Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Bogtownchick

OH BC.... . duh


I was either having a senior moment or had not had enough coffee yet.

 

[gofeedthegirls]

I know the area you live in sort of, I went to school in TRF for a year, It was a terrible year, it was the year I learned alcohol can help you get through He double hockey sticks.....


So I need to ask you.  Aren't you afraid the wind will blow your poor chickens to Bemidji?




BTW glad the free ranging went well. I think all chickens deserve to be free ranged...

It is a concern of mine, luckly my yard is very sheltered from the wind. Especially from the north which is the one you have to worry about.

 

[duluthralphie]

People do not know wind until they live in Thief river falls, I lived in those apartments across the highway from the college and had to walk NORTH to school every day.

I have no idea what it is like there now, but back them the school and the apartments were all new and there were no trees for miles. I actually stayed in the school some days between classes instead of braving that Godforsaken wind again.

I still have arthritis in my joints from that cold wind..



Of course it could be from the year I was forced to live in Twin Valley/Ada too, another place the wind never stopped blowing.

 

[gofeedthegirls]

People do not know wind until they live in Thief river falls,  I lived in those apartments across the highway from the college and had to walk NORTH to school every day.

I have no idea what it is like there now, but back them the school and the apartments were all new and there were no trees for miles.  I actually stayed in the school some days between classes instead of braving that Godforsaken wind again.

I still have arthritis in my joints from that cold wind.. 



Of course it could be from the year I was forced to live in Twin Valley/Ada  too, another place the wind never stopped blowing.

Haha. It truely is a miserable sob in the dead of Feb. Im sure Ada is worse. Not many trees in that area.

 

[Cyrus83]

Haha. It truely is a miserable sob in the dead of Feb. Im sure Ada is worse. Not many trees in that area.

I had a big job on one of the 500ft towers just outside of thief river falls several winters ago. That area and all of ND is absolute torture for winter tower work.

 

[duluthralphie]

I had a big job on one of the 500ft towers just outside of thief river falls several winters ago. That area and all of ND is absolute torture for winter tower work.

Dear Cyrus:

Do not take this wrong. I am not afraid of heights, I spent tons and tons of hours sitting in a cockpit looking out the window,,,,,


BUT People that climb towers have at least one screw loose.......... I flew by the Shoreview towers one day and saw a guy on the top of the tower, as I was landing at Holman field the guy was higher than me my first thought was " I think that guys nuts"

After thinking about it I formulated a theory and not just a fleeting thought about the guy.... and I found my first thought was correct,, that guy was nuts...

 

[Cyrus83]

I have been told I'm nuts on several occasions. But after 6 years of it I've had enough. Thats why I quit about a month ago and going back to the whole heavy equipment gig.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have been told I'm nuts on several occasions. But after 6 years of it I've had enough. Thats why I quit about a month ago and going back to the whole heavy equipment gig.

LOL>>> I bet you have.

A guy I went to school with has made his living putting spacers between highline wire from those HUGE towers in the mountains. I think he is nuts too, nice guy but....

However, I have to admit he made a great living doing the job normal people don't do..

 

[Cyrus83]

Linemen make better money than the average tower climber. Tower climbers have a reputation of drug abuse and usually have no family or life for that matter, and its true. just a bunch of gypsies.

 

[gofeedthegirls]

Im sure most of you were aware already or it has already been mentioned on here, but I just found out now... bummer.