Bush mechanic - a little Gravel Rash removed

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You must be talking about my Dad. He had an International log truck similar to your Louisiana neighbours. Axe, crosscut saw, a circular saw driven off the PTO, stamina, toughness and a disregard of personal danger were the tools required. Big men. One of my Dad's "offsiders" (the other end of the crosscut) was a man who is now regarded as one of Australia's great authors. He wrote the novel Capricornia, which was made, not very successfully, into a movie. He liked the the bush and the real people who toiled there. Anyway that is another story.

There is one place that the bush mechanic still flourishes. Believe it or not it's India and other countries of the sub-continent. You want something fabricated and you get one of those head waggles and the mechanic wallah goes about working miracles.

Cheers