Pacific NW get together

[GASoline71]

It's in the works joaty ol' boy...

Gary

 

[Gologit]

Nope, same amount each way-fall into town at an elevation of 2,700' in 2 miles with a couple of short 18% grades.

Dang, Maybe you think I'm getting to be one of those old foggies telling of them thar uphill both way stories. Last comment that struck home like that was made just before this last halloween, fell off the mountain during elk season to pickup a few items and grabbed a couple bags of candy. An older couple in the isle said 'you must have grandkids' :jawdrop: easier to reply 'yes' and go about my bussiness than to explain a hankerin for sweets.

LOL...When you get to a certain age it feels like it's uphill both ways...even if it's not.

Stick around...you've come to a good place.

 

[M.R.]

LMAO Bob ...and we had to eat dirt... and we were thankful.

Wish I was as tuff...

I'm still figgerin' out who won the duel... the guy or the Honda...

Gary

Pardon the spelling, the duel part was in the turning - lots of english.

Stopped by our local Les Schwab to buy a couple of studded tires for the front of the truck, they won't put them on just the fronts anymore because of a lawsuit they lost by not telling a lady that she would stop better with four than two. [like the hot coffee @ McDonalds deal]


Anything in the works on a pellet, one can drop into the bar oil tank that will manufacture [sp?] [make] it's own oil.

 

[slowp]

Tire Chains anyone? --Ian

Yes and they are in the garage in their little blue box that I've never opened. When it is bad enough that chains are needed on a Subaru, well you just shouldn't be out there. They are the little fru fru cable things anyway.

I hope it doesn't do a 96 or a 2006 again. That would mean going from shoveling snow to shoveling mud and being marooned but without the elk hunters.

 

[Haywire Haywood]

I used to have a set of "chains" for a 2wd Toyota truck that I had when I lived out in the sticks. They could get a dusting in town and I'd have 6-8" on the ground. What I had wasn't really chain, it was more like a series of cables that ran across the tire. Worked pretty well to get me the 5 miles to the main road where the plow and salt truck had it clear. There was one north facing hill that would have a sheet of slick compacted snow/ice for a week after everything else was clear and dry. I'd have to stop at the bottom and put on those cable/chains to get up the hill.

Ian

 

[slowp]

Last year I got stuck in a 4 wheel drive woods pickup WITH CHAINS ON. It meant that I was going to probably need some assistance, which it did. Luckily there was a piece of equipment nearby, that, with some skidding around on it's part, was able to unstick me. Usually this costs me a batch of cookies.

 

[Gologit]

Last year I got stuck in a 4 wheel drive woods pickup WITH CHAINS ON. It meant that I was going to probably need some assistance, which it did. Luckily there was a piece of equipment nearby, that, with some skidding around on it's part, was able to unstick me. Usually this costs me a batch of cookies.

LOL...If you haven't been stuck, you haven't been in the woods very long.

And cable chains? We tried some on the logging trucks one year. They lasted about five seconds. Oh well, somebody might come up with an easy way of throwing duals in the dark...we'll buy him coffee all year for that.

 

[Trinity Honoria]

Day 11 of my Captivity by PNW Snow. However, there is hope-- IF perchance, and i know it's only chance, the weather report is correct-- i should be released by Sunday or Monday due to warmer temperatures... of course, i am then at risk of experiencing landslides and floods.

OK, let me get back to quilting... and Gary, as the Olde Hippie i am, i will be drinking Celestial Seasoning Teas while i turn bits of fabric into glorious covers for my kids! (and by the way, my kids are not named Sunshine or Dewdrop or anything hippie-like-- simple biblical names worked for me! plus, the death of the hippie had occured about a dozen years before i gave birth...)

Lakeside, got your truck unstuck yet???

 

[GASoline71]

Day 11 of my Captivity by PNW Snow. However, there is hope-- IF perchance, and i know it's only chance, the weather report is correct-- i should be released by Sunday or Monday due to warmer temperatures... of course, i am then at risk of experiencing landslides and floods.

OK, let me get back to quilting... and Gary, as the Olde Hippie i am, i will be drinking Celestial Seasoning Teas while i turn bits of fabric into glorious covers for my kids! (and by the way, my kids are not named Sunshine or Dewdrop or anything hippie-like-- simple biblical names worked for me! plus, the death of the hippie had occured about a dozen years before i gave birth...)

Lakeside, got your truck unstuck yet???

LOL...

Hope to meet ya in 2009 at the GTG Trin... as well as all the other PNW characters we have here...

It's warmin' up some and the rain is comin'... that snow will be gone soon hopefully. The roads here in Oak Harbor are just a mess with all the sand and big berms of sluch and ice from the snowplows...

Gary

 

[Lakeside53]

grrrr... yep... Dug it out by hand yesterday so I could get a plow in. Didn't put my brand new (1989) chains on though - that would be a threat to my manlyness. Then I rode the plow for 7 hours (finished at 9pm...). My trusty MS200 sure got a workout clearing trees from the roads.

We have nice clear roads, BUT... 9 inches of ice on them to melt out, and no sand. Looks like I'm only going to the store when it drops below freezing for the next week.

In the last 10 days we have had over 30 inches of wet snow - some places measure as much as 35.

 

[Trinity Honoria]

grrrr... yep... Dug it out by hand yesterday so I could get a plow in. Didn't put my brand new (1989) chains on though - that would be a threat to my manlyness. Then I rode the plow for 7 hours (finished at 9pm...). My trusty MS200 sure got a workout clearing trees from the roads.

We have nice clear roads, BUT... 9 inches of ice on them to melt out, and no sand. Looks like I'm only going to the store when it drops below freezing for the next week.

In the last 10 days we have had over 30 inches of wet snow - some places measure as much as 35.

purrrrrrrrrrrrr darlin, nothing will take away your manliness... and by the way, when you run to the store, can you pick me up some Ben & Jerry's???

just funning... i imagine i'll be outta here by Monday... but i've got food, heat, and the radio... i've lived worse!!!

glad you finally got it all straight... this storm's been dammed frustrating!!!

 

[Lakeside53]

Monday night it's supposed to snow again


Radio? what's that?

T-Mobile cell service has been out around here for 4 days... kind of nice

 

[Trinity Honoria]

Monday night it's supposed to snow again


Radio? what's that?

T-Mobile cell service has been out around here for 4 days... kind of nice

You have T-Mobile? you mean-- i coulda been calling you just to yak, cuz i got Mobile to Mobile... oh, that would be sooooo COOL-- Andy, we could just talk for hours and hours... i still have your number here someplace... yep... just yakking... OH THIS IS GREAT... {jest kidding...} (kinda, sorta) :biggrinbounce2:

my T-Mobile is no more difficult then usual... it'll cut off outta the blue... BLAST! You must be looking at a different weather report then i am... so i take it, per your advice, when i can finally get out, i need to get out, go stock up on Ben & Jerry's, skitter back to my cave and be prepared for more captivity!!!

 

[Trinity Honoria]

LOL...

Hope to meet ya in 2009 at the GTG Trin... as well as all the other PNW characters we have here...

Gary

it'll be a delight to meet you!!! someone was telling me last night that you remember me from the old days when i lived on the East Coast... i know the NY/Canadian crowd were confused when i drove 900+ miles one way to my first GTG... and my 2nd... and my 3rd... actually, i was kind of confused why i did it as well LOL but just enjoy the total focus on the saws, something i knew absolutely nothing about... and now i only know a bit more...

at the 2nd one, after i had won over most of the guys, one whipper snapper asked "who's the loud b!tch over there?" well, he scurried away with his tail between his legs after the guys got done with him... i just show up, enjoy the company, and leave after a great time with phenomenal people who share a common love of chainsaws...

at Bookerdog's, i got to see the Gorge... this time, i'll be going to the Oregon Coast as part of my GTG experience!!! Anyway, it's ALL GOOD!!! but Slowp and Gologit like to play dress-up and set me up in ridiculous poses with saws... and as a woman who even designed an East Coast business that included me playing dress-up everyday, it works! And they have fun!!! so, be ready for a weekend of pure delight.... great food... and lots & lots of chainsaws...

 

[GASoline71]

it'll be a delight to meet you!!! someone was telling me last night that you remember me from the old days when i lived on the East Coast... .

I do kiddo... I remember when you popped up in the "Homeowner" forum with the problems with either your neighbors, and/or a crappy tree company doin' shoddy work.

Then you kinda migrated into the Saw forum, and were also a regular in "Hell's Kitchen"...

Yep...

Gary

 

[Trinity Honoria]

I do kiddo... I remember when you popped up in the "Homeowner" forum with the problems with either your neighbors, and/or a crappy tree company doin' shoddy work.

Then you kinda migrated into the Saw forum, and were also a regular in "Hell's Kitchen"...

Yep...

Gary

yep-- that little house is long gone and now i live out here with Mr Wonderful... who doesn't understand my enjoyment of the company of all you chainsaw dudes & dudettes... but encourages me to stay connected!!! thank goodness... that mighta been a deal breaker!!!

so glad i stumbled on AS... HK made me laugh with tears coming down my face; i've learned respect for legit tree services, learned the difference between hacks & arborists, met phenomenal people... just one of those random things in life that give one a totally new perspective....

 

[GASoline71]

Yep... stick around... it only gets better...

Gary

 

[joatmon]

it'll be a delight to meet you!!! someone was telling me last night that you remember me from the old days when i lived on the East Coast... i know the NY/Canadian crowd were confused when i drove 900+ miles one way to my first GTG... and my 2nd... and my 3rd... actually, i was kind of confused why i did it as well LOL but just enjoy the total focus on the saws, something i knew absolutely nothing about... and now i only know a bit more...

at the 2nd one, after i had won over most of the guys, one whipper snapper asked "who's the loud b!tch over there?" well, he scurried away with his tail between his legs after the guys got done with him... i just show up, enjoy the company, and leave after a great time with phenomenal people who share a common love of chainsaws...

at Bookerdog's, i got to see the Gorge... this time, i'll be going to the Oregon Coast as part of my GTG experience!!! Anyway, it's ALL GOOD!!! but Slowp and Gologit like to play dress-up and set me up in ridiculous poses with saws... and as a woman who even designed an East Coast business that included me playing dress-up everyday, it works! And they have fun!!! so, be ready for a weekend of pure delight.... great food... and lots & lots of chainsaws...

TH,

You weren't a Cafe & The Some regular were you?

Joat

 

[SawTroll]

Where is Booker????

 

[Trinity Honoria]

TH,

You weren't a Cafe & The Some regular were you?

Joat

nope-- but heard lots of great things about it...