We have gotten some snow up at the job, but it hasn't been staying very long.
-Miranda
Pat messing with the cable on top of the yarder.
View of a nearby mountain with snow. The road down below is what we take to get into the job.
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Today we spent the day moving the last three machines (the yarder, delimber, and loader) to the next job site. It is part of the same job, but it's about 2 miles from where we were. Yesterday, one of the guys spent the day walking the clipper throught the 'goat trail' we drive through every morning (its just wide enough in parts for the pickups) and he made the road wide enough for the 12 foot tracks of the yarder. The road was really rocky and we had to park one of the pickups at the end of it to prevent any hunters from meeting us on the road and freaking out. (hunting season started Oct. 22 here)
Everything went smoothly and we're all ready to start hooking on Monday.
-Miranda
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The site we're working on right now is called Bitterroot View. It has a beautiful view of Bitterroot Lake. Many mornings there is fog covering the lake that eventually burns away (when it's a nice day). Yesterday morning there was about an inch of snow on the ground, but that melted by lunch time.
This week has been easy for me. I've been keeping up and even though there was a problem with the delimber that Pat and I had to fix for about an hour, I still mostly caught up in the hour before quiting time. Joe has been home all week working on his project and doing some Rangenet work. He'll probably come to work next week to help us move to the second part of the job we're on.
-Miranda
Joe, Tom, and Jesse eating lunch by the yarder and a fire that Joe built.
Bitterroot Lake.
Look at the cool cloud inversion.
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Well, I've basically been keeping up. I stayed late one day last week, but Pat has to load trucks early in the morning so he has time to work on my piles of logs before we (the crew) get there. This week has been going fairly well. I keep learning new things and how best to deal with other things.
-Miranda
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I had my first day working alone without the retired delimber operator there to help me with problems or to catch up when there's a big pile of logs. It went really well. I stayed caught up and I didn't have too many problems. The hardest thing to tell sometimes is if a log is rotten and how much is too much. I think I may have kept up though because they were going a little slow. Tomorrow will be the big test. We're doing clipper piles which basically means they send up a group of trees at once and there isn't normally much time between because the piles are fairly easy to get to.
-Miranda
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