Last week the Young Men at church embarked on a service project to clean up the yard of an elderly widow. As an adult leader serving in the Young Men’s organization it was my duty to go along and supervise along with a two other men.

When we arrived the young men got busy picking up trash and mowing the lawn. There were also several dead trees on the property that needed to come down. So, the adults figured that we could take care of that chore while the kids were doing the “light work”.

We only had one chain saw amongst us, so while the rest of the guys were fussing with it trying to get it running I went back to the car and retrieved the Dog Father. I got a number of snickers and several remarks were made when I walked up to the smallest of trees that needed to be removed. It was only about 2 inches in diameter and the recently sharpened DF brought it down with 2 strokes. I imagine a stronger man could have done it with one.

Everyone was watching when I walked up to the second tree. This one was a dead pine about three inches in diameter and it took me about 5 strokes to topple it. The final tree was a dead oak about 10 inches in diameter and I left that for the chain saw to bring down although the DF got a good workout helping to remove limbs and trimming them.By the time the evening was over all the other men wanted to know how they could get a Dog Father too.

Dan, if you make them they will sell.