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My name is Mike but most people know me as Bird.
Back in the 70's at one point I was unemployed with nothing to do. I had a chute (7tu military surplus) that I used to jump with when I had a job, well maybe it was the drugs (okay I used to be a hippy) but then again with cabin fever in late winter you are game for anything--but anyways I had the chute, 200' of rope and a fire tower and somewhere along the line I got the bright idea to tie the rope to the top of the tower, get down near the bottom and tie the rope to the harness and open the sucker up.
You would be real suprised to see how high you can get when the wind gets up to 15 to 20 mph--not just straight out from the tower but actually almost 100' above it--all my buddies tried it (we had this one guy--Mooch, 98lbs wet who got stuck up there the better part of 2 hours before I could explain to him how to colapse the chute.)
Well one day this guy stopped by and was taking pictures and asking some questions and 2 weeks later as I walked into the bar Sat. nite I was grabbed, spunaround and there I was "Birdman of Parishville" on the back page of a newspaper from 75 miles away.
Monday I recieved 3 different visits from the conservation officers "if we catch ur ass on that fire tower again!"
Just thought u guys might find that funny.
Back in the 70's at one point I was unemployed with nothing to do. I had a chute (7tu military surplus) that I used to jump with when I had a job, well maybe it was the drugs (okay I used to be a hippy) but then again with cabin fever in late winter you are game for anything--but anyways I had the chute, 200' of rope and a fire tower and somewhere along the line I got the bright idea to tie the rope to the top of the tower, get down near the bottom and tie the rope to the harness and open the sucker up.
You would be real suprised to see how high you can get when the wind gets up to 15 to 20 mph--not just straight out from the tower but actually almost 100' above it--all my buddies tried it (we had this one guy--Mooch, 98lbs wet who got stuck up there the better part of 2 hours before I could explain to him how to colapse the chute.)
Well one day this guy stopped by and was taking pictures and asking some questions and 2 weeks later as I walked into the bar Sat. nite I was grabbed, spunaround and there I was "Birdman of Parishville" on the back page of a newspaper from 75 miles away.
Monday I recieved 3 different visits from the conservation officers "if we catch ur ass on that fire tower again!"
Just thought u guys might find that funny.
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