What sawmills are for

[Darrel]

My 13 year old grandson and I needed to get away from it all so we took advantage of the break in the weather and brought the mill home and had a little fun too.

https://youtu.be/XzpiBZvsea4

[reedco]

thats what we live for

[Jeff]

It seems like a lifetime ago since I went sledding.  That sure looked like fun!  When I was a kid, we lived on a major tobogganing hill. Actually, it wasn't a hill, but the edge of a river valley. I was just a kid, but I can remember all of the bonfires and gatherings from the church youth groups and such that would have sledding parties in our back yard.   It was one of those hills that most snowmobiles built in the 70's could not make to the top.  They had to carry me up it once when the jump we made at the bottom from two bales of hay and the hood off a 71 Plymouth station wagon launched me much farther than we thought possible. When I came down, it busted up the toboggan from my impact on it.

[Ox]

Reminds me of almost losing my fool head on a barbed wire fence as a kid.  Just leaned back in time to flick the end of my nose as I went under it.  I seen it coming but just kinda froze, ya know?  Couldn't move, but layed back just in time!

Am I the only one who looks back on their youth and marvels at all the times I shoulda died?

[WH_Conley]

No, OX. You are not alone.

[Jeff]

Reminds me of almost losing my fool head on a barbed wire fence as a kid.  Just leaned back in time to flick the end of my nose as I went under it.  I seen it coming but just kinda froze, ya know?  Couldn't move, but layed back just in time!

Am I the only one who looks back on their youth and marvels at all the times I shoulda died?

:D

I left that part out. About 20 feet out from the bottom of the hill there was a one strand electric fence that was off in the winter.   We used to prop it up out of the way with some props made of 2 by 4's so we easily walk under it.   Never thought about that when the neighbors and I built the ramp. I was high enough coming off the ramp to clear the wire before I crashed.

Picture below is where I grew up. I drew a diagram to show the elevation changes. Ariel photo that is very hard to see. The hills were steep. The drop to the road and then down to the river was pretty tough to climb using all 4's if it was even slightly wet.


 

[thecfarm]

sledding,can't beat it. I still do it. Last winter I looked out my window and there's my neighbor sliding. I grabbed my sled and put on my winter gear and we had a ball. Walking back up the hill talking about the old days and the new days.

[Den Socling]

When I was around 12 years old, my dad bought us three boys a long, long toboggan. Across the road from our house was a long sloping field at the foot a a steep hill. It seemed like it would take a half hour to drag that toboggan to the top of the hill but it was a long, long ride back down. Sometimes we would come close to our front yard. Anyway, one time my dad thought that he with my mother, a friend of his and that guy's wife decided to go to the top. You know what the ride is like for the last guy on the back? That was my dad's friend, Joe. Poor Joe lost 3 days of work that week. The landing hurt his back that hard.

[Darrel]

When my kids were in grade school, we had flexible flyers, one for each of the kids and one for mom and I to share. We use to drive up to the tops of the mountains on these steep roads that were dirt during the summer but were packed snow in winter. Then we'd ride the sleds down the hill and mom and I would take turns one of us on the sled whilst the other drove. On one occasion we brought several of the kids friends along so there weren't enough sleds to go around so we doubled up on the sleds. On one trip down the hill I was riding on my belly on the sled and my daughter was on my back and her friend was on hers. We we were moving right along whilst stacked 3 deep.  But we weren't moving fast enough for the driver of a pickup.  He honked his horn and yelled out the window so I pulled out of the packed lane into the soft snow and let him go by. Well around the next turn , there he was with front bumper against the bank and the back end of his pickup hanging out over the nothing.  His back tires had not dropped over the edge but he had absolutely no wiggle room. I couldn't keep from laughing, made the guy mad. Long story short, the three of us climbed through the bed of his truck and went on our way.

[Den Socling]

You climbed through the bed of his truck? Yikes! 

[Ljohnsaw]

Where I'm building my cabin, we made friends with the neighbors.  They have a few years on me and sled every chance they get.  Then, again, we enjoy it too!

When I was a kid, we moved to NY when I was 11.  That first year (1971) there was record snow fall and us So. Californian's hadn't a clue how to shovel snow (with our dirt shovels) :D

Well, we made an awesome sledding hill starting in our neighbor's, neighbor's back yard - completed with two high banked curves.  As it got more and more ice, it got faster and faster.  We had shoveled out our drive and had probably 3 feet of snow piled up at the driveway into a make shift jump.  My best friend thought he could make it over...  As his sled approached the jump after coasting along the flat, he had slowed quite a bit and it was like watching a slow motion replay...  He landed hard about 1/4 of the way across and split his lip.  We were all cracking up!

[Darrel]

You climbed through the bed of his truck? Yikes! 

That truck wasn't going anywhere. The most dangerous part was getting passed the guy. I would have stayed and tried to help but he was so angry and I believe he was also a bit drunk.  Some people came by later with another truck and helped him get out. They said that they would have left him stuck if they hadn't need to get down the hill.