Cleaning My Boots

[2dogs]

My White's need a washing now and then. Today was the day. My son Cody, aka Dry Feet, was the photographer. Him, "Dad go around and buck the root plate off from the deep side." Me, *^&%#$!!! And that is a quote.

So, the first pic was cutting the tree down to a short enough length to lift. The second was cutting a 16' log with the 090. The log was about 4' at that point. I didn't really need the 090 (60" bar) but I rarely use it so what the heck. The third pic is a 20" tanoak limb locked in two redwoods. A shove with the backhoe took care of that. Much better than cutting it off the stump.

 

[oregoncutter]

Are You doing some type of parks maintenance or stream restoration type projects there? If I run across a good deal on a tin hat I''ll send it You're way (just kiddin plastic has it's advantages I suppose)

 

[2dogs]

I used a Skull Bucket for a short time but it didn't fit my head and kept falling off. I have a really big brain so I need a relly big hat.

This redwood has slid down the bank behind it bridged the river. It was a very attractive hazard so it had to come out. Otherwise we would never go fishing like this. Large woody debris is a hot topic in Collyfornia.

 

[oregoncutter]

Yeah I was cursed with the big head 7 5/8'' of the scottish ancestors, have a couple old mac-ts passed down from my dad years ago they fit pretty well wear for work prefer em over plastic. Woody debris has been a hot topic off and on through the years here to. We go through stages of removing it from streams and rivers, then to adding them to streams and rivers, infact one job here awhile back there was a market for logs with rotted out cores they were buying them to enhance fish habitat, payed about twice what they would've went for as pulp.

 

[2dogs]

Yeah I was cursed with the big head 7 5/8'' of the scottish ancestors, have a couple old t-macs passed down from my dad years ago they fit pretty well wear for work prefer em over plastic. Woody debris has been a hot topic off and on through the years here to. We go through stages of removing it from streams and rivers, then to adding them to streams and rivers, infact one job here awhile back there was a market for logs with rotted out cores they were buying them to enhance fish habitat, payed about twice what they would've went for as pulp.

Yep, same thing here. Take it out...put it back. The county needs a large woody debris storage yard so they can have it both ways. (Our county doesn't spray the road shoulders anymore and they can't afford to mow them. So we now have roads where it is like driving in a tunnel. Scotch and French broom are the main problems along the roads.)

BTW I have a Scottish coat of arms of the Kohen family around the house somewhere. The Kohens are my mom's side of the family but I was always told it was a Jewish name.

 

[tramp bushler]

And I thot a 7 1/4 was a big head ....... What kind of chaps are you wearing in the pics ???????

 

[oregoncutter]

Years ago here in oregon we had a choice of chaps or double front legged pants when I first started chasing, now I allways wear chaps despite how much they cook me in the summer.

 

[slowp]

I had a Scottish grandparent so that explains 7 1/8? I have big hair too.

We have so many decks of "fish logs" rotting away that it is disgusting. The fishheads want more but then don't have the money to put them into the creeks so they rot. It is a sore topic with me.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Yeah I was cursed with the big head 7 5/8'' of the scottish ancestors, have a couple old mac-ts passed down from my dad years ago they fit pretty well wear for work prefer em over plastic. Woody debris has been a hot topic off and on through the years here to. We go through stages of removing it from streams and rivers, then to adding them to streams and rivers, infact one job here awhile back there was a market for logs with rotted out cores they were buying them to enhance fish habitat, payed about twice what they would've went for as pulp.

Few years back they spent $500,000 putting logs in a river near me fall floods cleaned em right on out down to the Puget Sound.

 

[oregoncutter]

Few years back they spent $500,000 putting logs in a river near me fall floods cleaned em right on out down to the Puget Sound.

Sounds about right, here a few years ago in the spring I ran off some enviro taking water samples from my dad's place, up past Glide Oregon. He claimed that our runoff was polluting the North Umpqua river with debris caused by recent logging, road repair, and truck traffic. In the winter and spring during heavy rainfall or snow melt that river goes from a clear blue to dark brown, it'll suck down and move tree length rootwads better than 5 or 6' in diameter, and he was worried about a little dirt from us. Money well spent.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Friend of ours had a gal from DFW out throwing fish food in their ditch in the pasture asked em what they were doing. They were looking for baby salmon. The ditch only has water in it during wet periods of the winter and early spring months. DFW spent a million bucks on upper Nisqually river for salmon spawning habitat. Above two dams with out fish ladders with waterfalls now coverd with water that salmon couldnt get over before the dams

 

[madhatte]

DFW are an odd bunch. Locking horns over squirrel habitat is pretty normal business for us these days, and it's not even State land. I mean, seriously -- if it's not the owls, it's something else, always.

 

[joesawer]

I used a Skull Bucket for a short time but it didn't fit my head and kept falling off. I have a really big brain so I need a relly big hat.

This redwood has slid down the bank behind it bridged the river. It was a very attractive hazard so it had to come out. Otherwise we would never go fishing like this. Large woody debris is a hot topic in Collyfornia.

The skull bucket suspension sucks, it is always falling off your head or coming unsnapped from the hard hat.
Order a 4 point Mack T suspension and it will snap right in and stays on like its supposed too.

 

[2dogs]

The skull bucket suspension sucks, it is always falling off your head or coming unsnapped from the hard hat.
Order a 4 point Mack T suspension and it will snap right in and stays on like its supposed too.

I sold my Skull Bucket last friday. Thanks for the info Joe.

 

[madhatte]

The skull bucket suspension sucks, it is always falling off your head or coming unsnapped from the hard hat.
Order a 4 point Mack T suspension and it will snap right in and stays on like its supposed too.

Aha! I will be doing that as well. My trusty old Mac T (stamped 1996) has more than a few dents in it, but is still my favorite helmet ever. If I can keep the suspension, I'll hardly know the difference!

 

[forestryworks]

i got a nice old mac-t... but it's the damn 6pt.