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Thursday, October 17, 2024
A huge one log load. Must have been a bit of work to get it up on that wagon.
The caption reads "Clipper Mills, Calif.", which is between Maysville and La Porte in Yuba, Butte and Plumas Counties. A company named Soper Wheeler owned about 100,000 acres around there until about ten years ago, when they sold out to Sierra Pacific Industries and moved to New Zealand, mainly because California sucks. Not only does that area have some of the best soil for growing trees, that entire area is a 'banana belt' and gets LOTS of precipitation. Trees grow fast.
That log is what we'd call a 'Yellow Pine', which is an old growth Ponderosa Pine with those big plates for bark. Great photograph.
^^^Agree on NZ. Calif sued Sierra Pacific for starting the Moon(?) fire. Turned out Calfires' lawyers lied and were chastised by the judge. But they probably got bonuses.
some people used to know how to shift really heavy loads with block and tackle and horses. It's really pretty damned easy if you know how and have the right gear.
Trying to stop that thing going down hill might be a problem.
ReplyDeleteThe caption reads "Clipper Mills, Calif.", which is between Maysville and La Porte in Yuba, Butte and Plumas Counties. A company named Soper Wheeler owned about 100,000 acres around there until about ten years ago, when they sold out to Sierra Pacific Industries and moved to New Zealand, mainly because California sucks. Not only does that area have some of the best soil for growing trees, that entire area is a 'banana belt' and gets LOTS of precipitation. Trees grow fast.
ReplyDeleteThat log is what we'd call a 'Yellow Pine', which is an old growth Ponderosa Pine with those big plates for bark.
Great photograph.
To each, his own, but if you ask me, New Zealand sucks too. Beautiful country, but their people have managed to elect horrible governments.
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^^^Agree on NZ. Calif sued Sierra Pacific for starting the Moon(?) fire. Turned out Calfires' lawyers lied and were chastised by the judge. But they probably got bonuses.
DeleteThe Moonlight Fire.
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Then SPI ended up getting royally shafted by the federal courts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_Fire
load it up with a gin pole and a block n tackle
ReplyDeletesome people used to know how to shift really heavy loads with block and tackle and horses. It's really pretty damned easy if you know how and have the right gear.
ReplyDeletewhat are the wagon wheels made of ?? thanks
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