Topic: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!

[newday777]

You find the trees scattered around the west. Bored kids.

[ZTatZAU]

You find the trees scattered around the west. Bored kids.

Haha!  I don't remember if it was in a movie or a real story reported in the news, but I seem to recall sneakers hanging from utility pole lines meant a shipment of drugs had arrived.
ZT

[ofreen]

The great Western sneaker tree! A rare and endangered tree!

Thanks for sharing your rides with us, Greg.  Beautiful country!
I had to google Swan Falls and noticed your first picture above looks to be taken from about the same spot as the photo on the Idaho Park Swan Falls website.  If so, the water level looks to be a lot lower these days.
As for the tree, that MauiK3 already mentioned... what's the story on the sneakers there?
I can't be the only one wondering about that!
ZT

You're welcome.  If you google 'Kuna shoe tree' you'll find some articles on it, along with a similar phenomena not far away involving fence posts.  Just something to do I reckon. 

The water level varies with the time of year.  The Snake has many dams upstream of Swan Falls controlling flows, plus levels vary with spring and summer runoff.

[MauiK3]

I wonder if, when the Snake dams are old enough they will have the same fate as the Klamath and Elwah and others!

[ofreen]

Some pix from today's ride -

[newday777]

Some pix from today's ride -

❤️👍

[Don R]

 I rode mine past a Bucyrus Eure 22B this fall. Later, I thought it would have taken a good picture.

[newday777]

I rode mine past a Bucyrus Eure 22B this fall. Later, I thought it would have taken a good picture.

I remember one of those shovels as a kid in the 60s at a sand put just a few miles from where I live now. That pit is now all overgrown pine trees.
One of my nephews was running a 50 yard bucket shovel at a gold mine in Northern Nevada 4 years ago. He sat in a cab 45' off the ground. He had to take a lunch up with him and a pee bottle as the operators weren't allowed to get out of the cab during their shift without a replacement operator to keep it working filling the constant flow of Utes moving the tailings they were shifting through to extract the small percentage of gold that wasn't extracted when gold prices were low.

[MauiK3]

Must be chilly!!!

[ofreen]

After riding around in the low to mid 30's, low 50's felt pretty good.

[Don R]

I rode mine past a Bucyrus Eure 22B this fall. Later, I thought it would have taken a good picture.

I remember one of those shovels as a kid in the 60s at a sand put just a few miles from where I live now. That pit is now all overgrown pine trees.
One of my nephews was running a 50 yard bucket shovel at a gold mine in Northern Nevada 4 years ago. He sat in a cab 45' off the ground. He had to take a lunch up with him and a pee bottle as the operators weren't allowed to get out of the cab during their shift without a replacement operator to keep it working filling the constant flow of Utes moving the tailings they were shifting through to extract the small percentage of gold that wasn't extracted when gold prices were low.

 This one is a cable shovel, there were also drag line configurations. (I had to look it up) It's in a former coal strip mine area and the property owner moved it out by the highway a couple years ago. There are a lot of lakes left behind, it wasn't reclaimed to farmland back when this all was mined. There were a few of the big diggers when I was younger, you could see then from 20 miles away, they were electric and the power lines followed them wherever they went.