A Midsummer Night's Snark

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spikebot587 said:
Ha!

The thing that's really made me consider is his point that in the coast guard you get use your training and your MOS everyday at your job. Where in the other services you usually only get to use it when your deployed
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Having retired with 20 years in the Army, but spending over 7 years of that in Joint assignments (Army, Navy, AF, Marine, CG), I was really impressed with the (few) CG officers with which I worked. It also seemed like they had the coolest toys of all the services. I'm sure there are down sides like any other job or military service, but it seemed like they had a pretty good gig compared to some of us...
 
The Warrior said:
This was posted on another forum. Thought it was kinda cool.

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That was the most accurate tree felling I've ever seen, that guy deserves a bonus and a beer.
 
The Warrior said:
This was posted on another forum. Thought it was kinda cool.

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bigghoss said:
Damn that's some good aim right there.
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KingMC said:
That was the most accurate tree felling I've ever seen, that guy deserves a bonus and a beer.
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I saw that one a while back elsewhere, but a longer clip of it. It was like 20 minutes long and covered nearly 90 minutes of work. He would make a little cut, look it over, tap a wedge or 2, make another cut, and repeat, multiple times.. Definitely a very skilled lumberjack.
 
He's definitely done that a time or two, haha. I thought at first it was gonna catch the edge of the shed roof, but of course, didn't.
 
in tree felling contests, winner is often determined by 1/2 inch or so...

he destroyed the walk way on the other side, and "stuff".

reasonable job on a reasonable tree :D

i used my 6 winch today with the fancy bluesteel line to pull the butt end of a large red oak that broke itself, and got hung up

hot hot hot. over 90. over 60% humids. kinda sucked :D round two coming soon.
 
I knocked a toothpick down between two glasses today without touching either one.

No video. No applause. No glory.

Some work just goes on silently, unappreciated.

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(I've seen that video before, and it still impresses me. I'd have probably managed to hit both the house and the shed. And maybe take out a car or two that aren't even in the picture as well.)
 
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i used my 6 winch today with the fancy bluesteel line to pull the butt end of a large red oak that broke itself, and got hung up

hot hot hot. over 90. over 60% humids. kinda sucked :D round two coming soon.
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I know those combinations are relatively brutal up there, but that's just typical weather in central and coastal Texas (esp. coastal). Then, we get used to it over the 3 day period when we transition between our 2 seasons, not-summer to summer. Most of us down here are just the other way with respect to y'all's winters.:barf: Ice only belongs in a glass and snow on a snow cone, with syrup on top. :D
 
Batman called. He said to stop trespassing. :D

:thumbup: Cool looking cave Guyon
 
Sweet cave.... But if I can't walk in and walk out... I'd have to pass...

Awesome picture though!
 
That one, you can walk in from the entrance on the right. However, we came in from an entrance on another ridge, and we had to rappel down three successive drops, all of them involving waterfalls. We also rappelled down from the cave mouth on the left.
 
When rappelling, how do you get your gear back? Do you have to walk back to the spot you rapelled from? Or is there a way to take it with you?
 
Like a state park, pack in pack out...

Normally you will have a base with some redundant gear, if your vehicles aren't close enough (normally that aren't). So for the most part, you carry what you need on you and not much else.
 
NJBillK said:
Like a state park, pack in pack out...

Normally you will have a base with some redundant gear, if your vehicles aren't close enough (normally that aren't). So for the most part, you carry what you need on you and not much else.
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Sorry, my question wasn't clear. Having never rapelled, I'm picturing some sort of anchor and rope tied to it. You rappel down. Now how do you get your anchor and rope back when they're tied up above you?
 
You don't exactly tie your rope to the anchor. You run it through the anchor (which is often webbing tied to something; you can use some 550 cord to undo the anchor knot after you've retrieved the rope, assuming you've undone your figure 8.
 
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