The Lumberjack Lore podcast..‪.‬ Wez Parkes

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, lumberjack and within his career as an Engineer. Frank and honest, in this episode w...

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 of the Everest of the rugby commentating game with some of the the greatest teams and in the most ...

"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 the challenges this once obscure and extreme sport exposes its competitors to, coloring it with stories and ...

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 body of traditions and knowledge on a subject, typically passed from person to person by word of mo...

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 Lore Podcast I talk a lot about nomenclature as it relates to "sharpening the Saw". This is a...

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 career as a Lumberjack. It's the guests that quite rightly should bring it to life!Under this type of ...