How'd it go today?

[Burnham]

Well, what goes around comes around...to make up for the unpleasantness of laying in the muddy ditch yesterday, bleeding from raw culvert edge cuts...there is this magnificent fall day. Spent the morning doing a bit of light bridge maintenance, re-spiking a few loose decking planks and watching the fall coho moving upstream under me all the while. The afternoon was taken up clearing some early snow-thrown hardwood tops and a few stems from one of my favorite roads. The mountain was GLORIOUS.

 

[jefflovstrom@sb]

You are a fortunate man, Burnham!
Kinda rhymes.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Beautiful Burnam ..... I just love your neck of the woods

 

[top_notch]

You are one lucky guy Burnham, what exactly is your job....do you work for the Forest Service?

 

[sotc]

He is a highclimbing culvert shaper

 

[CurSedVoyce]

He holds so many certs... It just would not surprise me...

 

[lumberjack]

Nothing all that crazy, but it's the nicest the paint's been since I've owned it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

WOW.. That took some time ... Nice Job

 

[Al Smith]

Yesterday I changed my hat and once again became a plumber .It seems my mothers' water softener was acting up .Clogged bypass filter,no big deal about a 15 miunte job .

Would you believe my old man bought that thing in 1980 the year he retired and it still works like a charm .

 

[Ridgey]

Got asked to look at a side job while doing a job for the boss,only had the lunch breakms200 so i got it a fair way down in an hour.What the boss doesn't know won't hurt him $300 in my pocket

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nothing all that crazy, but it's the nicest the paint's been since I've owned it.

So, in other words, you waxed your ride?

 

[Tree Reb]

Got asked to look at a side job while doing a job for the boss,only had the lunch breakms200 so i got it a fair way down in an hour.What the boss doesn't know won't hurt him $300 in my pocket

Bosses aren't stupid.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I don't think I'd make that blanket statement.

 

[Tree Reb]

Maybe some are.

I've found out a couple that did that to me. My gear, my saws, my clients.

Doesn't go down too well when you trust someone.

 

[Burnham]

You are one lucky guy Burnham, what exactly is your job....do you work for the Forest Service?

Yup, US Forest Service, on the Mt. Hood National Forest, since 1979. I spent 25 years as a forestry technician, a reforestation specialist. That's when I got started as a climber and sawyer.

When we basically shut down regeneration harvesting (clearcuts, followed by site prep, planting, and precommercial thinning), my job was abolished and I was offered a job in road management/maintenance. That's what I do now...but by that time I was deeply involved in climbing training and program management on the regional and national level, so I carried those duties with me.

And as Stephen intimates, I handle a variety of other instructor roles, all based on my field experience. Chainsaws, ATVs, snowmobiles, and a few others.

 

[Burnham]

Here's a couple more shots from yesterday...same mountain, different spot .

 

[sotc]

Got asked to look at a side job while doing a job for the boss,only had the lunch breakms200 so i got it a fair way down in an hour.What the boss doesn't know won't hurt him $300 in my pocket

I'd fire you. Not cool to recruit side jobs when your at work

 

[woodworkingboy]

Burnham, what is the age of the oldest trees in that forest? Has the area been heavily logged?

Thanks.

 

[Burnham]

Burnham, what is the age of the oldest trees in that forest? Has the area been heavily logged?

Thanks.

There are pockets of real ancients, Jay...Douglas firs over 600 years, sometimes just a single individual tree. Those are in spots that by virtue of topography and extra moist micro-climates, escaped fire for a longer period of time than the norm.

For the most part, I seldom have seen oldgrowth over 350 years old on this Forest. I think there must have been one hell of a massive fire sometime about that long ago. Of course there have been smaller fires since then...we have plenty of stands 200-250 years old, too.

Between 35 and 40 percent of the acreage suitable for timber management has been harvested. I don't know if you'd call that heavily logged or not...seems to vary from one person to the next quite a bit.

We're doing commercial thinning harvests exclusively now, on stands cut 45-55 years ago.

One thought provoking way to look at it is this: all the trees growing on the 1.25 million acres of the Mt. Hood NF add over 400 million board feet of wood fiber every year. We harvest about 25 million per year.

 

[sotc]

Interesting numbers

 

[Highclimber]

I'd fire you. Not cool to recruit side jobs when your at work

thats right thats not cool

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've had people ask me for my card. I wasn't soliciting.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Today was rather comical but had some highlights.. Lets see. Late start cause of kiddos... Get there (45 min drive) and fall off the back of the truck.. Yup.. hurt.. Nuttin broken.. And good thing the chain needed sharpening. No it was not running but it did hit my fingers on the way down. Now somehow as I fell I obviously had slightly torn my britches with out knowing.. I started cutting up a dead bull pine I had dropped (those pics will be in another thread) and split my pants from belt line to the back of my knee.. I finished the bull pine.. And after chasing that one last flying insect out of my air conditioned pants I called it a day. Also did not want to offend the female HO. Getting the Wraptor all packed to ship. Tomorrow will be a better day. Nuttin broke and no one died.

 

[Strikermike]

Got asked to look at a side job while doing a job for the boss,only had the lunch breakms200 so i got it a fair way down in an hour.What the boss doesn't know won't hurt him $300 in my pocket

You are young maybe you will grow up That shows very poor character. If you were asked about a job on your bosses time it should be his job. It is just like stealing from your employer. I have passed on over 100,000.00 dollars worth of work over the years because I was on my bosses clock. If you did that on one of my jobs or any business that I know you would be fired on the spot.

 

[Wagnaw]

I've had people ask me for my card. I wasn't soliciting.

Whenever I'm subbing for someone, and a neighbor asks for a card, I give them the co's card who I'm subbing for. I think it's bad juju to self promote on someone else's time.