My father was born and raised in Maine and is as "New England' as they come. My dads side of the family has 200 yrs of history in the village of Annisquam and the graveyard there is littered with my ancestors. During my time in Boston when I wasn't working I would either head to Annisquam or Maine and reconnect with my heritage... I feel in love with both Maine and Annisquam.
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moss
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Ahh memory lane, Annisquam side of Cape Ann is great. When we were teenagers we got hold of a scuba tank and taught ourselves to dive off of Halibut Pt., No wet suits, no buddy system, no nothing, one peson diving at a time since we only had one tank ;-) Back in the day when a 16 year-old long-haired kid could walk into US Divers in Beverly and get a tank filled, no questions asked. Water is not as cold there now. Same with Maine coast water, can't believe how warm it gets in the summer now. You must have done some quarry diving around Annisquam, Dogtown etc. great place.
-AJ
JeffGu
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Anyone who goes diving with @rico is usually wearing concrete overshoes and a cast iron barbecue grill around their neck, not scuba gear.
moss
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Many secrets end up in the bottom of the old water-filled granite quarries of New England.
JeffGu
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Yeah, and I've lived places that were even worse about that... when hurricane Camille wiped out the Gulf Coast in 1969 it tore through the Biloxi area and took out the Back Bay Bridge like it was a piece of toilet paper. Just left the ends... the approaches and a couple hundred feet of bridge. In the early-mid seventies, I'd stand on the edge of one and look down, and it was literally just torn steel and concrete. Diving under there, it was a junkyard of cars, trucks and skeletons. When a storm would hit the area, the riptide would pull all the kelp out of there. That stuff is Velcro to neoprene wetsuits, so it was actually off limits for us to dive in the bay, but when it would clear out like that, we'd risk it anyway. Very creepy. Like being in a graveyard.
Haven't really thought about that in years. Funny how stuff triggers memories you've kind of stuck back in a dark corner of your brain somewhere, and forgotten.
Haven't really thought about that in years. Funny how stuff triggers memories you've kind of stuck back in a dark corner of your brain somewhere, and forgotten.
Burrapeg
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- Puget Sound
Or Texas.
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
'S drive to work
Today my bee suit saved the day, and the queen in her hollow oak trunk.
One of the many stone dead Quercus agrifolis elders succumbing to SOD in our east county here, trees over 100 years old.
This one had grown up against a two story house sized granite boulder.
The trunk's buffer callous ran up the boulder four feet of solid ancient contact.
The trick was to top it above the boulder and bee hive entrance about 25-30 feet up, from the boulder. So tying in behind the boulder to a stout chaparral bush, I put on my suit, rappelled down the boulder, just above the hive, and let fly with my 365 Special, was promptly swamped by furious bees, particularly my double gloved hands.
So I calmly rappelled down to the ground, unclipped and calmly walked a hundred yards away and methodically killed every bee still on me, at least two dozen or so.
A half hour later things had calmed down, and I retrieved my rope n saw without being attacked again.
A no haul, just put it on the ground client, who knows better than to mess with bees, or stone dead ancient hollow oaks lightly.
Yu ain't equipped without a bee suit!
Jemco
One of the many stone dead Quercus agrifolis elders succumbing to SOD in our east county here, trees over 100 years old.
This one had grown up against a two story house sized granite boulder.
The trunk's buffer callous ran up the boulder four feet of solid ancient contact.
The trick was to top it above the boulder and bee hive entrance about 25-30 feet up, from the boulder. So tying in behind the boulder to a stout chaparral bush, I put on my suit, rappelled down the boulder, just above the hive, and let fly with my 365 Special, was promptly swamped by furious bees, particularly my double gloved hands.
So I calmly rappelled down to the ground, unclipped and calmly walked a hundred yards away and methodically killed every bee still on me, at least two dozen or so.
A half hour later things had calmed down, and I retrieved my rope n saw without being attacked again.
A no haul, just put it on the ground client, who knows better than to mess with bees, or stone dead ancient hollow oaks lightly.
Yu ain't equipped without a bee suit!
Jemco
JeffGu
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- Osceola, Nebraska
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
For real. Just read a hometown scallop boat captain's story of going under in the 90's during Febuary. The trawl busted and pitched the boat into a wave swamping them. The mate was thrown but he was trapped in the wheelhouse in full foulleys. He kicked out the door after it flooded and climbed up the now underwater boat.
They swim to the life raft he just bought and the captain can't function: puking, bleeding, and hypothermic. The younger mate had to jump back in the Maine Febuary waters and tow them to shore. Like a boss.
Had they been farther offshore the outcome would have been the norm.
They swim to the life raft he just bought and the captain can't function: puking, bleeding, and hypothermic. The younger mate had to jump back in the Maine Febuary waters and tow them to shore. Like a boss.
Had they been farther offshore the outcome would have been the norm.
JeffGu
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I've been in water just barely above freezing, and have no desire to ever do it again. Death can come real fast. I'd make a shitty boat captain. Probably hard to steer when you're wearing 3 life vests. I really can't imagine how people can stay out to sea for long periods of time. About four hours and I don't want to be out there, anymore.
JeffGu
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- Osceola, Nebraska
What? Millions of acres of corn and soybeans doesn't do it for ya'? Welcome to my nightmare.
Tree-Taylor
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- Canada
It's unbelievable how instantly painful water is at that temperature.
evo
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- My Island, WA
32-34” Doug fir up rooted and hung threatening the back corner of a house. We picked it up with the yarder, and fell it 20 degrees to the left.
southsoundtree
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I'd like to have seen a video of that, evo!
I pruned four little Japanese maples and a weeping pussy Willow, so much matchstick to pencil thick deadwood...took 2.5 hours...probably produced less than 10 pounds of debris...look like very different trees.
I pruned four little Japanese maples and a weeping pussy Willow, so much matchstick to pencil thick deadwood...took 2.5 hours...probably produced less than 10 pounds of debris...look like very different trees.
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evo
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I took a few short clips after we got it up a little ways. I’m not tech savvy so you can pm me your # or find my Instagram
Basswood
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Fun day of dropping big ailanthus on a restoration project. All trees of hell must burn.
JeffGu
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- Osceola, Nebraska
I despise those noxious weeds.
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