Recent content by pigwot

Physics at play there: F= ma That large a mass, even at a slow acceleration delivered a massive force to his unprotected skull. Wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t survive. At the least he’d likely have suffered spinal compression injuries, possible meningeal tearing, and if his skull was...

Thanks for the suggestions - duly passed on to the young’un 🙂

Sent to: @Porkbrick but other here might have suggestions, too Our son is in La Honda, CA working maintenance and operations at a Y camp there. They have older Husky 272XPs and Stihl FarmBoss models. He was asking where to get parts: I suggested Madsens and Baileys... Then he asked what saw...

In one of my morning update emails… preaching to the choir: “Planting more trees in cities would save lives.More than a third of all heat-related deaths in the world from 2000 to 2019 could’ve been avoided with more vegetation in urban zones, researchers in Australia reported this week...

Pope Francis

Weirdly they don’t bother me - in 2019 I climbed with Nick and Karina’s TreeCareLA crew and once they heard I wasn’t reactive to Platanus guess which trees I got assigned… They have an interesting species out there: P. racemosa (Western sycamore). The spherical fruit clusters/seed heads unlike...

A short visit with family up in Lancaster, PA yesterday (photo is wife and her three sisters) to see a niece and her husband we hadn’t seen in a few years ( they lived in Denver, moved to Madison about a year ago). Did not stay long as they have two large, long-haired dogs (Denali and Rainier)...

Add the Maryland State Champ White Oak to your rec climb list - come on down and stay a bit - I’ll get you on a lathe to turn yourself a nice salad bowl or something artistic!

It’s a full time job just keeping your vehicles going!

My ‘62 XKE was a thrill to drive (2 to 3 days a week, and worked on it the other 4 to 5 days 🤣). The whole idea of brakes in close to the rear differential was to reduce unsprung weight to keep the tires in contact with the road better…

OA pain, in decreasing order: hands, left ankle, neck, shoulders, left hip…

Climbed mostly in the 1970s, New River Gorge and Seneca Rocks in W VA, the Gunks in NY, etcetera out here. Most of the time went climbing with two friends... one who lived out West, where we left all our gear one year. He was the friend with Bi-Polar issues and thinking the world was soon t...

This April 1st was the least funny in many years; you saved April Fool’s Day!!!! It only needs an air-tight, bulletproof, dust cover, - as of course it will be hung in the back of many a chip truck 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kitty Dukakis: “I hope readers won’t miss Katharine Seelye’s moving obituary for Kitty Dukakis, the former first lady of Massachusetts. Dukakis suffered for years from depression and substance abuse — and then dealt with her challenges with a degree of courage and openness that made her an...

Brian James, Pioneer of Punk Rock, Is Dead at 70 - As the guitarist and main songwriter for the Damned, he helped spark an explosion on the British music scene in the 1970s