This thread just came up, I read it all, not noticing the original date. Thanks for the update, the last post pained my heart, great loss, hang on to the memories.
Sorry to hear about your dad not needing a sawmill. Hopefully you have some god memories of him and you.
My Tree Faller dad died before I got into CSM - he must be laughing his head off somewhere. He slaved his guts out to send us all to college so we would have white collar jobs. He never knew that for fun his eldest son would collect chainsaws and go milling on weekends.