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First question. I did read the manual too. :) I put in the micro sd Mapsource topo chip and it works great. I followed the directions to flip back to the map that was preloaded in the unit(basic street maps) and I don't see it listed in the menu. Was the basic map on the sd card that I...

I just ran it around the woods down here for an hour storing some points and playing with the various pages. It appears to very intuitive which I like. I have never been one to read all the way through the directions for something but I am going to sit down and thoroughly read the manual...

Tonight I should be getting my new Garmin 60CXS handheld GPS. Now I can get lost in color! I ordered the Mapsource topo micro sd card and I will be getting the Bluechart micro sd for the ocean in a few weeks. I have been getting by with a Magellan 315 non-mapping GPS for about 8 years now and...

I now think one of the reasons we found the flow remarkable on Saturday was the stream gradient, after having seen the topographic maps. When you can only see 50 yards or so each way it is hard to estimate slope.

The topography on both sides of the creeks in this area is steeply sloping. Not a likely area for attempting bog operations. Downstream towards New Lisbon and to the north bogs can be seen on the older maps that Bob posted and there are still active bogs on the road we drove in on. The second...

Thanks Jerseyman once again for enlightening us. Your thoughts on the power canal are probably spot on in this case. In pipe design, the velocity (V) in the pipe is a function of Q (flow in Cubic feet per second) divided by the cross sectional area A (of the pipe. V= Q/A To increase...

The second map posted by Bob that shows what appears to be the canal is very interesting. I said to Bob on Saturday that the canal could not have been the type to have been used for transporting goods because it was too curving, small and narrow. Looking at Bob's map, the canal looks more like...

I went along with pbxbob and woodjin yesterday for an exploration of some ruins and an exporation of old mill pond in Jeff's neck of the Big Woods. We traced an impressive, dry canal for well over a mile to its origins at a stream. There we found the remnants of what was likely a large...

The only down side is this will be the new twin turbo 6.4l. A completely new engine again. You will be looking at least another year or more of growing pains and troubles like what was experienced with the 6.0

I do exactly that sir.

Whew! I was sure hoping you got the 7.3 You did very well with your research. The early 6.0's in 03' and 04' were very problematic. The only common problem with the 7.3 is the cam position sensor. Its a $110.00+/ sensor in the front of the block above the flywheel that craps out with no...

Congrats Dude! You will love the diesel, especially if you tow. I have the 6 speed manual trans and see about 19-20 mpg all the time with 21 on a highway trip. Not bad for a crew cab, 8' bed truck that weighs 8400 lbs just sitting there empty. If you got an auto you, will probably see 17-18...

Blazing a tree is an old method of marking lines or corners that has been around at least forever, if not longer, in surveying. As I know Guy will attest, the references to a blazed oak or blazed pine in old deeds and maps were extemely common. Pine knot corners were also common. The...

Foo Foo, Every club I know of uses blazes and most are small and not harmful to the tree. In fact, most clubs reblaze the same mark every year or two when they freshen the lines. The blazes on pines become a bright white mark for about a year from the drying pine sap and makes a great natural...

My wife and I were out at the downstream end of Penn Swamp late this afternoon and on our way in we passed an older guy who appeared to be backpacking to Lower Forge. He was about a mile short of Quaker Bridge when we saw him and he was headed that way. Full pack, bed roll and sleeping bag...

There are a few old lines on Sandy Causeway in Waterford that were maintained by a now defunct club I hunted with a few times. They were hard to follow on a good day and now that they haven't been maintained they are a real challenge. I walked one a few weeks ago and ended up losing it and...

Bob A club line (local term) is a line cut by a gun club to carve out their drives. They break large expanses of woods into manageable chunks by cutting lines every 1/2 mile or so apart. For instance, Burnt Mill Road through Waterford probably has at least 10 lines cut from the sewer plant to...

Yes, I was there by myself using the timer. I had a tripod with a spotting scope in the truck so I used the tripod. Scott

Not being one to pass on an opportunity to be in the pines with a gun, I decided to try my skills against the elusive eastern coyote out near Lower Forge. At 6:00 a.m. I was sitting under a pine in the big woods waiting for first light. The woods was dead silent and there was not a whisper of...

The crabbing there is really, reallly bad. I would recommend going somewhere else, as Davensj would surely agree. :)