From “A Guy With a Chainsaw” to “Logger of the Year”
Don Ryder’s first date with a chainsaw was a bloody one. He was just a kid growing up just outside Boston when his dad dropped a saw from a willow tree and hit him in the face, chipping his front tooth. “I got blood all over my face,” Ryder recounted to The Northern Logger, “and a big smile.” Ryder’s father loved to burn wood. “We always had a fire,” he remembered, and firewood eventually became a way of life for him as well.
After high school, Ryder’s love of skiing drew him to New Hampshire, where he split time between weekend trips and working near Boston. He moved north full-time in the early 1980s, just as heating fuel prices doubled and many switched to burning firewood.
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