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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 853
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Summer of 67, sat in this tower all day looking for smoke
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/kaibab/recarea/?recid=11695
http://www.annestravels.net/grandview-lookout-tower/
And five of us young men lived here, about 1/2 mile from the tower. Looks like they fixed it up
https://www.arizonahighways.com/eat-sleep/lodging/hull-cabin |
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Old Salt
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Location: Vista, Ca. | Subject: RE: The most boring job in the world
Truly good training for the boats, close quarters and all. We had fires, just not forest fires. |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 560
Location: Minot, Maine | Subject: RE: The most boring job in the world
Did that for three years, and NOT boring! Visitors all the time, and up to 30 fires a day was common. Wish /I could still make the 80 foot climb up to the cabin! The local fire departments would visit with cases of libations. Great days!
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: The most boring job in the world
I had similar experiences, though not in fire towers. First was living in cabin on Grand Sable Lake near Grand Marais, Mich, while Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore was going through land accession phase. I was only Park Ranger there , 60 miles from Park HQ, no radio or phone. I went to town 5 miles away each morning and called in on pay phone.
Second was working for US Forest Service with Biologist studying wild turkeys. We stayed in very remote cabin on Monongahela NF, tracking turkeys in snow. Got snowed in once for a week. No electricity, water or phone. Loved it!!
Those were the days!
Steamboat sends
Edited by steamboat 2017-09-26 7:32 AM
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 853
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JohnBay - 2017-09-25 6:43 PM
Did that for three years, Visitors all the time, and up to 30 fires a day was common. The local fire departments would visit with cases of libations. Great days!
Hhhmmm ? 30 fires a day??, Maine is toast, Where was the tower? In a state campground. You sure you weren't see campfires? Out in Kaibab National Forest I never seen one visitor coming down a rutted forest service road, let alone a fire truck. Never seen any smoke or fires. |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Liverpool, England | Subject: RE: The most boring job in the world
Reading your descriptions I would not have minded a job so close to nature at all. When I left the RN after 22 years, I was influenced by local WWII submarine vets who worked there to apply for a job at the Ford car plant at Halewood in Liverpool. In addition to joining an alien civilian society it was the worst decision I ever made; it had to be the most boring mind-numbing job in the world. I worked in Commercial Gears which was considered a prime job at the plant, hobbing, linishing and polishing gears for truck gearboxes. I worked alongside some of the most negative and lazy buggers imaginable. Luckily, after ten months of that automaton BS I was able to escape and get the engineering job that I really wanted.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1796
Location: Albany, GA. | Subject: RE: The most boring job in the world
When you had visitors, how many of you explained or demonstrated the use of the five gallon bucket with the lid on it? Or did you walk all those steps? I also under stand the fire towers was where the expression "Don't p--- on my head and tell me it is raining" came from. |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 560
Location: Minot, Maine | Subject: RE: The most boring job in the world
Hampshire County in the Berkshires. Mostly small fires, but now and then a sq. mile would go up along the tracks. Sparsely populated. Kept me busy! |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 560
Location: Minot, Maine | Subject: RE: The most boring job in the world
Worst day was when the damned window slammed down. I was afraid to open it! |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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I thought the most boring job I had was standing topside mid watch while the boat was in overhaul at EB, during Winter. |
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