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Stone Branch, build it, they will come.
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George
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Changing of the guard, Tank has prostate cancer and can't pee, he drains some at night when he is laying down. I got the cytology on Monday from his Friday follow up visit. I knew 3-4 weeks ago when I saw him having trouble peeing. I saw this new boy with his 4 remaining litter mates on Craigslist Sunday evening. I drove to Louisville yesterday to get him. He is 12 weeks in a few days and weighs 30 pounds. I'm figuring on planting Tank in the orchard tomorrow.
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Native Hunter
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Sad news George. Take care.
George
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Mennoniteman
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Now that's going to be a tough day. Rest in Peace Tank.
Mennoniteman
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How old is Tank? It seems you only got him as an unruly pup a short time ago...
George
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Thanks Mennoniteman, No, Tank was always a great dog. I drove to California the first week in 2018 to pick him up when I lived in Colorado after my pit, Hank suddenly died at age 3. Tank is 7 1/2. Tank is still with us but it is day to day now. The more time that the new pup has to spend with him, the better.
When we saw a trout rise, I had one chance to hook it, if I missed the hook, it was then Tank's turn to catch the trout. He was a bit aggravating on little creeks like Williams creek.
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Mennoniteman
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Great pictures. I meant unruly in a good way, as in a young pup full of energy.
George
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Thanks, he was unruly in a good way, dipper birds weren't safe when he was on the river.
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weekender21
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Beautiful shots of that fire!
Haven’t made it up to burn on our place yet but still might get to. Western NC has been in a red flag warning for several weeks but moist air is in the way.
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Haven’t made it up to burn on our place yet but still might get to. Western NC has been in a red flag warning for several weeks but moist air is in the way.
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George
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Friday morning I went back in to check out my Thursday evening burn.
My fire break held
except where it didn't and the fire went down on to my neighbors property
The fire went aways down and stopped, my neighbor said in the past that it would be ok to let the fire go down to his green field.
A decent burn up on the ridge top.
Not much on the east slope
west slope
All good.
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My fire break held
except where it didn't and the fire went down on to my neighbors property
The fire went aways down and stopped, my neighbor said in the past that it would be ok to let the fire go down to his green field.
A decent burn up on the ridge top.
Not much on the east slope
west slope
All good.
G
George
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Friday afternoon I was up weeding my garden on the upper rim leading to my north ridge property line, before
and after. I have a 4/1 deadline for cutting trees down per my EQIP contract. I'm letting the sunshine making another green brier food plot. It was hot and windy up there.
Pastor Terry stopped by on Friday evening and asked if that was my fire making all that smoke. I told him that I had a fire yesterday. He said that the neighbors holler was full of smoke and he saw the forest service with a bull dozer on the trailer. I put my drone up for a peek over the ridge.
I had a head fire come up out of the bottom and was now a flanking/back burn working across my ridge
My one concern was the fire that went up and over my neighbors ridge to the south.
I then drove out and around to my neighbors, through his yard and back where I still had a nice fire working.
It was a good burn.
I went back, geared, and gassed up and then spent the next five hours putting out the fire up and over my neighbor's ridge. Looking back across the way at the fire on my ground.
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and after. I have a 4/1 deadline for cutting trees down per my EQIP contract. I'm letting the sunshine making another green brier food plot. It was hot and windy up there.
Pastor Terry stopped by on Friday evening and asked if that was my fire making all that smoke. I told him that I had a fire yesterday. He said that the neighbors holler was full of smoke and he saw the forest service with a bull dozer on the trailer. I put my drone up for a peek over the ridge.
I had a head fire come up out of the bottom and was now a flanking/back burn working across my ridge
My one concern was the fire that went up and over my neighbors ridge to the south.
I then drove out and around to my neighbors, through his yard and back where I still had a nice fire working.
It was a good burn.
I went back, geared, and gassed up and then spent the next five hours putting out the fire up and over my neighbor's ridge. Looking back across the way at the fire on my ground.
G
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George
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I was back up heading off fire and working fire lines by 6am Saturday morning. I had one active fire working down in my ditch.
After that i went around to visit with my neighbor, he said that he wasn't happy. It wasn't my fire that mostly made him unhappy but the traffic that he had through his yard, a couple of forestry trucks and nosey neighbors in and out.
Where the fire breached the creek.
He got a real nice reset along his green fields.
By the time that I got back up on Saturday around noon I had a head fire whip up through my maple woods and fire on both my east and west ridge property lines
That head fire turned into a back burn.
I was back and forth saving my property lines. Later I back burned off of my east fire break. Which went ok until I had a windstorm whip up and move the fire line over the break.
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After that i went around to visit with my neighbor, he said that he wasn't happy. It wasn't my fire that mostly made him unhappy but the traffic that he had through his yard, a couple of forestry trucks and nosey neighbors in and out.
Where the fire breached the creek.
He got a real nice reset along his green fields.
By the time that I got back up on Saturday around noon I had a head fire whip up through my maple woods and fire on both my east and west ridge property lines
That head fire turned into a back burn.
I was back and forth saving my property lines. Later I back burned off of my east fire break. Which went ok until I had a windstorm whip up and move the fire line over the break.
G
George
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Two hours later and I had my spot fires put out about 90 yards down at my east fence line.
At one point I came up to find my chainsaw and Stihl hat engulfed in flames, I jumped in to save them but had to jump back out when I realized that me and my backpack blower had become one with the fire. I went around and saved my saw with just a tempered bar and chain. My Stihl hat and the skin on my nose were casualties of the fire.
The areas where head fire went through were mostly areas that I wanted to burn hot and kill trees to make green briar food plots.
Long story less long, my 9 acre burn turned into a 55 acre burn not including 12 acres of my neighbor's ridge. If I didn't hold my east line on Saturday it might have been a thousand acre burn unit.
It rained Sunday morning enough to stop the fire. I'm happy with the burn, it was fun, lots of action, quick thinking on my feet, and problem solving.
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At one point I came up to find my chainsaw and Stihl hat engulfed in flames, I jumped in to save them but had to jump back out when I realized that me and my backpack blower had become one with the fire. I went around and saved my saw with just a tempered bar and chain. My Stihl hat and the skin on my nose were casualties of the fire.
The areas where head fire went through were mostly areas that I wanted to burn hot and kill trees to make green briar food plots.
Long story less long, my 9 acre burn turned into a 55 acre burn not including 12 acres of my neighbor's ridge. If I didn't hold my east line on Saturday it might have been a thousand acre burn unit.
It rained Sunday morning enough to stop the fire. I'm happy with the burn, it was fun, lots of action, quick thinking on my feet, and problem solving.
G
Mennoniteman
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Wow, that burn was pretty wild. Nothing exciting happening around here. I guess I need to do some burning in my woods...
George
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T-Max
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Glad you got that sorted, G! 2 questions:
1. Will your neighbor be alright? Meaning will he understand that what happened will be a good thing for him in the long run?
2. Didn't you used to suffer from afib (maybe that's not the right term). If so, this seemed like a pretty strenuous day. You doing well after that?
1. Will your neighbor be alright? Meaning will he understand that what happened will be a good thing for him in the long run?
2. Didn't you used to suffer from afib (maybe that's not the right term). If so, this seemed like a pretty strenuous day. You doing well after that?
