The Cedar Choppers

Deep in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where the sun bakes the limestone and the cedar trees stand sentinel, lies a forgotten story. It's a tale of hard work, resilience, and a unique way of life carved from the rugged landscape - the story of the Cedar Choppers.

[@MegaBlazed]

Growing up with descendents of cedar choppers I trust them over all the new people .they have family values that every family should have and can work circles around all people .love the stories they tell about the past.my neighborhood started with there families .

[@dennismartin6304]

My dad was a cedar Hacker as we were called in Palo Pinto county, born in 1913, as a young man with a family he lived in the cedar breaks in a tent, used a chopping axe and a wagon and miles to move the cedar post to the cedar yards, I didn't come into his life until he was 48 year's old and a product of his second wife, he had left the cedar breaks and fought in WW2, and worked the Big woods on the west coast, but in my youth we came back to the cedar breaks of Palo Pinto county and we had graduated to chainsaws and pickup trucks, we still lived in the breaks but in a old school bus, I can't translate into words the feelings of working in cedar breaks, it's almost spiritual, I went on to work in the oil field but I came back to work in the cedar breaks in late 1990s to the Early 2000s on the weekend and days off from my regular job, I still go cut every now and then but my 64 year old body protests.