His father, Bob, worked for his father's logging outfit just outside Brownsville, and began falling timber when he was 16 years old. In 1955, Bob started doing logging exhibitions around Linn County. In 1965, Rob was born. A few years down the road he caught the bug that has bitten his father long ago. Traveling around, meeting different people, it was appealing to me.
H is true inspiration.
When he was 12, he met Clive McIntosh, a big burly ax maker from Kyolgle, New South Wales, with hands big enough to palm a watermelon. He talked about training and winning, and he just got me really fired up. I couldn't stop him. In 1978, when he was 13, he won second place at the Albany Timber Carnival in a novice log rolling event. That next year is when I really got hooked, because I got paid and learned that the better you were at competing, the more money you made.