Sure is quiet in here....do I need to start a fight?

[pioneerguy600]

Yeah....well....you're 'Nadian......gonna work twice as hard for the system............but..........certainly get way better health care......probably even/steven in the end.......just bent ovah 'bout the same angle.......

Well paying jobs being a holiday n all off the books.....LOL

 

[pioneerguy600]

Gotta love the winter for what it does to water, tough to keep it flowing and contained inside pipes.

 

[cheeves]

Bobby, I heard back from Mrs. A, you need to check into your eMail for a password.

Did today Thank You very much!!!
Problem is wife gave me this different laptop and couldn't figure out how to access my EMail or Twitter ect. Said some things I shouldn't have to AS that I regret. Had some stuff going on after a bad fall out here but that's no excuse.
Thanks again Jerry!
Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year to You and all your Love ones!

 

[Cantdog]

Did today Thank You very much!!!
Problem is wife gave me this different laptop and couldn't figure out how to access my EMail or Twitter ect. Said some things I shouldn't have to AS that I regret. Had some stuff going on after a bad fall out here but that's no excuse.
Thanks again Jerry!
Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year to You and all your Love ones!

Same to you Bobby!!!

 

[pioneerguy600]

Did today Thank You very much!!!
Problem is wife gave me this different laptop and couldn't figure out how to access my EMail or Twitter ect. Said some things I shouldn't have to AS that I regret. Had some stuff going on after a bad fall out here but that's no excuse.
Thanks again Jerry!
Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year to You and all your Love ones!

Glad to hear you got it sorted out Bobby, sorry to hear you had a bad fall and hope you are healing up good. Happy New Year and continued good health.

 

[cheeves]

Glad to hear you got it sorted out Bobby, sorry to hear you had a bad fall and hope you are healing up good. Happy New Year and continued good health.

Thanks.....crazy thing managed to cut wood thru the whole ordeal with the exception of only a few days. Found a place with a bunch of dead standing white oak. Haven't burned as much white oak since I left Ohio.

 

[cheeves]

Same to you Bobby!!!

To all you great guys.....all the best this year. You are the Best!!!

 

[pioneerguy600]

Been very cold, turned liquid water very hard, good time to get in the woods for some firewood wrestling.

 

[Stihl 041S]

Warm here tonight. Just wish it would dry out for cuttin

 

[pioneerguy600]

It cycles between too cold for enjoyable cutting to too wet to be out there cutting this winter, weather cant just settle in.

 

[Cantdog]

Ye

It cycles between too cold for enjoyable cutting to too wet to be out there cutting this winter, weather cant just settle in.

Yeah......I've got a couple cord down in the woods cut to stove length and a dozen or more standing dead to get down and out.....just been to wet to get in there with the tractor.......freezes up then rains like the devil.....like it see it get cold for a few daze then snow like six inches and not rain off......be good to start a good ice road.....'course working a steady day job seems to cut into my fun time when I might have taken advantage and snuck down and got a few loads.......

 

[pioneerguy600]

Ye


Yeah......I've got a couple cord down in the woods cut to stove length and a dozen or more standing dead to get down and out.....just been to wet to get in there with the tractor.......freezes up then rains like the devil.....like it see it get cold for a few daze then snow like six inches and not rain off......be good to start a good ice road.....'course working a steady day job seems to cut into my fun time when I might have taken advantage and snuck down and got a few loads.......

So far only the base gets hard enough, ice just gets thick enough to carry weight then it rains and draws frost. Takes 3 -4 days and nights of -12 or so to firm it up again. No snow to speak of yet. Ice conditions are very bad here this year, we just lost a local 25 year old boy that grew up on the lake we have the camp on, he broke through the ice on New Years eve and died from hypothermia.

 

[Cantdog]

So far only the base gets hard enough, ice just gets thick enough to carry weight then it rains and draws frost. Takes 3 -4 days and nights of -12 or so to firm it up again. No snow to speak of yet. Ice conditions are very bad here this year, we just lost a local 25 year old boy that grew up on the lake we have the camp on, he broke through the ice on New Years eve and died from hypothermia.

Bummer......ice pretty unpredictable until a good cold spell....can be 12" in one place and just an inch or two 50' away depending on water currents, sun exposure etc.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Very sad time around the community. These big long lakes actually have many dangerous spots in them, high hills all around have many underground springs welling up groundwater that causes thin spots, many places where the lake narrows actually has a sloshing kind of current and these same narrow spots have pressure ridges where the ice buckles from expansion leaving open gaps. The weather this year just has not been cold enough for the extended period needed to make thick ice.

 

[Cantdog]

Speaking of ice........I track the 1000 footer I worked on years back. On Marinetraffic.com. I have never seen them run so late in the season......Great Lakes freeze up..they usually all done by the third week in Dec......she just made Two Harbors Minn. last night around 6PM......just about as far as she can get from Detroit in the lakes....quite a gamble but must pay.....the first year I went out there they were replacing all the stihl plate and frames around the water line on the bow......she got caught up above the soo on a late season run and had to beat back through 10" of fresh water ice......she be 105 feet wide and don't ride up like an ice breaker......my friend was on that run...said it took a week and a half to make a three day run.....had to strap yourself into your bunk.......they'd back up 5 miles...throw her into forward and go until the GPS said she wasn't moving.....repeat...repeat...repeat......burnt 105,000 gallons of diesel.....

 

[pioneerguy600]

Speaking of ice........I track the 1000 footer I worked on years back. On Marinetraffic.com. I have never seen them run so late in the season......Great Lakes freeze up..they usually all done by the third week in Dec......she just made Two Harbors Minn. last night around 6PM......just about as far as she can get from Detroit in the lakes....quite a gamble but must pay.....the first year I went out there they were replacing all the stihl plate and frames around the water line on the bow......she got caught up above the soo on a late season run and had to beat back through 10" of fresh water ice......she be 105 feet wide and don't ride up like an ice breaker......my friend was on that run...said it took a week and a half to make a three day run.....had to strap yourself into your bunk.......they'd back up 5 miles...throw her into forward and go until the GPS said she wasn't moving.....repeat...repeat...repeat......burnt 105,000 gallons of diesel.....

I have flown over the lakes mid January and seen an odd ship trapped in the ice, not going anywhere but still had a hint of smoke wafting from the stack, must be an expensive venture for the owners.

 

[cheeves]

Managed to cut d

It cycles between too cold for enjoyable cutting to too wet to be out there cutting this winter, weather cant just settle in.

Managed to cut down a really nice dead standing white oak this morning. Had to go thru some serious puddles which was a little hairy. Sandy soil here is a good help.
Snowed a bit late this afternoon. Caught me by surprise. Uncovered a few piles of wood this morning. Weather experts didn't call this one.

 

[cheeves]

Sorry

So far only the base gets hard enough, ice just gets thick enough to carry weight then it rains and draws frost. Takes 3 -4 days and nights of -12 or so to firm it up again. No snow to speak of yet. Ice conditions are very bad here this year, we just lost a local 25 year old boy that grew up on the lake we have the camp on, he broke through the ice on New Years eve and died from hypothermia.

Sorry to here that! Very tragic.

 

[cheeves]

Sorry

So far only the base gets hard enough, ice just gets thick enough to carry weight then it rains and draws frost. Takes 3 -4 days and nights of -12 or so to firm it up again. No snow to speak of yet. Ice conditions are very bad here this year, we just lost a local 25 year old boy that grew up on the lake we have the camp on, he broke through the ice on New Years eve and died from hypothermia.

Sorry to here that! Very tragic.

 

[cheeves]

Either my laptop is messed up or this Site! lol