Yep I was a flatlander. Any weird trees were left for those crazy folks with spikes growing out of the ankles.
One day my dad got rained off a job he was working at and he decided to drive by where I was cutting wood. It was raining so hard he could barely see the road so he figured no way in heck was I cutting that day. As he pulled up to the landing my truck was there and the tractor was missing. He opened the window a crack and head the buzz of my Stihl 051AV chewing on logs. He thought there was no way someone would crazy enough to be out in that kind of hard rain, but there I was.
He drove off and came back with warm burgers from a local grease pit and he hoofed them in to me. As he handed them to me he commented that I was insane. I looked at him and thanked him for the burgers and fries and then said "I'm out here making money, you came out in this and you are spending money on these burgers. Now who is the crazy one?"
He decided it was not too bad in the pouring rain with proper gear and so he stuck around and operated the winch the rest of the day for me. He thought I was nuts buying that winch (Farmi skidding winch) but he sure did love to run that thing in the woods.