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Richard N. Pinkerton
10-14-2008, 03:08 PM
Hi, I'm new to this forum. I've been an inspector for 15 years. Structural, plumbing mechanical and plans examiner.
Ted Menelly
10-14-2008, 03:28 PM
Inspector as what you mentioned is all you inspect or City type inspector. Oh yeah, welcome.
MaMa Mount
10-14-2008, 03:48 PM
Oh my we have a pirate on the board. Guess we know what your are dressing up this halloween as. You be nice on here you Mr. Bad Pirate Man.:eek:

MaMa Mount
Ron Bibler
10-14-2008, 04:50 PM
Hes an outsider/insider looking to see just what is going on hear.

hold your to your cards!!!

Wellcome.

Ron
Billy Stephens
10-14-2008, 05:05 PM
What River? :D
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Richard N. Pinkerton
10-15-2008, 08:18 AM
Arrrgh! I'm a Linn County, Oregon inspector and I raft the McKenzie River, the Rogue River, the Deschutes River, the Santiam River, the Umpqua River, and have rafted the Colorado River.
Thanks for the welcome!!!!:cool:
Billy Stephens
10-15-2008, 05:24 PM
Arrrgh! I'm a Linn County, Oregon inspector and I raft the McKenzie River, the Rogue River, the Deschutes River, the Santiam River, the Umpqua River, and have rafted the Colorado River.
Thanks for the welcome!!!!:cool:
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The River Pirate?

Stream Pirate maybe. :D
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Richard N. Pinkerton
10-15-2008, 08:08 PM
Ok, so our rivers aren't THAT big (the Columbia is close), ours move faster!!!!
:p besides, "the stream pirate" just doesn't sound right!!!!!
The River Pirate
Billy Stephens
10-15-2008, 08:19 PM
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:p besides, "the stream pirate" just doesn't sound right!!!!!
The River Pirate
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I don't know it's kinda catchy. ;)
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Jerry Peck
10-15-2008, 08:19 PM
I raft the


Ok, so our rivers aren't THAT big (the Columbia is close), besides, "the stream pirate" just doesn't sound right!!!!!

Oh ... I get it ... you go tubing! :p

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Richard N. Pinkerton
10-15-2008, 08:30 PM
No, white water rafting. Come to Oregon sometime and I'll take you down the river.

The River Pirate:cool:
Jerry Peck
10-15-2008, 08:46 PM
No, white water rafting.

Richard,


My idea of "white water rafting" was (when I was younger) using one of those large oars your use (we called them "surf boards" :p ) and riding 20 foot plus waves during hurricanes ... Now THAT is "white water rafting" if there ever was such a thing ... :eek:

:cool:

Cowabunga!

Goofy-footing!

Not the Big Kahuna, but 'good enough'. :)
Ron Bibler
10-15-2008, 09:03 PM
No, white water rafting. Come to Oregon sometime and I'll take you down the river.

The River Pirate:cool:


Richard Have you ever rafted the deschutes river above sherars falls N/E Oregon ? I did that back around 1977 had a blast.

This is a link to a video of the Falls. very fast river. The wood framed stands that you see are Indian Salmon Fishing platforms.

Sherars Falls, Deschutes River, Oregon videos from oregon videos on webshots (http://travel.webshots.com/video/3051028860046663707IaSXSp)

Best

Ron
Richard N. Pinkerton
10-15-2008, 09:31 PM
Ron, we do the Deschtes @ Maupin every year and yes, it is a blast.
Jerry, NOW that sounds like a ride!!!!! If I get over to FL I'll make sure it's hurricane season and we can "shoot the curl" gnarly dude!
The River Pirate
Rick Hurst
10-15-2008, 09:59 PM
Jerry,

Speaking of surfing, have you ever seen this video? Can you imagine riding this one?

YouTube - Big wave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuw_W0SgIkQ)

rick
Jerry Peck
10-16-2008, 06:58 AM
Rick,

The reason he delayed cutting across the face of that wave was so the white water would 'clean his shorts out' at the end of his ride. Can't go back to the beach with 'a load in them'. :D

Just watching that surfer (I've seen other video of others riding waves like that) makes the adrenaline pump up a notch, thinking 'Dang! That fool waited to long to cut across the face and shoot the curl!' 'That fool' made it through the first of the break, but it never did show him coming out at the end, I think he wiped out near the end of his ride.

But he did better than I ever could have - no doubt about that! Doing that takes a REAL surfer, and I was not one of them.

I saw a thing on TV the other night (a promo for a show or something) about surfers in the Gulf at Texas. Huh? In the Gulf? At Texas?

Yep. They ride a boat out into the Gulf, the boat turns in behind the wake of the large freighters, the surfers jump into the wake with their boards and ride the wake, which is pretty good sized and makes for a great wave, which goes on and on and on and ...
Rick Hurst
10-16-2008, 12:17 PM
Jerry,

My sons and their friends surf behind boats as this video show of another guy.

Its like wakeboarding without the rope.

rick

YouTube - how to surf behind a boat (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0J_-6FtKlvQ)
Jerry Peck
10-16-2008, 01:02 PM
Rick,

I couldn't find a video, but here is a web site about it.

Freighter Surfing - Hang Ten, Dudes and Dudettes - Surf's Up! (http://www.info4net.com/freightersurfing/index.html)

And here is one from the 1960s where they did it back then.

Tanker Surfing wth Toby (http://www.kacm.com/Tanker.htm)
Richard M. Pinkerton
10-16-2008, 06:40 PM
Deuce!
Kinda runs in the family now huh Dad?
Guys/Gals, reading your posts, I'll tell ya, this guy is a great captain, "rough and ready".
Now, for me, I am attending Chemeketa CC Building Inspection Technology Program, not for Home Inspections, for local, state, and federal jurisdictions. A long arduous course in Code and compliance, but still better than swinging iron all day, with an Associates to boot.
This looks like it will be a good site to visit often and talk code.