Wednesday=first day of work. We start work at 8 which means
in Forest Service time we don’t get going until at least 8:45. On Friday we
waited around until 9:45 before they shipped us off to work on a campground
with the Americore chitlins. But normally the work is pretty hard.
Our first assigned task was to decommission a classy 1970s
trailer in order to save the flatbed metal frame and make a forest service
trailer for hauling trees, saws, cats, candy, or other useful things.
Our first lesson of our first assigned task was ‘how to
successfully break and enter an RV using a crow bar’ taught by Aiden and Rich,
a 42 year old Forest service dude nicknamed ‘Saw-Dog’ for his fiendish cutting
abilities; Apparently seeing Saw-Dog wield his chainsaw is a life-changing
experience. He starts his day with 5 cups of coffee and doesn’t slow down for
anything…ever.
I have never shamelessly smashed so many smash-able things
with a sledgehammer before, and let me tell you, it is a truly satisfying
experience. The sound of breaking glass fueled my swinging frenzy as we pounded
the poor gutted trailer into a rotten, wet, insulation-y pulp.
By Thursday afternoon, the entire shebang was gone. Hard to
believe this metal frame once hosted someone’s at-one-point-cozy RV home. Twas
no match for the Shadow Mountain crew.
Friday, we worked at the St. Louis campground with our new
Americore buddies. We spent the day digging out these giant cement cinder-block
things that had been previously used to anchor in logs because apparently
unruly campers will take them to use as firewood, despite all the BILLIONS of
down trees around the grounds. Then we laid down log borders around all the
campsites and freshened up the place with some pungent mulch. It also rained. All.
Day. Long. Twas a grand time.
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