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Guns in Australia

Croc, Roo, Panda etc. they're nothing. You haven't lived untill you've tasted some Spotted Owl tounge pate. Mmmm Mmm Good! So far as loggers being retarded...it's just not so. Their different that's all. Well it's been nice chatting but I gotta run. Have to get back on the job cutting down old growth forest.

Billy, Gary, Chris etc. if for some impossible reason you happen to come across this site.... I"M ONLY KIDDING! Stop by and I'll sharpen your chains for ya.
 
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Because that's the way the Queen wants it.
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I think that Clint and I were carved from the same branch of the same endangered tree. He's just a little bolder about saying what I'm thinking.

(He probably types faster than me.)

I'm mostly an Irish-Swede-Danish-German-Welsh-English-hienz57 mutt, with a hint of Blackfoot Indian. I don't really care where I come from until it affects where I'm going. It's a small world.

I also have a steam-power 60" circular sawmill and a good collection of chainsaws to go with my collection of fine firearms.:gun:
 
There are some that would find my life to be very objectionable. For my first eight years Dad worked in the mining industry with occasional stints as a hunting guide. When I was eight we moved into the backwoods between the BC Coastal Range and the Rockies where we lived in a one room log cabin until I was eleven... and we made our living trapping. When we moved back to civilization, my dad and mom went to work at a Noranda copper mine until my dad won a bid on a contract to operate a barge and tug for Babine Forest Products.

Mining-hunting-trapping-logging... not so much with the politically correct.

But without the mining and the logging, civilization would collapse- and the trapping and hunting have made me an active participant and lover of nature rather than the passive observer with an intellectually theoretical understanding of nature that describes most folks who consider themselves lovers of the environment.
 
I also have a steam-power 60" circular sawmill and a good collection of chainsaws to go with my collection of fine firearms.
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Ahh that's where those little puffs of white smoke that I see when standing atop Mt. A and look to the south are coming from.
 
chuck colburn said:
I also have a steam-power 60" circular sawmill and a good collection of chainsaws to go with my collection of fine firearms.
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Ahh that's where those little puffs of white smoke that I see when standing atop Mt. A and look to the south are coming from.
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yep thats me.

We only run the sawmill a few times a year now for personal projects.

When I was small my dad had a partner in a hard-rock goldmine in Nevada. They found a good vein and were mining it out well when a disgruntled cattle rancher sabotaged their mine blasting it shut for good.

I never have done any trapping but I have found several traps with my chainsaw doing pre-commercial felling on forest service blocks, mostly around creeks. They do a number on chains.(I'll have to send them up to chuck)

I too have developed a love and respect for the outdoors from an intimate relationship with it. Its hard for me to understand modern conservation movements led by people who live in asphalt jungles, and have never had to live off the land.

In High School I bucked hay on ranches, raised goats, and gleaned orchards. I planted a small orchard of my own.

One time I had to castrate sheep we were raising for wool, (Apparently you have to be able to count to two)I found out in the spring when we had new lambs, some rams are born with extra parts. Go figure.

Our gardens this year look promising, bush beans, corn, peppers, tomatillas, unions, chard, tomatoes, Jalopino's, cilantro, bell peppers, squash, cucumbers, pumpkins, watermelon, strawberries, and cantalope.

The orchard also looks good. Pears, figs, apples, peaches, cherries, wild plums, apricots, walnuts, almonds, and grapes.

Our grocery bill is quite low this time of year. When you take care of the things of nature, and live with them, understand their cycles, They take care of you.

Clint or Chuck, If you ever pass through Redding Ca. on your way to L.A. or whatever, Shoot me an E-mail. I'll buy the first round.:matrix:
 
blownapartstudios said:
Clint or Chuck, If you ever pass through Redding Ca. on your way to L.A. or whatever, Shoot me an E-mail. I'll buy the first round.:matrix:
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I'm trying to set something up in L.A. and if I do get down there I will be sure to take you up on the offer.

Our latitude and altitude aren't conducive to growing the cornucopia that you have... just the usual hardy stuff like potatoes, carrots, onions, peas, cabbages etcetera. That combined with one or two moose every fall means that not only is our grocery bill a little lower, but that we know where it came from and that it was carefully tended and prepared.


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Steven,

Thanks for the invite. And Clint, if you blasting down I-5 be forewarned it's one big speed trap between the Orygun border and Redding.
 
chuck colburn said:
Steven,

Thanks for the invite. And Clint, if you blasting down I-5 be forewarned it's one big speed trap between the Orygun border and Redding.
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I actually live in Mountaingate 15 miles north of Redding, the heart of speed-trap central. Much caution. My brothers are both cops and I still hate the po po. The supreme dictatorship attitude goes on with the uniform.
 
Same wherever you go. Here in Ashland, a community that prides itself on it's liberal,intelectuall (sp)lol viewpoint, the cops are basically revenuers. While being friendly and nice enough, they seem to hand out more tickets to the locals then the well heeled folks in their fancy cars who are here for a week of Shakespear and $300.00 a night B+Bs.
 
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