All the cool stuff for the navy is locked up on boats, the army and air farce have everything laying on the ground so crack heads can pick it up... It kinda surprises me how easy it is to wander onto a base around here.
Tooter signals?
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Just a fence... a couple of gates, never stopped any tweekers... Granted I'm sure there are some sort of patrol? I Hope...
That's a tale for a beer and a campfire.
Humptulips
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Haven't been on here much and just saw this. Whistles are easy to learn and they have such good radios now you can talk to the engineer for most of the misc. stuff. Mostly they are using motorized carriages now and just shotgunning so there are really not that many whistles to learn.
Usually use haulback whistles for the skidding line
1 to stop
2 to go ahead
2 and 1 for slack
2 and 2 for easy
Skyline you don't use often because it is stationary but
3 up
4 slack
3 and 3 easy
Strawline
3 and 1 ahead
3 and 4 slack
3 and 1 and 3 easy
A friend hauls logs and builds road for a guy who is doing the FS thinning sales. He seems to be doing well but mainly because the price of logs has went up since he got the sales.
Bad things about it are.
They are shutdown all spring and summer because of Marbeled Murrelets.
The FS seems to include some helicopter logging in all the yarder sales. That would scare me. I know the guy has been leaving them for last and I would think they will lose money so not sure how that will average out. And they will have to helicopter in the fall and winter because of the birds. Not sure how that will work.
Anyway I have probably forgotten everything of relevance to todays logging and what I remember is obsolete so I wouldn't be much help to anyone. Still enough logger in me to cringe when I see someone using a marlin spike as a punch though. Saw that a couple days ago aargh!
Usually use haulback whistles for the skidding line
1 to stop
2 to go ahead
2 and 1 for slack
2 and 2 for easy
Skyline you don't use often because it is stationary but
3 up
4 slack
3 and 3 easy
Strawline
3 and 1 ahead
3 and 4 slack
3 and 1 and 3 easy
A friend hauls logs and builds road for a guy who is doing the FS thinning sales. He seems to be doing well but mainly because the price of logs has went up since he got the sales.
Bad things about it are.
They are shutdown all spring and summer because of Marbeled Murrelets.
The FS seems to include some helicopter logging in all the yarder sales. That would scare me. I know the guy has been leaving them for last and I would think they will lose money so not sure how that will average out. And they will have to helicopter in the fall and winter because of the birds. Not sure how that will work.
Anyway I have probably forgotten everything of relevance to todays logging and what I remember is obsolete so I wouldn't be much help to anyone. Still enough logger in me to cringe when I see someone using a marlin spike as a punch though. Saw that a couple days ago aargh!
