How'd it go today?

[Naturarbo]

when I grow older I wanna be...a tree climber.lol
Feliz aniversário Jerry.
This is the beggining of your portuguese course.
Até já

 

[stig]

Happy birthday, Jerry.
Glad to see I have some years as a faller ahead of me

 

[Bermy]

Happy Birthday ��!!! ������

 

[flushcut]

Happy Bday!
Still got it.

 

[pete mctree]

Happy Birthday Jerry - hope you had a good day !

 

[squisher]

Happy b-day! Looking good!!

 

[lxskllr]

Happy Birthday Jerry! Looks like a fantastic way to spend the day :^)

 

[lxskllr]

Rain today. I'd have taken my brushcutter to work, but I messed up my back earlier this week coughing. It went out on the job that got me sick, was finally starting to feel better, and a coughing fit dicked it up again.

Slowly getting better, but bored. I want to do some tree work, but the weather's too hot. Early next week doesn't look too bad, but then it's getting hot again :^S I'll probably work on straightening my ladder I'm using as a guide for my Alaskan mill. It got driven over, and is kinda bent. Since it's otherwise useless, I'd like to keep it as a guide. In a couple weeks, maybe I'll finally get my new 661 in wood. I can only hope...

 

[SeanKroll]

A bent guide is easily replaced.

Been lumber, not easily straightened.

 

[Nutball]

Rain today. I'd have taken my brushcutter to work, but I messed up my back earlier this week coughing. It went out on the job that got me sick, was finally starting to feel better, and a coughing fit dicked it up again.

Slowly getting better, but bored. I want to do some tree work, but the weather's too hot. Early next week doesn't look too bad, but then it's getting hot again :^S I'll probably work on straightening my ladder I'm using as a guide for my Alaskan mill. It got driven over, and is kinda bent. Since it's otherwise useless, I'd like to keep it as a guide. In a couple weeks, maybe I'll finally get my new 661 in wood. I can only hope...

I made one out of 2x4s, it's good enough, but I haven't used it enough to be sure it's great or if I should get metal rails. I think I put the boards on a jointer, but can't remember. My pile of nice ash logs are now modded saw testing logs instead milling them like the original plan was. Ash is miserably dusty to mill.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Three words. Aluminum extension ladder.

 

[Tree09]

Happy bday Jerry!!!!

 

[SeanKroll]

My 25' will cut a 13' log, just by a bit.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm gonna have to make 20' boards this fall. Still not sure exactly how I'm gonna handle it. The log will be 36"x20.5', oak. That's gonna be a bear to move without equipment. My current project is an ash log. I think it's 22"x10'. That's for practice setting up and using the mill. Not sure what kind of lumber I'm making with that. Maybe I'll make survey stakes.

 

[flushcut]

I have used a 2x12 as a guide. Screw it to the log and shim as needed for flatness.

 

[cory]

Yo, all this milling talk makes me think of 'Mass Wood', which I read a good article about just recently, can't find it now but here's a different one on it. Apparently it has amazing capability and is good re sustainability and climate change; more wood use equals less cement use/green house gasses

https://www.bdcnetwork.com/mass-timber-what-heck-wow

 

[Raj]

Dropping some dead ash yesterday. Last one was just 18" dia, 60 ft tall. Needed it to drop between some trees on a down slope of a ridge. Face notch was good, slow back cut, wedges worked good, started to go over in the needed direction, back cut opened to 1 inch, damn hinge popped due to punky wood, and tree hung it's self up in some tall spindley maples. Took an hour to set up maasdam and pull it out.

 

[pantheraba]

Inconvenient but you got it done...good show.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Do you have a Big Shot, Raj?

 

[SeanKroll]

Know how to "walk a hung tree down"?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Watch out, feet!

 

[SeanKroll]

D of going to visit Grandma today. Gone a week. Getting ready for a run of work.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Grandma's cooking!!!

 

[flushcut]

I miss my grandma's scalloped potatoes and ham.

 

[Mick!]

Friday was a washout, turned up, loader, chipper, two trucks.

Started the tree then found a bees nest nearby, couldn’t risk it with my new found serious allergy thing.

Packed it all up and went home.