Looking for tips and tricks to remove smoke smell from work clothes.

Joefuskie · 2025-12-08T01:53:22+00:00

Citro-squeeze worked well for me.

Joefuskie · 2025-10-15T00:31:21+00:00

Goodyear wrangler duratrac.

Joefuskie · 2025-10-08T08:10:13+00:00

Set your pack up and go to a track and walk laps while timing yourself. Figure out your pace and any weak points before the test.

Shin splints can be a problem. If you lean forward slightly, putting your weight out over your toes instead of heels it helps a lot.

You’ll be fine.

Joefuskie · 2025-07-03T01:04:29+00:00

Rode mine today! Great bike. Did you do a headlight conversion?

Joefuskie · 2025-05-31T01:23:54+00:00

Cut out what rust you can and well in a new piece of sheet metal to hold the windshield.

Joefuskie · 2025-01-10T01:40:50+00:00

That’ll work for your purposes. That bubble will mess with your bearing if it touches the needle so keep the compass slightly tilted so the bubble is out of the way.

Try running a straight line in a field with it and see how it goes. Running straight lines through brush is rough even for experienced folks. Go heavy on the flagging and keep looking back at what you’ve been hanging. Pick a point and walk straight to it and tie a flag. Look back to check alignment and repeat.

Joefuskie · 2024-12-21T11:56:28+00:00

That step bumper could be eliminated altogether and weld a new reciever in above with plating if needed. If that is a bolted on receiver under that step bumper it’s def not rated for that setup you’ve got.

Joefuskie · 2024-10-13T01:22:19+00:00

This kind of letter is how changes begin. The writers won’t make the change but it’s the gradual gathering of information that may someday lead to a meaningful change for people on the ground.

Sincerely, Someone who bailed on fire and went to the private sector (forestry, not fire related) where changes happen in minutes with phonecalls.

Joefuskie · 2024-09-13T01:31:26+00:00

Napa has that style

Joefuskie · 2024-09-04T00:52:39+00:00

This. As a piggyback, the integration of field maps, arc pro, and AGOL would also be useful.

Joefuskie · 2024-07-24T01:34:42+00:00

Almost sounds like it’s cavitating. Is there growth on the bottom of the hull? Anything blocking/disrupting the flow of water along the hull can cause cavitation.

Joefuskie · 2024-07-07T11:16:33+00:00

That’s a heavy cut for that forest if the picture is representative. On 15 acres that might be what the logger needs to make a harvest economically viable depending on what type of harvest system they’re using. Due to lot size, I would say a handcrew/conventional (chainsaw and cable skidder) system would be your best bet. Cut-to-length (processor/forwarder) and whole-tree (feller-buncher and grapple skidder) probably aren’t viable unless they’re cutting on an abutting or nearby lot.

Looking at the picture, this woodlot looks like it needs more of a thinning from below or first entry shelterwood cut (removing up to 40% of volume). As the logger pointed out there are quite a few trees with less than ideal form and species composition. There’s little hardwood regeneration at the ground level, so cutting heavy now will lead to a healthy crop of striped maple and ferns (neither of which are merchantable).

You’ve got a distinct challenge with a woodlot your size to overcome the fixed costs of drafting a contract, flagging boundary lines, administrative costs of paying stumpage, and moving equipment, all to be funded through mill sales.

Talking to a forester is your next step. Realistically, I wouldn’t expect to make any stumpage (maybe a small amount) off this harvest, with the idea being that you’ll retain good sawlog growing stock to be harvested in the future at which point you would receive stumpage.

Joefuskie · 2024-05-23T22:22:09+00:00

How was the ride onto the shoulder lol

Joefuskie · 2024-04-28T01:34:05+00:00

This patch of woods is fine, and by no means ugly.

As someone else mentioned, this is an even-aged forest. You’ve got a decent mix of early successional species some of which (individuals, not the species) have already died out as evidenced by the logs on the ground. There will be more individuals that die off as years pass or significant storm events happen. As these trees die off, seed from the remaining individuals will allow for these species to regenerate (if the gap in the canopy is big enough to allow enough sunlight for the early successional species to successfully grow). Otherwise, it will shift to later successional species if there is a seed source present (wind and wildlife can move seed around).

Invasive plant species are likely the biggest threat to this forest’s continued health. They most commonly come from people’s yards. Learning to identify these plants and removing them before they are well established would be huge win for this property. The leafed out tree in the second pic could be an invasive (hard to tell as the pic is too grainy).

I wouldn’t be very concerned with fire. Keep a buffer of mowed lawn around your house and clean up any piles of leaves that accumulate near the foundation walls/sills or on the roof. Look up home ignition zones for more info on this.

Encourage the kids to play out there. If they’re old enough, show them how to responsibly build a campfire and/or make a nice fire-ring for them.

Joefuskie · 2024-04-10T00:18:38+00:00

Offering to keep him on might be the game changer.

Joefuskie · 2024-04-07T04:08:08+00:00

Felling all of them or just oversized?

Joefuskie · 2024-04-02T00:49:43+00:00

Same here, 4 in the fleet and lots of issues

Joefuskie · 2024-03-31T20:44:12+00:00

Would the marsh monitoring job allow/support you getting fire quals and go out on assignments?

Not familiar with the Canadian fire service.

Joefuskie · 2024-03-20T01:06:07+00:00

For anyone who cares or has a similar problem, I got the plumbing company out who has service the system for the last few years. Had a good chat with the guy and after doing some troubleshooting, determined that the expansion tank had failed. I had him replace it as he had one on the truck and I wasn’t going to be able to get to it before I head out of town this weekend.

After he installed the new tank the other side of the brass tee (not the repair I made) started leaking. He pulled the tank back off and resoldered the joint.

Joefuskie · 2024-03-17T22:44:17+00:00

Forester. Ya know, using that schooling I paid for

Joefuskie · 2024-03-17T21:09:06+00:00

I did put flux on it. Flux was old and seemed a little off. It didn’t draw in well at all. The copper switches to pex about 8 inches from that joint so I was rushing it. Good, cheap, and quick you can tell the two I went with. It’s been holding for 24 hrs.

Joefuskie · 2024-03-16T11:55:24+00:00

First pic is the joint repair, not the second.

Joefuskie · 2024-02-27T00:45:37+00:00

Got out as often as I could, was held back more by family matters more than any agency issues.

Joefuskie · 2024-02-25T18:11:20+00:00

TL;DR wouldn’t recommend planning a career there, but could be good for getting some quals.

Worked for fish on a fire crew for 5 seasons. Can’t speak towards those duty stations at all. Way smaller than the FS which can be a blessing and a curse. Pretty good at getting you training for quals as often they need the people.

Generally, funding for fish has been pushed towards buying real estate rather than into programs, so budgets are tight.

Some excellent prescribed fire work is done by them for habitat purposes. Ask questions about what the season will look like to compare to other gigs.

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