We finished up the job we were on within a couple hours this morning and then started to get stuff taken care of to move. Pat and Dennis (he runs the clipper which walks around on the hillside clipping trees) went to the new jobsite where the clipper already was while Jesse, Tom and I started to move the yarder and delimber. Unfortunately, during our walk the yarder lost its track in the middle of the road. It came off the front guide wheel. Fortunately the truck driver was up loading logs so we called him on the radio to tell him to use his phone to try calling Pat. We tried to put the dumb thing back on from at least 2:00 to 6:00. They finally got the yarder off the road in a nearby widespot and are going to work on it tomorrow when there's daylight to help.
During all this, Dennis was at the new jobsite and apparently ended up having a problem with his machine. He was stuck there doing nothing from 2:30 until I picked him up at 5:45ish.
Fun, exciting day.....
-Miranda
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Last Thursday we had a nice mess in the cable that goes down the mountain. Pat got to try to straighten it out, which didn't go so well. They ended up having to unroll the entire drum of cable.
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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The house has two cats. They stay outside most of the year, but now they're inside since it's getting chilly out. The cats were named after the couple that gave Pat and Nancy them. They can be really annoying. They like attention.
-Miranda
The is Cleo and Joe. Joe wasn't expecting his picture to be taken right then
The is Brad. She drools.
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I thought I would take some pictures of the house and where the RV is. Notice the storm clouds.... yeah,, we've been very rainy here the last couple days. We haven't even had the logging trucks come up to the new site yet because the road is very slick and muddy from all the rain.
-Miranda
The house (yes, the mailbox is a cow, unfortunately it lost its head).
The RV is parked behind the house by Pat and Nancy's fancier RV.
Joe getting wood out of the lower wood shop for the house.
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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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