How'd it go today?

[CurSedVoyce]

I bet that's gonna be pretty! Let us see it as you mill it, please???

Will do. Still leaking sap, so it needs to dry out some first. Sticky stuff.

 

[pantheraba]

Good deal...thanks!

 

[Fiddler]

Old former customer woke me up at 9:30 this am...needed a tree cleared out of his drive after the wind. Made coffee, loaded the dog and saw up, cut the drive open and another tree into movable chunks, and was back home by 10:30. He still has to get some big hangers out of the driveway tree and do cleanup. Think I'll take the rest of the week off

 

[MasterBlaster]

Don't spoil yourself!!!

 

[Mick!]

Very tired, busy week with storm work and pricing in the evening.

Big oak TD tomorrow, then all day pricing Saturday.

Could be a record week though!

 

[pantheraba]

I'm thinking Dave Fiddler might just have a little time to help you out...after he gets out of bed, makes breakfast, deals with the dog and gets his gear together.

Or he might be busy taking the week off!

 

[stig]

We pulled 15 large beech trees along a road and around a house in the State forest today.
The invention of the Big shot and dyneema pull rope sure has made that sooooooooooooooo much easier than the old days of climbing each tree to set steel wire.

I did the felling and not much else.
I'm gimping around badly after my accident.
Seems only to be superficial damage to knee from being bent the wrong way.
Swelling and sore ligaments, so I'll take it easy over the weekend.
Then hopefully back to logging monday

I honestly still can't quite believe, I walked ( well, crawled, actually!) away from that one.
I've seen people get busted up really bad from similar accidents.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Ibuprofen! 800 mg!

 

[Grendel]

I am declining to rig anything off the house side of this mess. Seems to be a lot of dead wood on both sides right at the knuckle above the inclusion, which is also super sketchy. I'm thinking, since the owner scoffed at the notion of hiring a bucket truck, I can ratchet strap the base and the inclusion/split, tension and tie the leads together, and winch the whole thing into the back yard. I told him we'd try to prune a hole for it, but there would likely be some damage. I'll see how it feels when it's all tied up. . .

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'd pass on climbing that.

 

[Raj]

Yuck. I've bigshot two separate pull lines on each stem on a mess like that. Maasdam and pulled both lines.

 

[Grendel]

I'm totally with ya both.

Peter, I'm also thinking a kind of horizontal spider leg. I want to pull it with some MA and my winch. . . Dude wants to wait till Sunday, lol. I guess if it's still standing by then I'll have a little more wiggle room.

 

[Raj]

That's where one of those 21ft pole saws would help.... Just a little...

 

[Grendel]

Wait, are you suggesting I should buy another piece of equipment? We are talking powered pole saws here right?? hahaha

 

[MasterBlaster]

It's only money!!!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Sounds a prudent plan Sam.

Me, just doing my part for global warming again today.
I keep thinking I hear a sawyer roll in the grave or a green leaf licker scream from time to time until I drown it out with diesel motor rpms.
Had about 5 of these size piles rockin today.

 

[Grendel]

Awesome

 

[Mick!]

Good stuff all.

I do hope Stig you're not ignoring your body, did you get it checked out at the quacks?

 

[Bermy]

Ditto what Mick said Stig...don't discount the possibility of a fracture...

Steven do you have to have a fire mitigation plan with burning those log heaps?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yes Fi. Bare dirt, big iron, water, tools and a phone
Escape plans.

 

[Bermy]

Thought so

 

[FireFighterZero]

Calve in March they said.......it'll be great they said.....

 

[Fiddler]

keeping the hot box busy eh?

 

[FireFighterZero]

It's really the pits.

Calving in a three day blizzard with wind chills double digits below zero.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Always, in the worst weather. Our goats were kind thus year, or was it th e weather ??