On Sundays I buy our bread for the week at a bakery about 10 kms away. On the way there I take the main road, but on the way back I usually go through the woods. The view above is on the way home.
Over the past few months an elderly man has been cutting trees, splitting logs, and creating these beautiful log piles.
Looking down from the road above I could see that he was taking real pride in his work, and now that his work is finished, I decided to stop the car, and walk down to have a look.
OK, it's only a log pile, but the pride that he took in the way he stacked the logs is worthy of commendation. The lines are perfectly straight, the height perfect, and the stacking as efficient as possible.
His attention to detail was exemplary.
Well done that man!
I wonder what his sock drawer looks like.
ReplyDeleteIf, indeed, he has one!
DeleteI did enjoy this comment Sue & Cro. What wit so early! (Smiley Face with wink).
DeleteI like that. A joy to behold. And I'm a bit like that too. The last three years (since a 3-month overseas insect photography job) it's been on the inside more than outside. I haven't really caught up on myself yet.
ReplyDeleteI'm no photographer, but I love to see basic, unpraised, craftsmanship.
DeleteGreat workmanship.
ReplyDeleteAnd for no-one's pleasure other than his own.
DeleteSo good to notice somebody with pride in their work, something that is sometimes missing in our go-faster profit-driven times.
ReplyDeleteThat's what made me go down to take photos; simply doing the job as well as he could.
DeleteIt's a veritable wall. You'd like the hill farmers and the foresters of Austria. They are the real craftsmen of such things.
ReplyDeleteI like to see anything by people who take pride in their work.
DeleteAnd all the same length. I presume he uses something which gets them the right size.
ReplyDeleteThe wall is a marvel.
They usually hold a metre length piece of wood in their left hands as they're chain-sawing.
DeleteI wouldn't expect anything else. There would be one hell of a muddle if they were not stacked thus. The foresters around here are the same.
ReplyDeleteI see a lot worse here. Sometimes a right mess!
DeleteHas he got a lot of wood burning stoves? He will have to chop them up a bit more than that!!
ReplyDeleteI expect his clients have. Our logs are cut into three 33 cm pieces for the fires.
DeleteThere is real skill in constructing large stable log piles. I have the best part of 3 cubic meters in my garage and getting it to stay in one place took several years of trial and error.
ReplyDeleteI have about 10 cubic metres; solid piles, but not nearly as pretty as the above.
Deletebeauty and skill
ReplyDelete'Sculpture'.
DeleteYes, I was about to say it is a work of art.
DeleteA French Goldsworthy.
DeleteI agree. I think he would make a good dry stone wall fence builder.
ReplyDeleteHe probably does that too.
DeleteAnd it will warm him twice!
ReplyDeleteAs it does us all. Perfect.
DeleteI assume that he used a log splitter to cut all that wood.
ReplyDeleteHe had a tractor down there, so I presume he did.
DeleteThe beautiful log stores I used to see in France and the ones you have shown reminded me very much of the care that used to be taken here when making one's peat stack.
ReplyDeleteThere are people everywhere who take great pride in their work; of whatever material.
DeleteAny other "method" is self defeating.
ReplyDeleteAnd when buying your wood by the cubic metre, a tightly packed stack works out less expensive (for the purchaser).
DeleteYou will see wood stacked with the same care here. A job worth doing well. As others have said, it's sculpture.
ReplyDeleteMy husband stacks our logs like that, then complains that I take them from the wrong place and ruin his work.
ReplyDeletePride in work is sorely lacking in our world, the adage of "if you're going to do something, you might as well do it WELL". I envy that wood pile deeply
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