He had been cutting down trees since he was maybe 5. Around this age his father gave him his very first toy-axe. It was completely carved out of one single piece of oak.
He eventually grew up to afford a better axe, a much heavier one, a sharper, more lethal, metal one. He went on to study wood carving... thus it was very natural that he was presently into logging. Cutting down trees was not his main profession though; he dealt with clocks and their elaborate inner workings to make money...
This money allowed him to travel. Wherever he went, he brought with him his newest: a neat, foldable, beautiful, polished, Japanese chain saw.
He loved to chop down trees for fun, he even got to sell some freshly sliced wood cubes now and then, some of them had even been used to build some modest homes out on the island.
He liked that some of his logging had opened some views on some valleys, cleared out some paths and nicely shaped some hills. It also inspired others to sharpen their axes and to go out into the woods...
He ideally wanted to run a successful clock repair business, maybe even a watch factory, then wanted to spend much more time cutting his way through fun international forests, maybe Borneo, Brazil, Papua New Guinea.
He hat learned, that a mundane tree can be turned beautiful, if only cut off at the right angle, at the right height, at the right time of day. One could play with a tree, by cutting only half of it off, or maybe just the branches, or maybe chopping out the center, or by stripping down the bark.
Like the professional loggers in the commercial forests, where logging was permitted, he liked to place his saw at a good angle and pretty close to the ground, then he would fire it up and just tear right through the bushes.
Oh, and one more good advice: try to cut the trees nobody had carved or cut in before... An old unwritten rule among all new chain saw loggers...
How did he possibly manage to find mahogany trees in a city parks and jersey forests?
Stains and sometimes furniture polish could be very helpful, when applied in the right amount... (mixing with imported material is a no no.)
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Not all loggers are created equal. Some do not even cut the trees...
Some enjoy the creation of intricate carvings, some leave behind the legendary trees.
There are legends of saved herds of engangered species, lost puppies and kittens.
There is the magnificent blue sky.
(And lightning, or whatever the devil uses to brighten up the world at night...)
And yes, some loggers like to cut only at the roots...
I personally like the ones who take their work quite seriously and slightly slower, paying attention, letting it ripen, grow, unfold.
It might be some an secret, but some of the most beautiful trees grow the slowest and are infrangible in many ways. Some of the most beautiful landscapes are not actually created by cutting trees, just by feeding them the right food, exposing them to the right light, providing the right kind of soil...
and yes... time... time is so incredibly important...
