starmac
03-25-2015, 01:55 AM
The day started out good, actually excellant. The first load this morning I saw 4 different moose after I turned off on the log road. This time of year things have a huge porential to get slippery and today after the sun shown for a while there was a film of water on the ice. I have one hill (steep) that is about 3 miles full of switchbacks. This is all one lane, if you meet anyone, someone backs up. Today for the second time in the last week I met the faller for a firewood logging out fit working past the hill, except today their was NO time to worry about backing up. lol I reckon even the clean skivvies he puts on for the next few days will stain. lol
Later after I was loaded and coming out on another hill (also one lane) I rounded a curve and there was 3 snowmachines sitting about as close to the middle of the lane as you could get. The guy on the front machine took off running toward his and waving his arm for the others to take off. He jumped on his and gassed it and the other just sit there. The girl (passenger) on the one in the rear raised up a stick at me, while they just sit there, finally gassing it when I got to about 40 feet from them. The leader was already around a curve out of sight and had found a place to pull over to let me by. After I made it out to the pavement and stopped (just past a small country school) They came around while I was pulling my chains. I say pavement, because there is some under the snowpack, but hasn't been visible for several months. lol The leader past me and the other two stopped just 3 or 4 feet from me, I assumed to talk, but they didn't say anything when I spoke. He started waving for the one in the lead to come back, his machine had quit. lol The leader came back and started it for him and left again, he killed it again without moveing. lol By now school had let out, I had one lane blocked and they had the other, the leader came back and broke the recoil rope when he tried to start it again. The school buses had to wait until he got a strap and pulled it out of the road. It turned out these were Japanese (or some kind of nese) tourist, that really didn't understand english. I had been a little curious about the stick the gal had raised at me, it turned out to have a gopro mounted on it. I suppose they wanted a video of a logtruck, snow machine wreck. lol
Just a great day in the woods. lol
Later after I was loaded and coming out on another hill (also one lane) I rounded a curve and there was 3 snowmachines sitting about as close to the middle of the lane as you could get. The guy on the front machine took off running toward his and waving his arm for the others to take off. He jumped on his and gassed it and the other just sit there. The girl (passenger) on the one in the rear raised up a stick at me, while they just sit there, finally gassing it when I got to about 40 feet from them. The leader was already around a curve out of sight and had found a place to pull over to let me by. After I made it out to the pavement and stopped (just past a small country school) They came around while I was pulling my chains. I say pavement, because there is some under the snowpack, but hasn't been visible for several months. lol The leader past me and the other two stopped just 3 or 4 feet from me, I assumed to talk, but they didn't say anything when I spoke. He started waving for the one in the lead to come back, his machine had quit. lol The leader came back and started it for him and left again, he killed it again without moveing. lol By now school had let out, I had one lane blocked and they had the other, the leader came back and broke the recoil rope when he tried to start it again. The school buses had to wait until he got a strap and pulled it out of the road. It turned out these were Japanese (or some kind of nese) tourist, that really didn't understand english. I had been a little curious about the stick the gal had raised at me, it turned out to have a gopro mounted on it. I suppose they wanted a video of a logtruck, snow machine wreck. lol
Just a great day in the woods. lol