Take This Job and Love It: Lumberjill

On "Take This Job and Love It" our reporters do everything they can not to get chopped, but in this edition Chelsey Anderson was trying to make a cut and more at the Maine Lumberjack Show in Trenton.

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Timber Tina: "It's kind of fun though!"

Chelsey: "I bet."

Timber Tina: "It's exciting!"

Timber Tina is head lumberjill and owner of the Maine Lumberjack Show in Trenton. We started the day with speed climbing, and before I'm even finished suiting up I become concerned about the muscle mass I lack for this event.

Chelsey: "There's not a hole there."

Timber Tina: "There's not a hole there!? Evidently the guys have bigger calves."

Timber Tina: "Alright. Now what you're supposed to do is go step, step, throw. Step, step, throw. So it's one and two."

Chelsey: "Except those step steps are on this?"

Timber Tina: "It's on the tree."

Timber Tina: "Just dig one spur in."

Timber Tina: "And now dig another one in."

Chelsey: "Oh no! Okay. Gosh. I'm going to come crashing down."

Chelsey: "So how high up do most of these people go? All the way to the top?"

Timber Tina: "Higher than you!"

Chelsey: "Yes!"

Timber Tina: "We tell them if they go to the top of the line and here's the line Chelsey. Right here." (laughter)

Well everyone has to have a goal.

Timber Tina: "There you are!" "Yeah!"

Next up, cross cut sawing.

Timber Tina: "Rule number one in sawing, Chelsey, never let the saw touch you!"

Since I was most certainly not a competitive sawer I found little accomplishments along the way.

Timber Tina: "Alright. Next, chain sawing!"

Timber Tina: "Hands on the top of the log. Competitors ready! Three, two, one, go!"

Timber Tina: "Okay so now you broke the decompression."

It took me another try to get it right.

Timber Tina: "Now in ax throwing we throw at 20 feet and we throw at this target over here."

Timber Tina: "Basically you are going to have the ax in your hand and you bring it back once and then throw it."

Here goes nothing. Literally.

Chelsey: (grunt) "It was close." "It's not horseshoes!"

Another try gets me to the target at least.

Timber Tina: "You got some pipes on you girl. But when you double stick it's a DQ."

Chelsey: (grunt) "I did it again."

Timber Tina: "I can't believe you are hitting it though. That's awesome!"

Timber Tina: "Well, you're tilling the soil for next year."

Some advice?

Timber Tina: "Become one with the ax."

I must have been listening.

Chelsey: "Oh my word!" (applause)

Timber Tina: "Oh my gosh."

On that note I moved on to chopping. While Tina marks the log and cuts my food holds, I get safety gear on.

Timber Tina: "Three, two, one, go."

This was going to take me a lot longer than the lumberjills.

Timber Tina: "Don't hire her to build you a log cabin."

30 minutes later.

Timber Tina: "I'm going to go get a coffee."

And some help from Timber Tina.

Chelsey: "It's wobbling. Hit it hard. Hit it harder. HIT IT!" (grunts) "Am I going to fall on my ax?"

Not quite.

Chelsey: "Look at that! Wounds."

Timber Tina: "Oh my gosh, she's got a blister."

My final job. Logrolling. Tina showed me how it was done before I got started.

Timber Tina: "Pitter patter. I'm going to let go now. You're all on your own. Oh my gosh! Look at how good you are! Patter, patter, patter."

Chelsey: "AH!"

Timber Tina: "You can get on the log here if you want."

Me a trusting soul.

Chelsey: "AH! Brr! Cold. Oh! Is my makeup okay?"

Timber Tina: "I'm going to have to put log rolling as your best so far."

Chelsey: "So the real question is, would I be hired at your show?"

Timber Tina: "You would be hired, because you've given a brilliant effort. No you're great! Congratulations!"

Chelsey: "Thank you."

Timber Tina: "You're hired."

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We're not sure if it was a sign from God, but on the way back to the station a car pulled in front of our WABI vehicle with the license plate "U R FYRD"

So Chelsey's staying with TV for now.

Chelsey would like to thank Timber Tina for the experience. She has a greater respect for every woodsman and gal out there.

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