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Big Sky Redneck
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Here's some information that you need to keep on hand for use the next time you experience trespass/illegal access issues that tainted your first hunting season here in Montana.
http://fwp.mt.gov/doingBusiness/contactUs/
FWP Headquarters
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
1420 East Sixth Avenue
P.O. Box 200701
Helena, MT 59620-0701
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Phone: (406) 444-2535
Fax: (406) 444-4952
E-mail: fwpgen@mt.gov
Directors Office (406) 444-3186
Human Resources (406) 444-5653
Commission (406) 444-7826
Licensing (406) 444-2950
Enforcement Bureau
General Questions (406) 444-2452
Report Poaching, Vandalism (800) 847-6668
I have hunted Montana for 42 years and have experienced what you noted your first season ten fold. Nothing you described is any different in any other part of the state. The difference is how you handle it. My father and our ranch manager decided more than 50 years ago that land owners and hunters must work together to avoid hard feelings and the problems you experienced. Communication is the first step. Not signage prohibiting access, but signage encouraging communication. We have our phone number posted every 50 yards or so on almost 2 miles of our fencing, with instructions to call for access. "All others will be reported to the Montana FWP and towed away." In my entire life, we've had 2 trespassers removed, cited and had their vehicles towed away. We are in one of the best hunting districts in the state and I assure you that most people know it, including non-residents. I intentionally hunt the Bob Marshall Wilderness because it is rough going and most folks won't go through the trouble. This year we never saw another soul in the five days at our elk camp and only heard a few shots the entire trip.
Unlike many Montanans, I am far from being opposed to newcomers to the state. I embrace it as long as they don't bring the bad habits from their prior state. Our population will never be threatened like neighboring states due to many reasons, mostly economic and of course, our long winters.
Please understand that it is the FWP's responsibility to address the access/trespass issues and not yours. Your responsibility is to document the violations and report it if you truly believe a problem exists. Unlike every other state in the nation where state officials drag their knuckles on everything, that isn't the way it works here and they act very promptly. Some of my best friends have been working for the FWP their entire lives and they take great pride in protecting our state wildlife from poachers and illegal access.
I hope you accept this information as it was intended. I'm not the * you think I am and I truly don't believe you are one either. Sometimes folks get off on the wrong foot for the wrong reason. Others take comments too much to heart without really understanding the reason the comment was made. You are now a "fellow Montanan" in my eyes and I hold no grudges towards you, nor wish you to hold any towards me. Hopefully, 2014 will be a better year all the way around and will provide you with better hunting opportunities, in addition to the better life you sought here. [^]
http://fwp.mt.gov/doingBusiness/contactUs/
FWP Headquarters
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
1420 East Sixth Avenue
P.O. Box 200701
Helena, MT 59620-0701
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Phone: (406) 444-2535
Fax: (406) 444-4952
E-mail: fwpgen@mt.gov
Directors Office (406) 444-3186
Human Resources (406) 444-5653
Commission (406) 444-7826
Licensing (406) 444-2950
Enforcement Bureau
General Questions (406) 444-2452
Report Poaching, Vandalism (800) 847-6668
I have hunted Montana for 42 years and have experienced what you noted your first season ten fold. Nothing you described is any different in any other part of the state. The difference is how you handle it. My father and our ranch manager decided more than 50 years ago that land owners and hunters must work together to avoid hard feelings and the problems you experienced. Communication is the first step. Not signage prohibiting access, but signage encouraging communication. We have our phone number posted every 50 yards or so on almost 2 miles of our fencing, with instructions to call for access. "All others will be reported to the Montana FWP and towed away." In my entire life, we've had 2 trespassers removed, cited and had their vehicles towed away. We are in one of the best hunting districts in the state and I assure you that most people know it, including non-residents. I intentionally hunt the Bob Marshall Wilderness because it is rough going and most folks won't go through the trouble. This year we never saw another soul in the five days at our elk camp and only heard a few shots the entire trip.
Unlike many Montanans, I am far from being opposed to newcomers to the state. I embrace it as long as they don't bring the bad habits from their prior state. Our population will never be threatened like neighboring states due to many reasons, mostly economic and of course, our long winters.
Please understand that it is the FWP's responsibility to address the access/trespass issues and not yours. Your responsibility is to document the violations and report it if you truly believe a problem exists. Unlike every other state in the nation where state officials drag their knuckles on everything, that isn't the way it works here and they act very promptly. Some of my best friends have been working for the FWP their entire lives and they take great pride in protecting our state wildlife from poachers and illegal access.
I hope you accept this information as it was intended. I'm not the * you think I am and I truly don't believe you are one either. Sometimes folks get off on the wrong foot for the wrong reason. Others take comments too much to heart without really understanding the reason the comment was made. You are now a "fellow Montanan" in my eyes and I hold no grudges towards you, nor wish you to hold any towards me. Hopefully, 2014 will be a better year all the way around and will provide you with better hunting opportunities, in addition to the better life you sought here. [^]
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Anyway, what is above the ceiling that you show in the picture. Is it attic space????? Let me know, and I will take it from there. I will have a few more questions and we will see if we can get you up and running. I know you drive, so just get back to me when you can. Oakie
I had the fast kind. When i went to the doctor he told me he would slice less than half my tongue off and might dissect my left neck.
It took 3 weeks to get the 4 doctors that worked on me to have the free day to operate. It was a 15 hour operation. In 3 weeks i went from getting less than half my tongue cut off to almost all of my tongue cut off.
I also had to have a double neck dissection because i had cancer in my lymphnodes in both sides of my neck.
My chemo doctor asked me about 6 or 7 times if i quite smoking yet. I finally made him understand that i have never smoked and i dont drink. It seems over 99% of the people who get the cancer i got smokes and drinks.
The biggest think you can do is have regular check ups. Also if something pops up go to the doctor and check it out do not wait. I beat stage 4 cancer but i paid a very high price.
Like i said get checked out at least every year.
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when you have the time sir, there are a few people that would be interested in an update.
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My parents both worked so i Grandmother watched me during the summer and got me ready for school.
When i was in the military my last stop was to tell Grandma how much i loved her. I never cried when i told my parents by just when i told Grandma bye.
10 years later i get out and she is still around and i still go see her. When her health failed all 7 of her children offered a place to stay but she wanted to go to a rest home.
She lived about 5 or 6 years in the rest home. During her last 4 years i did not see her very much because i could not see her ate up with arthritis.
I was selfish i could not see her in pain it hurt to bad. On the other side all my memeorys of her are with her in good health.
Its funny i could tell everyone but her by and it would not bother me but with her i would cry like a ababy.
I am crying now.
A 2015 Volvo Semi Truck filled with 43,000 pounds of bottled water destroyed a small bridge in Paoli, Indiana that dates back to 1880. The staggering part is that signs before the bridge said that the weight limit was 6 tons and that semis were not allowed on the bridge.
According to police reports the driver, Mary Lambright, was unaware that her vehicle was more than 6 tons because she couldn't convert to pounds. All told she was off by about 24 tons, her truck weighed in at 30. More than that, the 53 foot box trailer didn't even clear the top of the bridge.
She ended up at the bridge mouth after making a wrong turn en route to a Wal Mart parking lot where she had a stop off planned. Being uncomfortable in reverse after getting her CDL license earlier this year, she tried her chances on the bridge.
As the pictures show, that decision was regrettable to say the least. Lambright will be subject to a fine of $135 for "reckless operation of Tractor-Trailer" and "disregarding a traffic control device" but the main culpability will be with her compapny. No one was injured in the incident which took place around noon on Christmas Day.
Had a semi coming at me and couldn't see it with its lights and by the time I did see it I could get over far enough to miss it because said semi was occupying that lane..
did i miss the outcome[?]
hope things went your way
I have a 95 F350 that had been parked under some bull pines and was built up with sap and black crap along with some small rust speckles around the wheel wells. I wanted to polish it up before it gets too bad. Well, it was too bad!
I went and bought some goo-gone and it was still a pain.
So I thought I would try some bleach water in a spray bottle. That bleach water took the crap off with a simple wipe down after spraying it on and letting it sit for a minute.
So, bleach water was the ticket for me.
edit to add: it was a diluted solution as I did a google search first and there was back and forth advice about whether or not it would harm the clear coat. I power washed it right after.
I missed some drama?
Sxs, piss off.
My Dads had a squared off toe, about two inches wide![:0][;)]
Hope it works out for you and the boy.
Safe Travels.
Didn't make it into the plant today before closing so there will be a small meeting first thing in the morning. He helped drive to Iowa yesterday and today but I think his mind is made up.
Sxs, piss off.
Too bad I would say he is making a big mistake as he has not even really worked for you yet. He made a commitment to you and is not fulfilling it because his wife is whining.
You made a commitment to him and bought another truck. You went way out on a limb for him financially and he is folding like a lawn chair at the 1st little bit of adversity.
It sounds like he has some issues not only with his wife but with himself. The issue with his wife will just get worse if he does not nip it in the bud now. The issue with himself is tougher, but if you give a man your word you follow up or at least bust a gut trying.
Too bad.
I hope it works out for you in the long run, you deserve it to.
The sad thing you boy will look back on this one day and realize the mistake he made.
Finally I told him that if he was just a regular driver I hired and that driver acted like this that driver would be in a bus heading home. Reminded him that yes, I have been a supervisor and being in charge is not new to me and if he forces me to be a boss he is not going to like it.
I also told him that he has not given this a chance, he hasnt pulled a load on his own yet and how can he know what this great job is about untill he tries it. Told him this, give me a month, an honest month of work and if he doesnt like it after a month I will understand but don't quit over a weekend that you knew you would be on the road. Atleast we did not sit in a truckstop for the weekend!! We had BBQ, let him use my 79 Ford truck as he needed, bed, eats and the feeling of "home". He had it better than 99% of the drivers out for the weekend. He knew he woukd be out 2-3 weeks with me long in advance so this wasnt a suprise. I repeated, give me a month.
Right now he is under a load in his own, he was given an opprotunity after I asked for a 3rd party to test and evaluate his driving. So he is on his was to MO and AR then loading to go home for the weekend. So far he seems to be a lot happier, his wife is still bitching and I overheard him on the phone telling her to "knock it the hell off!!"
We shall see. He was just given another chance I wouldn't give to another driver and the company I'm leased to agreed.
So watch out for that red truck, see him on the road with you please cut him a break. He's having and has more tough times ahead in his life.
He don't know it, but Dad is standing here watching out for him and praying. He is still my son and I'm on his side. Even if he can be a scatterbrained idiot sometimes [:D]
He cannot fight a battle on 2 fronts; if his wife won't get behind him then either the road job or the wife will go. Don't expect him to lose his wife to go truckin'.
We look out for our kids. Even when they don't want us to, or don't think they need us to. Someday he will understand.
We will keep you and your boy in our praters. Keep us updated.
My neighbor trucks livestock, and I can't address any personal problems he has, but he manages to make it home for a 2-3 day stretch every couple of weeks.
Wife & 2 kids (oldest is 4) She takes care of the home place (she trains horses).
One thing they both enjoy is running the local mud bogs (yes she drives in them).
It it takes a team to make a marriage work, not a boss and a servant, regardless of the job(s) involved. Says the guy that has been working 160 miles from home (commute on Sun & Fri, rent a room during the week) for the last 13 years.
lotsa folk here don't know what was said[;)]
hang in there BSR hope the best for you and your team[:)]
I know what he said, I'm not a complete dummy [:D]
But simply saying "blah blah blah" would have had the same meaning [;)][:o)]