FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Spumoni!
How'd it go today?
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SeanKroll
Treehouser
Beat me to it.Fine set of restraints. Just make sure you both agree on a safe word.
Pun intended.
Yep, same one...
New climber of trees, knitter of sweaters, splitter of firewood, cooker of feasts, singer of songs, player of instruments, repairer of popcorn ceiling...
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Burnham
Woods walker
Good luck, Sean. You too, Jonny.
ruel
TreeHouser
I'm on the other side of a relationship. My gf of 4 years split a month ago. Nice to see you folks meeting new people you are jiving with, good reminder.
Burnham
Woods walker
Sorry for you, Sean. But I get it, having split from a lovely, talented, and smart young woman I was all in with from before college until a year after. Sometimes it just has to go that way. Lucky for us both. we remain friends...I wish you that same luck.
After that...
I'm the luckiest brother on the planet...met my dear M on a Saturday, seemed to click mighty well so invited her to move in together in my little rental house on Sunday as a stop-gap measure until she could find a place of her own in town. Never lived apart since then...42 years now
. Married a year after the first encounter.
After that...
I'm the luckiest brother on the planet...met my dear M on a Saturday, seemed to click mighty well so invited her to move in together in my little rental house on Sunday as a stop-gap measure until she could find a place of her own in town. Never lived apart since then...42 years now
. Married a year after the first encounter.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Sorry to hear it, Sean.
Life is a long road.
I've heard 0% of happy relationships end up in break-ups.
Life is a long road.
I've heard 0% of happy relationships end up in break-ups.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
SO Lilly stepped on a nail barefooted trying to catch her pony.... Almost sounds like a song huh? Anyway. Been soaking it. Its getting infected. No way do we want to go to ER. FUG that!
SO call up our little country doc. Calls in script with pics over the phone supplied with the symptoms.
Bam, drive to town at 8pm, walk out with antibiotics 10 minutes later. Hardly any people contact.
This is a win.
SO call up our little country doc. Calls in script with pics over the phone supplied with the symptoms.
Bam, drive to town at 8pm, walk out with antibiotics 10 minutes later. Hardly any people contact.
This is a win.
Burnham
Woods walker
Indeed. Hope Lilly mends fast and clean.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Im sure we'll see good results in 24 hrs. Keep it clean, soak in salts and the antibiotic. She'll be good as new.
Her dog will be happy too. Needs some outside playtime with her girl.
Her dog will be happy too. Needs some outside playtime with her girl.
Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
Rebuilt a set of hobbles for a friend.
Jim, what do you use to peen over those rivets? I don't see a ball peen hammer in the picture and it just occurred to me there may be a better way.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Merle, the rivet setter has a domed recess for peening the ends.
I get as good if results from a small flat faced hammer.
I guess the knife was sharp enough....
Cut right through my fingernail!
Its gonna start to hurt in a second I think.....
I get as good if results from a small flat faced hammer.
I guess the knife was sharp enough....
Cut right through my fingernail!
Its gonna start to hurt in a second I think.....
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Could have been worse. At least nobody was attached to it at the time. (Talking about the saw).
Mick!
TreeHouser
Had two oaks to dismantle today, went great, really displayed my experience and expertise bringing them down without incident, then, as a little add on felled a little dead spur behind the shed. Easy stuff.
Tomorrows job, trying to rebuild the shed I smashed cos I was too lazy to set the line high enough on the little dead spur.
Tomorrows job, trying to rebuild the shed I smashed cos I was too lazy to set the line high enough on the little dead spur.
Our apprentice got a new nickname today.
We have been felling Doug fir all week. They are going to Sweden to become power line masts.
Then we were asked to cut two really big ones for a local mill, for some special project.
I let the apprentice have them, they always get excited felling big stuff, to me a tree is pretty much just work by now.
I stood by when he did them.
First one went perfectly, but on the second one he cut his hinge too thin on the side the wind was blowing from.
Before I could get the tube of artificial hinge wood out of the truck, the wind broke the hinge and tripped the tree sideway, nearly crushing his saw.
It tore a largish chunk out of the log, but I figured the mill was going to cut the butt swell off anyway, so I didn't mention it to the forester.
Yesterday I got a mail from the forester. The mill owner had mailed him and asked what kind of god damned beaver he had cutting wood for him.
So he asked if we had a beaver on the team.
I explained the situation and said that if they had to deduct the price, I'd of course pay, but shit is bound to happen when you teach apprentices.
We've been over that years and years ago, that if the industri wants new generations of fallers, they have to put up with the occasional mistake.
So he wrote me that they would give the mill a lower price on that log, but I shouldn't worry about it, the important thing was the learning process.
Really nice of him.
But guess what poor Sigurd will be called from now on
We have been felling Doug fir all week. They are going to Sweden to become power line masts.
Then we were asked to cut two really big ones for a local mill, for some special project.
I let the apprentice have them, they always get excited felling big stuff, to me a tree is pretty much just work by now.
I stood by when he did them.
First one went perfectly, but on the second one he cut his hinge too thin on the side the wind was blowing from.
Before I could get the tube of artificial hinge wood out of the truck, the wind broke the hinge and tripped the tree sideway, nearly crushing his saw.
It tore a largish chunk out of the log, but I figured the mill was going to cut the butt swell off anyway, so I didn't mention it to the forester.
Yesterday I got a mail from the forester. The mill owner had mailed him and asked what kind of god damned beaver he had cutting wood for him.
So he asked if we had a beaver on the team.
I explained the situation and said that if they had to deduct the price, I'd of course pay, but shit is bound to happen when you teach apprentices.
We've been over that years and years ago, that if the industri wants new generations of fallers, they have to put up with the occasional mistake.
So he wrote me that they would give the mill a lower price on that log, but I shouldn't worry about it, the important thing was the learning process.
Really nice of him.
But guess what poor Sigurd will be called from now on
Mick!
TreeHouser
It’ll work out, it’s just a shed.
Phoned the client in the UK, fessed up, she said fix it so it’s ok and waterproof, it wont be an issue.
With what’s going on at the moment I couldn’t really lose perspective over it.
Phoned the client in the UK, fessed up, she said fix it so it’s ok and waterproof, it wont be an issue.
With what’s going on at the moment I couldn’t really lose perspective over it.
Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
Yeah, quality clients are usually very generous and patient. It kills me because stuff like that usually happens with the extra bit I throw in for free. "Now my generosity just cost me half a day of work and frustration."
Jim thanks for info, saved me from buying an extra tool. That would be an annoying cut.
Jim thanks for info, saved me from buying an extra tool. That would be an annoying cut.
Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
Tough go on a ripper of a saw. Sorry to see it.
pete mctree
Treehouser
I cancelled all non emergency work yesterday- short term I believe it is for the best. Some customers grumbled but I don't care.
Tomorrow is going to be interesting- first time back in the woods for a year or so - steep site removing ash so going to be fun. Nothing too big but getting them to hit the floor will be hard in a dense stand.
Tomorrow is going to be interesting- first time back in the woods for a year or so - steep site removing ash so going to be fun. Nothing too big but getting them to hit the floor will be hard in a dense stand.
That sucks Jim. Finger wounds are the worst. Everything you do, you feel it til it's better.
Mick; It seems I make all my mistakes on stupid stuff. I've done a lot of technical trickery over the years, but my screwups are on the easy stuff :^/
Stig, I could think of worse names than Beaver. Beavers are cool. On a bridge job once, I got the name Groundhog from one of the ironworkers, cause I don't like being up on steel. Not the worst name in the world, but not as cool as Beaver. Luckily, that was the last time I saw that crew :^D
Good luck tomorrow Pete!
Mick; It seems I make all my mistakes on stupid stuff. I've done a lot of technical trickery over the years, but my screwups are on the easy stuff :^/
Stig, I could think of worse names than Beaver. Beavers are cool. On a bridge job once, I got the name Groundhog from one of the ironworkers, cause I don't like being up on steel. Not the worst name in the world, but not as cool as Beaver. Luckily, that was the last time I saw that crew :^D
Good luck tomorrow Pete!
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