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A Walk in the Woods

Posted January 17, 2012 12:30 PM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: abandoned autos cars finds woods

You never know what you'll find near the river. We certainly didn't. I joined my father for a hike near the Hudson River over the New Year's holiday, and we came across an odd assemblage of automotive front end components, including matching fenders from the same vehicle.

The horizontal seam in the fenders initially had us thinking 1940s Ford, but the fender's shape and brightwork seemed to suggest early 1950s Mopar. A front bumper - from the same car? - was a few feet away…

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01/17/2012 2:44 PM

Are we supposed to talk about finding stuff in the woods or along the river?

I found a crashed airplane (mostly intact) in the deep woods of southern Idaho. About the size of a Cessna 410, crashed in 1966 (?) while on a forest patrol. There was a placard telling of the crash, and don't bother reporting this because we know all about it.

I found (and aided the return of) two lost hunters. I have come across a dozen or so motorcycles and cars, a rubber boat (I am not kidding you), numerous camps and small cabins, and the remnants of a small silver mining camp.

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01/17/2012 10:37 PM

The main thing I want to find when I go for a walk in the woods is my way home.

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01/18/2012 3:38 AM

How disappointing! They've just been abandoned. I thought from the first line that he'd found an out-of-the-way art installation.

Still, we now know where to go for objects trouvés for an installation of our own.

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01/18/2012 5:16 AM

I'm more interested in the wood... Elder?
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01/18/2012 6:42 AM

Looks like to me. Would (wood) make sense since they're down by the river.

Did you want some? I still have the 2" diameter pieces I cut down last winter. Should be pretty much seasoned by now.

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01/18/2012 8:53 AM

Ta for the offer, if you're ever over this way you could drop it in and have a play with some of my bows. Prob not worth posting it tho' as there's plenty in the woods near here.
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01/18/2012 7:20 AM

Anyone with even a mild interest in literature would enjoy this fascinating, enlightening book by Umberto Eco:

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

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01/18/2012 8:50 AM

'X sunt genera hominum. Et qui non intellegunt Qui binariae.' -- loses something in translation.

Welcome to the bandwagon!

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01/18/2012 9:52 PM

And here's what kind of stuff you find when you travel the back roads of Oklahoma:

You can see on the backside where the belt fits. The other end of

the belt was attached to the transmission shaft coming off of this:

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01/19/2012 3:09 AM

mmmmm. Sawtastic
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03/12/2013 11:38 PM

Hey!! I built a house with a saw mill like that, Used a belt off a tractor to run it.

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