Mike Hill

The forest company dictates the minimum diameter and length that gets pulled up the Hill. It can change daily,same as the cut plan for the logs. High stumps are because the grain of the timber is to swept due to the buttroots.The sweep makes them dangerous to fell as the grain is not close to vertical in the hinge. These stumps are why some of the faces look haphazard,the faller is missing the stumps that will smash the log.All the while trying not to cross one log with another, the bug stuff gets cut to length on the hill so it dosnt really matter. When I worked in BC the first time, the highest grade Stika was worth $1200 per cubic, this was 22 years ago too.Big Cedar and Hemlock is almost always hollow and rotten for the first 10 to 20 feet. Blowing stumps is generally only done on ridges where there is so little lift that the turns get hung up.The ground under the stumps just gets shattered although it is fun trying to put stumps into orbit.You never know where they will land. Sometimes timber felled the previous season gets pulled early in the spring. Axemen is pure fiction. It looks like they all sit around re creating dangerous situations that did happen but this time they control every aspect. Cable logging is a very dangerous job, amongst the three crews or about 60 blokes there would generally always be one or two off due to injury.

Ok then. The most fun reductions often took place Monday morning.

Some of my very best reductions occurred Monday morning post a Boogie at "Solid Sunday".

"Oh look!" Sayes Khris " It's a Unimog!"

WTF dose this have to do with helping working in the heat Khris? Do you think we might be unable to piss and die of water intoxication. Christ you truly are a self important throbbing codshit yodeling ,klunt trumpet .

You get used to the heat after a month or so. Going from a Scandinavian winter to work in Summer heat knocked the socks off me,even though I grew up down there. Its worse in the beginning as your body sweats alot more than it does after a while,as it learn to regulate better. As Joe said,electrolytes are helpfull but don't let him convince you to consume them from his John Thomas.

Not to mention -20c last winter.

You will get used to it.

Think about how you are going to cool it first.

Why did Mick Dempsey buy a Forst? Because he would have made the Timber Wolf extinct.

Mick You are like the Chuck Norris of Arboriculture. "Mick dosnt quote jobs,he tells clients the price and they pay him for the privilege of doing it themselves " " Why do you never see Mick sharpening a saw? Because if he did,the sharpness would split Atoms" " Why dosn't Micks wagon have a tipper?" Because the deck would never dare let him down"

I went out last night to a new stop. Had some great strikes at 209m. I forgot my usual rig and had to use baited trebble hooks which are shite. You use a giant chunk of bait tied on with electric string and the fish were grabbing it like a dog with a chew toy but not swallowing it.

I had never seen one of these before. It's a troll crab. It was -20c out on the water that day,I had to cone in because my boat was icing up.

Have you tried taking the barbs off your hooks and using a bigger size? I used to catch a lot of Maks and throw them back.Now I keep them for bait or smoke a few. The Maks come up the Fjords in huge Schools that your lure can literally ricochet off since its solid fish.We target the bigger fish chasing the Maks.I have broken a couple of Rods on (probably) Halibut.One guy I was with fought one for and hour and forty minute befor breaking him off.The record for Halibut round here is 240 kg dead weight. I had something massive on a long line during January.I couldnt pull it up from my Kayak.The sides of the Fjord were all iced up so I couldnt get to land.I tied a rope to the float,threw that on land took a detour and started yarding on the long line.The rope was cutting through my gloves before the trace snapped.I would have loved to know what fish it was.Its better to know its still out there than catch it in many ways. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/kAxWX/tok-kveite-paa-194-kg-paa-stang

I do a fair bit of sea fishing. I live 100m from a fjord and 1200m from a undersea cliff. We catch all sorts ,from Makrell to Salmon,Halibut and everything in-between. I used to longline a fair bit from my Kayak but recently bough a 22 foot inshore fishing boat. On the way up from fetching the boat I was fishing at 330m depth.Thats boring as all fluck pulling from that depth.

I do enjoy going deep with my Rod on occasion.

Sell up and move on. If you made enough to hire a manager,I suppose you would have one already? Unless you gave said manager absolute control over the entire business in effect expecting him to run it as if it was his own.Had enough profit quarterly to cover twice the managers salary I would forget it. I have seen what can happen to a business after just a couple of weeks absence by the boss. Let alone months or years. Ships have one captain for a very good reason,he is also expected to go down with his ship. The chief petty officer is not.

It really depends John. I shipped a woodchipper UK to NZ for less than what my mate paid to ship a mountain bike.

Could you hit a flying golf ball with a Pistol whilst riding a bicycle?

That much is true

Find out who the grass is an farking pay them a visit.Innit.

No. You run down a turbo because when you shut off an engine the turbo fan is still spinning. Idling the engine for a while allows the fan to slowdown without running out of oil.This is especially important with turbos mounted higher up as the oil will actually drain away from the bushes. There is precious little oil fed to most turbo compared to how fast they spin.

The holes were slogged out.re drilling and going up a size want an option as I had already taken them from 10 to 12mm in the past and I would have run out of steel on the bearing if I had taken them to 14mm.

Bolt holes on the lower feed roller bearing had slogged out.I made a triangular spacer from 10mm plate,welded 12 mm three studs to it ,then hot glued it onto the machine. Welder was acting up so that's why there are so many passes.

Nissan Micra You pick them up for next to nothing,cost nothing to run and let's face it,employees trash everything so let them trash something cheap. You can get all the saws and rigging gear you will ever need into one and still fit it up the driveway infront of the truck and chipper.