Re: Mountain Journal 2014
[Re: Bushman]
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03/22/14 12:00 PM
03/22/14 12:00 PM
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Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,514 Orergon
alaska viking
"Made it two years not being censored"
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"Made it two years not being censored"
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,514
Orergon
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Looking good! What sort of siding are you going to use?
Just doing what I want now.
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Re: Mountain Journal 2014
[Re: Bushman]
#4392200
03/22/14 12:16 PM
03/22/14 12:16 PM
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Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,514 Orergon
alaska viking
"Made it two years not being censored"
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"Made it two years not being censored"
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,514
Orergon
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I love metal, myself. Almost maintenance-free.
Just doing what I want now.
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Re: Mountain Journal 2014
[Re: Bushman]
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03/22/14 12:32 PM
03/22/14 12:32 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,017 Alberta
Bushman
OP
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Alberta
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Yukon - Sorry to hear about Walter, just passed his ranch yesterday, I'm down in Abbotsford BC today. I will see him when I go back for sure.
Did you ever go on his trapline? Here's a story I bet you can relate to if you know his son Travis. We go hunting on their trapline chasing elk, using their argo. We leave their cabin early in the morning and drive for an hour twisting and turning through that maze of trails down there. Get to the "hot spot" and split up to look for sign. All of a sudden a deluge opens up and rain falls like a biblical story. I hunker down under a huge spruce and am pretty dry waiting for the rain to stop…but it doesn't. After half an hour I figure I better start a fire while the branches of the spruce were still dry and I get me a toasty little blaze going under the spruce. After a couple of hours of this I hear the argo off in the distance. Awesome travis is coming to get me, after all he sent me it this direction and knows where I am.
Gee the bush is sure funny as it sounds like he's driving away. Yup he took off and drove back to the cabin and left me there. After another hour the rain stops and it's actually sunny and getting hot. Cool, now travis will come get me. By three oclock I figure I'm on my own and better figure out how to get out of there. But is Grey sky coming in, new country, rain has not only pounded down all the grass and erased tracks but is also lying in the trail in huge ponds.
This is pre-gps and it was grey when I came in so was a bit fuzzy on directions. But I had a compass and the road in was west so one way or the other I was getting out. I was relieved to cut a fresh argo track and follow it back to the cabin, soaked from the neck down. There stood the cabin with smoke puffing the chimney, looking like a sanctuary. I open the door and there lay Travis sprawled on the couch, mouth ajar, snoring. I woke him up, rest of story censored.
I have 5 Northern Sled Work tobbogans showing up on Sunday in GP. That guy should be paying me commissions ( Right Dave? ) He treated me good and makes good product. I'm not as keen on the hitch system on the big loads. Anyone beef the hitch up with aluminum tubbing so you could back up with heavy loads? I'm 1000+ on some of these.
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Re: Mountain Journal 2014
[Re: yukon254]
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03/22/14 02:38 PM
03/22/14 02:38 PM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 1,997 Kelowna BC Canada
trapper ron
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Kelowna BC Canada
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Really enjoying this journal Brian. Last comments reminds me that I need to cover the plywood on my with something. Been lucky so far, two winters ago has a porky visit. The chewed high up on several if the pine at camp but did not touch any plywood.
Keep the pictures coming as you progress. Sending the tin in by helicopter sling will be fun for the pilot. It's like trying to tow a sail. Our son says when he slings plywood he likes to have other materials with it for added weight to stabilize the sling.
Member BCTA Trapping Instructor
"It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts."
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Re: Mountain Journal 2014
[Re: Bushman]
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03/22/14 08:08 PM
03/22/14 08:08 PM
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Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 555 Fairbanks Alaska
AKHowler
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Posts: 555
Fairbanks Alaska
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Great journal, appreciate the conditions similar to mine. Cabin is looking very comfortable. Why do you put your stove pipe out the end wall instead of thru the roof? Seems like more work and more hazard to put the two 90 degree bends in the pipe. As for beefing up the hitch, I have run another piece of 1/2" UMHW over the top of the tongue as a stiffner (4"X24"). Just bolted it on as an overlay. Worked great on my first sled I built and only used 3/8" UMHW for the tongue.
Alaskan #9 Trap Company JR Pederson PO BOX 58226 Fairbanks AK 99711 cell# 907-378-7291 pedersonjr@yahoo.com
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Re: Mountain Journal 2014
[Re: Bushman]
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03/25/14 12:09 PM
03/25/14 12:09 PM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 1,997 Kelowna BC Canada
trapper ron
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trapper
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Kelowna BC Canada
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Relative to flooring. My camp is painted with Porch & Floor enamel (grey) and it is very hard to keep clean. We thought about the laminate but were told it would swell with water (snow) on the floor from our boots. It would sure be easy to keep clean though with a Swiffer mop. The advantage to a painted floor is that it dries very quickly when you track snow in.
Member BCTA Trapping Instructor
"It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts."
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