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Up Moses Creek: Walking the log

Iโ€™d no sooner opened my book of Robert Frostโ€™s poetry to start the morning right when Neighbor J drove up. A wind had downed trees in his pasture, and he was sawing one up when his chainsaw had gotten pinched โ€” โ€œCan you help me get it out?โ€ A โ€œpinchโ€ happens when the tree trunk suddenly sags or shifts, clamping the saw bar tight in the kerf like gigantic wooden jaws. 

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