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Annual trip for Lodge Pole.

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  1. Mag Craft

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    Well this will be my second trip up to the mountains to get Lodge pole to replace what I burned last year. One more trip and I will be done. Probably got close to 3/4 of a cord. It was a nice day up in the mountains, but I was pretty tired when I got home.

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  2. metalcuttr

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    Nice load! Interesting cart. Terrain looks awful flat. Are the mountains far away or are we just looking the wrong direction?
     
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    4' logs or can I just not see the seams between lengths?

    Never have cut lodgepole. Would like to one day.
     
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    Good for you Mag. It is probably cooler in the mountains so good time to get it.
     
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    Honk when you drive by!
     
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    Far too neat. LOL.
     
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  7. Mag Craft

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    The Mountains are about 100 miles away. That shot was taken when I got home. High plains and grass lands.

    The cart is a wagon with no sides I took them off. I cannot drive on national forest land so I take my wagon in and haul out the logs and then load them up on the truck which parked on a dirt road.
     
  8. Mag Craft

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    Yep the logs are 4 ft. long so I can lift them into the back of my truck plus I can haul them out of the forest with my wagon.
     
  9. Mag Craft

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    It was definitely cooler about 68 degrees with a pretty good breeze which helps keep the bugs away. Thanks.
     
  10. Mag Craft

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    I would but I am not sure where you are at. I am still cutting up at Fox park area where it burned.
     
  11. Mag Craft

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    I can fit more wood in the truck that way.
     
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    I was just being silly, I don't live by the highway. :) Drive safe!
     
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    Figured as much on the cart/wagon. Excellent workaround! 100 miles is a ways but then if you live in the plains, a nice trip to the hill country would be a fun diversion!
     
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    Then just honk the entire way while driving Mag Craft . :rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:
     
  15. Mag Craft

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    Yep I love going up to the mountains to get wood..
     
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    Nice load, sir. No wonder you were tired, loading it on the wagon, pulling it out and then loading on your truck...:salute::tip:...good job.
    Wish the gov't made it easier to get to.
     
  17. Mag Craft

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    There is a lot of standing dead right next to the dirt roads but the National forest people will not let you cut those. I even went to their office and asked for special permission and I was told that rules are rules and no exceptions. A good wind will come along and blow them across the road or they will allow a fire to jump across the road. I am more than able and willing to cut them down but rules are rules.
     
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    Now that is :loco: :crazy::loco: :crazy::wacky::wacky:...typicial gov't...:whistle::whistle:
     
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    Exactly.

    Non gov employees are not paid enough to have you do the government's work for them.

    Huh???:loco: :crazy::wacky::doh:
     
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    Instead we have to pay them in the form of firewood permits. Go figure Huh. Rules are rules and I do play by them even though I may not like them.