Amazon Lumber

This video clip was shot at Tijuca. It is a small community about a 3 mile walk from the Xingu River. Our team hiked in to help Pastor Naldo mark out church property lines, sink one half of an 8' section of tree at each corner, and then sink all the posts for a new church. Most Americans have never hefted wood quite like this which is why you will usually see at least 3 guys, not small guys, but young men, hauling these pieces of wood and dropping them in the standard 1 meter deep hole. Just to give you a taste of the density, this wood sinks when it goes into water. The grass they are walking through is kind of nasty stuff, it hides critters which makes Americans like me a bit nervous. The house you will see the guys walking past sold us a pig and prepared it for us. Rural Amazon butchering methods are not quite like the U.S., I knew to stay away. That night the starving dogs ate really well, you see, in rural Tijuca the pig is not cut into any recognizable piece of meat, a machete simply hacks it into something and that something is put into a big bowl and served. I think I tasted pork but 99% went to the dogs who loved it. I had mostly fat and bone which the starving dogs loved.