Ax-Men film crew

[Spotted Owl]

Hey they're filming Ax men on the ridge behind the house. Kinda cool, we have been wondering what the helicopter was all about.

Went to the saw shop this afternoon, He asked if we were having any comotion around the place. I told him other than the meth heads stealing tin from the barn nothing, why? Well he says they have a film crew up there filming for the next few days, and wondered if I knew what all that filming entailed. I don't know anything.

We just here the saws like normal and then we have a helecopter buzzing around.

Columbia is gonna be starting another job right down the ridge from them soon. Perhaps they will get some filming of a twin rotor logging outfit at work

Anyhow I just thought that it was kinda cool and had to share with someone that would understand. Time like these I wish I had a TV


Owl

 

[arboralliance]

Hey...

Any photos?

 

[Metals406]

Try and get on the show... Act all crazy and hug a few trees, then call them all murderers... The film crew will think they have a real life protest on their hands!

 

[slowp]

I like it. You can sit in a tree, we'll bring you food and whatever except I won't haul away the you know what. I'll loan you my birkies. You can call yourself....Spotted Owl. Then you can merchandise something. Like a brand of rice.

 

[Spotted Owl]

Ya mmm, i don't think that is gonna happen. However The boy an me are gonna hike up in there next week. If we can get close enough we will try and get some photos. No chance on getting in the by the road, unless you know someone and then it's still a hard sell for you to be in there. It should only take about 3 or so hours to walk up in there I think. We haven't walked the route that we would need to take to get in there.

No Birkies, no rice, not hugging or granola grinding. Hard hats, corks and a couple pack sacks, oh and the rifles since it's spring bear time. If caught we could be a couple hunters that got turned around maybe.


Owl

 

[Metals406]

Ya mmm, i don't think that is gonna happen. However The boy an me are gonna hike up in there next week. If we can get close enough we will try and get some photos. No chance on getting in the by the road, unless you know someone and then it's still a hard sell for you to be in there. It should only take about 3 or so hours to walk up in there I think. We haven't walked the route that we would need to take to get in there.

No Birkies, no rice, not hugging or granola grinding. Hard hats, corks and a couple pack sacks, oh and the rifles since it's spring bear time. If caught we could be a couple hunters that got turned around maybe.


Owl

Sounds like a good plan to me!!

 

[big daddio]

give us a wave if you get on there spotted owl. us guys in the appalachians are watchin' too.

 

[smokechase II]

Be typical

Do what everyone else does.

1) Steal logging equipment, (caveat on the stump branch gear),
2) Plant something in the woods that will sell well, say pot,
3) Collect interesting road signs (shoot the uninteresting ones) and most of all
4) Cut up decked logs for your firewood needs.

While avoiding cameras.

 

[windthrown]

With the price of firewood (and late season snow) compared to the price of lumber right now, I am surprised that more logs are not sawed up and stolen at night.

Beware of pot growing though, unless your have an OR grow card. I have friends that got some timber land in a county auction from some druggies that had a pot farm and meth lab going on their land. They lost it all in a bust.

Better just to put up some dummy stuffed spotted owls in the trees and call the BLM. Then tell them that you spiked some random trees. That will get them all riled up. (I am JOKING, of course )

 

[Gologit]

Do what everyone else does.

1) Steal logging equipment, (caveat on the stump branch gear),
2) Plant something in the woods that will sell well, say pot,
3) Collect interesting road signs (shoot the uninteresting ones) and most of all
4) Cut up decked logs for your firewood needs.

While avoiding cameras.

If I may add to your list:

1. Drive your four-wheelers over the water bars and pound them down.
2. Slide sideways around all the switchbacks and scatter the gravel...what
little there is.
3. Take a D-7 for a test drive. Wedge it in between a couple of trees when
you're done.
4. Take a water truck for a test drive. Shoot out all the tires when you're
through.
5. If you find rigging by the road just take it home...or tie it in knots.
6. Locate fire trailers...they're great sources for extra shovels and axes.
7. If cattle are grazing in the woods be sure to stampede them. Don't
forget to drop the pass-aprons down on the cattle-guards.
8. If you have spray paint be sure to leave vile and senseless obscenities
everywhere.

This is just a partial list of what we found early on Monday morning a couple of years ago. We never could prove who did it and it's probably just as well for them.

 

[Metals406]

I know someone that took a loggers cat for a joyride during hunting season... He told me thinking I would think he was funny, or clever... But instead I told him he was a dou**e-bag, and that I should stomp his face for him.

 

[tomtrees58]

sounds like fun tom treesopcorn:

 

[2dogs]

I like it. You can sit in a tree, we'll bring you food and whatever except I won't haul away the you know what. I'll loan you my birkies. You can call yourself....Spotted Owl. Then you can merchandise something. Like a brand of rice.

PUT DOWN THE GIN AND TONIC AND STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!! My town is going crazy buying rice. The Head Dude from the Collyfornia rice cartel was quoted in the paper saying there is no rice shortage and that just drove the frenzy to a higher pitch. Now the rice shelves are bare proving---PROVING the rice emergency is real. As if the price of diesel isn't high enough to make me feel dizzy now I have to contend with out of control rice prices. I think we should stop pumping rice into the strategic reserve and end this shortage. It is all those rice sheiks up in the Sacramento delta... and dare I say Live Oak, driving their Hummers on rice-odiesel. What is next, a walnut shortage? Or maybe a cry for fair trade donuts? I have to go lay down.

 

[Gologit]

PUT DOWN THE GIN AND TONIC AND STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!! My town is going crazy buying rice. The Head Dude from the Collyfornia rice cartel was quoted in the paper saying there is no rice shortage and that just drove the frenzy to a higher pitch. Now the rice shelves are bare proving---PROVING the rice emergency is real. As if the price of diesel isn't high enough to make me feel dizzy now I have to contend with out of control rice prices. I think we should stop pumping rice into the strategic reserve and end this shortage. It is all those rice sheiks up in the Sacramento delta... and dare I say Live Oak, driving their Hummers on rice-odiesel. What is next, a walnut shortage? Or maybe a cry for fair trade donuts? I have to go lay down.

Aha! Casting aspersions on the poor rice grower are we? Vilifying those among us who choose a simple existance providing food for a grateful populace? And to whom any kind of goverment assistance other than crop price support is a form of creeping Socialism?
Castigating the poor farmers with your mouth full? For shame.

Actually most of the rice on your grocer's shelf doesn't even come from California. Most of the rice consumed here is grown in the southern and gulf states. It's a better rice for table, long grained and fluffy. If you cook it right. Few do.
The rice grown in California is usually destined for export. It's a short grain that asians and orientals grind up for noodles...among other things.
So...all those thousands of acres of rice grown in California aren't going to do you much good. Unless you want gummy, cloggy, stick-to-your-upper-plate-until-you-pry-it-off-with-your-thumb rice.


Oh...and I don't drive a Hummer. Got two Toyotas, two Fords, a John Deere, a Cat, a Stearman, and various mowers,choppers, tillers, scrapers, gougers,splitters, stackers, levelers, and some really rusty old stuff that I can't figure out a use for but I'm afraid to throw away because I might need it some day. For something.

The guy down the road has a Hummer...but he grows Walnuts. Notice that's with a capital W...that's why he's driving a Hummer.

 

[rmihalek]

Or maybe a cry for fair trade donuts?

That's great...fair trade donuts. I need to remember that at the next corporate breakfast outing.

 

[2dogs]

Aha! Casting aspersions on the poor rice grower are we? Vilifying those among us who choose a simple existance providing food for a grateful populace? And to whom any kind of goverment assistance other than crop price support is a form of creeping Socialism?
Castigating the poor farmers with your mouth full? For shame.

Actually most of the rice on your grocer's shelf doesn't even come from California. Most of the rice consumed here is grown in the southern and gulf states. It's a better rice for table, long grained and fluffy. If you cook it right. Few do.
The rice grown in California is usually destined for export. It's a short grain that asians and orientals grind up for noodles...among other things.
So...all those thousands of acres of rice grown in California aren't going to do you much good. Unless you want gummy, cloggy, stick-to-your-upper-plate-until-you-pry-it-off-with-your-thumb rice.


Oh...and I don't drive a Hummer. Got two Toyotas, two Fords, a John Deere, a Cat, a Stearman, and various mowers,choppers, tillers, scrapers, gougers,splitters, stackers, levelers, and some really rusty old stuff that I can't figure out a use for but I'm afraid to throw away because I might need it some day. For something.

The guy down the road has a Hummer...but he grows Walnuts. Notice that's with a capital W...that's why he's driving a Hummer.

Aha Southerners! Um. Ok. Oh yeah, the guys who log in Speedos. And they ship crayfish to Collyfornia. And Tabasco. I guess they're OK despite the fomenting Rice Rebellion of 2008. Wait isn't there oil somewhere in the South? That's where the Hummers are.

Pics of the Stearman and the Cat? BTW there is a Whiskey distillery in Gonzales making Monterey Rye Spirits. It is clear but comes with a peace of charred oak to drop in the bottle. Even non-drinkers can enjoy aging this spirit.

 

[smokechase II]

Pot bust land

"Beware of pot growing though, unless your have an OR grow card. I have friends that got some timber land in a county auction from some druggies that had a pot farm and meth lab going on their land. They lost it all in a bust."

What did they pay/acre?
Were the druggies OK as timber growers?

 

[Metals406]

...and some really rusty old stuff that I can't figure out a use for but I'm afraid to throw away because I might need it some day. For something.

Dad? Is that you? LOL

 

[Gologit]

Dad? Is that you? LOL

LOL...I was in Montana about thirty years ago but I'm not admitting anything.

My reluctance to throw anything away is genetic. My dad had stuff out behind his hanger that he got just after WW2, stripped the useable pieces off, and just piled up the rest.

The antiquers finally find him and he sold off a lot of stuff that we'd always considered junk. I kinda cringe when I think about it today but we welded three Jacobs radial engines together and used them for a mooring buoy anchor up at the lake.

My FIL is a rice farmer and he's worse about keeping stuff than I am. Barely.

 

[Metals406]

My old man has nuts and bolts that are older than I am... By like 20 years.

My wife is currently researching a way to rid my DNA of the 'save-everything' gene. LOL