akaShag Posted October 3, 2021 Report Posted October 3, 2021 Dave, this just gets awesomer and awesomer...................😉 Hope you get a bit of time to soak a lure for the lakers. With the fall coming on full force, they must be on the feed bag big time! Doug
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 4, 2021 Author Report Posted October 4, 2021 45 minutes ago, akaShag said: Dave, this just gets awesomer and awesomer...................😉 Hope you get a bit of time to soak a lure for the lakers. With the fall coming on full force, they must be on the feed bag big time! Doug Doug I wanted to get out this afternoon but couldn't be bothered to buck the waves so just went home. Hopefully I'll get a day or two before ice up. Lake was 48 degrees today.
akaShag Posted October 4, 2021 Report Posted October 4, 2021 9 minutes ago, DRIFTER_016 said: . Lake was 48 degrees today. Pretty soon you'll see the lake turn over? Like I said, I hope you get a chance to soak some lures for the greys! Doug
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 4, 2021 Author Report Posted October 4, 2021 Forgot to mention that this year has been brutal for bears up here. There have been 3 shot in town, a momma with twins relocated and a momma with cub they are trying to catch. There was a momma with cub wrecking peoples stuff on my lake and a 2 year old causing havoc and breaking into cabins. He tried to break into mine 3 times while I was sleeping in it!!! The first two I didn't have my gun and the third I blasted a warning shot over his head as he ran away. He got into my neighbours cabin 2 doors down and trashed it, don't know if he got into Dave's cabin beside me or not. Got to buy a tag so I can thin the herd. I could use a nice bear rug anyway. 😁 The one that was trying to get into my place I would have dropped if I had a shot then just called ENR to come and collect it. I talked to them previously and they said do what you have to and give us a call for removal. My neighbour across the bay from me is a wildlife officer too. He had issues with the same bear and the momma with cub.
akaShag Posted October 4, 2021 Report Posted October 4, 2021 I don't believe I would be up in the woods WITHOUT packing some kind of heat. Probably a 12 ga, first round 00 Buck, next two slugs. And no warning shots....
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 4, 2021 Author Report Posted October 4, 2021 They have always been around but this is the first time they have been a pain. Other than one time years ago when one ripped open my tent had a look around and left while I was away on business. The 870 is loaded with Remington slugs. I forgot to load it when I went to the cabin on my vacation so when I cam into town for supplies I picked it up. At some point the darn thing scratched my dining room window on the porch. Their paws must be like 40 grit sandpaper!! Would hate to get swatted by one. The second time he showed up I banged on the door and he just walked over and stood on his hind legs. We were about 12 inches apart separated by the entry door. He beat feet when I banged on a pot with my BBQ tongs.
akaShag Posted October 4, 2021 Report Posted October 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, DRIFTER_016 said: They have always been around but this is the first time they have been a pain. Other than one time years ago when one ripped open my tent had a look around and left while I was away on business. The 870 is loaded with Remington slugs. I forgot to load it when I went to the cabin on my vacation so when I cam into town for supplies I picked it up. At some point the darn thing scratched my dining room window on the porch. Their paws must be like 40 grit sandpaper!! Would hate to get swatted by one. The second time he showed up I banged on the door and he just walked over and stood on his hind legs. We were about 12 inches apart separated by the entry door. He beat feet when I banged on a pot with my BBQ tongs. Yep, good skookum medicine, 12 gauge slugs. I always figured my first round would be double aught buck for a shot to the head, hoping to take out the eyes and maybe get lucky with a brain hit, then 2 slugs to the boiler room. When we camped out on Great Slave East Arm a few years back, the 870 Marine Magnum was beside us in the tent............
BassMan11 Posted October 6, 2021 Report Posted October 6, 2021 Yikes Dave... those are the types of Bears that unfortunately need to be taken care of. They will always be around. Great progress on the Cabin as usual. Cheers
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 13, 2021 Author Report Posted October 13, 2021 (edited) Spent the Thanksgiving weekend at the cabin and was the only person at my end of the lake all weekend. It was so nice and quiet. 😁 Spent my time peeling logs that I cut in the spring. Started running low on time so only quick stripped a bunch of them. The big one was peeled in the spring. It's got really cool spiral checking now. Also pulled the dock out on Monday and closed up the cabin until safe ice. This morning there was snow on the ground. Edited October 13, 2021 by DRIFTER_016
BillM Posted October 13, 2021 Report Posted October 13, 2021 Dave, that place is just unreal. I love these updates! You getting Starlink up there for internet?
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 13, 2021 Author Report Posted October 13, 2021 8 minutes ago, BillM said: Dave, that place is just unreal. I love these updates! You getting Starlink up there for internet? Put my $$$$ down in the spring. Just waiting for 2022. Gotta see if I can get a couple of extra antenna wire kits so I can move the system around. Would like to use it at the cabin, house and camper.
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 13, 2021 Author Report Posted October 13, 2021 Forgot to mention I went for a swim while pulling the dock. Of course it happened early in the job so I had to work wet for an hour or so in air temps just above freezing. 🙄 The granite is as slick as goose turds. Luckily the water is still a balmy 44F. 😎 1
AKRISONER Posted October 13, 2021 Report Posted October 13, 2021 Dave the thing I’m most shocked about is that after following this thread along is that there is actually an open water season 😂 yet here we are talking about ice up out of all of the cottage jobs, dock work is my most hated bar none. It always needs to be done when it’s cold as hell. There’s not a heck of a lot of august dock work.
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 13, 2021 Author Report Posted October 13, 2021 I wish I could put in a pier using those big interlocking Lego brick like concrete blocks and back fill the middle with rocks and dirt. Then just tie up to that and never worry about dock removal again. 1
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 14, 2021 Author Report Posted October 14, 2021 It's more about the $$$$ than the two government agencies I'll have to 'splain myself to.
Dara Posted October 15, 2021 Report Posted October 15, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 8:16 PM, DRIFTER_016 said: Spent the Thanksgiving weekend at the cabin and was the only person at my end of the lake all weekend. It was so nice and quiet. 😁 Spent my time peeling logs that I cut in the spring. Started running low on time so only quick stripped a bunch of them. The big one was peeled in the spring. It's got really cool spiral checking now. Also pulled the dock out on Monday and closed up the cabin until safe ice. This morning there was snow on the ground. That spiral one is pretty nice. Musta been a job getting it up the steps and into the cabin🙂
BillM Posted October 15, 2021 Report Posted October 15, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 11:44 PM, DRIFTER_016 said: Put my $$$$ down in the spring. Just waiting for 2022. Gotta see if I can get a couple of extra antenna wire kits so I can move the system around. Would like to use it at the cabin, house and camper. If you're all within the same cell you might be able to move it around. Camper might be tough if you're in Alaska, but I'm sure that feature is coming.
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Report Posted October 16, 2021 12 hours ago, Dara said: That spiral one is pretty nice. Musta been a job getting it up the steps and into the cabin🙂 I got a guy.
DRIFTER_016 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Report Posted October 16, 2021 7 hours ago, BillM said: If you're all within the same cell you might be able to move it around. Camper might be tough if you're in Alaska, but I'm sure that feature is coming. https://www.pcmag.com/news/movable-satellite-internet-spacex-to-lift-geo-restriction-on-starlink-dishes
pics Posted October 19, 2021 Report Posted October 19, 2021 I see those spiral logs often when I'm in the Greenstone area. There are different theories of why they grow that way but log cabin builders seem to favour the right hand spiral.. they must be a whine to split for firewood..
akaShag Posted October 19, 2021 Report Posted October 19, 2021 6 minutes ago, pics said: whine I bet the original word rhymed with witch and started with the letter b.... 😉 1
dave524 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Posted October 19, 2021 2 hours ago, pics said: I see those spiral logs often when I'm in the Greenstone area. There are different theories of why they grow that way but log cabin builders seem to favour the right hand spiral.. they must be a whine to split for firewood.. It is usually White Cedar poles that have that spiral growth pattern 1
pics Posted October 19, 2021 Report Posted October 19, 2021 3 hours ago, akaShag said: I bet the original word rhymed with witch and started with the letter b.... 😉 You're right..😂
DRIFTER_016 Posted April 17, 2022 Author Report Posted April 17, 2022 Taking a break to chill @ the bush crib. Put the SxS to work hauling pellets up from the lake for the stove. Can haul 30 bags at a time. 😁 Life is better at the cabin. Don't have to head back to town until Tuesday evening. Happy Easter y'all!!!! 5
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