Tallulah gorge - Hurrican falls - here it the site of more from this boater - Photos 113-128
http://seamorelilfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/2711145_R6o85#143767641_bPV2Y
http://seamorelilfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/2711145_R6o85#143767641_bPV2Y
Che
Treehouser
I love this spiderweb/dewdrop picture (it's Blinky/Chip's, not mine)...I was playing with it, thought this was cool. It's simply the negative version of it. I do like the original better though.
Burnham, what's the story behind the winched up fish?
Attachments
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Burnham
Woods walker
Tomfoolery, Che...as you might suspect
.For 5 or 6 years in the early 2000's I worked with the USFS fish bios on a project to place salmon carcasses into anadromous streams by helicopter. The carcasses came from several local fish hatcheries, after the eggs and milt had been harvested to fertilize, hatch, and raise smolts for release. The general idea was that a missing piece of the puzzle in restoring salmon runs was the lack of large numbers of dead spawned out adult fish in the river system. Those carcasses feed a large variety of aquatic life forms, many of which are in turn fed on by the young salmon hatchlings (the wild ones, not the hatchery stock). So by putting the carcasses in the streams the idea was to help young salmon survive.
My job was to operate a rotator head forklift to load carcasses in a big bucket with a drop valve in the bottom. The helio set the bucket down, hovering overhead, I'd drive in and tip 800 pounds of very dead fish into the bucket. Then the ship would fly down a stream course dumping carcasses.
That fish in winch pic resulted after one of the bios did some dissections for some reason that I forget...and some jokester stuck the tail in my winch fairlead.
I snapped the pic...it usually gets a laugh
.You have no idea how nasty a refer trailer full of 2-months-dead salmon in 4'x4'x3' plastic totes can get...
F
Frans
Guest
Yeach, chum! saw something like that on the t.v. show 'Dirty jobs'. I think they were loading traps with chum for crab or lobster.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
bio-dry in the fish plant was pretty nasty. we auger all the fish guts, heads, etc up into large hoppers. when they got full we call the dump truck and hed back under the hopper and open the bottom, kersplop! into the truck and down the road hed go
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
Sum randum pics I taked...
Gary
heck, that is a limited edition head snugger G, dont be wasting it now!
Attachments
Che
Treehouser
Thanks Burnham. That pic and the fork look like the type you'd see on snopes with a dozen or two 'descriptions'. 
"So by putting the carcasses in the streams the idea was to help young salmon survive."
Did it help?
"So by putting the carcasses in the streams the idea was to help young salmon survive."
Did it help?
B
Blinky
Guest
I used to wind the town clock in Hillsborough, NC...
The mechanism is late 18th century, made in England...
Two 900# weights have to be cranked up 20' every 7 seven days, the pendulum is 12' long...
It has four dials that have to stay synchronized... that was the weak point in the mech...
The mechanism is late 18th century, made in England...
Two 900# weights have to be cranked up 20' every 7 seven days, the pendulum is 12' long...
It has four dials that have to stay synchronized... that was the weak point in the mech...
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Wow!!! 
I bet that was fun!
I bet that was fun!
Burnham
Woods walker
Thanks Burnham. That pic and the fork look like the type you'd see on snopes with a dozen or two 'descriptions'.
"So by putting the carcasses in the streams the idea was to help young salmon survive."
Did it help?
Some say yes, some say no; I think the half-dozen years was too short a time period for anyone to know...in the end it was determined that the high cost of the annual project was failing in the "bang for buck" analysis. Spending the $$ on habitat improvements now...who knows, sometimes I think there may be a problem with short attention spans in that crowd. Lack of long term commitment to get on a program and stick with it long enough to allow the benefits to develop.
GASoline71
'cause chicks dig scars
heck, that is a limited edition head snugger G, dont be wasting it now!
It works great under a hardhat to keep the ol' ears warm on cold days Paully...
Thanks mang!
Gary
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
GASoline71
'cause chicks dig scars
Sittin' on the dash of the ol' pimpmobile too! LOL
Gar
Gar
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
GASoline71
'cause chicks dig scars
That car was straight gangsta playa! 
Gary
Gary
F
Frans
Guest
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
You took those pics, Frans? Nice.
Burnham
Woods walker
GASoline71
'cause chicks dig scars
F
Frans
Guest
Damm, I am sorry. Forgot what thread I was in. Delete at will Boss, I will endeavor to be more careful.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Hahaha. We DO have a couple of confusing threads going, for sure.
F
Frans
Guest
Yea, but there good threads!
like most stuff at the TH.
like most stuff at the TH.
SkwerI
Treehouser
Similar threads
