Back around the turn of the 20th Century, Ingvald was running a lumber camp in Wisconsin and trying to do better than break even.
Word came west of a new tool -- a "chainsaw" -- and he went over to Ely, Minnesota to see how they worked.
Impressed, he ordered eight from the Sears and Roebuck Company of Chicago Illinois.
One day a truck came up the rutted road of the logging camp with eight wooden crates in the back -- the chainsaws had arrived!
Ingvald blew a whistle and the men came in from the woods.
Ingvald explained that eight new chainsaws had arrived from the Sears and Roebuck Company of Chicago, Illinois, and that they were going to increase the amount of timber that could be felled ten fold -- everyone was going to get a raise.
He then instructed each man to set his double-bit ax in the corner, and exchange it for a new chainsaw sitting on top of each crate.
About an hour later, Ingvald heard a knock on the door of his cabin.
It was Alf who, hat in hand, looked a bit embarrassed.
"Mr Ingvald, sir, I think you got took by them sharpies at the Sears and Roebuck Company. We've been slamming these chainsaws against the trees for 30 minutes now, and haven't got a decent cut out of them yet."
And the moral of the story is.... learn how to use the tool.
If you think a modern e-collar is a "shock collar," you've never used one and/or don't know how to use one. You are, to put a point on it, as incompetent a dog trainer as a modern logger walking into the North Woods with a double-bit ax -- and about as efficient too.
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