Last fall I took on the rehabilitation of two fires that burned quite a few acres in our area last summer. I worked part of the months of November and December and finished most of the work on the largest fire before we got snowed out. I have been watching the largest fire to see when I can get back in with the equipment and repair the damage we caused to the roads and re-contour the landings and reseed them. I have also been waiting for the snow to leave the other fire so we can make the aerial applications of a soil binder and the mulch.
It kind of feels like I am bound to the area waiting for this to happen so I can finish what I agreed to do. I have asked people on the Districts to check out the snow levels and let me know how close we are getting to being able to go back to work. I have gotten no answers yet. I know we have a little time left before it is dry enough to start working on these projects but it would be nice to have a little information to work from.
This has been an interesting thing to work on but it sure feels like it has tied me down as far as what I can do and where I can go. I think in the future I will stick to fire suppression---when you get home you are done---no question about it and you don't have to wait to get called to finish it up.
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One of my pet peeves - waiting on people who take their sweet time....
A lot of this is waiting on Nature to take it's course---which is also frustrating.
Do you prefer intermittent work to full time? I would like having breaks now and then, provided I knew for certain that I would be back working sometime. The worst is being out of work and not knowing.
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