the more i work my land here by hand, the more i have learned respect for richard preoneke, yes him again, the master of alone in the wilderness, when i watch the vids of him in his first year out there at 52, the dude had guns on him, chopping the wood by hand, axe and saw. I also do the same cuttting trees by hand then bucking into 8 ft sections and carrying back to the homestead at the age of 40, but i think of him out there at 70, 80 and so on bucking all that wood by hand to get thru the long alaskan winter, one true badazz in my mind, don't think i want to be doing it this way when i am 65, but by then i will have a drafy horse to help me, wonder if i can teach him to chop down the tree also, all i can say the more that i ponder on richards life and the more i work my land and realize how much work it is, i grow more everyday in my respect for the land and for that old man,
RIP you crazy ol coot.



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