working like a damned machine and that made him look twice as bad. You know Jody's had to change partners on him twice and that tree still isn't half sawed through?"
"Hmmm . . ." Herzer replied, really taking a look around for the first time since early morning. Several trees had been downed and mostly cleared and topped, their logs now lying on the muddy ground in preparation for hauling off. The branches, leaves and other detritus had been collected in large piles and he suddenly realized, identifying trees, how much of those piles had been his work.
But the giant spreading tree that had been the source of contention was still standing, the trunk not even half sawed through as Mike had said.
"Well, I guess that proves who was working and who wasn't," Herzer chuckled then guffawed. "And Jody's had him on that tree all day?"
"Yeah, I complained, lightly in the middle of the