I’m a big fan of the Firebox Beardo.
Ordinarily he’s a fair angler too. Where does a guy get a truck tent like that, though? That’s gotta be worth a few bucks, eh? I wonder what he’s burning to get creosote problems like that? I think he’s still got a few bugs to work out but once he gets them sorted… he’s off to the races.
Now if that’d been me there…I’d a been running some Russian spoons loaded with maggots. Back in my day the trout seemed to be suspicious of the big worms and other baits. But hell… I suppose they were suspicious of my maggots too. I’ve stared down the hole at a few monsters… and they’d swim up to my hook and just look at it while I came unglued and chimped out in rage topside. Fish are all bastards and no bones about it. They deserve to be eaten.
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Up here the ice is going rotten fast and it’ll have to be next year if I want to get out. Makes me kinda regret not having gotten out this year.
Seems like long time to set things up. My Otter sled flipover takes 2 minutes to set up.
ReplyDeleteSeem a lot like fiddly crap to put together. I would have had a insulated camper shell tall enough to accommodate all his fiddly fuck stuff. I have seen in South Dakota trucks with slide in camper shells with a wood stove pipe affixed permanently attached on those weird ice fisherman. Why would a sane man or woman sit in bone chilling cold and get piles and a couple of fish? Also, to worry about the ice supporting the weight of an ice shack and/or vehicles.
ReplyDeleteTrailers will spoil you C. Do you remember as a kid…setting up the camp is half the fun. And when my blood ran hotter I’d be out there in -25C.
DeleteBut nowadays…yup. An easy 5 min set up, sparking off the furnace and then sitting back to watch the weather outside has a lot going for it…
The water vapor in the smoke was probably condensing on the inside of the stovepipe before it got out of the chimney because of the extreme cold, liquifying any creosote on the inside of the stovepipe. I know why stovepipes are stacked the way the are, to keep smoke from coming out into the living space at the joints. Still, we put a man on the moon almost sixty years ago. There's GOT to be a better way to stack stovepipes that'll keep the smoke going up without letting the creosote ooze out coming down and out at the joints.
ReplyDeleteThat's... what; a '59 0r '60 Ford?... I don't think that's the original front end though. The nameplate says "Twin I-Beam." That's NOT a twin I-beam front end! My grandfather had a twin I-beam Ford truck. He HATED that suspension! It NEVER tracked right from NEW!
I’m no mechanic Pete but that to me looks like a ground-up restoration job to me…
DeleteI had a 63 Ford and it still had the single I-beam front end. I think the twin I-beam came out in 64 or 65. I also know it's a common thing for rebuilding those old trucks to swap that out for something completely different. They changed body styles in 67, so that truck had to be 64 - 66 year model. Yeah, I obsess over shit like that.
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