vgabndo
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NOT an example of Mexicaneering!!!
Can you imagine 6 or 8 Mexican men rigging this to cook one deer leg? Northern California 1883. Huge firewood considering how much good camp fuel
there is on the middle fork of the Sacramento even today. 
Ingenious considering the size of their "fire pit".
I thought you ingenious campers might like it.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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vandenberg
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They look like Germans to me .
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BajaBlanca
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Seems way oversized???
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chuckie
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I bet they didnt do much..the bent tree appears to be still rooted,where we hunt elk in Colorado there are a bazillion of such bent trees....
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shari
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brilliant usage of natural resources though...I am going to keep this bent tree or the likes of it...in mind for future camping trips and roasing a
big fish or wild pig we may come across (joking)
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Barry A.
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I don't think the horizontal component is still attached to the ground.
All loose limbs and trunks just lying around, I believe. Easy & logical to do when so much wood is just "right there".
We have done things just as crazy when in the deep woods, had time to spare, and were hungry.
Barry
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DavidE
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The days of EVERLASTING BOUNTY
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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sancho
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Mex Enginerring, Remember a bit out of one of the old Baja Adventure
books, don't know if this technique is unique or
not, but a Gringo
off road in Baja poked a hole in the oil pan of
his vehicle, a local
took a bar of soap and plugged the hole, lasted until
his return to the US
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MMc
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I have used a a chunk of drift wood to fill a oil pan hole, lasted for a month before I replaced it.That was one great trip. Wife said I was driving
to fast about 3 minutes before I did it.  She thought we would head home,
instead we fixed the hole and set up camp.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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vgabndo
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The photo is by Harry Babc-ck, who claimed only the second "speed record" for climbing Mt. Shasta. They killed something like 16 deer and several
bears on one of their trips between 1881-83.
You are correct Mr. Edell, there was little consciousness of any end to the bounty. One local mill manager here was recorded in the 1890's asking:
"Are we worried for our families when all the trees are gone? No, we'll just go to Alaska."
You can look at all the pictures Babc-ck took here:
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4489p0wt;start=0/
He has pictures of the fishing lodge on the McCloud River before the Hearst Castle was there.
These men were tourists from the city. I think the locals would have used smaller firewood.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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chuckie
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Horizontal component? wow!
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
Horizontal component? wow! |
-----it just popped into my head!!!  
Barry
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chuckie
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Well, you ARE from Redding.....I dated one of them from Redding once....
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
Well, you ARE from Redding.....I dated one of them from Redding once.... |
You dated a "horizontal component"???? THAT must have been exciting (I guess??).
B
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chuckie
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Sorta? I forget her name.....
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
Sorta? I forget her name..... |
-----if she is a NOMAD I am sure she is giving a sigh of relief, what with her being a "horizontal component", and all, and exposed on the NOMADS
BOARD for all to learn about. THAT situation would have reminded me of the ORCAS thread---------
Well done, Chuckie, for being discrete.
Barry
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chuckie
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But I DO have pictures....
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