Slim testified that he had owned 25 or 30 Home Lite chainsaws and he described them as “no good” because they weren’t self-oiling; “you had to jet pump it all the time.” If the guys were working hard and fast and forget to pump it the first thing you knew all the chains burned out and the bar, too.As the story goes, Slim met a gentleman from Chicago who was looking for a job as a mechanic.
Slim remembered that there was always wood to be skidded and after the use of horses was phasing out he had a 420 Cat Ziegler.
Slim and his wife Mary had what he termed a big house and he allowed that his mom was living with them because according to him “she just didn’t get along with dad.”At the time he was working a night shift trucking timber; he went to work at 4 p.m.
How Slim ended up in Chicago in 1928 was a bit of an event; he had neighbors that had a sister living there and her husband could get a job for him and his buddies at a new golf course.
According to Slim, log drives down the Littlefork River didn’t always turn out like the vision.
According to Slim, when he started to work in the woods the Boss took a chance on him and allowed him to harness and drive the horse teams skidding wood.
It would only be a few still alive who knew Victor Zgaynor, AKA “White Water Slim,” but here are a few excerpts of his adventure.Slim was born in 1908, one of his first memories was when he was 8 years old.
Wrestling, while not attracting the audience that boxing did, was part of the sports scene in early Koochiching; tickets generally cost $1.
Syver Hanson’s son Henry remembers that in the 1930s there were a lot of poor folks.
In April of 1908 a call went out to support a baseball team; 25 responded and it was decided to form a baseball association and sell 100 shares of stock for $5 a share.