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[Mountain trapper]

This morning coming out our driveway.

 

[Peanut]

Going with the snowy theme... My favorite time to see Niagara Falls is winter. So much mist comes up from the falls it forms it's own micro climate... snows when there is a clear blue sky. And rainbows everywhere...

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

 

[zoomzoom]

I too enjoy Niagara Falls in the winter, but... All the observation areas are normally covered in thick ice due to the mist, it's very hard to walk around without doing a slip and fall.

 

[Magpie]

 

[randyt]

My veiw at work last fall. I used a tub sled to keep my tools dry

 

[Peanut]

Went looking for usnea today. A cousin had his logging crew working close to the farm. They are cutting in a pine forest but there are a few hardwoods. Here i commonly find usnea growing on water oaks.

The guys were busy logging so i didn't interrupt for questions. I'll go back later for a closer look at any hardwood tops they may have cut down.

 

[Weedygarden]

Iron Tail, Oglala Lakota. His image was used on the Indian Head Nickel.

 

[Woody]

 

[Weedygarden]

When I was much younger, we didn't have access to much music that was more current such as rock and roll. We mostly heard country and western. At night, we could get music from KOMA from Oklahoma City, and some station in Chicago, depending on the weather. KOMA really kept teens and young people up to date on more current music.

 

[Lenny]

When I was much younger, we didn't have access to much music that was more current such as rock and roll. We mostly heard country and western. At night, we could get music from KOMA from Oklahoma City, and some station in Chicago, depending on the weather. KOMA really kept teens and young people up to date on more current music.View attachment 123908

Interesting because I think that was one of the stations I could pick up in Sioux City, Iowa. And I do remember a Chicago station too.

 

[zannej]

My friend's new refrigerator: It has glass panels on the doors. Inside it has a pitcher that fills up with water, a water dispenser, and 2 kinds of ice makers.

 

[Bacpacker]

Interesting because I think that was one of the stations I could pick up in Sioux City, Iowa. And I do remember a Chicago station too.

I'd lay good money that Chicago station was on the AM, WLS. I could get it during the night all the way down here. Really good station

 

[Weedygarden]

I'd lay good money that Chicago station was on the AM, WLS. I could get it during the night all the way down here. Really good station

https://www.recordpatriot.com/local...the-Chicago-radio-deejays-of-the-14320176.php
CHICAGO - Those of us that spent our teenage lives growing up in Frankfort and other places in Benzie County in the 1960s remember that we first learned of “Rock and Roll” music and groups like the Beatles, the Beach Boys and songs like “Love Potion Number Nine” from a few disc jockeys from Chicago.
Deejays like **** Biondi, Clark Weber, Larry Lujack Ron Riley and Art Roberts were the ones we tuned into on our transistor radios at the Lake Michigan beach or from our houses and bedrooms in the afternoon or late at night.

We even recall becoming Loyola University basketball fans listening to the colorful “Red” Rush doing the Ramblers’ game.
Northern Michigan rarely had “Rock and Roll” music on the few radio stations in the area in those days. But because we were on the Lake Michigan coast, Chicago stations, WLS and WCFL, came in loud and clear.
And we listened.

Our first introduction to the Beatles was when Biondi became the first United States disc jockey to play the English group’s song, “Please Please Me”, a full year before they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

When WLS, which for its first thirty years was a radio station geared for farm news, changed their format in 1960 to Rock and Roll, they hired Biondi.

**** Biondi, who is now 79 years old, called himself “the Wild I-trailian”. Biondi once related that he had been fired 23 times, both fits of temper and jokes gone wrong were part of the tally.

more to the article

 

[Lenny]

I'd lay good money that Chicago station was on the AM, WLS. I could get it during the night all the way down here. Really good station

WLS sounds familiar.
The ionosphere is further away from the Earth in the winter. AM radio wave bounce off the ionosphere so they travel further during the winter and you get better reception on AM radio.
FM radio is more of a straight signal so the ionosphere doesn't affect those stations but that wasn't a concern back in the day.

 

[Peanut]

In winter I could get WLS here in alabama sometimes. I remember tuning it in while plowing for my grandfather. He had a jd4020 with a radio.

An odd photo, probably a movie still.

 

[dademoss]

I have an issue with my chair:

 

[dademoss]

I have an issue with my chair:

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Oh sure, Laugh, its not your butt falling asleep on the edge of the chair

Nope, wouldn't trade it for the world

 

[Patchouli]

Took Thursday after work. Reminded me of a Phoenix rising from the ashes

 

[kenv1950]

 

[Peanut]

Back at the logging site again today, looking for crossvine and usnea. Found some usnea, not enough to go through the trouble of making a tincture. There was one area i didn't check, maybe tomorrow. Care should be taken when walking on piles of logs. They might roll suddenly and break your leg.

 

[Peanut]

This is a tree feller. Beside my hat the big disk with large teeth spins. Cutting is done in one motion. The machine is driven into the tree. The disk begins cutting at the base of the tree. When close enough to the tree, large steel arms close around the tree.

At this point the tree is sitting of the metal plate where my hat sits, still vertical (2nd pic). The driver can then move the upright tree to a pile of other trees and release it, allowing it to fall.

(tree feller aka feller buncher)

 

[Peanut]

This is a log skidder. It has a large grapple on the back. With it the driver can pick up the end of several trees from a pile, then drag or skid them to the loader.

These pines have been growing here since i was a child... sort of sad to see them go.

 

[Mountain trapper]

When I was a kid dad would take me out to some of the logging camps in the area. This was all very steep country so they used high lead skidding techniques. It was pretty impressive to see these huge logs dangling 1,000 feet above the bottom of the canyon. An entry level logging job was choker setter.
Some areas still had logging railroads to get the logs out of the mountains and down to the mills. At that time it was common to see just one log per rail car.

 

[Lenny]

This is me back in the 1980s in a museum in Hollywood, CA flipping off a statue of Mr T

 

[Pearl]

This is a log skidder. It has a large grapple on the back. With it the driver can pick up the end of several trees from a pile, then drag or skid them to the loader.

These pines have been growing here since i was a child... sort of sad to see them go.

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Photo bomber Sam!!

 

[Woody]

 

[Sparky_D]

Outside our home yesterday...

 

[Neb]

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I vote NOT a real photo.

Ben