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Originally posted by ChrisOlson View PostThen you know that log skidders are brutal machines that are broke all the time. And when you run one you get real good at fixing pieces of heavy iron in the middle of the woods, usually someplace where you can only get to it with another log skidder or something on tracks.
Days long before my interest in solar and other alternative energy were to blossom.PaulComment
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Originally posted by livingincebu View PostYes, siree. Pulled God only knows how much pine out of the woods, to head for one of several local paper mills. Hauled chips too.
Days long before my interest in solar and other alternative energy were to blossom.
That "blossoming" thing sort of goes with the territory when you work in the woods. You learn about all kinds of different types of alternative energy, like how long you can run a grinder off an inverter hooked up to your truck batteries with jumper cables. Then that goes dead so you hook up the jumper cables to the skidder batteries and learn how long those will run the grinder. Then when you finally realize that nothing you got sitting in the woods will start you hook 'em all together and hope you got enough power with 'em all combined to get at least one engine to start.
I've actually done that.off-grid in Northern Wisconsin for 14 yearsComment
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Originally posted by livingincebu View PostYes, siree. Pulled God only knows how much pine out of the woods, to head for one of several local paper mills. Hauled chips too.
Days long before my interest in solar and other alternative energy were to blossom.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]Comment
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Originally posted by russ View PostIn 1964 I spent one summer setting chokers in Oregon - too much work!off-grid in Northern Wisconsin for 14 yearsComment
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Originally posted by ChrisOlson View PostBasically, anything to do with logging is too much work. And one of the most dangerous occupations there is.
Those fallers were some tough SOBs - the chain saws have possibly changed more than about anything over the years. The fallers saws then were all a man could carry.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]Comment
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Originally posted by russ View PostThose fallers were some tough SOBs - the chain saws have possibly changed more than about anything over the years. The fallers saws then were all a man could carry.
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