the 5 day work week, what a concept...

[056kid]

So its thursday and I havent been to work yet this week cause of the precipitation we have been receiving. If the east coasters could pick up just one idea from the westies, it would be wonderful if they could figure out how to make money in the rain over here... Or even in the mud...

its supposed to rain more over the weekend too, aaaaaaaaahh.......

 

[wigglesworth]

Yep, I started tilling the garden this morning, and lo and behold broke a belt on the tiller, and before I could get the new belt on, of course MORE FREAKIN RAIN!!!!!

Im tired of rain....

 

[slowp]

After a drive up to the landing, only to find it deserted with an inch of new snow, and more coming down hard, I came back in and announced I was going to "practice" this afternoon. Practice? Yes, practice for being retired.

I have a fire roaring in the woodstove, and am planning on doing some housework. Down here, we are having suckerholes followed by horizontal rain that is slamming into the house.

Back to work tomorrow.

 

[D&B Mack]

80 and sunny here in eastern pa, actually we have been doing fairly well on the weather this spring...must be that global warming...

 

[Rounder]

So its thursday and I havent been to work yet this week cause of the precipitation we have been receiving. If the east coasters could pick up just one idea from the westies, it would be wonderful if they could figure out how to make money in the rain over here... Or even in the mud...

its supposed to rain more over the weekend too, aaaaaaaaahh.......

They must be made of cotton candy, it's a pretty common condition on federal crews as well...... I feel yer pain - Sam

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Yep, I started tilling the garden this morning, and lo and behold broke a belt on the tiller, and before I could get the new belt on, of course MORE FREAKIN RAIN!!!!!

Im tired of rain....

I've seen drought. 7 years of drought. It was ugly. When it finally broke, a lake showed up where none had been since I'd lived there. Found out it had been there for as long as most folks knew, but dried up completely with that drought, before I moved to the area.


I'll take the rain, thanks.

 

[hammerlogging]

So its thursday and I havent been to work yet this week cause of the precipitation we have been receiving. If the east coasters could pick up just one idea from the westies, it would be wonderful if they could figure out how to make money in the rain over here... Or even in the mud...

its supposed to rain more over the weekend too, aaaaaaaaahh.......

copy that bro. i saw steam rising straight out of the mud the other day when the sun peeked through. yesterday i was relieved when the 98% humidity turned into 100% for a little drizzle.

dust dry or frozen for me, thank you.

yarders and rock. what a concept!

 

[bitzer]

I didn't even know you could run a saw in the rain until a few years ago. ha. ha.

I slide around in the mud from March through May most years then mud in October through December again until it freezes solid. This year its been pretty dry until last week when we finally got our March weather. The summer is usually a dust bowl. Hard on the intakes and radiators.

 

[056kid]

I guess a one day work week where you make double what you usually do per day is ok. A land owner gave me a 100.00 dollar tip to "open up his view". All I did was aim a limby chesnut oak toward some smaller poplars to thin things out alittle..

 

[Greystoke]

I think anyone in the logging biz should have to spend a season in Southeast Alaska to learn to appreciate decent weather. 13 feet of rain (sometimes in the form of really huge wet snowflakes) per year gets old, and you really learn to appreciate the sun when it does come out

 

[ropensaddle]

Rain should not stop anything but lightning does. I don't mind working in rain but it is hard to find any help lol. I would rather work in cool rain than 100 degrees any day.

 

[Greystoke]

Me too rope! Rain always makes me work harder!

 

[bullbuck]

lightning huh?haha we get some pretty serious lightning storms here in the southwest,if you are scared of lightning here you have pretty much put yourself out of work for two months out of the year,the only comfort is that if it does hit you,you probably wont feel a thing!

 

[ropensaddle]

lightning huh?haha we get some pretty serious lightning storms here in the southwest,if you are scared of lightning here you have pretty much put yourself out of work for two months out of the year,the only comfort is that if it does hit you,you probably wont feel a thing!

Lol I tell you what I ain't skeerd of snakes,mountain lion,bears but there is no man bad enough to keep me out in lightning. I have more sense God give me a brain to use and I use it. I worked around power so long I have become a good ground, my feet start burning and my hair stands straight up around lightning. I have a deceased uncle that was hit twice by it, he said I have the symptoms he ignored.

 

[bullbuck]

understood,i have seen 16"dbh trees obliterated before my eyes,and strikes within150'of myself,the feel when a strike is about to happen is the same as when a cougar is stalking you,cant quite get an eye on it,but nevertheless you can sense its presence.gotta say that loading a log truck on a 16'cab height dico log loader as the storm rolls in is very unpleasant to say the least,you have no choice but to complete that load,and get the truck out of the woods.but yes i agree,the sensible thing to do is take cover,even if only in a vehichle,had some firefighting buddys get smoked in the cab of a pickup,the only place that they suffered burns was where they were in contact with any type of metal surface,came out unscathed for the most part,that would not have been the case without the vehichle there.

 

[slowp]

I think anyone in the logging biz should have to spend a season in Southeast Alaska to learn to appreciate decent weather. 13 feet of rain (sometimes in the form of really huge wet snowflakes) per year gets old, and you really learn to appreciate the sun when it does come out

Some Thorne Bay guys came down to Corvallis back when we could go to logging engineering school. We were having a drought down here. They immediately went to K-Mart and bought lawn chairs and were out on the soccer field making up for lost time.

 

[ropensaddle]

I think anyone in the logging biz should have to spend a season in Southeast Alaska to learn to appreciate decent weather. 13 feet of rain (sometimes in the form of really huge wet snowflakes) per year gets old, and you really learn to appreciate the sun when it does come out

Lol I think people who like the sun coming out should work here in 99%humidity&105 degree heat to fully absorb the thing they wish for!

 

[Greystoke]

Some Thorne Bay guys came down to Corvallis back when we could go to logging engineering school. We were having a drought down here. They immediately went to K-Mart and bought lawn chairs and were out on the soccer field making up for lost time.

Thorne Bay...small world, that is where I lived! I am sure that those guys were probably before my time there though...like when Thorne Bay was still a glorious logging camp, instead of a depressing little town hangin on by a thread relying on tourism.

 

[056kid]

lol i think people who like the sun coming out should work here in 99%humidity&105 degree heat to fully absorb the thing they wish for!

true that

 

[056kid]

more rain . . .