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Rumble Strip

Logging By Hand

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A story about the loggers who still cut with a chainsaw.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rumble Strip.

0:02.0

Rumble Strip is sponsored by Honey Road, the best restaurant in Burlington, Vermont, at the corner of Church and Maine.

0:09.0

Here's Head Chef Caratoban.

0:12.0

The Ufkhodozes really thin, like very, very thin pastry

0:15.2

that we stuff with like cheese and sometimes we'll soak it in custard

0:18.7

and then bake it.

0:20.4

And there's been moments where like,

0:22.1

I've made it here and I try it and I'm like wow that

0:26.3

tastes just like what I had at this one shop on the side street and the Egyptian part of the market in Istanbul.

0:35.6

Honey Road, eat, feel the love, feel the food, ethnography.

0:40.8

Today I'm playing. pornography.

0:48.0

Today I'm playing a show I made for Northern Woodlands magazine. It's called Logging by Hand.

0:50.0

Welcome. I've lost friends, yes.

0:55.0

Lost the Danny Champagne.

1:01.0

He got killed in the woods, pinned, I believe.

1:04.3

He was young, too bad.

1:09.3

Why do you do this job?

1:12.3

I guess I'm doing it because it's what I know how to do basically.

1:17.0

Yep.

1:20.0

That's David Ran close. He's a logger in Colbrook, New Hampshire, up near Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, and his primary

1:26.1

tools are a truck, a chainsaw, and a cable skitter.

1:30.1

Mostly he works in the woods alone.

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