| A communal firewood cutting party with Peter Doney´s buzz machine in 1949. Logs were cut at the Black Hills with two-man cross-cut saws and hauled to the Ricksgers´ farm. Power was provided by an old Essex engine. After the firewood was cut, it was delivered to different farms by a team of horses. Pictured (l to r) are George Ricksgers, Walter McCauley, Henry Ricksgers, Patsy Doney, Peter Doney, and Perry (Budger) Palmer (age 15, already living the life of a grown man.) [ next ] | |
