The Lumberjack Lore podcast...
This podcast shares life lessons learned from a twenty-year career as a lumberjack in the central North Island forests of New Zealand. It features stories of wisdom, knowledge, and tradition, highlighting the unique craft that guests have developed through their own careers and lives.
Episodes
George Houde. Journalist.
Getting kicked out of High School didn't do George any harm. Years later it gave him the resilience to survive a near death experience in Papua New Guinea and the courage of character to give endurance ski racing and triathlon a go. Stints as an instructor in both skiing and martial arts coincided with developing the traits of courage and tenacity that enabled him to play rugby, where alongsi
Episode 6. Craig (Crunchie) Donaldson
Craig Donaldson taught me how to cut down my first tree at the age of around ten, and so to a degree he (among other characters) was spoken of already in episode 1 and 2 of the Lumberjack Lore podcast as I introduced what I want the podcast to be. During my lifetime I have watched Craig achieve some incredible feats of endurance as an ultra cyclist but also as a first class rugby player, lumberj
Veteran TV3 Rugby commentator and sports broadcaster Hamish McKay
If you're a budding journalist, rugby fan, farmer, or someone who wants to listen to some valuable life lessons and stories centered around mentorship, hard work and what it takes to take a dream as a young person and turn it into a profession as an adult, then Hamish McKay shares some of the hard earnt wisdom knowledge and traditions that he built up in the trenches and on the front lines o
Episode 4. Graham (Bushy) Muir
"Bushy" has compiled an impressive resume of finishing endurance cycling events, including multi-day icons such as Iditarod and Fatpusuit. Originally from New Zealand, Graham now operates an Athletic Training Center out of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Manic Training.In this episode he shares some of the wisdom, knowledge and tradition he has accumulated from over ten years of taking on t
Cam the Auctioneer
Cam travels to the edges of civilization and onto some of the most remote Farms that roost in the hinterland bordering the wild forests, mountains and the Coast of New Zealand. He loves the rural lifestyle and its people, and in this episode of Lumberjack Lore, as its first guest, he really gets to the heart of what I want the Lumberjack Lore Podcast to be.Lore, in this spelling is defined as a bo
Sharpening the saw
At a time when Women were starting to work in the New Zealand Forest industry, the nomenclature mostly centered around men, workmanship, man planted farm forestry, etc. In our business Parkes Logging, during those years my Mother and Sister worked on and in the business too, and though I loosely use some of those terms here, the playing field has leveled.With the second episode of the Lumberjack L
The meaning of "Lore"...
Logging is one of the Worlds most dangerous occupation's and so don't be fooled by the hosts monotone pre-amble in this, the first episode of the Lumberjack Lore Podcast. Like life, this (the Podcast) is a journey of discovery and the delivery is deliberate, matter of fact, laconic and authentic to host Wez Parkes due to him having faced mortality on a daily basis during his twenty year
