Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/23/19 12:05 AM
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Nice Boss Man ! Be thank full Yous ain’t dealing with ice....I’ve been at a spot for 2 weeks now...first 3 days was heavy rain...then it froze up for a week...now it’s thawed out ....got 3 so far...thankfully its only a 6 mile ride ,on my way to work.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Rally]
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11/23/19 12:32 AM
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Paul Dobbins
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Paul, Those water control structures, they appear to have slots to insert boards to control depth, but do they also put screens or grates in front of them? The shape seems it would catch everything going through them. How large a culvert runs through them? Yes, there are slots to put boards in, and there are no screens or grates in front of them. The pipes are normally 36 inch, but I've seen some that are smaller. The only time they have trouble is when beavers decide to put a dam in the front of them, and naturally they put all kinds of sticks in there which extend into the pipes.
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: eedup]
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11/23/19 01:23 AM
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Paul Dobbins
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Neat ride along ! I have many similar days in ark/la lots of driving not big catches...12 yrs control work for one company...now just maintenance. It's a great job, isn't it? I've been with this company for 28 years. I'm into the maintenance phase too, but covering 12 counties of maintenance is a full time job.
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/23/19 02:02 AM
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Had any ball joints break with all the miles you put on them Yota's? I had one pull apart and another snap off. That ruins your day.
Some individuals use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Drifter]
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11/23/19 02:15 AM
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Had any ball joints break with all the miles you put on them Yota's? I had one pull apart and another snap off. That ruins your day. Not once. At about 350,000 miles my mechanic said the ball joints look like they need replaced. We put Moog joints in and have had no issues.
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/23/19 02:27 AM
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Moog was the one that snapped after 1 year. Clean all fresh break. Our county road we have to run looks like the impact area of the tank range though. Got a bunch of pot holes over 4" deep and wider then the truck in several spots. Even had one on her 4 runner pulled apart without warning. Thinking serious about getting a mule maybe LOL.
Some individuals use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic
Life member NTA , and GA Trappers assoc .
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/23/19 08:58 PM
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Thanks for the ride along Paul.
"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/23/19 09:06 PM
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Changing a couple balljoints on a rough backroad trapping truck is basically just maintenance.I consider it that anyway.
Last edited by Boco; 11/23/19 09:07 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/24/19 07:29 AM
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Thanks for the ride along Mr. Paul. Keep taking your camera, it might answer a few of my dumb questions...... lol
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/24/19 02:08 PM
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I appreciated traveling on your line with you and I did not even have to get cold, wet, or tired. Thanks for the journey.
I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/24/19 04:54 PM
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Thanks for sharing. Those beavers can give a guy a run for the money at times. Thanks mac
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/24/19 05:06 PM
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I like the green bags mine are all white.
you can vote your way into socialism, but you will have to shoot your way out.
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/24/19 11:39 PM
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I'm disapointed . No gun fights or tater rake duels with cottonmouths , no bears running off with or eatin beavers , getting stuck , going in over your waders, getting caught by the wallet in C.D.R.'S , ETC.
Fur Trapping ; Its not about making Money, Its All about the Adventures you'll have on the Trapline .
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Minker]
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11/24/19 11:46 PM
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Paul Dobbins
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I'm disapointed . No gun fights or tater rake duels with cottonmouths , no bears running off with or eatin beavers , getting stuck , going in over your waders, getting caught by the wallet in C.D.R.'S , ETC.
No Mark, it was a rather uneventful day - lol.
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Re: Ride along on my line today
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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11/25/19 09:21 AM
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Still the ONLY person ive ever met to catch a wallet in a CDR, luckily unlike mine it stays packed with bills in it, lol.
Timber co. land with culverts built so you can stop them up to flood out area's doesn't make much sense to me. At least you have decent culverts, wyer tract I worked for 15 years they NEVER did replace a dinky bent up one the entire time I worked there though it was smack dab in the middle of the property and EVERYTHING had to drain through it to get back to the river.
Not my circus, not my clowns.
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