MechanicMatt
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Looking good Chipper1!!
I love walking old long forgotten rail beds, ALWAYS find “treasure”
I love walking old long forgotten rail beds, ALWAYS find “treasure”
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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At my camp property in St. Lawrence County, NY I get quite a bit of timber fall from beaver. The big pond is about 30 acres, and the beaver run riot around it. Several yrs back I built 7 nice wood duck boxes--gave away all but two that I mounted in trees adjacent to the pond. One, I climbed a white pine and wired it into place about 20' up. The other, I went to the opposite side of the pond, got a climbing rope up into a bitternut hickory (no limbs on which to free climb), then ascended on rope and wired the box to the tree about 20-something feet up. (If the box is too close to the ground, snakes or coons will sense the young, and clean out the nest.)
A year or so back on one of my two annual visits to camp, I scanned the far side of the pond with binocs and wondered, Where the f--- is my duck box? Walked around to the hickory tree duck box and found that a beaver had dropped the tree into the pond. Box was pinned beneath it in the mud & crunched badly.
Had a good day on the ice this past weekend. Caught a few Lake Whitefish and a couple Landlocked Salmon.
Pretty mild out, but I decided to put up the fish house mid-day and cut the wind to cook up a lunch for myself and the pal that joined me.
It was quite something to watch a landlock on my fish finder come cruising in 35 feet below the ice and chase my jig up much higher in the water column before taking. It then peeled out a good amount of line before I could wrangle it back to the hole. Usually these fish are cruising 4 to 10 feet below the ice in search of minnows or smelt, that day they were doing things a bit different.
I don't normally keep many fish (nor do I judge those that do), but I kept two whitefish and a salmon because they are too tasty to let go, especially when caught in colder water.
Pretty mild out, but I decided to put up the fish house mid-day and cut the wind to cook up a lunch for myself and the pal that joined me.
It was quite something to watch a landlock on my fish finder come cruising in 35 feet below the ice and chase my jig up much higher in the water column before taking. It then peeled out a good amount of line before I could wrangle it back to the hole. Usually these fish are cruising 4 to 10 feet below the ice in search of minnows or smelt, that day they were doing things a bit different.
I don't normally keep many fish (nor do I judge those that do), but I kept two whitefish and a salmon because they are too tasty to let go, especially when caught in colder water.
Just got back from the town building dept . What a pleasure working with them to pull the permits not being sarcastic ,showed them the plans and where I wanted to put up the building chief inspector said no problem just keep it 50 ft from the property line and you can put it anywhere you want
I had heard about that type of battery but didn't remember exactly how they worked, after reading the responses I remembered.
Glad to hear that went well, mostly similar experience when getting the permit for my shop.
What building did you end up deciding to go with?
The museum I volunteer at is next to railroad tracks and there was a stub track/siding that was removed this past year near the building. This switch stand was in the scrap pile, the museum management asked if we could have it and the RR donated it to us. The kids like to "throw" the switch plus we use a bungee cord to hold the door open with it too. The bench in the left hand corner is made from a part of an old highway bridge in town that was removed a few years ago.
It’s down to two companies Carport central or Boss buildings I had them change a few things and waiting on the quotes . I have all the paperwork for the permits just need to fill them out and give the town the building plans . But I can’t get the signed plans till I make the down payment the plans I showed the town were their generic not stamped plan .
I had two pole barn companies quote the building, way more than I am willing to pay for a shop .
Next I need to get the slab quotes . Slab will be as much if not more than the building .
Looks fun! Are the salmon landlocked Atlantics? We catch an Atlantic once every few years on Lake Michigan.
There is a stretch of the rail trail upon which I perform tree work that I visit regularly. This as beavers keep dropping trees on the trail or hang them up over it. Amusingly the first report about a tree down there indicated that “some idiot with a hatchet cut a tree down.”
Beautiful pics. We have a pretty decent Atlantic salmon fishery here on Lake Huron. I've caught a few incidentally while fishing steelhead and salmon, but never really targeted them.
That's an Atlantic.
I just read an academic journal article about the Ellenville (NY) Glass Works. In the section about the period 1840-1870 the company bought 125 properties. Some was used for the factory, some to house the workers, but most to supply the 10,000 cord of firewood per year needed at the factory. No chainsaws or feller bunchers in that period! Think about that for a moment!
For you bottle collectors… you might be interested in this article. It appeared in The Hudson River Valley Review, Volume. 38, No 2, Spring 2022. (Marist College). I attended a program last evening by the author, Alex Prizgintas.
For you bottle collectors… you might be interested in this article. It appeared in The Hudson River Valley Review, Volume. 38, No 2, Spring 2022. (Marist College). I attended a program last evening by the author, Alex Prizgintas.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Sad when you think about the heritage of this area and how all the jobs were moved overseas
Walden and Ellenville both were places Schade had knife factories
Now they have little business in both towns
The only sign the glassworks ever existed is literally a historical marker sign… the O&W RR station in Ellenville sits on the site of the factory. The O&W was shut down in 1957. About 4 years ago the glass company’s general store building was torn down… it was the last structure.
The Schrade and Channel Master sites in Ellenville are barely recognizable with most of those structures gone too.
The loss of industry in NY is very visible along the Erie Canal corridor… lots of rotting infrastructure. Sadly Remington is among that loss.
Sawyer Rob
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The wat NY treated Remington, they should have left long ago.
SR
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Yessir! Best eating fish we are allowed to retain in the province. The sea run atlantics that go out to sea to mature and come back to the rivers to spawn are even better table fare, but we are no longer allowed to retain them. Sadly, due to poor management, most notably the lax enforcement of buffer zones adjacent to waterways and the resulting runoff from clearcuts that fills rivers in with silt makes for unhospitable conditions for salmonids. The once abundant fishery that accounted for big tourism $ and a history of recreation for locals is on the way out. Thankfully we still have some opportunities to get future generations interested in the outdoors.
Not defending NY, but the nail in the coffin for Remington was the lawsuit against them after the Newtown CT shooting.
How a gun manufacturer making a legal gun is held responsible for a killing spree, I will never understand, but that is what happened.
My cousins Husband worked for "the Arms" (as they called it) for decades.
How a gun manufacturer making a legal gun is held responsible for a killing spree, I will never understand, but that is what happened.
My cousins Husband worked for "the Arms" (as they called it) for decades.
Remington made the right move. NY is not a gun friendly place to do business in.
On a Statewide basis, yes, but locally they were respected, they were a major employer in the area and had been there since the 1800s. What happened is a shame!
Ditto all the firearms manufacturing that has left MA and CT.
