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[BIGNASTY]

I saw on Google Maps that you have a grass airstrip in Seeley. Is there much activity at that airport?

ONLY IN THE SUMMER :-laf not really its used at times during hunting season some of the clients fly in but that's about it. Most of the time the hunters drive in or fly in to Missoula. There are a few gliders that use it but they wait until the wind is up a little and use a truck to tow them up. We don't have regular air service

 

[BIGNASTY]

BIG, yeah, my wife and I don't trade out willingly. We used to do it all together. We'd muck the stalls, then go clean the house. Build some fence, then come in and cook dinner. Ride horses, then go out to dance. YOu get the idea. Nowadays, she does the cooking, cleaning, and teaching the kids around the house, and I take care of the animals and shop. That's one reason I quit dayworking and starting pulling wrenches. I'd rather ride the horses, but the shop pays better and I can stay literally next door to her. Hopefully, these kids'll get a little older and we can all go riding and work on fence. Nothing keeps a kid out of trouble like driving T posts 6-8 hours a day 35 miles from the nearest town.

I cant gripe about the barn and stock work I like it but she comes out and helps to. She feels bad sometimes I think because I got the WORK part of the deal. Its my fault on the work part I like doing it the OLD WAY. I use the mules as much as I can to help out. When we put hay in the loft I use block and tackle and do 10 to 15 bales by myself then hook up the boys load a part of the loft floor that will hold about 20 bales and let them pull it upstairs and WE the wife and I will pull them off and stack and then its my turn again and then the boys. I don't have a gym around so HARD A** WORK WILL DO THE SAME IF NOT BETTER. Snow plow is my start of the day and I REALLY DO LIKE TO DRIVE A TEAM. In the summer im going to start plowing the fields and plant a dry pasture grass for the animals to graze on. I just like to work the gang its fun to me and more entertaining than watching OPRA :-laf Most of the time she comes out with DINNER we eat our big meal at noon and then eat a small something at nite. So she fixes allot in house during the day she works her fanny off

 

[BIGNASTY]

We have a few around 14k' in Wyoming too!! :-laf



Sorry for the fuzzy pics since the camera is a real POS!!

OK NOW YOU GUY'S ARE P ME OFF with all your 14k hills and all :-laf but do ya have any thing like this ( I didnt take this im still making copy to disk and have pictures all over)

 

[GHarman]

BIG, We all have something to show! I love the Flat Tops Wilderness and Mount Zirkel Wilderness areas in Colorado. But I dont have many pictures.

However, For sheer altitude. Alaska has us all beat! I dont have my photos digitized. If I can copy a frosted print(the glossies are hard to rephotograph). I'll post a couple of pictures I have from my Alaska trips, many years ago(I was planning on relocating there, back in 1980).

If one could live on scenery, alone. No one would ever have a need!

GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

ALASKA???? are they really part of us????? Just kidding haven't been their except on a cruise ship. Greg the pro photo guy gave me a tip on glossy prints get to a office max or office depot and get a sheet of clear mat finish plastic and put it on the copy side of the photo and then copy it takes the sheen off the the disk and copy. PS I do watch Alaska State trooper's Does that count

 

[GHarman]

I went to Alaska 3 times. The first was just a touchdown at the Anchorage Airport on my way to Vietnam via Iwakuni and Okinawa, Japan, back in 1967.

I went back to Alaska in 1980 and 1986 looking for work. I only got a small glimpse of that State. While there, I rented a car and drove from Wasilla, , down both sides of the Kenai Peninsula to Seward and Homer. Up to Talkeetna and East to Copper Center and Valdez. Picked up some interviews, but decided on another course of action. Have several Friends that moved up there and was provided a warm fire and grub while making those decisions. I share phone calls on occasion and get a visit, now and again. One huntin' Buddy stopped by at Christmas!!!

BIG, I only get to see Alaska on TV, nowadays! We're in the same boat:-laf

I used to subscribe to Alaska magazine and get a new Mile Post, every year 'till I got Married!

A Son of one of those friends comes by now and again to pick up Welding tips! He was in his Mom's belly the first time I went up to look for work!

I'll try that mat finish plastic! All my Alaska pictures are glossies! Thanks! GregH

 

[HHhuntitall]

BIG, I rode a horse off a hill like that, one time..... Ok, so it looked that big when he jumped off the side of it. Stupid SOB. I rode up to look off into a bottom for cattle, and he felt me lean up and thought he'd buck me off. I sat right back down, but wished he had bucked me off!!! I kicked my feet out of the stirrups, thinking he'd roll over in a minute and I'd have to kick away from him... ... he made it all the way to the bottom without going over, most likely because I was laying back on his tail!!! My dad was across the way and cussed me up and down for riding that horse down that canyon wall... ... . I just looked at him and said,"You think I did that on purpose!?!?!?" That was an outside horse I had taken in to ride for somebody else..... remember me saying something about the dumb ones being sold?



Yeah, Alaska is certainly pretty. I only got up there twice. A welder working for my Dad was from up there. He bought an old Ford pickup from my dad, and I drove it up for him. We first went up to Anchorage, left the Ford, blown rear main and all, and then continued up to Prudoe Bay, where he had a small welding job. I think he said he got paid something like $500 an hour!!! He would weld on those off-shore rigs in the bay. I didn't like him that much, but his daughter was a knockout! She was pretty, tough, and very intelligent..... certainly intelligent. She wouldn't date me!! I went back up when she had to have surgery, and babysat her for a week. I wanted to stay, but had work to do.....



We went out and made the rounds in an airplane the first trip. I saw a lot of wildlife and country!!!! The second trip I didn't get to see much. Just a hospital and sheetrock. Funny, though, I still enjoyed the trip, just getting to visit with her... ...

 

[GHarman]

Alaska Flying

HH, Thanks for reminding me! I forgot to mention my other idea that fell through. This was the hingepin on making the move to Alaska. Not much to be proud of, but I tried!

When I went up there, back in 1980. I got to fly with My Friend and His Friend in a bush plane. The Friends, Friend went to the same Church and was a Bush Pilot for Arctic Missions. It was a Piper Super Cub, tail dragger with tundra tires! There was a pilots seat, one passenger seat behind the pilots, then my seat! A GI surplus back pack leaned up against an internal fuselage cross member and tied down. I had a make do seatbelt harness. I mean to tell you we had one heck of a flight. I'm glad I went. I had not flown in anything since Vietnam(Choppers and Troop transports). This was way different(Wheres a BARF Icon when ya needs one).

I suffered from motion sickness since I was a kid. It was under control in a combat zone, however, this flight made me GREEN around the Gills!!!

We buzzed the Pilots outfitter buddy on a sand bar in the Knik River. Did loops and rolls around as we looked for Game! I was so sick , we had to land so I could get my guts back in place:-laf

After all this, I went home absolutely determined to build my own Tail dragger and make the move!!!

But ya got to have a pilots license, to fly! First things first!

I just happened to know an FAA inspector with a Pilot trainers license! He took me up in a tricycle gear, side by side two seater. As long as I was controling the plane, the sickness was a dull roar. As soon as he took over, I just got so disorientated and sick, it was almost like the flu!

We landed and I made it home and was sick for 3 days afterwards! Kinda stuck a pin in my balloon.

I didn't give up right away. Tried it several more times with motion sickness meds. Same effect. Completely disorientated and sicker than a dog!

IF! I could have beat that motion sickness. I would have been writing from Alaska, instead of Colorado!

Thats my story and I'm stickin to it:{:-laf!

GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

HH remember the smart vs the not so smart



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BIG, I rode a horse off a hill like that, one time..... Ok, so it looked that big when he jumped off the side of it. Stupid SOB. I rode up to look off into a bottom for cattle, and he felt me lean up and thought he'd buck me off. I sat right back down, but wished he had bucked me off!!! I kicked my feet out of the stirrups, thinking he'd roll over in a minute and I'd have to kick away from him... ... he made it all the way to the bottom without going over, most likely because I was laying back on his tail!!! My dad was across the way and cussed me up and down for riding that horse down that canyon wall... ... . I just looked at him and said,"You think I did that on purpose!?!?!?" That was an outside horse I had taken in to ride for somebody else..... remember me saying something about the dumb ones being sold?



A horse that I was riding did the samething. I had to stop and take a behind the bush break and the others kept going. I mounted the horse and It took off down about 10 switch backs. All I could think about was that movie Man From Snowy River when he rode off that cliff. My The whole family was watching me fly down the side of the mountain one hand in the air and pulling back trying to get a grip on the horses A** . Something broke I was pulling so hard the horses head got turned and over the handle bars I went.



IF I HAD BEEN ON A MULE THAT WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED BECAUSE THEY ARE SMART ENOUGH NOT TO HURT THEMSELFS :-laf

 

[jhenderson]

I hold a comm SEL pilots lic. Same thing happens to me. Any hard flying without me at the controls makes me SICK. Sometimes even a ride with a sloppy pilot will do it.

 

[HHhuntitall]

After all this, I went home absolutely determined to build my own Tail dragger and make the move!!!

But ya got to have a pilots license, to fly! First things first!

I just happened to know an FAA inspector with a Pilot trainers license! He took me up in a tricycle gear, side by side two seater. As long as I was controling the plane, the sickness was a dull roar. As soon as he took over, I just got so disorientated and sick, it was almost like the flu!



IF! I could have beat that motion sickness. I would have been writing from Alaska, instead of Colorado!

Thats my story and I'm stickin to it:{:-laf!

GregH

Oh, that's just what we need!! A Gunny Bush pilot!!! THAT might actually make me nervous!! Some of those guys are completely crazy!! The rest just aren't right unless they're off the planet!! :-laf Wait!! I think you meant to say,"To fly LEGALLY, you have to have a liscense... . "



Funny how the motion sickness affects some people. In an airplane, I don't get sick at all, in a car, nothing. But put me on a boat smaller than about 100' long in just mild swells, @ 40' or so, and I can't hardly stand!!! I lost weight on the sea out off the coast of Cali in '03, I lost breakfast off Hawaii in '05, and I was just plain miserable on Lake Synevir? in '99(that might have been the Vodka, though... . ).



BIG, any of the horses I have now won't do it, either. They're either smart enough to know not to hurt themselves, or they're smart enough to know that I will hurt them!!

 

[GHarman]

HH, I was "planning" on making the fuselage and wing, "weapons capable" :-laf! Hmmm, Have to use chrome moly tubing instead of EMT conduit.

And a GE Turbo prop instead of a Lycoming piston engineOo. !

M601 Engine | Business & General Aviation | Turboprop | GE Aviation



Hmm a couple of Dillon Aeros, wing mounted and converged at 500M

Oh! I never made Gunny. I was just an E-4, Corporal! :-laf

GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

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Funny how the motion sickness affects some people. In an airplane, I don't get sick at all, in a car, nothing. But put me on a boat smaller than about 100' long in just mild swells, @ 40' or so, and I can't hardly stand!!! I lost weight on the sea out off the coast of Cali in '03, I lost breakfast off Hawaii in '05, and I was just plain miserable on Lake Synevir? in '99(that might have been the Vodka, though... . ).





I dont like to fish in freshwater Just dont care for the mushy freshwater fish. But put me on an ocean boat and ill fish. My Son and I went out allot in Ca and for the most part I did just fine for a 3 or 4 day boat but we went on a boat to Mexico waters and I was good for 3 or 4 days and then GREEN AS HELL FOR THE NEXT 5 DAYS worst feeling I have ever had. Never could go below deck to the bunk THAT MADE IT WORSE NEVER AGAIN DID I GO ON A LONG FISHING TRIP. Son goes all the time and has no problem.

 

[HHhuntitall]

HH, I was "planning" on making the fuselage and wing, "weapons capable" :-laf! Hmmm, Have to use chrome moly tubing instead of EMT conduit.

And a GE Turbo prop instead of a Lycoming piston engineOo. !

M601 Engine | Business & General Aviation | Turboprop | GE Aviation



Hmm a couple of Dillon Aeros, wing mounted and converged at 500M

Oh! I never made Gunny. I was just an E-4, Corporal! :-laf

GregH

Oh, heck ya!! You'd have to have the turboprop to keep from stalling out!!! :-laf