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slowp said:
Maybe I should put on my old Heber Hotshot t-shirt and stroll around.:cheers:

Nope I've not been a hot shot, but they gave us the t-shirts for filling in for them on the Special Olympics Torch Ride--it got bicycled across the Mogollon Rim.

I was a Randle Mop Shot though...:biggrinbounce2:

Here's how the fire looked at 10AM. There were 20 some fires going. At 10 the Langille Fire was 50 acres and spotting ahead a bit. The lookout/ incident commander was saying it was going to be an interesting afternoon. I was up OKing landing locations for the next round of yarder settings.
Also, there was a crazy wind that went through in places and took down a lot of cottonwood trees and branches. Strange times here!
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Funny you mention that, I grew up in Heber-Overgaard, moved to Globe when I started High School.
 
slowp said:
As I drove down the hill, there was quite a bit of smoke to be seen. Not the hot white stuff, but brown. Then I saw the Payson (AZ) hotshots had been eating at the cafe, so looks like we have berry habitat in the making. We're supposed to cool down a bit as of tomorrow and I can't wait. I wonder if the fire t-shirts are already made?:)
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if not,they are rolling off the presses as we speak,once the incident is named they are on it!cant blame them everybodys out to make a buck or two:)
 
slowp said:
I experienced that in Cheeseland. That was incentive to return home to here!
I don't know how you can stand it. :dizzy:
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We have really nice bug sounds all suimmer evenings. Otherwise, we just tolerate it. And, about 2 1/2 gallons of water per day while cutting. I could probably cut that in half if I didn't drink so damn much coffee. Oh well, that ain't gonna happen.
Pulled a cute little turtle out of my block today, put him up on the jammer perch where he could wander off, safer than in the fall zone! Thats what my friend Willy would call a "national geographic moment"

And now, as said by another faller, sliviculturally speaking, "When in doubt, wipe it out"

No work tomorrow, 80% chance of 2 inches of rain by tomorrow evening.
 
Summer rain is such a strange concept growing up on the central coast of Collyfornia. We also have the lowest incidence of lightning in the country. Now that it an offcial El Nino year I just hope we have a wet winter.
 
You call that a Fire , Thats not a fire !!

You want to see a fire , check out the Rail Belt Complex on Google earth !!! The Chakina fire by McCarthy is only 42,500 acres , I think the Rock Slough is 43k acres ........ We got fires , man do we got fires ....... The nearest that I know of is the Chakina , it,s about a hundred miles away and sometimes the visibility is down to a mile ...... Being a coastal Alaskan primarily , these fires kind of freak me out ............ The prospect of starting one with my saw REALLY freaks me out !!!!! Today it was close to 90 in the woods ..... Gotta pace myself in this heat ...
 
tramp bushler said:
The prospect of starting one with my saw REALLY freaks me out !!!!!
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I remember living in coastal Nor Cal (pre-logging for me), just above/in from the fog belt, bucking some redwood logs in the summertime and seeing that bark start to smoulder from the heat off the exhaust, pretty easy to do, start a fire out there.
 
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The hooktender was pretty worried until they had to shut down. Since they were downhill logging, he had blocks and a haulback. The lift was not good on some of the places so lines were dragging through the duff. We could smell the smoke from that.

Humptulips, please send the rain along with cool temps this way! I'd gladly send you cookies!
 
What is hoot owl? Does that have something to do with shutting down at 1pm.

Sounds pretty hot up there....all you can do is grin and bear it! It gets into the mid 90's here by 9am on a regular basis.....almost got it wiped though, october is not too far off!
 
hammerlogging said:
I remember living in coastal Nor Cal (pre-logging for me), just above/in from the fog belt, bucking some redwood logs in the summertime and seeing that bark start to smoulder from the heat off the exhaust, pretty easy to do, start a fire out there.
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Yep. It puts the muffler modding mania expressed here in a whole differnt light.
 
The strategy for the bigger fire was to let it burn and monitor it. The smokejumpers said it was the steepest ground they'd ever been on. We used to work on timber sale units in that area just fine. :confused: There was one unit that the fallers somehow used ropes on though.Looked to me, like it blew up this afternoon. One of those huge smoke columns that at first glance looks like a big thunderhead till you figure it out, was visible in that direction.

I hope it slows down when it hits some of the old clearcuts. The clearcuts are now young plantations but back in the day, the slash and cull logs were cleaned up pretty well so maybe the flames will lay down.
 
bullbuck said:
seems like a clearcut would be a real nice place to lay out a retardant line,they got any heavy air tankers up there?or just the bucket
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Sounded like they made a drop on one of the smaller fires. There's one that was going across the river from a campground so it was hit hard by crews.
They mentioned that the retardent line was working on it, but also had hose and pumps going. The Chinook was sitting in the hayfield with lots of bodies working on it. I took a picture but have to shrink it on the other computer to post it on this one. :dizzy:

I can't find much on the bigger fire yet. The report has it up to 100 acres.
We're usually referred to as an asbestos forest. The biggest fire last year was a half acre. We've cooled off a bit so that will help.:clap:
 
slowp said:
Sounded like they made a drop on one of the smaller fires. There's one that was going across the river from a campground so it was hit hard by crews.
They mentioned that the retardent line was working on it, but also had hose and pumps going. The Chinook was sitting in the hayfield with lots of bodies working on it. I took a picture but have to shrink it on the other computer to post it on this one. :dizzy:

I can't find much on the bigger fire yet. The report has it up to 100 acres.
We're usually referred to as an asbestos forest. The biggest fire last year was a half acre. We've cooled off a bit so that will help.:clap:
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oh ok,due to the highr moisture content in your fuels i assume,so fires up there may just actually taper off on their own
 
Hopping up a muffler isn,t such a good idea most of the time .. Ace Morgan only opened up the muffler intake to match the opened up exhaust port on the jug ....... He flat refused to take out the screen . even for Southeast Alaska ....... Where incidentally I,ve lit plenty of Yellow Cedars on fire facing them up ... 044 stihls run really hot .. They can really start fires .. It,s good when A guy can get them on the ground in a puddle to put the fire out ...... ...
. If a muffler is dual ported , and both ports have good replaceable screens .aa modified muffler is fine , IMO ......
. Nice thing about having a port on the left side of the muffler , Makes a good hand warmer in -35 F temps ............
 
kkottemann said:
What is hoot owl? Does that have something to do with shutting down at 1pm.

Sounds pretty hot up there....all you can do is grin and bear it! It gets into the mid 90's here by 9am on a regular basis.....almost got it wiped though, october is not too far off!
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I see noone answered your question so I'll be polite.
Yea hoot owl is starting at first light and working til early shutdown for fire danger.
 

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