• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Golden spike hare scrambles Photos

here is a picture of the packwood lumber site before it was shut down and taken apart

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the jump referred to as the "loading dock" was actually the foundation for the barker and cut-off saw (far right in the picture). the ramp was there so a bobcat could be drove up and shovel off bark that had fell from the structure above (I use to do this job on the weekends during college).

the other contrete structures are mostly remains of foundation. this picture was taken before the back lumber yard was paved, some of the wharehouse buildings do not exist, and the kilns not shown.

is what is unfortunate, is a much larger area of timbered land behind the mill was owned by the mill and they sold to state DOT and private owners for next to nothing shortly before we started racing on the site. the state DOT and private owners won't let us use that. the area we use now is only a fraction of what use to be owned by the mill.
 
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