On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:47:17 -0800, "Brett A. Thomas"
wrote:

U-CDK_CHARLES\Charles wrote:
The physique of lumbermill apprentices before water power must have been
a sight to behold from ripsawing or wedge splitting planks from logs.

I read an article once that estimated lumberjacks two hundred years ago,
working in relative cold, cutting down trees with axes and saws for ten
hours a day, probably burned something like 5,000 calories per day. Can
you imagine the food they'd have to shovel down just to maintain their
bodies?

There was a reason the cook was one of the most important people in a
lumber camp. And why there are so many jokes about bad lumber camp
cooks.

--RC


And I get hungry just from walking to the donut box at work...

-BAT

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