NW Montana GTG & Charity Cut -- June 1, 2, 3 -- 2012!!!

[slowp]

The Wing still has no leaks. It is out of the shop and in parked in the outdoors.

 

[Stihl Wielder]

Hell that ain't nothing. Here's the trip I'm making to get to this GTG!!! Really!

You can't corral a Montana boy when there's trees to cut! LOL

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You pick me up in Pittsburg, I may come out there with ya! I have long dreamt to go to the Montana mountains......and it's for a good cause, to boot!

 

[Metals406]

I'm on the phone with NORCO right now, would be sweet if they had some, what rod would a guy use, Norco has A34 in stock
(edit: no they don't, got my hopes up and everything)

If Norco won't get you small quantity, you can call American Welding and Gas in Missoula. If you can't get small quantity, expect to pay $60.00 a pound X 3 pounds.

You can always drop the coin and save some for yourself, and list the rest here or on eBay. You might also start a thread and see if a few guys want to go in shares on some and it'll lessen the cost greatly.

Here's two choices.

Magnesium 261 | The Harris Products Group

Magnesium 292 | The Harris Products Group

3/32" is a good filler size for saw stuff.

 

[Metals406]

You pick me up in Pittsburg, I may come out there with ya! I have long dreamt to go to the Montana mountains......and it's for a good cause, to boot!

One little problem, you'd be stuck here until late fall when he goes back to WV. :msp_scared:

 

[Sport Faller]

If Norco won't get you small quantity, you can call American Welding and Gas in Missoula. If you can't get small quantity, expect to pay $60.00 a pound X 3 pounds.

You can always drop the coin and save some for yourself, and list the rest here or on eBay. You might also start a thread and see if a few guys want to go in shares on some and it'll lessen the cost greatly.

Here's two choices.

Magnesium 261 | The Harris Products Group

Magnesium 292 | The Harris Products Group

3/32" is a good filler size for saw stuff.

Norco said they could order the A34 by the lb so I might go that route

 

[forestryworks]

Is this why they call it grizzly base camp? :hell_boy:

 

[forestryworks]

From the camp's website...

The property is also a Registered Tree Farm, with Douglas Fir, Western Tamarack (Larch), Lodgepole Pine, Ponderosa Pine and other less dominant species. The camp’s forest is managed by members of the Society of American Foresters. They are experienced professional foresters with decades of private industry and US Forest Service forest management experience. We also have a professional hydrologist on our camp committee.

Good to see that, especially the Tree Farm deal.

 

[Sport Faller]

Them aint the bears you gotta be worried about :msp_w00t:

just don't get stuck in the Spoonman Suite with Nate and John :msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin:

 

[Metals406]

Them aint the bears you gotta be worried about :msp_w00t:

just don't get stuck in the Spoonman Suite with Nate and John :msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin:

:hmm3grin2orange:

It's only funny because it's true! :welcome:

 

[forestryworks]

My bear story. First encounter ever.

I was on a backpacking trip for two weeks in northern New Mexico, near Cimarron in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. The famous Philmont Scout Ranch! (Insert a plug for them, if you got kids in scouts, send 'em there, they won't forget it!)

Anyhow, so we were camped for the night in Crooked Creek Camp (a staffed backcountry camp) and it was at 9,400' elevation slotted into a steep narrow valley. It got dark early there and it got damn dark. Moonless night, too.

So my pops is snoring away loudly and just as I doze off I hear Derek in the next tent over, in a half-scared yell, calling out my name.

I respond, "what?"
"There's a bear!"
"A what?' Dad starts to wake up.
"There's a damn bear!"
"Dad, wake up there's a bear!"

As soon as Dad sits up, I hear the dude from two tents town mutter, "somebody say something? I gotta pee."

The whole crew erupts in beer-hall-loud talking about the damn bear, pee boy obviously holds it tight, and I hear a thump, and a huff next to my pillow.
Another thump and more huffing.
Those thumps would smush the floor of the tent slightly, he was that close.

I freeze and turn white as a sheet

Hey, they didn't have a bear stomping next to their ear! :hmm3grin2orange:

Thankfully, bear wasn't interested in us Texas folks that night

 

[RiverRat2]

Bob O!!!!

This would be cool!!!!

 

[Gologit]

This would be cool!!!!

It would. I'm not sure yet if I can go but I'd really like to. I bid a couple of contracts and bid them high, half hoping I wouldn't get either one and I could just goof off all summer doing my little semi retirement jobs. I got both contracts. :bang:

 

[slowp]

Hop on a train or plane. They both go there, I think? Maybe planes only go to Missoula. The airport in Missoula is nice and small.

 

[Sport Faller]

Hop on a train or plane. They both go there, I think? Maybe planes only go to Missoula. The airport in Missoula is nice and small.

Nah, planes come into Kalispell, trains come into Whitefish (I can pick folks up)

 

[forestryworks]

Nah, planes come into Kalispell, trains come into Whitefish (I can pick folks up)

Yup, fly into FCA!

 

[7oaks]

Wish I could

You pick me up in Pittsburg, I may come out there with ya! I have long dreamt to go to the Montana mountains......and it's for a good cause, to boot!

Would if I could Scott but looks like we'll be taking the low road this year - thru Denver.
Might not even make it in time for the GTG. Wish it was a bit later in the month.

 

[RiverRat2]

Yes, I'm aware of it. It is terminal, but death can be postponed by repeated visits to the mountains, and some victims have gained relief by buying up lots of calendars with pics of mountains on them.

Pity I can't be there, now that SlowP said she is going. I'd love to go and meet her, and maybe she and I could have a boxing match (but I wouldn't be placing any bets on myself!) If nothing else we could have a good rousing argument about politics and religion. :biggrin::msp_thumbup:

Trust me,,, you'd lose!!!!!

 

[Sport Faller]

Screw that, I'm proposing that we make the GTG "bar rules", that is, no politics and no religion

 

[slowp]

I dunno. I have a controversial bumper sticker on both pickups. It is nicer than the one I used to have.


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[forestryworks]

I dunno. I have a controversial bumper sticker on both pickups. It is nicer than the one I used to have.


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Where would I find one?