Sunday, March 30, 2025
Saturday, March 29, 2025
One of the best coins I've ever seen, art work wise, yet done 2350 years ago. Wonder what is on the other side?
3rd Century Alexander the Great Roman Gold Medallion
Part of the Aboukir Treasure, a sensational cache found in 1902 at Aboukir, Egypt, northeast of Alexandria. This medallion portrays the noble visage of Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) as an invincible war hero holding a spear and shield. It is now on display in the Bode Museum, Berlin, Germany.
McCulloch with a four foot bar
Reader Elmo asked about the chain saw with a huge bar, so this morning I digitized some old pictures of it. The year is 1980.
Here I am all dirty but happy and making money, while using one of the coolest tools imaginable while working in the woods
Guy I was working with - his job, actually - balancing the saw on the tip to show what a beast it was.
Somehow the handle of the sledge broke, and when you are hours out in the sticks, you can't really just run to the hardware store to get another one. So, make do with what you can hunt up.
So what do you use a chainsaw with a four foot bar to do? Well, you buck up big oak rounds to split, that's what.
Bonus picture. This is an old inclined grade from the top of the ridge down into the Merced River Canyon below Yosemite. This is the same river you see in glamour pictures of the valley, but here far downstream in the canyon. Supposedly they winched RR cars with logs down to the bottom, where they would move on to the mill somewhere. I still have a rusty old railroad spike I picked up there.
Another view. The little shack was probably for someone to observe the system and spot trouble.
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