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Bobby Allison, Hall of Fame NASCAR Driver, Is Dead at 86

Quincy Jones

Back from a weekend in DC for a wedding; stayed with our former neighbor; neat venue overlooking the Anacostia River.

Milling up stiles and rails for closet doors for a wall of built-in cabinets and dressers for Karen’s sister and brother-in-law’s new first floor living space. Still can’t post photos…

Come grab my large block with a 18 ft dead eye tail, and a heavy rope- better safe than too small. Back in the day we had 200' of a 1 1/4" triple twist rope that weighed a 'lot' !! We doubled 3/4" plywood, drilled holes and inserted two posts made from a shovel handle, and mounted that on a...

Just back from Iowa. Can’t seem to upload photos atm

...halfway up another (while hanging out of a nearby white oak) to drop that top clear of the shop. Leave 4am tomorrow for a six day woodturning course* in Iowa. Hope to stop by and see Kyle on the way there or back. *Instructor is from Germany. You can see a video about him here: Hans Weissflog

I worked with a landscaper for twenty years: he did everything ten feet and under for both our customers (bushes, gardens, grading, lawn installations, sprinkler systems) and I did everything ten feet and above (trees). At the end of each month we’d draw a line and settle up - cash one to the...

Kave, Does the young buck have a towable piece of equipment worth $6000? It’s illegal not to pay your help. Maybe convince him to part with the title and towable before you leave - or turn him in to Labor Relations Board - or place a small claims court lien on his property?

Menard’s has occasional sales. I am off to Michigan this coming week to do several days of tree work… if I am lucky they’ll drop one of their sales either on my way out or back. Looks like Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, MI have it for under $10 - and both are along US23 as I head north

Fellow nurse who is a Red Cross coordinator in NC sent these photos of Chimney Rock, NC before and after the Helene-generated rain came through. Boone, NC also submerged, and many other areas in bad shape. Cell towers out, roads impassable. Hospital ERs calling her trying to find shelters with...

Sweet sound of a brand new saw! Two short pulls to prime and third pull jumped to life!

I think it was half-jokingly. I said something like: “ maybe I’ll sell my saws and be done with tree work… ..nah, who am I kidding!?!?!” It’ll never be this clean again…sigh

Well, today is the day! Cutting those cherry logs into bowl blanks. Stopped for a drink and now the 372 won’t start- that “ I am a coil that just crapped out” totally. dead feel to it. Went down to the basement and got my very last OG 372 Powerhead. Time to first-time fuel and oil it and gently...

John, I still had that adapter in the toolbox on my trailer. One friend used to have round pin while the rest of us have the flat blade. If you haven’t ordered one I can give you this one!

...symposium up in Pennsylvania. Fellow I know had a company in to take down two cherry trees, three dead ash and a Zelkova. Yesterday the young buck* and his crew doing the work nicely helped load with his Ditch Witch 800, and we got three trailer loads out. Buddies going back for more today...

Up in Mini-soda it’s starting to get pretty cool at night: Virginia creeper is probably the best guess. It’s a little early for Sweet Gum to start turning but there can be outlier individuals that pop color early. If that were the case it most likely would look a bit darker red like the...

Spending the day at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery where my Mom annd Dad are interred doing pro bono tree work with a great group from the Wilmington office of Bartlett Tree Experts and the grounds crew from the cemetery. Back when I first volunteered 'Saluting Branches' was only about...

Let’s be clear: The fact that the Fed is likely to cut interest rates is good news overall, in that it is the clearest sign yet that inflation is coming under control. Price increases have been slowing for years. Overall Consumer Price Index inflation stood at 2.5 percent in the year through...