The wind up:
We had to cut down a big hackberry tree in our front yard. The tree service said they would take the trunk to the saw mill for me. The trunk was about 8' long and about 22" in diameter. To make a long story short, they had a lot of trouble pulling it onto their trailer using a come-along. Some nice guy with a forklift drove down the street, saw they were having trouble, stopped, and helped them get it in the trailer. It was a big ordeal.
Then I was reading one of Roy Underhill's books and he showed a picture of a cart they used to move logs in Colonial Williamsburg. Here's a similar picture:
I think the old timers understood finesse much better than I do.
The question:
I'm tired of reading books and magazine articles that just encourage me to buy one product or another and have all my woodworking problems solved.
I'm considering cancelling my Fine Woodworking subscription to read old books instead. Do you all have any suggestions for old books (or books about old wood technology) that are a good read?
Mark