Old tornado pics..

jwh f-100 · Post by **jwh f-100** » March 10, 2009, 7:15 pm

My mother dug out some old pics she had of a tornado that went through near us.. It is one of two that hit near us, this is the second one. The first hit four years earlier on the exact day... Thought i'd share as a couple of them are cool pics with the fog (the first two).. Click on the pic.

This is me and a buddy cheching out the damages...

My father was logging there, well up to that point.. The twisted up timber is an easy "widowmaker"

Just a few more..

Ford4jack · Post by **Ford4jack** » March 10, 2009, 8:35 pm

Those twisters sure can make a mess of things

Jason is that a 440 skidder in the second picture?

jwh f-100 · Post by **jwh f-100** » March 10, 2009, 9:48 pm

Ford4jack wrote:Jason is that a 440 skidder in the second picture?

Yep it's a 440. Good eye.

Ford4jack · Post by **Ford4jack** » March 10, 2009, 10:43 pm

I cheated a little

Those and the B model's were our meat n taters when I started down at the JD dealer.

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » March 11, 2009, 1:01 am

Jason, that must have been a scary time!, after Slickstock, Lyn and I went on a cross country trip and we came across a place we thought looked a bit odd,and we couldn't quite work out what was strange about the fairly ran down town!,

it was Greensberg KS!!!!!!!! Holy crap! and that happened 15 months earlier, I`m sticking here we`ve only got deadly animals, how the hell do you live through that?

slick4x4 · Post by **slick4x4** » March 11, 2009, 9:35 am

i will take a tornado over a python ANY day Alan....
at least if i look at a tornado, it doesnt look back at me.
windstorms just want to knock over my stuff, not EAT me!!!!

jwh f-100 · Post by **jwh f-100** » March 11, 2009, 9:40 am

Alan Mclennan wrote:Jason, that must have been a scary time!

It was definatly something new for this area even the oldtimers never saw one around here. After the first one I helped out a freind that lost his barn. He had quite a scare. They let the cattle out of the barn, ran to the house, and as they were going down into the cellar the house windows were blowing in..

Ford4jack wrote:I cheated a little
Those and the B model's were our meat n taters when I started down at the JD dealer.

Well comon up. LOL The skidder needs the shift linkages adjusted, dad and his guys are installing a winch on the 350 dozer, and replacing all the blade pins/bushings. Wish I was there doing that stuff rather than here but ya'll know how some faimlies work together...