I’m on my spring logging deployment, arriving in early March from Holland just to catch the end of winter and make final preparation to fulfill the contract with GMUGFS, finalized last November the day before leaving Colorado to spend a wet and miserable winter in the Netherlands with my family, and my dog Axel, those last two, the bright spots of time spent away from the mountains I do so love.
Winter is well and truly closed out but spring is reluctant and snow on top persistent keeping the roads back to the area I’ll log closed all while in the intervening time tooling up is complete as of the mid-May timeline.
The old pick head comes to me from a second hand shop since new ones lack any resemblance to a quality and durable tool. But it means adapting available handle wood
An adaptation I avoid by getting my own wood to make this hook handle. Emery oak off of Christian’s place cut two years ago, split down the center and let slowly season. Well, something similar to its previous handle I’ve left in Holland because of the difficulty in transporting things of such dimensions.
Cabling etc.. will get the wood in position but in the unfortunate event the reigns, harnesses and so on and so on won’t get employed, not yet I should say.