Oak, ash and hickory, raw from the saw Ten thousand board Feet, Delivered Fourteen foot long some 16 inches Wide
I helped plane all that wood, When I was Just a boy, load after load In the Time, I was just growing a spine
By 7th Grade I had, From how I was grown "Long Shoreman's Syndrome" The work had curved my Spine
By ten years old I worked with 10 Blade Saw running 10,000 RPM It Could Imbed a Stick in heavy Drywall
The slats had to be shaped and Packed In bundles of 50 or 100 And loaded on a Trailer Weighing 25 to 35 lbs a piece..... They Added to My Backs Failure
These Slats went on Combines that Harvested the Wheat of America So when I was a child I carried The Bread of America on my back
this is how I grew up, I figured it out and by the time i left i had planed and processed 750,000 Board Feet of Hard Wood Lumber all 1 1/4 inch thick... My dad was the #1 Slat Mfg in the US selling into markets in Canada and Mexico, and not one single time did he say nice job