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ParticipantRobert,
Could you put up a link with mapquest/google map and/or directions? Thx!ParticipantVery nice, Tim!
ParticipantGlad everyone is OK.
Great fortune not to have significant wind. With moisture like that I would imagine you would have timber down everywhere if the wind had been an issue?
ParticipantFor a rancher, you’re too young to be busted up already, cowboy. Take it easy on yourself. I’m sure the kids & neighbors can help out with whatever needs to be done from the saddle. You have any up high you have to push down the mountain this fall? Anyway… you have to get your priorities right and be sound for elk season!
Heal up, friend.
ParticipantWes,
Somehow I missed hearing that all was not right in your world. Whatever had you down, I’m glad you landed right side up.
Take care of yourself…
-Scott
ParticipantEthan,
Check with Carl. He is a forester and a horse logger which would work well for your career path. As a future natural resource manager the more diverse perspectives you are able gather the better off you will be in the future. I know he takes apprentices from time to time…ParticipantAfternoon fellow stumpjumpers,
Slow on the uptake for this one, needed to contemplate a bit more on the response to avoid just rehashing what has been said several times before. The original point of the thread being research re: draft animals as viable harvesting system.
I have spent a lot of time searching for time/motion studies. Anything that has been done was done many years ago with the exception of some work out of Auburn. Art Shannon from Ontario did a study with FERIC where his horse/forwarder mixed-system out performed a cable skidder operation. I’ll try to get a hold of him again and see if I can’t track down that paper.
For now, I went through my files and pulled up the articles that I thought were most relevant to the direction this thread was going and posted them in a folder located at:
Trying to condense a meaningful follow-up in my head without it turning into a thesis and its just not working…
So… I’ll just end with a ‘Carl-ism’ – “It’s about working horses in the woods”
Participant@Robert MoonShadow 27439 wrote:
Salmon River = steelhead/salmon/chinook should be running then
Now you have my undivided attention!
ParticipantYou’ll definitely have to make it MOFGA LIF weekend this year then.
Not sure if I’ll be able to swing it this go around; a lttle over “10 minutes away” for me… 😉
ParticipantCheck out the photos on the photoplog if you haven’t already. I went back in November and took several pics of John’s rig at MOFGA LIF. E-mail John directly, I think Carolynn is keeping him busy working in the garden now…
ParticipantI started a news secton on Google for anyone who is interested in following EHV-1
http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&csid=720817e9e9828142&ict=ln
ParticipantI started a news secton on Google for anyone who is interested in following EHV-1
http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&csid=720817e9e9828142&ict=ln
ParticipantAs of now, most of our commercial arenas, event centers, equine clinics, & fairgrounds in CO are in lockdown mode. You need a permit to enter the State with a horse and an up to date health certificate just to be going down the road. Pretty much all horse events have been cancelled…as it should be.
Quarantine and people staying home is the best way to isolate this. If everyone behaves for a few weeks and uses their head we’ll be fine.
ParticipantIf everyone just stays home with dobbin for the next three weeks this will subside quickly.
ParticipantI have a Norwood sliding beam arch that is equipped with a toungue/coupler for an ATV. My plan is to remove the current tongue and replace it with a Pioneer shaft adapter. Should work great for a single and be extremely maneuverable. The Pioneer adapter has a built-in riser that should maintain a correct line of draft while allowing the sliding-beam to operate as intended. Could work for a pole as well if you wanted to use a team but the arch might be tipped back a bit too much.
Inventiveness, ingenuity, and thinking outside of the box is what makes draft animal powered forestry work well…
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