Some of us have other exploits than sex, oh we have that to, just don't have the bad taste to brag on it
ANYHOW, as a horse logger for several years starting in the great plains, (but wait you say, there are no trees
in the Great Plains and I say, "right, that is true....now"), and then moving to death valley (see above).
I found myself working in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The timber here is tall and straight and sometimes so
big I have to blow it with black powder into quarters, not so that Nip and Tuck can pull it out, but so that it
will fit between the trees we have yet to fell. Anyway, one day a neighbor asked me if I'd drive Nip and Tuck over
to move an building. Seems he wanted to move it over to the other side of the yard and as near as I could tell
it should only have weighted in around 80,000 pounds (it was only a 40 by 60 foot building) so I knew the weight would
be no problem for ole Nip and Tuck.
The next day about day break, no need to burn daylight, when it comes up a fellow ought to be at work.
Nip, Tuck and I were ready to move that building. I backed them up to it, we had first thrown a log chain around it,
and hooked on to the double tree. Nip and Tuck have always stood quietly while I hook them up and on that day
it was no exception. Anyhow, I called up to start the load in my usual way, "come up Nip and Tuck". They leaned into it
and started the pull but after about 20 feet of really hard pulling I decide to whoa them up as they were starting to
blow a bit so I let them catch some breath (with a good team an unskilled horseman can break a honest horses wind if he doesn't let them stop). I remember thinking then that this was the heaviest 40X60 building I'd ever hooked too. Anyway,
we only needed to move it a total of 100 feet so I knew we'd get it done soon enough. I called on them again and they
seemed to have a much easier time of it and after the next 80 feet I whoa'ed em up. They weren't even blowing to hard
this time. Anyway, the fellow that owned the building decided he want to move it about a 100 more feet on down the line.
So, I called Nip and Tuck again and we moved it the last 100 feet and unhooked. This meant I had to get the chain up
from around the building. As I was walking around the building coiling the chain up on my arm and came to the back,
I saw the initial problem "Nip and Tuck" had encountered in the first 20 foot pull.
The drag path from the old site to the new now included a 40 foot wide by 10 foot deep furrow.
It seems the owner had forgotten to unbolt the building from it's full basement and "Nip and Tuck" had moved
basement and all!!!
As a side note, it took 447 tandem dump trucks, hauling 17 ton each of fill dirt, to fill in that furrow.
