What Was Your First Job In The Woods

[catbuster]

I was on a construction crew in between school semesters, and started off as a dozer operator building an access road.

My first real "woods" job was as Wildland Firefighter in 2001 as a temp for USFS. I was 20, and in between college semesters. I took S-212 and came out as a B faller (now Class 2). I was thrown onto a hand crew on the Thirty Mile Fire... I can say I completed my taskbook for C sawyer, but it was a sad fire.

 

[Gypo Logger]

I kind of figured you did. Ken Kesey was an interesting character. Jack Kerouac and those folks, then the merry pranksters.

The Hells Angels part was the best in Hondo Calif.
Fenistrated, first time I heard that word used. Lol
John

 

[HuskStihl]

"The defenestration of Gypo"

 

[Gypo Logger]

"The defenestration of Gypo"

I always thought I was purer than the driven snow. Lol

 

[Gypo Logger]

Once around 95 I bought some ripe pumkins I had managed a decade prior for 10 G's from a biker club. Deal done, down and trucked out. Club wants another 5 G's, so I go in again and cut the stuff I was supposed to leave for the next cut. Mailbox bomb goes off and kills woodlot owner. So Im an immediate suspect. I was only guilty by association because I threw at least two logbuyers out with no ceremony. Soon after I was cleared as a suspect.
I bet that bush is waiting for me.

 

[HuskStihl]

Once around 95 I bought some ripe pumkins I had managed a decade prior for 10 G's from a biker club. Deal done, down and trucked out. Club wants another 5 G's, so I go in again and cut the stuff I was supposed to leave for the next cut. Mailbox bomb goes off and kills woodlot owner. So Im an immediate suspect. I was only guilty by association because I threw at least two logbuyers out with no ceremony. Soon after I was cleared as a suspect.
I bet that bush is waiting for me.

If you substituted "pumkins" for "kilo's", that post would have made a lot more sense.

 

[bitzer]

Sounds like bad juju

 

[Gypo Logger]

Sounds like bad juju

No, not at all. I could feel I was being handled with kid gloves by most I knew. Lol
Nobody had their thumb on the ruler after that. Maybe that's why nobody tries to timber tresspass in my neck of the woods. Lol
I never did get that Savage Feither Weight out of the deal.. The one the Mad Trapper had.

 

[Gypo Logger]

So anyway, I got out of Indian country the hard way. I think the Cheif's father was trying to scare me off when he said, "If we find out you're a spy for the government, the coyotes will be chewing on your ribs and the ravens will be plucking out your eyeballs. This badanage I took with stoical good grace.
Shortly after that when I ran out of whiteman's grub, I was eating beaver meat fried in bear fat of unknown expiry date and got sick as hell. None of my cuts or sores would heal and I was bush crazy by then. The Indians wouldnt come around anymore because I think they thought I was nuts. Probably was. Lol
A plane flew over and I waved it down and GTF out of there!
Did I tell this part of the story already?

 

[madmarksolomon]

Root wad chipper, and knot bumper for a gypo in Chester California.

 

[bitzer]

So anyway, I got out of Indian country the hard way. I think the Cheif's father was trying to scare me off when he said, "If we find out you're a spy for the government, the coyotes will be chewing on your ribs and the ravens will be plucking out your eyeballs. This badanage I took with stoical good grace.
Shortly after that when I ran out of whiteman's grub, I was eating beaver meat fried in bear fat of unknown expiry date and got sick as hell. None of my cuts or sores would heal and I was bush crazy by then. The Indians wouldnt come around anymore because I think they thought I was nuts. Probably was. Lol
A plane flew over and I waved it down and GTF out of there!
Did I tell this part of the story already?

I know why you really had to get out of there. The chiefs daughter had a gypo bun in the oven!

 

[Gypo Logger]

I know why you really had to get out of there. The chiefs daughter had a gypo bun in the oven!

You must have read the moccasin telegraph, cause I was gonna leave that part of the story out. I was with the cheif's brothers daughter and he showed up next day and said, "my Daughter says you're a lousy fuk!", I was pretty scared at time, but looking back he was just showing his acceptance. I should have stayed with that girl, but sometimes a good man gets away. Lol.