Pretty awesome...

[ebinmaine 67,285]

One of the trucks I drive every once in awhile has a folding knuckle loader crane. For this type of machine in the United States it's quite large. 

 

At one of my job sites this morning there was a daycare in the next building.

They came out for playground time when the crane was in the air.  Yelling and screaming and super excited as you can imagine.

 

Probably 45 minutes or an hour they were out while I was. Every time I looked over there was anywhere between 1 and 10 kids stuck up against the fence watching the big big truck. 

One kid in particular had a red flannel jacket. Little dude. Seemed like he was about right sideways fascinated with the crane. Reminded me a LOT of myself when I was a little fella which was quite a long time ago.

When I was done I went over to the fence and one of the caretakers came over to meet me.

 

I said do you read about The Man In The Yellow Hat and a little monkey? Curious George. She said yes. I said you can tell all your kids they got to meet the Guy In The Orange Hat today and his name is Bear.

 

Them kids sure were super excited. As I was leaving they all yelled out BYE BEAR.  BYE...BYE!! 

 

[Ed Kennell 38,024]

What no crane pictures for us WH Kids?    

[Achto 27,507]

[Stormin 9,981]

Typical! Gets us hooked then lets us down.

Edited September 22, 2020 by Stormin

[ebinmaine 67,285]

 

[ebinmaine 67,285]

My apologies boys.

There's the thread from the day we got it...

[Pullstart 62,799]

Cool stuff EB!

[midpack 862]

shoot, can you swing by my place up there? It's not far from you, I have a massive oak that fell and blocked the whole river...  I think the locals would like it gone

[ebinmaine 67,285]

54 minutes ago, midpack said:

shoot, can you swing by my place up there? It's not far from you, I have a massive oak that fell and blocked the whole river...  I think the locals would like it gone

Where is your place?

[midpack 862]

Village of Wayne, next to Winthrop

[ebinmaine 67,285]

Oh yeah.... 90 minutes or so nawth o me. 

 

 

[midpack 862]

Ayahh. 

I think you've taken hikes near there, Mt Pisgah, I believe

[ebinmaine 67,285]

19 minutes ago, midpack said:

Ayahh. 

I think you've taken hikes near there, Mt Pisgah, I believe

You're absolutely correct. 

[ebinmaine 67,285]

21 hours ago, midpack said:

shoot, can you swing by my place up there? It's not far from you, I have a massive oak that fell and blocked the whole river...  I think the locals would like it gone

if I was better equipped I'd run up there and do it for you but I got nothing to pull on a large oak with

[midpack 862]

Thanks for the offer!

It's in a "protected" area so I'm not sure how much I can actually do. We have Loons, Blue Heron and a plethora of "Birds of Prey". I was in my boat and had a Bald Eagle fly overhead so close I could see it's neck feathers as it turned it's head looking for fish

 

I called environmental protection and was told I could cut the parts that were on my property, but wait until the water was frozen to remove the trunk so no harm would come to the bottom of the river

 

I'm going to just leave it where it fell and hope the spring thaw clears it out of the way. 

[ebinmaine 67,285]

24 minutes ago, midpack said:

Thanks for the offer!

It's in a "protected" area so I'm not sure how much I can actually do. We have Loons, Blue Heron and a plethora of "Birds of Prey". I was in my boat and had a Bald Eagle fly overhead so close I could see it's neck feathers as it turned it's head looking for fish

 

I called environmental protection and was told I could cut the parts that were on my property, but wait until the water was frozen to remove the trunk so no harm would come to the bottom of the river

 

I'm going to just leave it where it fell and hope the spring thaw clears it out of the way. 

Do you know anybody that burns wood up there? Maybe they would clear off some of the smaller stuff for you.

 

One of the things I enjoy the most about living in Maine is the fact that the government is so open and easy to deal with here. If you have a question and you call somebody in Augusta you're actually going to get to speak to a human person who will give you the answer.

Overall I've found them to be very helpful and considerate.

 

Having lived in the INCREDIBLY difficult to deal with Commonwealth of Massachusetts for nearly three decades it's a pleasure I assure you.

 

 

If you get into a stickler up there and you need some help. You let me know. I'll gather up my tools and Trina and we'll bring a friend or 2 as well.

[midpack 862]

that's very true!

 

much more laid back than what I'm used to here in MA, and I don't live in a large town here either

 

We are having plans drawn as I type, to build a year round home there. It's a lot different dealing with officials, and I don't want to be "that" guy... know what I mean?

[ebinmaine 67,285]

2 minutes ago, midpack said:

that's very true!

 

much more laid back than what I'm used to here in MA, and I don't live in a large town here either

 

We are having plans drawn as I type, to build a year round home there. It's a lot different dealing with officials, and I don't want to be "that" guy... know what I mean?

Oh I sure do...

 

A guy moved up from the Boston area to here. He gave me an amazing piece of advice.

 

You moved here because you like it. DON'T try to make it into something else...

IT'S MAINE..