AZ ranch

[BoFuller]

The ears have improved greatly and just in time. January 9 to 16 is our annual ski trip to Big Bear, CA. All 17 of us are here; wife and me, 5 children, 4 spouses, and 6 grandkids! Friday was an awesome day for skiing with a fresh 5 inches of new snow on top of 36 already.

I wrote a letter and submitted it along with my permit application extension request a couple weeks ago. Basically i said that I thought I was being harassed and needed to know who/what was the next step higher. The Chief Building Officer called me a few days later and ask me to come in and have a talk with him. The 23rd of January is the next available date for me, so I'm looking forward to getting this permit process resolved soon.

 

[mjncad]

Good luck with the Gummint bureaucrat. Hopefully he'll actually listen to you and your evidence, and not just give you lip service.

 

[Ken]

Mr. Fuller Good the read your doing better and health is improving.
Think pushing the building inspection up stairs is good idea.
There has to be a good reason it has been postponed
this length of time. Went back to read your 1st. post of finished in 3 years. This after the approvial or purchaseing the property.
On vacations and after retirement used to work building churches . when went to a building location every body was given a job to do and with in a week were close to finishing.
You have a lot of posting friends maybe make a call for help.
All it requires is good food. and trailer camp site.
Has the snow and blowing wind arrived yet .
ken

 

[BoFuller]

Okay. I had a meeting today with the Chief Building Officer and I believe it went well. I expressed my frustrations at the regs and the mountains of documentation (plans are now 15 pages plus 52 pages of backup calculations from the engineer). He expressed his side of the story and I think we both feel pretty good now. I needed several details from my draftsman. And then the drawings have to go back to engineer for stamping, but I'm feeling really optimistic that I can have my permit within a month. He said that when I have everything ready, to give him a call and he'll set up a time to finish it up.

I came on up to the Ranch afterwards and barely made it. The roads are nothing but mud from melting snow. It will be a month before anyone could get back here to start on the foundation anyway, so if I get my plans in a month, I'm happy. This is the best I've felt about the whole permit process in over a year.

 

[BoFuller]

When I got to my trailer, I found that I left 3 cans of Odouls and 3 cans of Coors on a shelf. The Odouls froze, exploded, and made a total mess. The Coors are fine. Lesson learned. Don't ever get any of that non-alcoholic crap again.

 

[ENG18LT]

I am still amazed at the whole permit process, I thought NY was bad.

 

[mjncad]

52 pages of backup calculations on a residence is ridiculous.

 

[Ken]

Good Morning Mr. Fuller I well remember the mud . Used 4 wheel. drive pick-up and with in sight of Seligman it sank to window sill of the truck. Winch was used and broke. So another employee drove from Kingman tied his truck to tree and his winch cable with pulley to back of my truck and then cable tied to tree Doubling the strength of cable.
After getting truck out drove to pumping Sta. and washed with fire hose. There after driving down road would see dirt falling out of frame for a month.
Nothing like good Memories. This was all before the interstate put in.

Glad your able to get permission to build. Kind of chaps the nether lands doesn't it. Did you cover the logs to keep moisture from soaking in. Shouldn't be much bark to worry with removing.

The rouge policeman in Calif. Pictures show they tore the place apart before the fire burned it all.

Keep up the updates it is interesting.
ken

 

[tnmike]

You have far more patience than I do. There is no side to their story that requires 52 pages of calculations other than an overbearing , bloated bureaucracy making work for themselves to no ones greater good.

They need a lawsuit badly.

 

[BoFuller]

There response was that this is the first completely non-kit log cabin they have seen so they have nothing to compare it to. A friend of mine is hoping to build one like it in the near future, so he probably won't have to do the backup calculations since they now have some on file. If this meeting did not go well then it would have been attorney time, but I'd like to avoid that route.

 

[BoFuller]

I took a couple mile walk with the dog this morning and upon returning, there was a small herd of javelina in the driveway in front of us. The dog barked and I threw a couple rocks, but they kept inching toward us. So I put in my earplugs and pulled out my Glock. First shot was over their heads to scare them, and most of them scattered. But one big one just stopped for a second then continued toward us. He was at a bit of an angle so I let him have a round in the rear thigh. He jumped a couple inches and then took off into the brush. No idea how bad he was wounded.

Previously whenever they heard me coming they scattered quickly. Makes me think maybe somebody has fed them. I need to check with my neighbors.

 

[Ken]

I took a couple mile walk with the dog this morning and upon returning, there was a small herd of javelina in the driveway in front of us. The dog barked and I threw a couple rocks, but they kept inching toward us. So I put in my earplugs and pulled out my Glock. First shot was over their heads to scare them, and most of them scattered. But one big one just stopped for a second then continued toward us. He was at a bit of an angle so I let him have a round in the rear thigh. He jumped a couple inches and then took off into the brush. No idea how bad he was wounded.

Previously whenever they heard me coming they scattered quickly. Makes me think maybe somebody has fed them. I need to check with my neighbors.

Bo Our daughter and neighbor children about 5 to 7 in age were walking and saw one she came running into the house saying Ma there is a large jalapena in the field. It took a awhile to understand the difference between javelin a hog type and jalapena hot pepper type. Next time try BBQ the varmets.
ken

 

[crash325]

Bo Our daughter and neighbor children about 5 to 7 in age were walking and saw one she came running into the house saying Ma there is a large jalapena in the field. It took a awhile to understand the difference between javelin a hog type and jalapena hot pepper type. Next time try BBQ the varmets.
ken

Ken did you ever eat a javelina??? They taste awful. Although Most Mexican's like them BBQ'ed.

Bo if you should have to shoot one of those suckers. Don't say a word about it. Just drag it away. AZ Game & Fish thinks they (Javies) come first. Mom had a problem with them & the destruction they do. Told he Tough, Javies were here first. As you may know they are mean & vicious, can & will kill a dog or small child quickly.

 

[mjncad]

There response was that this is the first completely non-kit log cabin they have seen so they have nothing to compare it to.

That sounds like typical bureaucrat's BS to me; but I hope you're right and your buddy won't be saddled with the red-tape nonsense you've experienced.

 

[rdpecken]

...He was at a bit of an angle so I let him have a round in the rear thigh. He jumped a couple inches and then took off into the brush. No idea how bad he was wounded.

I used to get a HAM (Handgun, Archery & Muzzleloader) permit every spring to go "hunting" for Javalina. I never told my buddies that the only reason I would actually shoot one was in self defense, though. It reminds me of my favorite recipe for Javalina:

Find a nice, straight stick off of an oak tree. Skewer the javalina on the stick and slow cook it overnight over a bed of mesquite coals. The next day, when the pig is falling off of the spit, gather all of the meat and prepare for a feast.
Then bury the meat and eat the stick. That stuff stinks!

Glad you're making some progress Bo. We're still working on our place up there too, but so far without too much county intervention. Good luck.

 

[Ken]

Ken did you ever eat a javelina??? They taste awful. Although Most Mexican's like them BBQ'ed.

Bo if you should have to shoot one of those suckers. Don't say a word about it. Just drag it away. AZ Game & Fish thinks they (Javies) come first. Mom had a
problem with them & the destruction they do. Told he Tough, Javies were here first. As you may know they are mean & vicious, can & will kill a dog or small child quickly.

Mr. Fuller , Jim This is the reason Texans invented BBQ sauce strong rank and to cover the taste of Javelin hogs .
Game and Fish people think anything in dangers there job if killed with out of season .
Jim South East of Tucson is a old gun club that once a year has a wild game dinner. Anything is game. tasted Mt. Lion there. cooked in fire pit. Not bad in taste. I don't drink but it seemed to be a favorite way to wash down good food. Soon didn't need food to keep washing it down.
Sure made the shooting of targets interesting to watch.
Watched the black power shoot off one shot a minute and the most accurate of 3 shot won. It was a hoot after lunch they couldn't locate the primer caps or load rod . also could of used a larger target.
ken

 

[crash325]

Mr. Fuller , Jim This is the reason Texans invented BBQ sauce strong rank and to cover the taste of Javelin hogs .
Game and Fish people think anything in dangers there job if killed with out of season .
Jim South East of Tucson is a old gun club that once a year has a wild game dinner. Anything is game. tasted Mt. Lion there. cooked in fire pit. Not bad in taste. I don't drink but it seemed to be a favorite way to wash down good food. Soon didn't need food to keep washing it down.
Sure made the shooting of targets interesting to watch.
Watched the black power shoot off one shot a minute and the most accurate of 3 shot won. It was a hoot after lunch they couldn't locate the primer caps or load rod . also could of used a larger target.
ken

Hi Ken
Have a funny story about eating Mt. lion & another one eating bear. Don't want to steal BO's thread will save it for another day.

If I was BO 'd fence off a acre or 2 around my home area.

 

[BoFuller]

Hi Ken
Have a funny story about eating Mt. lion & another one eating bear. Don't want to steal BO's thread will save it for another day.

If I was BO 'd fence off a acre or 2 around my home area.

Don't mind the hijacking. tell your story.

I will fence off a few acres once we move here and are ready for gardens.

 

[BoFuller]

It reminds me of my favorite recipe for Javalina:

Find a nice, straight stick off of an oak tree. Skewer the javalina on the stick and slow cook it overnight over a bed of mesquite coals. The next day, when the pig is falling off of the spit, gather all of the meat and prepare for a feast.
Then bury the meat and eat the stick. That stuff stinks!

Glad you're making some progress Bo. We're still working on our place up there too, but so far without too much county intervention. Good luck.

I love the recipe. I'm mostly vegetarian so it makes it that much better.

Good to hear from you Randy. One of these days we have to get together.

 

[crash325]

Don't mind the hijacking. tell your story.

I will fence off a few acres once we move here and are ready for gardens.

Clell & Dale (dad & uncle) were guiding some dudes on a lion hunt at the Healy ranch in the Huachuca Mt. One of the dudes kept shooting his mouth off. That is they got a lion he wanted a lion steak. A few days into the hunt they got one. That evening at dinner Mrs Healy brought out 2 platters of meat. The loud mouth was handed one with lion on it. All the others ate off the other platter.

After dinner someone ask him how he liked the lion meat.

Story goes he turned green, ran for the door and lost his dinner.

Couple of picture of lions from about that time period.
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I'm not a vegie person, but would rather eat mesquite than Javie. It does stink and tastes awful.