Posted by Sherman in Idaho [108.162.246.17] on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 03:46:23 :
In Reply to: Re: Persian pink posted by TGP (IL)ip [172.68.58.145] on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 18:34:10 :
That's why my granddad got to be a granddad rather than just another young hot-shot who ended up underneath 30,000 lbs of fine American iron.
Had an old-time cat-skinner explain to me one time how you can clear ditches, crown a road, and cut a road across a steep face, all with just a straight blade cable rig (no down pressure and no angle). Didn't sound easy at all but in those days it was a big step up from a plow and a Fresno. I have a few pictures of my great-grandpa doing a road cut using a steam donkey and a 2-man scraper that was more like the slushers we use in the mines today than like a Fresno. The donkey burned old-growth fir and the water was hauled in a big horse-drawn wagon. That must have been the very earliest days of mechanized road building. The county road still uses that cut today.
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