How'd it go today?
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Going on 6-10's again next week after a week of 8's. 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. is a good shift. Lots of time left in the evenings and I don't sleep past 3 a.m. very often. Lots of treework last year, one call this year. Word of mouth mostly and nobody is talking. Shutdown/turnaround at the plant this fall which is when people will want treework I'm sure.
I'm listening
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Farmers get to break all the fun Child labor laws.
Richard is a hell of a rake hand.
Burnham
Woods walker
Went good for me today. Deadwooding the Doug fir right in front of the house...the one M looks at while sitting in her porch rocker...the one she says about, "there's a dead limb; that would look nicer if it was cut out" 
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No pics. I feel sorta stupid taking pictures of such a lame little bit of tree work
. But it was nice to get up there and move around in a handsome tree, for true.
.No pics. I feel sorta stupid taking pictures of such a lame little bit of tree work
. But it was nice to get up there and move around in a handsome tree, for true.
Mellow
BCMA
I went in for an eye exam this morning; first one ever, other than the routine eye chart thing for my driver's license. My vision has been getting worse since I turned 40-something and about a month or two ago I started seeing floaters in my left eye. Next thing I know, I'm being sent to a retina specialist for emergency laser surgery to repair two horseshoe tears on my retina. Apparently, I was about to experience a detached retina which would have resulted in blindness. Funny how things work out sometimes.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Glad they caught it in time.
My vision is actually improving, at least for distance. Can't see anything up close with my contacts in.
My vision is actually improving, at least for distance. Can't see anything up close with my contacts in.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
A few ash logs showed up yesterday for custom sawing. Funny back cut on one of them
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Mellow
BCMA
That's cool. you can see from the saw marks exactly how that cut progressed.
I don't get it. What's the key do?
Did a little cleanup today with the chainsaw. I also went out tonight and got a new lamp for my post. The old one was completely broken. Had enough time to install it, flip the switch, and... Nothing. It worked a couple years ago I think. I'll have to fool with it tomorrow.
Did a little cleanup today with the chainsaw. I also went out tonight and got a new lamp for my post. The old one was completely broken. Had enough time to install it, flip the switch, and... Nothing. It worked a couple years ago I think. I'll have to fool with it tomorrow.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I'm guessing it's to trip a head leaner.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Could have been over the pocket for a jack.
stikine
Treehouser
Working on making a couple of gates for the deck. Have some red cedar I salvage logged a number of years ago and had them milled up.... finally getting around to using the wood. Nice ring count on old growth.
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Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Nah, nobody jacks trees over on this coast. Just someone trying something different, I suspect.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
We got home from a long overdue vacation late Friday night. Spent yesterday unpacking and shortening the grass. Also bought a new washing machine. Old one is almost 15 years old and we’ve been nursing it along for over a year. I got tired of fixing it. Whooped some weeds this morning and making breakfast soon.
Oh, just the usual. The bully, the baglicker, the "bipolar" alky, the braggart, the bullshitter, the rat, the obsessive compulsive and so on. I'm sure I have my faults as well...
BeerGeek
Tree Numbnutz
Spent yesterday afternoon with my son at my friend's house configuring our little 4th of July celebration. Sneaky little pyros that we are...
The main board is all fused together and should last just north of 5 mins. The side board has about a 35 sec. delay between each going off during the main board. Makes for a pretty good finale after all the other fun stuff gets shot off.
Happy 4th everyone!
The main board is all fused together and should last just north of 5 mins. The side board has about a 35 sec. delay between each going off during the main board. Makes for a pretty good finale after all the other fun stuff gets shot off.
Happy 4th everyone!
BeerGeek
Tree Numbnutz
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Baglicker?
@BeerGeek, Are you using anything interesting as far as electronics go to fire them off?
Got my lightpole working. It was a minor ordeal. Found out why it didn't light. I must have hit the pole with the brushcutter, and it cut the wires inside. I saw the gash, but I swear I don't remember brushcutting around it.
The pole is crunched at the bottom cause decades ago, kids in the neighborhood thought it was good fun to bend over lightpoles. Those little fuckwits grew up, moved out, and hopefully have died painful deaths at this point. I don't know where the end of the pole is, and my exploratory excavation didn't find it loosening amongst the roots, so I just snapped it off. I hammered each end roundish, stuffed a piece of locust in the stub, and fitted them together. My splice of the romex failed the first time. I don't think I have any here, and had very little extra room to work. I think my wires crossed by poking through the splicing tape. I cut a water bottle up, and wrapped the strands with the plastic. Put it all back together for the Nth time, and success!
Put everything together good, and look at the pole figuring out how I'm gonna handle the bottom. Dig a piece of pvc out of the garage with the intent of sleeving the bottom, and GODDAMMIT. gotta take it all apart again to get the pvc on. Get my can of sprayfoam to seal the top, and it failed. Can was rusty, and nothing was coming out. Got some of the foam my generator came packed in, and trimmed that down, and stuffed it in the top. All that's left is collecting rocks from work, and piling them around the bottom to disguise the pvc, and figure out exactly how I'll trim the plants around it. Oh, and I lost a screw cap to put one side of the top on. I'll have to dig around the house, and see if I can find something. If not, I'll buy one from the hardware store.
I don't have a problem paying for a new pole, but I think it'll be a pita to install due to the plants around it, and I don't know what I'll find in the ground as far as wiring goes. I think it's better dealing with what I've got, and my fix should last many years.
Got my lightpole working. It was a minor ordeal. Found out why it didn't light. I must have hit the pole with the brushcutter, and it cut the wires inside. I saw the gash, but I swear I don't remember brushcutting around it.
The pole is crunched at the bottom cause decades ago, kids in the neighborhood thought it was good fun to bend over lightpoles. Those little fuckwits grew up, moved out, and hopefully have died painful deaths at this point. I don't know where the end of the pole is, and my exploratory excavation didn't find it loosening amongst the roots, so I just snapped it off. I hammered each end roundish, stuffed a piece of locust in the stub, and fitted them together. My splice of the romex failed the first time. I don't think I have any here, and had very little extra room to work. I think my wires crossed by poking through the splicing tape. I cut a water bottle up, and wrapped the strands with the plastic. Put it all back together for the Nth time, and success!
Put everything together good, and look at the pole figuring out how I'm gonna handle the bottom. Dig a piece of pvc out of the garage with the intent of sleeving the bottom, and GODDAMMIT. gotta take it all apart again to get the pvc on. Get my can of sprayfoam to seal the top, and it failed. Can was rusty, and nothing was coming out. Got some of the foam my generator came packed in, and trimmed that down, and stuffed it in the top. All that's left is collecting rocks from work, and piling them around the bottom to disguise the pvc, and figure out exactly how I'll trim the plants around it. Oh, and I lost a screw cap to put one side of the top on. I'll have to dig around the house, and see if I can find something. If not, I'll buy one from the hardware store.
I don't have a problem paying for a new pole, but I think it'll be a pita to install due to the plants around it, and I don't know what I'll find in the ground as far as wiring goes. I think it's better dealing with what I've got, and my fix should last many years.
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