Don't Quit Your Gay Job

Episode 1

Lumberjack

27 mins

Tommy and Adam leave the comfort of the big city for the outdoor life in Campbell River in learning the ins and outs of being a lumberjack. While much of their preconceived notion is true that it is a lot about brawn which gives Tommy the advantage, they learn from their instructors, Darren R. Dean and Scott Thompson with the West Coast Lumberjack Show, that speed, agility, and endurance are also important. After a warm-up of doing a task mimicking removing logs in a forest setting, the boys find out that they will be learning many of the events in a lumberjack show: the tandem sawing of a log, tree climbing in two different means, ax throwing, log sculpting using a chainsaw, a race on a log while using a chainsaw, choking a log using a seventy-five pound steel chain, and log rolling i.e. running on a rolling log in the water. Darren, Scott and their guest, five-time Canadian lumberjill champion Anita Jezowski, will judge the boys on day 2 in a full out lumberjack show competition, Tommy probably still having the edge just in terms of his physical build, but Adam could surprise in just having an overall better attitude to the work.