August Hunicke
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Teach that tree to have limb drop!
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Renewed my dislike of yellow jackets. Set the end of my Big Shot on the ground, fired throwline into tree, moved big shot and was stung twice before I knew what was going on and ran. I hadn't seen the entrance under the leaf litter and set the pole directly on it.
I'll provide the nest with a nice present tonight and see if I can fix that problem. It's only about a foot off of a trail.
I'll provide the nest with a nice present tonight and see if I can fix that problem. It's only about a foot off of a trail.
MasterBlaster
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I hate those bastids!!! They're sneaky and FAST!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Little bastids !
MasterBlaster
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Hahaha! And that the friendly ones!
woodworkingboy
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I think only female wasps are capable of stinging, though males will stick out their butts and fake it as a threat.
Limbrat
TreeHouser
I think that anything that even looks like a yellow jacket can sting you, male, female or gender neutral. They are fierce and will chase you for quite a distance sometimes, driving their footlong, deadly syringes full of lethal poison (seems like it anyway), deep into your contorted, swatting body. They will cause you to attain speeds olympic sprinters only long for, running and bounding through the woods like a white-tailed deer. The sounds you will emit only vaguely resemble anything human. In other words, I don't like 'em.
I don't so much mind the resentment, hate, rage, fury, indignation, bitterness and loathing.....it's the arse dagger that I find intolerable.
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
Worked on some land clearing today for my friends' cat kitten rescue. A new facility, owned by the non-profit, rather than rented, as it has been for a long, long time, will be built for her, compliments of donors, and a rich woman with a lot of money to spend. She gave it to her, 7 nice acres, earning a tax write-off. One big pacific yew, one medium yet, and a few small yew. Very slow growing understory trees that produce that anti-cancer compound that is now synthetically produced...taxol, IIRC.
The Ogre was awesome. Hardwood cleanup with an Ogre is fast. Our conifers seem to demand more stacking, but still way, way less work. I moved the chipping piles to where the shade was, rather than what was close. Moving the chipper around with the Ogre was sweet, as we chipped back around a big cedar. A low tray feed height was wicked nice.
This western redcedar was around 44" dbh and 80', with four main leads. The inclusion was split from 20' to the ground, open a foot or more.. I did a vertical reduction of about 50%, cut up the tops to look like break outs at various heights, with some big branches to develop into new leaders, a couple nice reiterant tops preserved down low in the canopy. Popped each lead in one shot. Used a different technique for a boring back-cut. I couldn't get my 16" bar all the way across the 20" trunk, nor could I access the far side due to the next leader. I bored one side of the backcut, plunged through the facecut, then used that gutted-hinge kerf to plunge through the facecut to the far-side backcut to set my hinge. Then, finished boring the backcut, leaving a back strap. A final check of how the branches crossed each other, and being clear of my rope, released the backstrap. An odd situation, but it works. It could work for ground felling, as well, if due to slope drop off, another tree being in the way, or whatever. Odd.
The Ogre was awesome. Hardwood cleanup with an Ogre is fast. Our conifers seem to demand more stacking, but still way, way less work. I moved the chipping piles to where the shade was, rather than what was close. Moving the chipper around with the Ogre was sweet, as we chipped back around a big cedar. A low tray feed height was wicked nice.
This western redcedar was around 44" dbh and 80', with four main leads. The inclusion was split from 20' to the ground, open a foot or more.. I did a vertical reduction of about 50%, cut up the tops to look like break outs at various heights, with some big branches to develop into new leaders, a couple nice reiterant tops preserved down low in the canopy. Popped each lead in one shot. Used a different technique for a boring back-cut. I couldn't get my 16" bar all the way across the 20" trunk, nor could I access the far side due to the next leader. I bored one side of the backcut, plunged through the facecut, then used that gutted-hinge kerf to plunge through the facecut to the far-side backcut to set my hinge. Then, finished boring the backcut, leaving a back strap. A final check of how the branches crossed each other, and being clear of my rope, released the backstrap. An odd situation, but it works. It could work for ground felling, as well, if due to slope drop off, another tree being in the way, or whatever. Odd.
Steve Mack
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Thanks for the thoughts guys.
4.45pm yesterday, very peaceful, she never was one to make a fuss. Only thing she was ever scared of was going into an "old people's home" and taken away from her garden, we never let that happen.
flushcut
TreeHouser
The wife and I are going down to Chicago for the day to check out a booze cruse architecture tour on the river.
FJR
Treehouser
That's sounds like fun Rajan! You are going to Chicago and we are going to Wisconsin today, trading states for the day.
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
My kids are 140 miles away staying with my parents this weekend. So I was like "why can I do with the freedom?" At first I was like "I'm going to rent a sports car, drink top shelf booze, snort coke, maybe hit the casino on my way to the strip bar".
Then I just decided I'd organize my fishing gear. Mow the lawn. Maybe paint out youngest daughters bedroom with my wife. Probably a nap in there too somewhere.
Then I just decided I'd organize my fishing gear. Mow the lawn. Maybe paint out youngest daughters bedroom with my wife. Probably a nap in there too somewhere.
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
You guys know I'm kidding, right?
SoonerFan
TreeHouser
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
That still leaves Sunday.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Glad she did not have to go to the home Steve.
Steve Mack
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Thanks again everyone.
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