It's a dangerous kind of work to cut down trees but it's even more dangerous what riverjacks do with them after. Floating logs down the river seems like an exciting way to transport logs but it's dwindling nowadays with trucks and railroads proving to be easier and more efficient in bringing the logs to be processed. But what is it about log drives, the practice of transporting logs down the river, that makes riverjacks stay?
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This is something that was on TVO (TV Ontario) regularly between cartoons for... well, decades I think. Surprised Mike Myers didn't try and plagiarize this at some point (so, so, so much of what he's done is directly lifted from stuff that was on TVO).