Lol, I caught that. Those notches are for Swede boards...I gotta admit, it, my friend...I'm "stumped"...
Lol, I caught that. Those notches are for Swede boards...I gotta admit, it, my friend...I'm "stumped"...
LOL I edited it to ask about them being for springboards. Is that the same as a Swede board?Lol, I caught that. Those notches are for Swede boards...
Awesome pic! I've always heard them called springboards. Though the two are totally unrelated, the pic reminded me of the old term "gandy dancing".These guys are standing on Swede boards:
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It may be a local thing to call them Swede boards. Never thought of that. Lots of road names ending in -son and -sen around here. Used to be a lot of Ole's and Svens too.LOL I edited it to ask about them being for springboards. Is that the same as a Swede board?
They are still used, rarely, in very steep terrain. You can use them to get above the butt swell if you are using a two man cross cut or to give yourself a place to stand in steep terrain. OSHA doesn't approve. Not one little bit.Awesome pic! I've always heard them called springboards. Though the two are totally unrelated, the pic reminded me of the old term "gandy dancing".
OSHA doesn't approve. Not one little bit.
I'm a Mauser 98 kind of guy. I do like my StG58, the Austrian version of the FAL, but it seems to eat ammo at an atrocious rate sometimes. Finally had to start reloading cast for it. It's a good, reliable, even kinda sexy, rifle. Pairs well with my 1911.
A few more, just for giggles...
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Alford Desert. 7 miles wide, 12 miles long. Flat as a pancake.
Nah, it's an SE...70 - 75 is plenty fast. There was a land speed record set there at one time, but I don't know the details.Did you try to floor it and see how fast it’d top out eh
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Dude, it's closer to you that it is to me. It's a good road trip.Ocean, mountains, and desert ! You gots it all up there brah!
The adventure continues...
1,500 miles and nine days in the back country with the SE.
The wife and I take a road trip every year for our anniversary. This year we went to Steens Mountai1n and S.E. Oregon. We were originally planning on 10 days, but life got in the way, sooo... Steens Mountain is the largest Fault Block mountain in North American. 10,000 foot high, about 50 miles or so long and 20 or so miles wide. Pretty impressive. It also has the highest road in Oregon, at just shy of 10,000 feet at the highest point. The drop on the east side to the Alvord Desert is about a mile. Almost straight down.
Here's some pictures, more as I get them sorted out and organized...
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Alvord Desert. 7 miles wide, 12 miles long. Flat as a pancake.
Yup, down around Frenchglen. A little south of there. South and east of Malhuer where all the excitement was awhile back.This is really cool, doesn't even look like Oregon! You say it's SE Oregon?
I'd love to take my drone here with me in the Jeep. I could get some epic shots.
Now that doesn't look like Oregon at all!
Spring boards to stand on when they fell the tree.10 points to anyone who can guess what the notches are for in this old stump.
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