Falling Hot Topic's

[Dennis Cahoon]

Hey guys, show us some of your Hot work. Here's some of mine! Feather River Complex Fire. Mike Sullivan and I spent 8 day's on this one. $500 a day and all the smoke you wanted to breathe. Good times had by all. Had to by new boots after cutting this one. Helicopter dropped 500gallons of water, 5 times before I could cut this tree.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Helicopter Drop

Here comes 500 gallons of water!

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Down the hill

This big sugar pine had a fire in the top, so down the hill.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Cooking Lunch

Nothing like cooking on a hot open fire. Mike Sullivan, Me, Terry McCracken, and his wife cooking lunch. It was there 20th wedding annv. that day. They camped out in the back of there truck that night. They said it was like old times. I won the farting contest after eating all those beans we cooked.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Here's the last photo, sorry I messed up

 

[Jacob J.]

Nice to see there's another jarhead here besides me that falls big snags on fire.

 

[Jacob J.]

Nothing like big trees on steep slopes.

 

[don]

Rim of the world

Where you near the rim, big bear or arrowhead?


They had 115 firetruck's ready to protect a library while all the orchards burned up.

The county fire chief sure got an earful.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Big Doug Fir

This doug fir isn't black but it was marked to cut! North Fork of the Feather River, Stirling City, Ca. Working for Ericson Hellicopter. Waded across the river, hiked for 45 minutes everyday for 2 weeks to cut this strip of big ones. If you got one in the river it was 3 days in the electric stair. This tree was 61/2 or 7' in dim. Had 17 thousand board feet of lumber and 228' of logs.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Big Doug Fir

Aaron in the under cut.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Big Doug Fir

Aaron cutting the jack seat.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Big Doug Fir

Aaron pumping the Silvey jack.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Big Doug Fir

Me, sawing it up, using 0.84 Stihl with a 42" bar.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Big Doug Fir

Aaron trimming the silivers off.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Big Doug Fir

Aaron starting to take off the first 16 with a 42" bar.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Heli strip

This is why they Helicopter logged this strip.

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

Fires

Dan,
No, haven't gone on a fire in 2or3 seasons now!
Jacob J. nice pictures. Lets see some more. And remember who you bash!, It might just come back on you.

 

[tony marks]

that fella under that tree ,,have discovered a new way to get a hairdo cheap. wouldnt say its easy ,,but its cheap enuff. i think ever kid in my neighborhood got one,, now. least thats what it looks like to me.

 

[Typhoon]

Man I have great respect for what you do there. Man that is dangerous work! Great job!

 

[Oregon_Rob]

Re: Big Doug Fir

Originally posted by Dennis Cahoon
If you got one in the river it was 3 days in the electric stair.

??????
Help us folks that don't work in the wood with this one. What is the dreaded electric stair?