getting dirty in texas

[Rex]

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.

Rex

[usa]

[Matt Bunten]

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

[Ray III]

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

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!