Falling pics 11/25/09

[OlympicYJ]

It's been 60's during the day and high 30s to low 40s at night here in Moscow complete with rain.

When the old man was turnin wrenches up on the haul-road and pipeline in AK (back when the were building both) He really liked twenty below. Said it was best working weather for him cuz it wasn't too cold but everything was nice and dry. He could roll out from under a piece of equipment and just brush off.

Twenty below is good for driving in, in my opinion. Spent about nine months in Fairbanks and any warmer than twenty below and she started gettin a lil slick. The old man says the same thing.

I'm ready for some cold weather and snow over here in Idaho!

 

[Samlock]

Today's eyesore. Or perhaps a blight?

Just as I was bragging about taking it a wee bit slower during the short day period - the jobs are piling up and I'll have more than I can possibly handle.

Me and my big mouth. Where's my headlight?

 

[tramp bushler]

March is one of my favorites too. The only thing is that you can walk on snow in the morning, but sometimes it won't hold after noon. Every third or fourth step goes in. But that March light after dark winter!

The days are getting shorter, though. Glen, are you sitting over the dark season or do you bother? I'm mostly sitting. Just a thinning job and a small clear cutting patch scheduled for December - January. Plus alarm jobs of course (not many, I hope).

Once I get some more home Firewood in, my goal is to do as much predator hunting as I can .. I have my eye on a new wolf rifle so I'll have to do some work . After the first of the year I may get a little more enthusiastic about hanging onto a saw. But right now I just want to see a pack of wolves coming in to the call.

 

[tramp bushler]

Today's eyesore. Or perhaps a blight?

Just as I was bragging about taking it a wee bit slower during the short day period - the jobs are piling up and I'll have more than I can possibly handle.

Me and my big mouth. Where's my headlight?

Did you set the one laying on the low side into it as a driver or did it have enough lean? Are those powerlines to the left in the pic?

 

[Samlock]

Did you set the one laying on the low side into it as a driver or did it have enough lean? Are those powerlines to the left in the pic?

To the left there is telephone wires. The rotten one was a back leaner and it needed two jacks before it went over. No driving fun there. The other on the low side - it had to go it onto the rotten one in a hurry. I took the picture standing on a road next to an elementary school and the bell was about to ring. The kids have a lot of questions, you know.

Once I get some more home Firewood in, my goal is to do as much predator hunting as I can .. I have my eye on a new wolf rifle so I'll have to do some work . After the first of the year I may get a little more enthusiastic about hanging onto a saw. But right now I just want to see a pack of wolves coming in to the call.

A wolf caller, huh? That sounds a lot more sensible way to spend an arctic December than mine.

 

[tramp bushler]

I guess everyone has their fears, nightmares and paranoias . Mine is turning a tree or top loose if there is a chance there is a kid around.
My hats off to you! !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[northmanlogging]

Its not a tree but I sure would like to fall it, undisclosed location, near a highway and a river, in a county named after a river... The ologists deny this herds existance:msp_confused:

 

[northmanlogging]

I guess everyone has their fears, nightmares and paranoias . Mine is turning a tree or top loose if there is a chance there is a kid around.
My hats off to you! !!!!!!!!!!!

Children man,

They freak me out...

worse than zombies, zombies I can shoot...

 

[madhatte]

Its not a tree but I sure would like to fall it, undisclosed location, near a highway and a river, in a county named after a river... The ologists deny this herds existance:msp_confused:

I do believe I know where that is. I was unaware that those little beggars didn't "officially" exist. Wonder who the seedling protectors are for?

 

[northmanlogging]

It's a small herd is part of the problem, Only ever see 10-15 of em at a time, did manage to catch two bulls with their shorts down though... The unnamed river is just on the other side of that little meadow and the river has a tendency to change its direction and floods at the drop of a hat, so the state and counties have been spending a bunch of money reforesting abandoned farm fields and the like, my favorite one is next to I-5 near Arlington its got this giant freakin gazebo meant as an observation deck... never seen anybody out there

 

[madhatte]

Interesting. I was thinking further south... like as in east of Kelso. There's a spot that looks the same, antlers and all.

 

[northmanlogging]

this would be north and east of Everett, its too close to stupid, to give better directions, but the herd is rather well traveled for a herd that doesn't exist, the area they are in is mostly National forest and DNR land without a whole lot of access, just along a few major roads and such, otherwise your stuck to logging roads, I've kept an eye out for em ever since I was hunting in High school and spooked the herd, alas no elk tag, and they wouldn't have been legal to shoot there anyway, hence to close to stupid, poachers.

 

[H 2 H]

Its not a tree but I sure would like to fall it, undisclosed location, near a highway and a river, in a county named after a river... The ologists deny this herds existance:msp_confused:

I think I know were that is :msp_tongue:

I was wondering if you stopped and drank the wine across the highway and watched those trees that you wanted to fall :msp_ohmy:

They also like to swim to the other side of that river

 

[Metals406]

If they officially don't exist -- then can't you shoot them whenever you want? :msp_biggrin:

 

[H 2 H]

If they officially don't exist -- then can't you shoot them whenever you want? :msp_biggrin:

There run by a tribe up there

 

[Samlock]

I guess everyone has their fears, nightmares and paranoias . Mine is turning a tree or top loose if there is a chance there is a kid around.
My hats off to you! !!!!!!!!!!!

I think everyone shares that fear. Kids move fast. Worst scenario. That's why I'm using jacks a lot when I'm doing residential jobs. Even when it's not justified, but I'll be able to decide the exact moment I want the tree to go over.

I remember reporting of a such close call in this very thread. Was it April 2010? I'm too tired to check. Except the kid already had a driver's licence and she was driving. But a child of the house anyway.

 

[Hddnis]

Speaking of kids....Try taking down a bunch of decent sized DF's in an apartment complex. Any single branch I cut would smash right through the roofs or kill a person easily, the smallest tree was over 30" and the largest was 89" DBH, tallest one was 180' There were nights I couldn't fall asleep I was so worried about everything that could go wrong. Only thing I knew to do was next morning I'd gear up, double check all the safety measures we had in place, and start cutting. I still marvel that we didn't have a mishap. One time I looked down into the drop zone and there was a mother and her two little boys. Got on the radio to the boss and the ground guy, they were both talking to the mother and basically I said "WTH!!!???? At least one of you should have told me to wait for an all clear!"

Also, no pressure dropping the last 40' or so in front of a crowd of several dozen gawkers.:msp_wink:

For all that though, the only part that made me really mad was the know-it-all little girl that started in on me being a "tree murderer" and "taking away all the air we breath" and "making it so we'll all die" and "trees feel pain too". Turns out her "teacher" told her all that. :bang:
Funny thing was that teacher never mentioned the foundations that were being destroyed, the roofs that were rotting under the canopy, or the fact that those trees were dying and if just one of them fell wrong it could kill several families in their sleep in a matter of seconds. The insurance company for the apartments had said that the trees went or coverage was dropped. The city agreed and gave a hazard exemption to the normal policy of not allowing trees to be taken down.

I'd love to take down more trees like that, but I'd like them to be at the insection of nowhere and BFE.




Mr. HE

 

[tramp bushler]

I think everyone shares that fear. Kids move fast. Worst scenario. That's why I'm using jacks a lot when I'm doing residential jobs. Even when it's not justified, but I'll be able to decide the exact moment I want the tree to go over.

I remember reporting of a such close call in this very thread. Was it April 2010? I'm too tired to check. Except the kid already had a driver's licence and she was driving. But a child of the house anyway.

I've gotten to be a chicken in my old age. Anything I'm too stressed about gets klum and I hang a pulling line in it. If I have room to fall it, if not I take it down from the top. Oddly enough I'm a better Faller than I ever have been. But I'm pretty hard to get along with when the nerves get overused.

 

[OlympicYJ]

Hey Glen,

Meant to ask you but what kind of new fur rifle are you hoping to pick up? When I was up in Fairbanks I saw some guys on quads up on Ester Dome comin back outa the brush. Looked like they'd been predator huntin. I've heard they have yotes around Fairbanks, never saw any but did have a red fox cross the rd in front of me on campus at 600 AM one time. Also wondering what youve had come in to your call?

Wes

 

[tramp bushler]

Hey Wes; ya, I like the 6.5 Creedmoor in the Ruger m77 Target rifle. Ruger's are as tough as a good pro Husky or Stihl. They are plenty accurate and the 6.5 120gr TSX @ 2900fps shouldn't open up on a fox or lynx so they shouldn't blow out in the gut. But it's plenty big enough for caribou. And of course wolf. "! So far mostly coyote have come in up here. In S.E. I've called in plenty of brown bear. . Thats the ultimate...
But I use a 458 for them.