Interview with Roy Wilhelm, February 28, 1993

'''Roy''':  And his profession, his being in the cattle business was accidental, but his profession was carpenter, he took training at that.   

'''John''':  Well now, some of those carpenter tools that your [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] owned, that you inherited, suppose those belonged to B.H. originally?   

'''Roy''':  Yeah, then I don't know what became of the jack plane..........................

'''John''': you mean when your [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] bought it   

'''Roy''':  Yeah, when my [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] bought it.  But he had had one, kind of a blacksmith made thing.  You see, every guy in the team and wagon days, he carried an auger, twist drill, hand operated auger.  They would drill a hole, say yea big, and he carried a plane and he carried a good sharp axe and went to town, we went to cross the Vernon creek up at 20 foot falls and he broke a double tree.  Hell, that didn't stall him atall.  He just went out beside the road where some of that second growth oak was, picked out a good one, chewed 'er down, you know you had to have a saw too and within forty-five minutes or an hour he had a damn good double tree.  We was back on the road again.  Had a draw knife, the old man always carried it in the jockey box.  Along the front of the wagon box was a box about that deep and they were three and a half feet, about like that, cause that's how much a wagon box was, and it had this lid down.