[AT] CA. landscape a couple years later

[Ken Knierim]

Richard,

I saw a little yellow cub (I think) on a trailer and in pieces (looked a
lot like your yellow one) heading north out of Tucson last weekend. They're
a rare sight here these days.

Has anyone heard from Karl Olmstead in awhile? I met him years ago (maybe
15?) at the Tulare show as well, and picked up a Case DV on the trip. There
was a couple of folks he knew that linked me to the old Case which I
intended as a parts tractor until I got it home (after a bearing and a
couple hours tinkering it was in better shape than the tractor I was
restoring so it got brought back to life too).

Ken in AZ

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Richard Walker <richardwalker at pobox.com>
wrote:

> Richard, Couple(?) years ago your area in southern CA. was severely
>> impacted from flooding rains after loosing much area vegetation to earlier
>> forest fires; much of your area was experiencing huge mudslides. Hopefully
>> a large portion of that is now behind you? Herb(GA)
>>
>
>
> Good to hear from you, Herb.  Still remember that enjoyable meeting with
> you and your wife for lunch at the Tulare show many years ago along with
> Don Bowen and Karl Olmstead.  Can't remember if Grant Brians wandered by or
> not.
>
> Fire burned directly west of our property in April 2013 and came very
> close to our house.  Then during every hard rain in the following years,
> torrents of mud flowed down a burned out draw canyon to our north, which
> drastically impacted our neighbors.  I helped out doing clean up on
> neighboring properties using my old tractors, little skid steer, and small
> dump truck.  Whenever it got too much for me to handle, the neighbor to the
> west (a grading/excavating contractor) would bring over his larger
> equipment.  We've gone through five or six cycles of this in the last three
> years, which gets old real fast.  And yes, you're right, after three years
> much of the loose spoil has already washed down, the hillsides are getting
> scoured, vegetation is starting to grow back, and with the latest rains
> there is much less mud runoff.
>
> However Judy and I bailed from CA this September (for many other reasons
> beyond just wildfires and mud), and are now living in Oregon.  If you ever
> might make it out to the Brooks show, definitely give me a holler.
>
> (Ob. old tractor photos attached}
>
>
> Richard
>
>
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