How'd it go today?

Can you do anything with that much snow? Might seem like a silly question, but how do you get to the grocery store or is that where preparing for winter comes in?

We just stay ready for it.

Some are more ready than others out here....but most folks would be fine to go a week at least.

I remember about 15 years ago...to the east of us...they were trying to bring people to town after a bad storm.

It was 5 foot of snow on the level...and it stayed all winter.

They had a Super Cub on skis acting as taxi.

Most people stayed.....just wanted a jug of milk and their mail brought out.
 
Started the day with mild panic. Got a call yesterday that the temporary ramp grades I did didn't look right. Spent the night off and on wondering what I could have screwed up. Get out to the site, and they want some stakes replaced, and want me to check grade. Oh, and they'll be making it black in two hours D^:

Replaced the stakes, checked a couple, and it looked alright. There was a significant crest vertical curve that made it look funny. I think the idea was to keep water from rushing down the ramp. The second temp ramp was also a redline, so it was kinda force fit in place, so it perhaps didn't have the design attention it should have had.

Got back to the office, modified some stakes, and set the back of the pickup up to hopefully keep stuff from getting wet. My truck went in the shop for a new(to me) tranny, so hopefully I'll get that back soon. I hate working out of a truck that isn't mine.

Got my truck climbing kit mostly sorted. Once I get the throwline out of the locust, that'll go in the truck kit, and it'll be complete aside from a biner I have to add. Hot today, so I spent most of the day pissed off. I wish summer would just frig off. Really getting tired of this...
 
John,
You mentioned needing to find property corners for laying out that house. What do you use to find old pins?
A friend brought a Schoenstedt GA-52Cx by a while ago, and it was impressive how well it worked.

I thought it would be nice to have one for the occasional need to find pins or lost metallic items.
Been watching craigslist and eBay, but they are a bit pricey.
Are you aware of any sources for reasonably-priced, used ones?
 
John,
You mentioned needing to find property corners for laying out that house. What do you use to find old pins?
A friend brought a Schoenstedt GA-52Cx by a while ago, and it was impressive how well it worked.

I thought it would be nice to have one for the occasional need to find pins or lost metallic items.
Been watching craigslist and eBay, but they are a bit pricey.
Are you aware of any sources for reasonably-priced, used ones?
Reasonably priced? Not really. Schonstedt is pretty much the industry standard, and even used they go for fairly big money. We have a bunch of broken ones at the office. I need to see what it takes to get them going. We're currently using a Subsurface Instruments detector, and while it's cheaper than Schonstedt, it's still hundreds of $. About $550 if I remember right.

A hobbyist metal detector might work for occasional use, and it would be especially suitable for finding non ferrous metal, which the Schonstedts are useless for. I don't know much about them tbh, but I think the better ones can be tuned to the type of metal you're looking for. I'm also not sure how the costs compare. Maybe a good hobbyist detector costs as much as a Schonstedt?

There's also old school using a dip needle. All that amounts to is a compass with a mirror that shows a vertical image. When you get above a piece of iron, the needle appears to dip(It really spins). They're hard to use, and you have to be close with your search, cause you're on your hands and knees moving the box around, while keeping it oriented north. I haven't seen one in decades, and I've tried doing it with the compass in my phone with little success. With practice, and a thorough understanding of what I'm seeing with the phone output, I might be able to do it for emergency purposes, but it isn't easy, especially if you're in an area with magnetic rocks.
 
Nice. What do you do for work?

How do you like living there, aside from the early fall darkness you mentioned elsewhere
 
Rain all day today. Thought I might get to do another pine at the office. It was sprinkling a little, but nothing bad. Went inside to wait for a more reasonable chainsaw running time, and it was coming down hard 15 minutes later. Didn't get much done at the office. Right now I'm widening the bar slot on an unused bar I have. It's for the 026. I'm doing it with a file, and it's slow going. I might get tired of it before I get the slot big enough :^D

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Forgot. I also opened a new hank of Dynaglide to get ready for possibly climbing today, and ended up with a disaster again after it all tangled before getting it in the bag. Whatever the trick is for cleanly deploying it, I clearly don't know it. If I have to buy more throwline again, I'll get 1k' just so it comes on a spool, and I won't have to deal with it :^S
 
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Nice. What do you do for work?

How do you like living there, aside from the early fall darkness you mentioned elsewhere
Forestry. It's a great place to live...been working here for 33 years and living here full time for 30 years. I was seasonal from 87-90. Eligible for retirement now but I want to finish up a few things before moving on to the next chapter.
 
Good stuff.

Exactly what is forestry
Funny! I work on the Tongass, the largest National Forest at approximately 17 million acres (about 3 times the size of CT!)

It's a temperate rain forest, so we get our share of rain and gloomy days which is what I was getting at in the other thread. When it's nice out though, there really isn't another place that compares (at least from what I've seen).

A couple more photos from yesterday... IMG_20201110_110327.jpg IMG_20201110_122955.jpg
 
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Great photos!

What do you think of trump reversing the roadless status for parts of the Tongass?
 
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