What will happen if your ordinary job suddenly gets overloaded with adventure? Won’t it be looking all exciting again? You might think what could be so exciting about usual boring days. Well, every day is a new day but we don’t remember each and every day of our lives, just the significant ones. We always expect but most of our unforgettable memories are unplanned and comes to us all of a sudden. All it takes is one moment. If a logger can get such a surprising day at work then anyone can. What’s a great deal about a logger’s life, you’ll know it today.
Jasper being ‘the first mountain city’, located in the Pickens County, Georgia, United States. The beautiful small city is right next to many vastly spread mountains including Big Canoe, Bent Tree, and the Preserve at Sharp Mountain. Generally, loggers are criticized for the work they do, ie, cutting the trees but in Jasper, it is not a big deal as every other family is directly or indirectly connected with the logging industry.
The mountains near Jasper are covered with American chestnut trees, that are of great profit when it comes to commercial value. The reason behind it is chestnut trees’ growth speed, they grow faster than oak trees. This tree species is one of their kinds. At the beginning of the 20th century, American chestnut trees were at the stage of extinction due to a spread of the fungal infection but the species managed to survive. These are now found throughout the eastern North American regions like Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. They have very unique characteristics which resulted in what came in front of this group of loggers that day.
One fine day in 1980, in the morning after the clock struck 10, around 7-8 people who worked at Georgia Kraft Co. left their homes and sat in an empty truck and headed towards the decided location. The work was too much and it needed to be done by the end of the day. The loggers started their work by chopping off the trees one by one. Till lunch time everything felt like the rest of their work days. When the work started after lunch they felt something wrong with one of the trees but no one realized what it was.
Almost all the chestnut trees that they decided to cut were done, just a few were remaining. Out of those few remaining trees, there was a specific one, which felt quite light weighted compared to the rest of the trees like it is hollow inside. The moment the first ax hit the tree’s trunk they were now certain about the hollow tree. Who knew the tree was hiding a hideous secret within itself.
