Picture Tuesday...........NDR

Dave Parks

Dave Parks

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Got the road up to the rock quarry re-cut today and as I write this a big water truck just headed up the road to water it down. Looks like they will start hauling truck loads of rock starting tomorrow.........good, I can always use the money! Another crew has been hauling off all the old farm equipment and scrap steel to a buyer. In the last 4 days we have averaged between 6,500 to 8,500 pounds of steel a day and we are about 1/2 finished.

This sure is a nice big John Deere motor-grader my buddy has:
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The quarry road is looking a lot better:
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View of the Applegate Valley from the rock quarry.
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The price of the scrap steel and a few dozen truck loads of rock will more than pay for my trip to Montana in a few weeks. Love it when a plan comes together.

Dave
 
There is going to be a lucky guy on that property,once he knows it's for sale.Has it been lister with Cabelas yet?
 
I forgot to ask my agent what he found out about listing it with Cabelas. It's listed on the Internet, that is how the people from Florida found it and also the Canadian pilot from Hong Kong found it, so I don't know if Cabelas is really needed. BTW here's what the Applegate River looks like from up at the rock quarry (with a little help from the telephoto lens) The whole Valley is starting to turn into vinyards around here!

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Judy and I took a drive up to the quarry at 8pm yesterday so she could see how nice the new road is. She said it would be a heck of a view homesite up there.

A 20 acre parcel on part of my south boundry line has sold provided there is water on it. The well driller and the buyer called me to ask if they could use my quarry road to bring in the drilling rig to the top of the 20 acre parcel since they can not get it up the switch-back road to the house pad at this time. I meet with them next week to see exactly what their $ offer is that they mentioned to me on the phone.

We have a hot spell passing through, 97 yesterday and supposed to break 100 today. Going to have to strat early and knock off by noon with the work here. Need to haul about another 10 tons of scrap metal and we'll be done with the clean-up and can start on other projects (re-rocking roads & lots of backhoe work) since I have all this heavy equipment available.

Dave
 
Dave:
It's hard for me to believe you are selling that beautiful property! I guess you are never too old for a change. My wife and I built our present property to retire on. There is no way at 82 that I could make a change like that--you have more guts than I but good luck.
wis boz
 
It's more about reasons than guts I think. Selling this place will enable us to buy a place in Montana, build a guest cabin so we can have our friends come to hunt and fish in a nice location each year. That's what matters to us.

We can always take off with the travel trailer and head to New Mexico, Arizona or Baja in the winter time and return in the Spring. With Judy retired we can hunt Argentina or go up to fish with Yukon Mike in the summertime.

We are not hard to please, all we want is to find a location that is shoulder deep in upland birds, ducks, geese, mule deer, white tails, antelope with a few elk thrown in. That spot seems to be somewhere between the Missouri River on the north, the Yellowstone River on the south, the Musselshell River on the east and the Judith River on the west. A place where I can look around me and see the Missouri Breaks to the north, Judith Mountains to the east, the Big Snowy's to my south and the Little Belt & Big Belt Mountains to my west. That pretty well puts me in the Judith Basin where old "Liver eatin' Johnson" roamed about. Maybe we'll settle in that old cabin in "Crazy Woman" Canyon. I could always keep my hard cider cool out in that cron crib, WAGH!

Who knows, we might just get us a couple of paint horses, pack up our possibles, throw the tipi on our lodgepole travois and head to winter quarters each fall. I think a 22' tipi would be big enough for our kingsize buffalo robe bed and a 43" flatscreen TV if they have cable hook ups for both the TV & the computer somewhere along the Judith River.

Dave
 
Oh goody! TIPI creeping.I sold two saddles but I'll ride the Paint bareback,and carry an Imposible Bag.:>)
 
Dave, a wealthy family member passed on Montana as being too expensive and bought in Idaho instead...

Why didn't we all buy out there in the mid-80's... what the hell is going on in Montana?

Great pics, fun project.

Andrew
 
you might get a sun-burn if you rode the paint horse bare-back, I suggest you at least wear a t-shirt. :^) I still have 3 saddles left, so you are covered.

Yup, nuttin' better than tipi creep'in. After years of cutting new tipi poles every few years and having to make racks on the front of my trucks so I could haul those sets of 19 22' foot long tipi poles for my 18' Cheyenne lodge, I got smart and bought me a "Lean-Pi" or what some call a one pole tipi and I love it. I also have a 10'X10' Baker tent that I used to set-up at the Rendezvous if I had BP guns or plunder to sell.At my age I now tend to favor our 21' "Tin-Tipi" over handling a mess of 22' tipi poles and 170 pounds of canvas cover and liner. Now I fully understand why the Indians had their squaws set-up the tipi's, do the cooking and tanning of the game they shot. They had it made back then, if a wife did not keep up her duties, ya just marched her back to her folks and dropped here off and got a new one. And we had the gall to call them primitive savages........ha, they were smarter than us!

Dave
 
I don't know.......I have been looking at Montana properties since I was there last October and I don't see Montana's ;and or housing any more expensive than in Idaho.

Monatan like Oregon, both have no sales taxes, so they tend to get it through property taxes. It all comes out the same in the end.

We are looking at three choices to move to, either in or around Lewistown (Fergus County), Fort Benton (Chouteau County) which are pretty much in the middle of Montana. Lewistown being on the east side of the Judith Basin/ Judith River. Fort Benton is on the Missouri River where the Missouri Breaks start. Our other choice is Richland Valley on the Powder & Snake Rivers meet in N/E Oregon.

I can buy a nice new 4 bedroom house on 1-3 acres in Lewistown for under $250K. I have also looked at larger property 45 miles north of Lewistown that has mule deer, antelope and is loaded with upland birds. This parcel is 1,160 acres for $600K. Here, take a look at it:
http://www.phillips-realty.com/NewPages/CentralMontanaRanchland.htm

I'm also looking at a 7 bedroom, 3 story mansion that was buitt in Lewistown back in 1914. It has a huge basement and is in great condition for only $390K (see photo's)
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With something like this, I wouldn't need extra cabins for guests.
Here's some more photo's of what the inside looks like:
http://www.montanalandco.com/Room%20To%20Grow.htm

There are lots of choices if you do your homework. Remember the old saying.....ya can't take your MONEY with you when you go. But, they didn't say you couldn't take your GUNS!

Best,
Dave
 
Dave:
That 7 bedroom 1914 Lewiston home is some teepe! You could start a bread/breakfast for all of us and pay for it---of course that wouldn't leave you or your wife any time to hunt. Is that a plan or what. You could have hook up's for RV's and when you do put my name on one. I can see how it would get your blood moving.
wis boz
 
Ah liver eatin Johnson ,the musscle shell ummm may the fair wind blow me son...

livin large dave good luck im jealous ive never seen such sites or walked that hallowed ground.for the love of god please keep the fantastic pics coming its the only way ill ever see that country side..

oh and dont use none of them ol`paper birch to build your cabin or poplars[aspen] like in the movies you be movin out in no time,lol,lol ,you ve done good pilgram to keep such hair on your head when so many are looking for it......

i wonder if my most favorite movie will ever make it to dvd??

remember this one
i kilt the bar that kilt me
or= skin this one pilgram and ill get ya another heehhaw hheee haw
ah i could go on and on ....

take care Dave

shermie
 
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All my friends in Dillon said it was the Kalifornions that caused property to sky rocket there..the locals couldn't afford to buy property. The Kalifornicators were buying up ranches and telling guys that hunted there for years to keep out. I thought I was gonna witness a horse dragging last time we were out there when one of them got mouthy in the bar...he sure disappeared fast. I spent all my time on the west side of the hill on the eye-de-hoe border. I hope it works for you Dave..but...that big house gots too many windows to clean and a buck like you might get in trouble stepping out in the yard and watering the grass.
 
That's the HORSE that will be bareback,not Chief Joseph.Me wear squaw chewed leathers,you betcha.Never could understand you *!@%#" mountain men.
We fed,liver eating Johnson,mountain oysters from skunks.
 
Prices have gone up everywhere, but just like around here the locals have always blamed the high prices on out of staters, but like I tell the locals....why do you price your land so high?

I can certainly understand anyone who buys a property that has good hunting on it and wants to keep the good hunting for himself and friends. Just because a guy used to know the previous owner and hunted that ranch for years does not mean that a new owner will let him. That is just the way it goes.

Ask Steve Sutton about the Cascades Ranch east of me, it recently sold and the new owners want the deer, elk & turkey hunting to themsleves. Steve's buddy Mike has guided on that 30,000 acre ranch for years, but no more.

I have buddy's with property in Idaho and it's just as expensive there as anywhere else. Try looking for a place around Coeur d' Alene or Sandpoint, ID. It ain't cheap. I wouldn't last long in that area anyway, I'd wind up in jail. I figure I'd last about 30 seconds with one of those Idyho pro-Nazi Skinheaded SOB's in my face and I'd most likely give him a case of 1,200 FPS lead poisoning.

With Montana's huge Block Management Program it's easy to find places to hunt anything in that State. It took me all of 30 minutes to locate over 500,000 acres of hunting farms and ranches within just a 2 hour drive of Lewistown, MT. One ranch is over 230,00 acres and it's all FREE.

As for them winows Lee, I'll hire them done, WAGH! Peeing off the front porch in town IS LEGAL in Montana, don'tcha know?

Dave

Dave
 
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