Pacific Northwest GTG (June 12-15, 2015)

[northmanlogging]

Depends on the dog and whether I can con the war dept into it... (don't count on it)

I was planning on packing tonight... looks like I'll have to in the morning... and still meet the self loader

Looking forward to meeting some of you characters.

 

[bigbadbob]

Well I made it to Bend, long day,,,
See you tomorrow.
BBB

 

[paccity]

late start, never get to leave when i would like to. leaving in about 10.

 

[sawfun]

Mike, Jackie, and I are gonna try to make it down tomorrow. I will probably leave the giant saws home though.

 

[heimannm]

I thought about you all today as I was harvesting some firewood at the local brush dump.



Made the ranger squat a bit



Hope you are having a good time, let's see some photos!

Mark

 

[northmanlogging]

Home alive...
Entirely too much fun! Are your sure any of that was legal?

 

[madhatte]

I aska-no questions, you tella-no lies

 

[Eccentric]

I aska-no questions, you tella-no lies

You had a rattling/clanking sound coming from your pickup when you left. Meant to say something to you about it. Did you figure out what it was?

 

[madhatte]

Hrmm, no, a muffler bearing perhaps?

 

[slowp]

I'm home. It is a return to dark and stormy. Looks like we had a couple inches of rain whilst I was down south. No detours for syrup wreckage this time. Clothes are in the washer, soon I'll be in the shower, and......I have turned on the electric heat to warm up the house!

Thanks for everything. It was FUN! Benny says thanks for all the pats, goodies, and a little, just a little bit of grease.

 

[Cedarkerf]

We made it back Fun time as usual. We have an empty planter that has 4 inches of water in it that wasn't there when we left wonder who put the water in it

 

[torinocobra]

Well I had a great time. Thank you Bob, Liz, T and Shannon for EVERYTHING! Thank you Bob and Clydeine for the excellent meat loaf, and Janimay for dinner and breakfast. And Patti for cookies and pies. I got to run plenty of great saws- a 5200, mastermind 880, slinger 880, Phil's 084, 125C, slinger 372, a few wild things and some huskys of unknown displacement. I heard several beautiful haiku, brought home some new saws, marinade, and left socks. I miss you guys already.

 

[sawfun]

Thank you from Mike, Jackie, and myself for a wonderful time with a ton of great folks. We learned a lot and got to run some amazing machines.

 

[slowp]

Old Sparkless was beaten.

The brand new square ground chain from Madsen's beat the round file chain from Service Saw.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Well I had a great time. Thank you Bob, Liz, T and Shannon for EVERYTHING! Thank you Bob and Clydeine for the excellent meat loaf, and Janimay for dinner and breakfast. And Patti for cookies and pies. I got to run plenty of great saws- a 5200, mastermind 880, slinger 880, Phil's 084, 125C, slinger 372, a few wild things and some huskys of unknown displacement. I heard several beautiful haiku, brought home some new saws, marinade, and left socks. I miss you guys already.

Found the p/n for the vented cap and ordered it I should have put a sharp chain on so you can see how the ts 372 really cuts. I'll be glad to have that venting issue resolved as I have a 5 foot dbh cedar to take out in the near future.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Old Sparkless was beaten.

The brand new square ground chain from Madsen's beat the round file chain from Service Saw.

Excellent sportspersonship was displayed Jani got some pics of the intense competition

 

[Farley9n]

I'm Still Grinning! Here's a couple pictures of what may be Old Sparkless going down!

 

[Cedarkerf]

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I'm still amazed every time we pull these completely original 35 plus years old saws that the hot shots would say are obsolete too heavy under powered they really throw the chips with a sharp chain

 

[Farley9n]

It was a GREAT RACE and slowP was gracious in defeat, however I got the felling that "IT'S NOT OVER!

 

[Farley9n]

As fun the above race was .....Here's my favorite!!! The race for the 2014 PNW GTG Wild Thing Championship. It was close but my backup saw was a bit faster than the backup saw from Phil's Saw Shop. Turned out that both #1 saws were not as good as our warmed over last years saws.....Good Fun!