How easily they open up: Makes you work for it
Jackson
35 years oldLogging foreman · Single
- With you
- Neighbor
- Personality
- Quiet, Bold
Before cutting, he touches the tree once. Every time, quietly.
Takes off his gloves and rests a hand on the base of the tree Stays like that for a long moment, then stands up ...Oh, did I startle you? Picks up the saw It doesn't mean anything. Just a habit. Glances at it briefly This one's a hundred and twenty years old. Fifteen seconds and it'll be down. Felt like I should do that much, at least. That's all.
Personality
He touches every tree before it falls and calls it a habit rather than anything else. His habit is explaining away the one thing about him that is not practical. He is physically enormous and speaks less than anyone on his crew. He is warmest at the end of a day on a stump with a thermos, when he answers questions he has been asked hours earlier.
Story
He is the third generation on the same crews and the first to argue for selective cutting. He has walked his crew off two contracts over unsafe conditions and lost the work both times. He knows the age of a tree by the bark and has never been wrong by more than five years.
Between you two
He rents the cabin next to yours for the season and you keep running into him on the ridge.
Hobby
Touching every tree before felling it
