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We're in a small stand that's never been logged so some of the trees are a little oversize for us but so far they're all nice and clear. Only problem is all the blow down in it. Literally have to crawl at times to get through it.  Was going back up today to work but instead trying to install a transmission line on the 94 dodge diesel outside in the snowbank. Not looking promising though crapy Chinese parts are screwing us uo  drive 130 miles one way yesterday to get a new line only to have it not fit again. Had problems with the same line a year ago  thought maybe it was a fluke problem turns out the figment issue is with the steel line.

 

I didnt ralise you had a sawmill as well db1486 circular or bandsaw? Just for yourselve's or commercially? Sorry to get off topic ak. 

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8 hours ago, poor farmer/logger said:

We're in a small stand that's never been logged so some of the trees are a little oversize for us but so far they're all nice and clear. Only problem is all the blow down in it. Literally have to crawl at times to get through it.  Was going back up today to work but instead trying to install a transmission line on the 94 dodge diesel outside in the snowbank. Not looking promising though crapy Chinese parts are screwing us uo  drive 130 miles one way yesterday to get a new line only to have it not fit again. Had problems with the same line a year ago  thought maybe it was a fluke problem turns out the figment issue is with the steel line.

I didnt ralise you had a sawmill as well db1486 circular or bandsaw? Just for yourselve's or commercially? Sorry to get off topic ak. 

For any lines now I get compression type fittings that we crimp on to hydraulic hose and they fit on the steel line. Never any problems after that.

We have a bandsaw sawmill. Had it a year now. We had a pile of nice spruce from a fenceline we cleared so we bought a mill and sawed it up. Gonna do a bit every year now. Because we don't have enough things to do around here lol

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This transmission line has the coupler just like a a/c line has with the spring clips inside. Pretty sure the aluminium line on the truck is to long where the spring clips are supposed to lock over and onto. Did a bit of measure and the aluminium line is out of round as well. Supposed to be .50" and at it's widest spot its .523". Not exactly precision fit to say the least.

Been throwing the idea around about buying a bandsaw to cut the oversize logs but I don't think it will happen. Handy to be able to cut what ever lumber you need that's for sure. We do it semi comercially but there's no money in it really. All our time and labor we don't get much per hour that's for sure. 

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Plowed for 7 hours yesterday,  was coming back to the house after plowing out my in laws and I stopped and opened up the school bus stop, then an  elder lady was shoveling her driveway, so I helped her.  She was asking about the 460 and when I told her it was about a 1962 model she laughed and said that was the year she graduated high school,  neat lady who I don't see much. Other neighbor helped out by cleaning up any dribbles from the blade, asked me if we could help gal one house down from him, sure

amazingly everyone was thankful and pleasant. Nothing like a bit of bad weather for the neighborhood to pull together.  Now they just need to plow the roads,

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     WOW,

          So different from what we live.

         I don't think I would survive two days there.

         It sure is beautiful and a great experience for you and the family.

         Tony 

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On 2/27/2017 at 6:07 AM, tony in ca. said:

     WOW,

          So different from what we live.

         I don't think I would survive two days there.

         It sure is beautiful and a great experience for you and the family.

         Tony 

You would do great here Tony,

 

National Weather service just posted that we have over 25 pounds per square foot on roofs at the airport, so if we get much more snow we will need to consider shoveling.  Worse case would be rain on the snow  

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You are breaching the limits if you get rain, down here in Idaho, our structured load limits are set to 40 lbs per square foot, or higher if in the high altitudes, my experience is we get much wetter snow than up north. We have a cabin that we will be visiting up towards central this next week. Has been the norm that the snow there is verry dry, and not much more than 4 to 5 feet deep. Looking forward to some negative digit snow machining ?

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We used to run 40 psf and now run 50 psf live load. Normal snow here is ultra dry and fluffy, but not this year. So a good rain storm could make some very interesting changes.  Asked my inlaw if he wanted the motor home shoveled off, nope, it suppose to take it and if it don't it is insured.  Ok then

Like you I am hoping to head to the mountains and ride, but in at least double that much snow.

 

happy riding and send pictures

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4 hours ago, BOBSIH856 said:

Looks like the North Slope will keep pumping oil? I just read about a 1.2 billion barrel find.

Yeah, that's a doozy.   Let's see where it ends up but it sure looks like they will be laying a bit of feeder line and putting that one online, at least before the next presidential election

 

 

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Got a few pictures from two weeks ago, avalanche, no one hurt but dang

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one of the crew snapped a few pictures while northbound after they had been digging out

 

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avalanche caught 4 trucks and closed the pass for most of a week, no one hurt.  Funny part is it was not in the normal avalanche paths.  And was way down at the bottom of the hill

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1 hour ago, NY1468 said:

Looks like the truck is still running in the picture. 

I think they were on the backside digging it out, these pictures are 4 or 5 days after the slide when the blow was layindown

 

really lucky no one was hurt, they had gotten 22 inches of snow that night

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On 3/10/2017 at 4:50 PM, AKwelder said:

Yeah, that's a doozy.   Let's see where it ends up but it sure looks like they will be laying a bit of feeder line and putting that one online, at least before the next presidential election

 

 

Article said plan is to start production by 2020.

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4 hours ago, BOBSIH856 said:

Article said plan is to start production by 2020.

That would be great, hello overtime

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14 hours ago, AKwelder said:

That would be great, hello overtime

I wonder how much OPEC reversing their production cuts will affect the development of this oil field?

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3 hours ago, BOBSIH856 said:

I wonder how much OPEC reversing their production cuts will affect the development of this oil field?

The state is nearly bankrupt and begging for more production (and willing to give them big time tax incentives), the fields are very slow now so workers are available, and the current political climate make the permits much easier (it's in a big river delta area) so I would guess they will bring it online but leave a lot of room for expansion to full capacity. Once it's up and running they will be hard pressed to shut them down,

 

 

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Yikes. First day I spring, but that's hard core

 

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there is 4 inches of ice under the bike. 

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3 minutes ago, poor farmer/logger said:

Not as dedicated as this guy lol.. My brother saw this pic going around when we had that big blizzard a couple weeks back. Not 100% sure where it is.

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Pretty sure it's a bit north of normal. 

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Getting to be a big snow pile in the yard at work

 

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wonder how long it will take to melt

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4 hours ago, AKwelder said:

Getting to be a big snow pile in the yard at work

 

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wonder how long it will take to melt

Boston's 2015 snow pile finally melted on July 14! Tremendous amount of trash and junk left when it finally did.

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Ouch. Guy across from the in laws. 

 

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i think that's his 656, his Deere is further in

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