First Double-Cut Weekend, Saturday

From the first Double-Cut weekend of the season. The photographer's daughter's first birthday party was Sunday (just about the only thing worth missing a day for), so there's only Saturday here.

With the Corps in Dallas for the game, these are unfortunately not representative of the level of Corps participation this year. I'll get them caught up next week.

Also, I'm trying something new for this set to see how it goes. Any Flickr member can tag or notate these photos.

Enjoy. BTHOB.

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OCHWFLAKASSOBRTTEFE

Great work as always!

"Besides, what else are you doing at 6 am to not come out to Cut?"

Nice work.
BTHOB '2011!

What?! No Unload?

No need to waste cyberspace with pictures of unload when there are perfectly good load pictures! Hahaha

B.O.B. XI

I miss bonfire. I swear, the first cold day of the year when that cool breeze hits my face in the morning as I walk out the door while it's still dark, and I can't help but be sad I'm not back in Aggieland, and I can't help thinking about all the fun I had out there.

Will there be a need for cut and stack this year?


It will take eleventy-billion inches of rain to get a burn ban lifted.


No way it is allowed to happen this year.

From an earlier thread about material costs, absolutely applicable to your question:

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First off, while it has been unmercifully dry, a contact in USGS water resource management has indicated that the moisture needed to bring this area to a safe and healthy level is achievable, and not unlikely sometime this fall. Personally, I won't hold my breath, but it is nice to know that the prognosis is not as bleak as it might seem to we uninformed.

Second, I'm sure you've included this in your list of benefits, but just to put it out there for the record. While the experience is invaluable to participants for reasons we all well know, continuity and likewise evolution are absolutely essential to the organization. If there is no as-scheduled burn this year, this year's costs won't be for naught as they will have preserved lines of leadership, added another generation of experience, tested and developed the next year's leaders, and informed the organization's improvements and progress.

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Can you save anything you cut this year for next year's bonfire?

Or can it be donated to some cause, milled into wood to build a Habitat for Humanity house or something?


And considering there was a burn ban last year as well, should there not already be a stack standing out there since last year? What happens to a stack that is built and never burned?

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And considering there was a burn ban last year as well, should there not already be a stack standing out there since last year?

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It was burned in January.

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What happens to a stack that is built and never burned?

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What did they do in 1963?

I don't know, what?

your handle is making more sense now....

In 1963 Kennedy was assassinated, out of respect for the President, the partially built stack was taken apart and not burned that year

If it's raining as hard up in Robertson County as it is here in Houston, we may get the burn ban lifted after all!

In the event that it does not burn at all, I would assume they would dismantle stack and sell the wood as firewood, before it rots, in order to make some money for next year. That would be my best guess.

However, as we saw last year, it will more than likely burn at some point in time, if not as scheduled.

We need to do what we did last year and burn when we can, but this time charge to get in to make money instead of just making it for those that were involved in build(was cool though.)

OCHWFLAKASSOBRTTEFE

Brehm,
While I don't know all the details of the situation, I do have to say that the Redpots last year made a good decision, at least in my book.
There are some problems with charging for the second event (such as double payment and entertainment/concessions), but it really boils down to the fact that burn last winter was a pretty quick thing. Burning it to clear the site was a much better choice than trying to hastily throw something together just a few days after getting the go-ahead from the county (keep in mind there are many logistics and variables involved with planning an event this big).