How'd it go today?

[CurSedVoyce]

Remember that pig I took down with all the big limbs???
Yeah, we burned it. Fact is we burned bunches of trees today

 

[Raj]

Glad you made it, Stig. Ouch. Dangerous stuff you are in.

Rich. That sucks.

Sam. Haha! Been windy here too.

Stephen. That is some burn pile.

 

[pantheraba]

Hell of an excavator there!

Stig...you do serious stuff over there, bro. Hope that knee wasn't tweaked too much. Soft tissue stuff sucks.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yeah, my sub keeps talking about selling it to me. He sold the bigger one. He wants to retire sorta
Oh, and that is a 50" by 12' log he grabbed there...lol

 

[pantheraba]

Cool to see that. Incredible how much power they have.

Quick excavator derail...

We did a dive job where an excavator a bit bigger (?) was being used to place big a@@ boulders in a river to make a whitewater venue. It was scooching around VW size rocks like you move marbles with your finger...crazy power.

You can see Alex in some of the picts...he was serving as dive tender.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Cool. Fishing for a vehicle?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Recovering a body.

 

[pantheraba]

Nah...those pictures are where they were moving rocks/boulders on the bottom of the river as part of the white water area they were creating. Specifically there was a cofer dam and some boulders were lodged under the steel dam plates. The excavator was dragging rocks out of the way so the dam plates rested firmly on the sand. They later poured concrete inside the cofer dam to shore up some bridge pilings.

What got my attention was how strong those things are. And seeing them reach down 12-15 feet deep and drag stuff around underwater.

 

[pantheraba]

The diver was attaching a choker cable to boulders so the excavator could move them.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Cool!
Yeah.. hydraulics are hard to beat

 

[treebilly]

Got to be a weird feeling reaching that deep with no visibility.
I just got grounded by the inspectors. 30 mph sustained winds with 45-50 mph gusts. I'm just so terribly upset about this. Gonna go hunt down some ground work and short trees that are not in the woods.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Damn! Shut down by wind...

 

[Raj]

Very windy up here too.

 

[pantheraba]

hahah, Rich...you are a hoot! Glad you can be so upset with a wind shutdown.

 

[Burnham]

Stig my friend, scary close to a really bad day there. Glad you made out with so little damage. Hope the knee is on the mend.

 

[Grendel]

howling again up here on the lake. 40 sustained. Couldn't do anything really. Kept the trees off the roads. Obnoxious total white outs.

 

[treebilly]

I shit everything down around 4:00. We were just clearing out scrub brush and I looked down the ROW to see that two decent sized trees had fallen across. No time to be in the woods. Of course the big old rotten ass oak is still standing. It's coming down tomorrow, AM or PM, I'll decide in the morning. I'm just tired of looking at it and it's the last thing on that section till I can have the stumper and restoration crews take over. I did manage to sneak two more low climbs in this afternoon. Inspector had to poop for one and I asked him to run and get us some Gatorade for the other.

 

[SeanKroll]

Damn, Stig. Glad you made it out.

Hard to believe, but it rained today.

 

[Bermy]

Wow Stig, sounds like you got away with one there the speed these things can happen is not fully understood until it does actually happen

And oh, I am still the acolyte of the short bar...those pics just show me testing the big ones...one can't definitively rule them out unless one has actually held one...

Diving in the murk around huge machinery and boulders, now that's a job for someone with...you know, those things!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Man you are one tough bird Stig. Thank heavens you were not hurt worse.



We found a nice Sugar pine mill log today. Line clearance fell the tree and did not butcher it into 4-8 foot pieces. We cut it into 16s. My equip op just bought a 20 ' dump trailer. Hell load then and haul it over to my place. New floors I reckon.

 

[pantheraba]

I bet that's gonna be pretty! Let us see it as you mill it, please???

 

[MasterBlaster]

I shit everything down around 4:00.

Same here!!!

 

[pantheraba]

And one day I shot everything down around 4:00.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Your're shotting me!

 

[pantheraba]

I sheet you not! (OK, extra letter there)