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Title: Scaling Tall Timber

Author: Dave Folsom

Narrator: Joseph B. Kearns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-14

Publisher: Scaling Tall Timber Press

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Searching for a fresh start, a young forester finds himself assigned to a new job scaling logs in a remote area of northwestern Montana. Scaling, a now archaic method of measuring the board foot content of trees cut into saw logs was the basis for logger pay and sawmill operation receipts. Unaware technology would soon eliminate his job; he is unprepared for the hard-working, idiosyncratic locals, who take on the task of educating their new co-worker. Struggling to learn his new job, he is educated into his new surroundings by the quirky inhabitants. This chronicle of changing times and personal growth follows the construction of a new hydroelectric dam and its influence on an isolated valley.

Members Reviews:

Scaling Tall Timber

Scaling Tall Timber

Author: Dave Folsom

Scotty Jackson is a scaler. He examines cut timber to help identify the amount of good lumber that can be used and obtained from the wood. He is one of many men that work at this job. But, Scotty decides he needs a change and leaves his job in Missoula and heads for Sutton's Landing where the workload might be the same but the head person is definitely different. Meeting Augustus Horne might deter anyone from remaining in his employ but not Scotty. From the author of Finding Jennifer comes a unique and very informative and interesting novel dealing with the timber industry Scaling Tall Timber by Dave Folsom.

When meeting Augustus for the first time his job requirements are specified and his demeanor is anything but friendly as he explains the hours, the requirements and how the job is done. Each scaler must be able to identify the species, the dimensions and defects and they need to be noted and placed in scale book and totaled daily. There are specific procedures that must be followed by the log scaler each time the timber is cut in order to determine defects in the log. So, why would Scotty want to move to a new location and why Suttons Landing? That still remains to be seen.

Meeting his scaling partner Olie Federson he learned more about the operation and the people involved. But this job proves challenging in many ways not just the scaling but the people that Scotty meets are quite unique and different from those at his other job. He meets several women that find him attractive, but he has not been through a traumatic loss and needs time to adjust to his new surroundings and much more before dealing with relationships. Meeting Rags, an alcoholic truck driver who is trying recover, two women that like him and the western logging industry and the huge changes coming this book has many plot lines, themes but one stands out that before all is said and done he will learn the true meaning of friendship, loyalty and trust. With a difficult boss to deal with and hoping to stay afloat, he learns more than just about life as a logger and scaler.

Friendships were difficult to cultivate and others were strained. Scotty took things in stride and realized that some people could not be won over and others would just tolerate his presence. Sent up to replace another scaler Scot learns some hard lessons and just might prove more than his worth. Changes were imminent. Jobs and men lost or moved to other locations and he would now be in the position of woods boss but the end result would be dramatic as a dam would be build, a small town and its residents wiped out, unlimited logging gone and things would become more expensive.