I saw where your area has had a couple of feet over the last week
Have you had to chain up to go up those hills to the main road?
Must be frustrating, finally got exhaust, brakes, and front suspension fixed and now snowbound
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Well guys down here in the Columbia River Gorge “mouth of the beast” the traveling nursie wife has been having to every 2-3 days swap back and forth from her older 2007 Hyundai Tucson with the all studded tires, to her newer 2014 AWD Ford Edge.
The Tucson is snow/ice great as having an command electric clutched switched YOU WILL HAVE ALL FOUR WHEELS DRIVING system.
It weakeness though is road standing water. Between engine and fire wall it’s V6 has a very low mounted alternator. Any road water past 2 inches and the splash up floats the all accessories drive belt. No PS. No charging. Engine unreasonably dies.
So wet, melting, flooding roads she must drive the Ford all-wheel drive. No forced lock-in on that one, so primary two wheels must spin a bit until the other two start getting power transfer. Two wheel spinning puts you sideways on black ice.
I tell her she might have just as well gone back to a 2WD mini-van. Earns me a shuddup swat.
J-I-C Steve Unruh
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Due to a good neighbor, I only need 4WD about two or three times a year. Consequently, I own 2WD’s with a locking differential. That diff acts like Steve said about his AWD; in snow the one tire spins a couple of turns before the locker takes affect. In the couple of turns the rear of the truck shifts a foot to the left taking the rear tires out of the track of the front tires. Now all four tires have to push a path through the snow. Need a manual locker. TomC
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Hybrid poplar in Oregon converting to cows and potatoes.
Carl this was always bare upper grass plains land. Columbia River pumped wheat and alfalfa hay large circle irrigated growing after the dams built. Needed the hydroelectricty to do all of the up-hill, distance, pressure delivery irrigation watering.
Was astounding to drive by and see this converted to large machine cultured hybrid popular plantations. Hydro-power irrigated.
The hybrid poplar Agribusinesses were to feed paper pulp chips into the paper mills. World wide chip pulp markets depressed with offshore to the US imports able to be river barge brought in cheaper.
Plus . . . poplar, willow “white” chips turn black quick due to air exposure and moistures.
Imported pine chips had trasportabilty and storeabilty then not requiring a “re-whitening” process/step for the higher value white paper stocks.
Hey. I like cheese’s and potatoes. Foods are important.
Highest land value in these parts of adjacent OR and WA is wine vineyards. Search that up and see.
Number 2 is wind farms contracts. Number 3 as the solid waste disposal site for all for the OR, WA states urban dense wet-sides. Westside urban-yuppie NIMBY’s made out-of-sight-out-of-mind happy then. Search up garbage barging on the Columbia River.
J-I-C Steve Unruh
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Good info Steve, thanks. Does cows and potatoes = methane and vodka?? Might produce more “power” than poplar.
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Yes , the snow just keeps coming, we have had continues snow on the ground since the begining of December. It rain yesterday and that has helped a lot. With more above freezing coming this week. This should clear off the roads of snow and slush and dry them out. But around my house the snow is heavy and deep with a sheet of ice on top of it right now. Just need more solar days and some warmer air temperatures at night. The good news is I can only make fuel and not burn it up as fast as I was making it. LOL
Bob
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My place in Bend, Or had about 3 ft. on the ground. The big problem came in that, Bend had 3 ft. on the roofs and a lot of them collapsed. People are paying $ 500 to get their roof shoveled. My log house that I built has a roof with;
steel
OSB
2X8 rafters
2X6 decking
8 inch log rafters
It all sits on solid log walls right up to the 20 inch ridge beam. The center truss is 12 inch logs that are sandwiched between 1/2 inch steel plates at the peak. There are also 10 inch purlins under the log rafters. The 8 in log rafters sit right on the 14 inch walls and everything is lagged together. The walls are lagged together and have four 3/4 through bolts top-to-bottom at each corner. Even the ridge beam is bolted all the way down through the gables to the foundation.
When I worked my timber sale, I brought in 245 tons of dead lodgepole. Even my floor joists are 12 inch logs. I had so much wood, I just used it in the biggest size that would fit.
I don’t plan to shovel my roof 
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Sounds like a nice place!
I’m a SoCal boy. I don’t like snow.
This is what a Chevy C-50 NAPCO truck looks like.
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They sure wouldn’t look like that here anymore. I love those old trucks. Feels like the modern ones are just boxes with no style.
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I guess we know where Chris is going… that is a great deal.
We used to heat our house with that stuff. Excellent firewood, easy to stack, mostly heartwood, low ash, splits easy. The guys we got it from would deliver a dump-truck load for $150.
EDIT: They also sell in smaller qtys, if you just want a truckload.
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I have been running wide open the last few days sawing oak.
I show the waste ( motor fuel ) created from just one sawing order .
Have wood will travel 
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Wayne cool to see you have been out enjoying the warm weather down there. I just came in to warm up from cleaning out the 9 inches of snow we got. Being frozen right now your video give me hope that summer will come up here at some point.
Good looking wood. I’ll start sending our “trailer floor” guys to you. 
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Very good evening mr. Keith.Did you have lot of extra workers, thats a lot if useable wood gas power.
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Good Grief!!
Wood galore is right!
Good morning Kevin .
My son helped some but most I did by my self. Handling 16 foot oak will make an old man sleep well at night 
Some of the logs may have weighed a ton .
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