The way I see it there are a lot of people pay good money at Disneyland to get a sanitized version of the thrills you can have with a crawler.
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getting dirty in texas
- Matt Bunten
- 40C crawler
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- Joined: Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:23 am
- Location: New Hampshire
Stan,
Just read your post about being a dozer operator on fires. I spent a few years working for our state forest fire service on western project fires. We took an engine strike team to Tx one year, and I ended up working a a dozer boss trainee for a week. What a blast! I worked with a guy from the Fla. Dept of Forestry, and had a nice JD 450 with a fesco fire plow. I was also red carded as a sawyer, and used to love messing with the newbies, telling them about the very endangered " Idaho sidehill gougers" or the "Oregon tree squeaks" Good Memories!
Thanks,
Matt
Just read your post about being a dozer operator on fires. I spent a few years working for our state forest fire service on western project fires. We took an engine strike team to Tx one year, and I ended up working a a dozer boss trainee for a week. What a blast! I worked with a guy from the Fla. Dept of Forestry, and had a nice JD 450 with a fesco fire plow. I was also red carded as a sawyer, and used to love messing with the newbies, telling them about the very endangered " Idaho sidehill gougers" or the "Oregon tree squeaks" Good Memories!
Thanks,
Matt
JD 4410, 430 Loader, Norse 290 winch, 1970 JD 350 diesel 6 way
I was getting a good laugh out of your story about Things Best Left Alone till you mentioned that incident happened hereabouts. I think I will move fenders a bit higher up the priority list for 420 parts. Stick fending I can do with my hands, I don't know about snake fending!Stan Disbrow wrote:Hi,
My personaly favorite is when plowing snow that has ice under it and the machine suddenly does a 180 with you on the business end of the whip. Then, you get to hang onto a steering lever with one hand while hanging your arse out over the tracks which are still spinning.
Coming in a close second is when you have plowed the snow, but the ice is still there, and you manage to slip 90 degrees while on a slope. Now you have lots of ice skates all aimed downhill. The machine takes off sideways faster than a rail dragster, or at least it seems to!
That puts the snakes in third place with me.
Note that all these things happened to me when I lived in the mountains of upstate New York. Now that I'm in a river valley in North Carolina, all I really have to worry about is making myself a soft spot and sinking into the muck.
Do Cottonmouths hole up in hollow logs like Timber Rattlers do???
I might have something else to think about if they do!
Stan
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