Pulaski's and quality on the trail

Peg I was reading that thread last week so awesome that must be nice to have some help with that. Forest33 yep those plastic wedge suck but nice thing if you use it for five mins chances are the wedge will fall out and then you can put in a wood wedge. Ah pook. The Colorado plateau covers western Colorado into Utah, and az. Just to give you a idea western U.S. where the trees are small and the rivers big(well at least befor the rivers leave the state)
 
For those outside forestry circles, it is standard practice for all forestry groups, both government and private, out here to paint their fire tool handles in an agreed upon color code kind of like the Indian arrows in the old cowboy movies. This makes sorting out what belongs to who after big fire easy when you have equipment scattered everywhere. I remember once when one of our foresters took a company pickup in to the Ford dealer for repair. He noticed a shovel sticking out of a pile of sand on the edge of their parking lot very distinctly painted with our colors. When he went over, pulled the shovel out of the pile and threw it in the back of his pickup, one of the Ford guys tried to stop him. Bad move and it didn't happen.
 
Forester33 very nice I am 38 miles from the Utah off what old timers call the grand river
Gouger good story we paint our tools by color so I can repair them and keep track of who's crew has lost or broken tools over the seasons. I have seen some colors from the fire crews look like arrows. This world is becoming even smaller
 
I recently bought a Pulaski at a pawn shop that had 3 strips about 2" wide each.
They were red, white and blue.
I sanded them off though because I wanted a 'clean' handle.
It's an FSS one too.
 
Sidehill Gouger said:
For those outside forestry circles, it is standard practice for all forestry groups, both government and private, out here to paint their fire tool handles in an agreed upon color code kind of like the Indian arrows in the old cowboy movies.
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At the DNR each crew has its own color code. Even at the Washington Trails Association they have several different color codes for the various crews.
 
And I bet none of them were the same as Weyerhaeuser right? If they were, the first fire when tools got mixed up on the line we would have loaded any with our colors on them in the truck and left.
 
Here is my older council rehang and ready for safety stand by
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