Now that's a use of the survey chain I have not encountered

jo-teague · 2015-01-20T00:41:00Z

While reading one of Annie Proux's short stories, I found the following passage. I can't say I have heard of such a use of the chain in all my years of surveying and reading.“…During the next decade Duquet began to acquire tracts of woodland in Maine. Dred-Peacock’s genius in the legal procedure of acquiring remote “townships” was immeasurable, and an old acquaintance from Duquet’s first years in New France, Jacques Forgeron, scouted out the best timberland. Forgeron, a surveyor when he could get work, a voyageur when he could not, had joined forces with Duquet in his earliest days. Together they had entered the fur trade, had paddled, portaged, walked, and sung the rivers of New France. Forgeron was something of a Jonah, who attracted foul weather, but he had a curious regard for the wild forest and often told Duquet that it could be the source of great wealth. This man cherished his measuring chains and could use one as a weapon, swinging it around and around until it gained velocity and the free end leaped forward to maim. And if he had used it in this way in France, the old days counted for very little. Now he was a partner in Duquet et Fils, perhaps even a friend, if a business tie between two friendless men could be so described…”…’Ho la! Who say you come my land, cut my tree?’ Duquet shouted, forgetting his careful English. He was so furious that his voice strangled in his throat. Forgeron advanced beside him, lightly revolving a section of his 33-foot chain…” -“Rough Deeds” by Annie Proux. First published in The New Yorker, June 10 and 17, 2013. Copyright 2013 by Dead Line, Ltd.

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Literally laughed out loud!
It's kind of a Beer Leg in-joke, but it's hilarious!

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Posted : January 21, 2015 7:49 am

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