What Would It Be Like If We Were All In A Logging Camp Together?

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Windthrown we aint in San Diego anymore. And the rifle you got there that thing is butt ugly. Where's the wood? It looks like some kind dinosaur fishing lure. Just needs a couple feathers .

So I been sick with the flu and a cold at the same time here for about a week. Gypo let us off for the Fourth so I spent a few days in Big Sur. Man, that place is dusty with this drought they got goin on. We got bear problems there too. Garbage bears. I'm heading to the Sierras on Sunday to wrestle with more bears. Garbage bears.

Windy I know you been worrying about someone breaking into camp and stealing stuff. Well if finally happened cepting it didn't work out so well for the thieves. I guess they saw our equipment and camp and all and felt sorry for us. They left a couple old yellow chainsaws, 5 gallons of gas, and couple rolls of haywire. They even left a 20 dollar bill on the bar. By the puddle of vomit outside they musta tried to drink some of Gypo's homebrew and ate some donuts. Poor bastards.

You all heard about the bears breaking into the bunkhouse right? Broke in around midnight. Scared the hell out of everyone but Northman. He didn't even wake up till one of the bears threw a bucket of water on the bed. Well I'll tell you, all hell broke loose. We all ran away (John opened the bar) and stayed away till the noise stopped. After awhile Northy and the bears came over to the bar (that's when we all ran away a second time) and one of the bears started pouring drinks. I swear the other one was playing the piano. Come morning the two bears were walking slowly back to the woods. One was holding his head an the other had to stop and throw up every few steps. We found Northy asleep in that cave behind the bar.

Doc HS said he'd go out and look in on the bears. Him being our veterinarian/proctologist/barber/surgeon and him having all those diplomas on the wall I figured he'd be OK. He tracked the bears by their vomit trail. When he found one puddle of vomit where the bear puked up a caulked boot he proclaimed the bear must surely be feeling better and came back to camp. I never seen Doc drink so early in the day.

Bob has been working the Stearman pretty hard. He loaded the tank with Gypo's homebrew and sprayed a bunch of hippies who were picking wildflowers. Bob was painting more little sick figures on the side of his plane the last time I saw him.

The County sent a telegram saying they're sending in an inspector as soon as they get their new MRAP. Bunch of sissies. They run away at the first sound of gunfire. I told them if they hear the gunfire the bullet wasn't meant for them. Nate's donut launcher took out their back window at 300 yards. Good shootin Nate, new record. (Bitzer dropping that tree in the road doesn't help.)

Stand by, more to follow. (Remember, don't shoot Northman even by accident)
2dogs
 
2dogs, do not worry about the dust in CA. Another El Nino is forming now and is likely to be bigger than the one in 1997. You are going to be in for some serious flooding there in Santa Cruz. I was there when the big one flooded out SC back in 1982. Used to be all kinds of roads throughout Santa Cruz County before those floods and the Loma Prieta EQ in 1989. Start building an arc now, some serious water is coming your way. The drought is going to be over in a deluge.
 
Bitz is just a kid. A foul-mouthed, excessively procreating kid, but a kid nonetheless. Nate, it's funny that you are the same age as Aaron and Handsome Mike, as you act old enough to be their father!:crazy2:

That hasn't been my experience at the GTG's. :D

I'm slow to anger and fast to joke. I'd rather lead by cajoling than by yelling. I've got lots of experience with way worse people than show up here so my temper is long and my patience unchallenged. F&L is my people and you clowns are a hoot to hang out with. If I ever start to get cranky I expect the lot of you to force-feed me PBR until my attitude improves.

Consider it done sir.

I still think it was dumb how he ran the saw under water. He should have had no problem bucking him out with that set up.
I never saw how that woulda fouled the carb. Movie magic, I guess.

The saw is drowned out in the book. In the movie however, It's instead implied that the saw was in need of ''fixing'' (Henry yells at Hank about "fixing that saw" when Lee Remick's character is trying to talk Hank into staying with her rather than going out logging).

This is in the morning before they head to the jobsite. Hank doesn't fix the saw, but instead takes it out with them to the job............where bad things ensue (including the saw crapping out at the critical moment). I tried finding that specific scene on Youtube, but failed...
 
Windthrown we aint in San Diego anymore. And the rifle you got there that thing is butt ugly. Where's the wood? It looks like some kind dinosaur fishing lure. Just needs a couple feathers .

So I been sick with the flu and a cold at the same time here for about a week. Gypo let us off for the Fourth so I spent a few days in Big Sur. Man, that place is dusty with this drought they got goin on. We got bear problems there too. Garbage bears. I'm heading to the Sierras on Sunday to wrestle with more bears. Garbage bears.

Windy I know you been worrying about someone breaking into camp and stealing stuff. Well if finally happened cepting it didn't work out so well for the thieves. I guess they saw our equipment and camp and all and felt sorry for us. They left a couple old yellow chainsaws, 5 gallons of gas, and couple rolls of haywire. They even left a 20 dollar bill on the bar. By the puddle of vomit outside they musta tried to drink some of Gypo's homebrew and ate some donuts. Poor bastards.

You all heard about the bears breaking into the bunkhouse right? Broke in around midnight. Scared the hell out of everyone but Northman. He didn't even wake up till one of the bears threw a bucket of water on the bed. Well I'll tell you, all hell broke loose. We all ran away (John opened the bar) and stayed away till the noise stopped. After awhile Northy and the bears came over to the bar (that's when we all ran away a second time) and one of the bears started pouring drinks. I swear the other one was playing the piano. Come morning the two bears were walking slowly back to the woods. One was holding his head an the other had to stop and throw up every few steps. We found Northy asleep in that cave behind the bar.

Doc HS said he'd go out and look in on the bears. Him being our veterinarian/proctologist/barber/surgeon and him having all those diplomas on the wall I figured he'd be OK. He tracked the bears by their vomit trail. When he found one puddle of vomit where the bear puked up a caulked boot he proclaimed the bear must surely be feeling better and came back to camp. I never seen Doc drink so early in the day.

Bob has been working the Stearman pretty hard. He loaded the tank with Gypo's homebrew and sprayed a bunch of hippies who were picking wildflowers. Bob was painting more little sick figures on the side of his plane the last time I saw him.

The County sent a telegram saying they're sending in an inspector as soon as they get their new MRAP. Bunch of sissies. They run away at the first sound of gunfire. I told them if they hear the gunfire the bullet wasn't meant for them. Nate's donut launcher took out their back window at 300 yards. Good shootin Nate, new record. (Bitzer dropping that tree in the road doesn't help.)

Stand by, more to follow. (Remember, don't shoot Northman even by accident)
2dogs
Glad you're back. And feeling better
 
Yaaay! Story time.....
Nope, just got a call from the camp near Big Sur that they are having major problems. I'm going to help cook a VIP lunch tomorrow since the head cook quit the first day of camp, some sort of mental thing. A staffer suffered a head injury and had to be medivaced out via ground ambulance. I think that took two hours. The huge kitchen water heater quit working, the camp truck hit a tree, and the Ranger worked a 20 hour day and a 16 hour day back to back. Oh and the phone line went down.

My daughter turned 21 today and headed out with a bunch of friends. I won't sleep well tonight.
 
Bill, when you get all those problems solved figure out what you're going to do after lunch.
Well when I wasn't helping in the kitchen I was unclogging toilets. (I really hate our ultra low flush toilets, 1 1/2 gallons just doesn't move the contents well enough). And yes I did wash my hands between jobs. I went down just to work on Thursday and then come home. They begged me to stay since there was 190lbs of tri-tip to cook on Friday so I had to borrow a sleeping bag and sleep in the warehouse. I just happened to have a spare t-shirt but no change of underwear or socks. Pheww! I came home late Friday but I was wiped out all day Saturday. At least I had left over tri-tip.

The bears continue to be a problem but we now have a covered dumpster. None of the bears are wearing a blue Mac-T so we are safe shooting in their direction to scare them out of camp. Now if we could just get rid of the ravens. They're messier than the bears. Garbage ravens.
 
I know two people who drove right under a moose. The guy driving the Ford Escort drove away with literally only burns in the paint on his roof and the moose ran away too. The other one was a full sized Buick with canoe racks. Car totaled, moose dead, driver (my aunt) was safe.

Oly, I'd rather hit 5 goats than one good sized pig or bear. Mobile stump is a good comparison. My dad always said they are like a giant bowling ball, you don't want to run over one because it has happened where they flipped the car. Animals like deer just kinda just crunch up when you hit them.

I'm jealous of the guys who work for the railroad. Every time a train hits a moose they get to keep all of the meat. I love moose meat!
 

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