta firefighter who takes advantage of some downtime,

picks up a chainsaw, and begins carving out life-sized wooden bears.

As one does, right?

He then sells his creations to universities, restaurants, and anyone who wants a unique and large

handcrafted item. In addition to this being a cool project, it also helps to reinforce an important

lesson in pricing your services or handicrafts. And that lesson is that unless you have a good

reason to charge by the hour, most likely you should charge by the project.

So I'll explain more about that at the end. But of course, we want to leave with the story,

because it's just a cool story as well. Welcome to Side Ussel School. Firefighter uses

chainsaw for jumbo-sized woodworking. The story's coming right up.

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As the leader of a Hell Attack wildfire fighting team, Cameron Bilsack spends a lot of time near the Canadian Rocky Mountains of Alberta. During periods where there's heavy rainfall

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