How'd it go today?

[Jomo]

Jomo, I don't really understand what you mean.

Okay, two very tall and wide decurrent trees, surrounded by targets/roofs, only one 20'X30' LZ available to land all the brush n logs into, a deep rectangle in which one removal must be entirely rigged out to the other's LZ, sometimes 75 feet distant.

This demands multiple high set lowering points that can essentially fire bucket the branches n logs sideways in an entirely controlled manner. With three lowering points, three lowering lines are attached to each load, but one's passive until the load is passed sideways to within its load bearing range.

It's known as drifting, wood walking, a load never allowed to swing beyond what the ropes attached it allow.

 

[Mick!]

Ok, I understand, never seen it in action.

 

[Jomo]

Extremely technical Mitch.

It would make for an epic field day seminar IMO.

Each of my rope men on that job were climbers, curious to see how such a seemingly impossible big euc could be rigged outta that deep rectangle.

That was about a year ago. Took me 3 1/2 days on my end, two Hobbs devices, and dang near all the rigging blocks n bull lines I have.

One of the Hobbs ops was wearing a go pro equipped hard hat viding the action, but I haven't seen it.

It was one of those head scratcher jobs that found me through the grape vine.

 

[squisher]

Hmmm. Lost a horse last night. Found him down and rolling yesterday morning, got him up and moving around. Had the vet out to look at him and he was colic'd, not impaction but a twisted gut or possibly a tumor or something had blocked him up. He continued to go downhill so had the vet out again to end his pain.

He was 20 and had been a real performance horse winning many buckles in team roping and earlier in his life barrel racing. He had the strongest work ethic I've ever seen in a horse. Lots of heart, like they all do but this fella was a real goer.

RIP. Chief's bar VI.

 

[stig]

Turned stomach or twisted gut is the worst.
Too effing bad, I'm sorry for you.

How many horses do you have, I don't think you've ever told, or I haven,t picked up on it.

 

[stig]

Jomo, on a job like that, one of those Hobb's should be a GRCS. The ease of tightening that it offers over the Hobb's makes that kind of operation go so much faster.

We sold our Hobb's to Pete last year, because we weren't using it much anymore, having bought a GRCS.
Only time I've regretted it was taking that beech of the roof 3 days ago.
Sure would have come in handy for that.+

 

[Mick!]

Bad news about the horse Squish.

 

[squisher]

I have three horses now, and two donkeys. Comes with the territory of having equines but I always find it painful how quickly things can go south. Amazing the pain tolerance of horses. To a non/horse person Chief would've seemed fine. Throughout the day though his vitals continued to get worse and worse. Too old and to late in the colic from the point the vet first saw him(about 30 min after I had found him) to even consider surgery.

By the end his resting heart rate was pushing three times the norm with respiration to match.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Sorry about that Justin. Not very often does a dog or horse survive a twisted gut.

 

[Mick!]

Sounds good Jomo. Shame you never got some pics through the process.
Often when I'm doing tricky stuff I take the iPad with the intention of documenting it but get caught up in the moment and never bother.

 

[stig]

Yup. Dogs are somewhat the same.
I think it comes from having no imagination.
When we get hurt, we are thinking ahead; I'll be out of work for so and so long, rehab, maybe lose my joib etc. etc.

Dog or horse simply thinks.....................Eff, this hurts.

When my late Thais had his major knee surgery, and was completely out of it for days ( Since it didn't work, putting him through it, is something that'll be on my conscience forever) All it took was a bit of snow and a femur from a cow with a lot of meat on it, to make him forget all about his leg for a while.
Remember the picture I posted about a dog that looked like it had stepped on a land mine, enjoying a bone in the snow.

Had that been me, I would have been in a TOTAL panic ( Which probably doesn't help the healing process much!)

Anyway, Dog or horse, it just HURTS to have to put one down before it's time.

 

[Jomo]

Yeah well we ain't all spoiled rotten like you is Stigz.

It's true though, woulda only taken two ropers with a GRCS n Hobbs, faster n smoother load transitions no doubt.

But I had a surplus of groundies/climbers below me, one of them a local legend, Rich Magargal, tutoring them on working together as a team.

Honestly I don't think a GRCS can do anything a Hobbs can't, provided I have two men on the Hobbs.

Jomo

 

[cory]

Bummer, Squish, sorry to hear. Sounds like he had a good life.

I more or less understand having horses, what's up with the donkeys?

 

[stig]

Sorry about that Justin. Not very often does a dog or horse survive a twisted gut.

My first Thais. My best dog ever. The one really good dog a man gets, had a stomach turn.
I called the vet and he told me to bring him in RIGHT away and they'd have an operating team standing ready.
Put him in the back of the car and set a new land speed record for Osted to Haslev.
I drove like a complete madman. Went the wrong way in roundabouts if that was free, undertook a whole bunch of cars behind a tractor by going off road and passing them driving in a field.
I had made my mind up, that any cop that stopped me would get a very quick choice between running escort or a trip to the hodpital.
I made the trip in 18 minutes. I once tried to dublicate that on a fast bike and couldn't do it.

As we rolled ( Or rather, flew) into Haslev, Thais stood up, belched mightily and started moving around.
At the clinic, he jumped out by himself, and walked next to me into the clinic.
The vet told me that all the rolling around in the back of the car, while I did my " Sterling Moss wins the Mille miglia" impression, had rolled his stomach bak.
Told me they'd had one other example of the same happening.

Thais suffered for the rest of his life from scar tissue in the throat but was ok apart from that.

 

[stig]

Honestly I don't think a GRCS can do anything a Hobbs can't, provided I have two men on the Hobbs.

Jomo

Right on that, but I rarely if ever want to pay two guys to do what one can with the right equipment.

 

[squisher]

They were my wife's idea Cory. They are cute, but so are kittens.

They have grown on me I'll admit and I take enjoyment out of hanging out with them, but there is no real point to it. I don't particularly care for their braying and find myself hollering at them to shut it when they get fired up.

I guess they are a bit of a alarm system, but my big dogs pretty well have that area covered anyways.

 

[cory]

Why does the Hobbs take 2 guys, cuz of less mechanical advantage?

 

[cory]

Well that's cool, I was just wondering. Are they lower maintenance, or easier, than horses?

 

[stig]

I guess they are a bit of a alarm system, but my big dogs pretty well have that area covered anyways.

 

[FireFighterZero]

You should get some Guinea hens. Best guard dogs in the world! Plus they eat snakes and bugs. You can probably eat them when they die as well.

 

[squisher]

Well that's cool, I was just wondering. Are they lower maintenance, or easier, than horses?

Not particularly. They are slightly hardier animal I'd say but still need regular food/water and hoof trimmings to stay on track. My daughter and her friends have some fun with them but mostly they just hangout.

 

[Jomo]

I just lost my deceased wife's dog, six years after her death, a corgi collie mix 15 years old, a tumor over his left eye.

Hit me harder than the other dogs I've put down n buried in my life, because it was Her dog.

Took my grief out chiseling the dog out an elaborate granite grave, then bringing down a section the cliff above down over the grave, insuring a coyote proof resting place that'll be un disturbed for some time.

I was physically exhausted afterwards, mumbled a prayer about heaven applying to animals or forget it.. Just as it started to rain that somber afternoon about three weeks ago.

Condolences On your loss Squish.

Jomo

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sorry to hear about your horse, Squish... it seems no one knows why that stomach turning happens.

What do you do with the remains?

 

[FireFighterZero]

Old McSquisher had a farm, E I E I Ohhhhh....

And on this farm he had a donkey, E I E I ohhhhh.......

 

[squisher]

Sorry to hear about your horse, Squish... it seems no one knows why that stomach turning happens.

What do you do with the remains?

He'll be buried on my property today Butch. A neighbour is coming over with a backhoe.