Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:10 pm
Pete cutting down live trees in the Black Hills is not needed .After the logging outfits are done raping the woods of mature saw logs or doing thinning contracts you need the chainsaw to clear a path thru the stump stickups , deadfalls ,blowdowns, etc. The Black Hills are intensively managed for lumber production with a hell of alot of roads ,skidder trails, and 2 tracks when they get done. The logged off areas for a couple of years offer more browse and attract lots of deer and elk, so that is where you hunt. I live here and don't see many animals coming back to town quartered more often than not, where there is a will there is a way to get to it and get it loaded or drag it downhill to a 2 track. I like hearing how they do things in other places. I still live and hunt here in SD though and do things same as most folks do.
I been to Alaska twice, once in the summer of 1972 when I rode my Honda twin up there ,just to see it and on a job in December of 1979-Jan of 1980 to fix some bottom dump gravel trailers the company I worked for sold to a const outfit at Prudhoe Bay, stayed at Deadhorse Camp. I know Alaska hasn't got shit for roads MD and you float or fly bout near everwhere. Like I said above "If a guy has to cut them up, well that is what you got to do". I spent 2.5 years at IBP in Dakota City, Nebr meatpacking plant so I know all about cutting and lugging. Now for the last 30 years if I have too carry something out on my back its tied to my pack frame and I get it done all busted down to the essentials. I have packed Elk, black bear,mule deer,whitetail and antelope on that frame. I also packed out a couple of whole antelope with a fireman carry and consider it a piss poor way to do it. I will allways have that frame yet these days a 2 wheel cart sure works good when I need it. Soon I'll get me a plastic deer sled also cause it is gonna snow tonite. I ain't worried about all those other big animals I'll never get to hunt anyway. bobw
I been to Alaska twice, once in the summer of 1972 when I rode my Honda twin up there ,just to see it and on a job in December of 1979-Jan of 1980 to fix some bottom dump gravel trailers the company I worked for sold to a const outfit at Prudhoe Bay, stayed at Deadhorse Camp. I know Alaska hasn't got shit for roads MD and you float or fly bout near everwhere. Like I said above "If a guy has to cut them up, well that is what you got to do". I spent 2.5 years at IBP in Dakota City, Nebr meatpacking plant so I know all about cutting and lugging. Now for the last 30 years if I have too carry something out on my back its tied to my pack frame and I get it done all busted down to the essentials. I have packed Elk, black bear,mule deer,whitetail and antelope on that frame. I also packed out a couple of whole antelope with a fireman carry and consider it a piss poor way to do it. I will allways have that frame yet these days a 2 wheel cart sure works good when I need it. Soon I'll get me a plastic deer sled also cause it is gonna snow tonite. I ain't worried about all those other big animals I'll never get to hunt anyway. bobw