Skipper and Gilligans Logging Adventure

[EZ]

Hey by the way, nice boat or barge, did you build it.
EZ

[Fla._Deadheader]

  EZ, ain't nuttin to be scared about.

 C'mon down. We have LOTS of fun. Have to, ain't makin any money

 My oldest Daughter, Teri, and 1 partner helped build the Barge. Took about 1½ months, total. All ½" plywood and fiberglass.

 It will carry 11 nice logs, no matter how long they are.

[SwampDonkey]

Not making any money?

That's the kind of work I seem to like

Am I invited? I'll scale the logs before ya load the barge

Keep the barge between the gators and the shoreline.

Where's Tom during all this?  Or is he your sawyer?

You need to start up your own Possum Lodge like 'Red Green'

If your women don't find ya handsome, at least they'll find ya handy. Keep your stick on the ice. I'm a man, I know, I can't change.

cheers

[EZ]

I swim like a flat rock.
EZ

[shopteacher]

I've licked that swimming problem. I added a large ballast tank to my mid section.

[EZ]

 
EZ

[Fla._Deadheader]

Swimmin ain't a requirement for visitin Y'all come

 I believe that if we had better living conditions, on the mainland side of the river, Tom would be a regular visitor. We ALWAYS have a good time with Tom

[Swede]

The Barge...........Swamp Rat.   They can´t be the same because The Barge You don´t have to  pump any water out of......... or?
I took a look at my boat today , wish I had time to make it ready for the lake. Took some water out of it so now there is some rain coming. It´s evry time the same procedure.

It doesn´t matter. That boat can´t float to America with the keel upwards but a log do float like a cork with the chair down the water.

Nice boat Fla._D! Think I could use one like that for the logs down the bottom of the lake.

Swede.

[Sackett]

   FD,
  Are most of the logs you float out escapees from logging operations,or ones that died of natural causes,and if so how do you get the tops out of'em?

[Fla._Deadheader]

  The logs were cut 60+ years ago, by the large mills that moved in and cut the virgin timber. The "Floaters" are Pecky Cypress. It was considered junk, when it was cut. Most of them have inspection holes cut into them, with an axe. They were left where they fell, and as the rains swell the rivers, the "Floaters" make their way to the open water and drift downstream. We usually find them hung in "snags" that ARE the complete trees that fall from erosion.

 The other logs, "Sinkers" are what were sound logs that were so dense they barely floated. Any little thing would make them sink and with the water being up to 40' deep, most were not recovered, until now.

 The logs we recover, MUST be cut on both ends. The term is Deadhead.

[SwampDonkey]

Fla_Deadheader:

Well for those eroded trees, just take the Husky along and problem solved.