Kaveman
Treehouser
Lolz, there is no "done" only "better". It's pretty bad. I'm working it in sections, and this one is pretty bad. Once I get things in better shape, one of the neighbors is having a truck or two of cinders dumped.
How'd it go today?
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SeanKroll
Treehouser
Was going to have a new- in-his-own-biz guy along for some help today. He rolled his ankle when he slipped on his way out of his house, this morning.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Weather was nearly perfect today, just a little too much wind for sawmilling. Even with a mask, it was pretty nasty, especially with it being locust sawdust. Was going fairly well until I got a couple of logs in a row with metal. That put a major dent in my limited band supply. Threw in the towel and came home to prep some slabs for the wood stove while it is still light out.
Did a short job, then worked on the pond. Chipper's still running great, but a bunch of vines got wrapped around the yoke, and the feedwheel wouldn't come all the way down for small stuff. I'm looking at it thinking it might clear itself with use, and then I thought otherwise. Stuff's never that easy, and it'll be needed this weekend for mostly small stuff. Had to take the yoke springs off, raise the feedwheel, then pull bits of vine out with my leatherman. I got it eventually, but there's probably still bits up there. I hate taking the springs off. It isn't hard. It's just a tedious job I don't feel like doing. I left them a little looser when I put them back; mostly for convenience in measuring, but I had a couple feedwheel freezes when running max size wood in it, so maybe that'll help. I'll have to see how it performs.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
This was a large butt log from an old homestead. Not entirely a surprise, just really bad timing. I will check the last one to see if it has metal chips stuck to the tips of the teeth. Sometimes you get lucky and you can brush them off and it won't be dulled too badly. The others are totally junk.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Metal can sure tap into one's profit margin quickly.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
It sure can. That's also why I used the axe to excavate the metal. A 24" loop for the saw has to be $50 these days. WM has stopped sharpening blades, too, so it's a new band every time you hit something.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
We need a better metal detector. Seriously. Robert is horribly discouraged. I think he needs about 1200.00 in blades sharpened and teeth replaced.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
The proper RENS unit is $4,200, last time I checked. Lesser units will also work, just not as deep.
Treeaddict
Treehouser
Do you believe him?
Kaveman
Treehouser
Anybody ever used a Garret carrot for this? They're meant to find metal in the dirt... idk, I mill with a chainsaw, so I guess I just keep cussing.
Cobleskill
Treehouser
My bud, who used to mill long leaf YP beams, used a wand like security used to use. I guess that's what a Garret carrot is.
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Knotorious
That Guy With The Face
FINALLY! After over a month of waiting, I got word from my ophthalmologist that my new glasses are finally ready to be picked up! Living without glasses has been quite the inconvenience. I can barely read standard size text on my laptop screen and have to both squint and get in closer than usual in order to read anything. The frames I got for my glasses are so awesome. They are made by Oakley (who makes frames mostly for use by people who are doing sports) and they are a clear sort of plastic material.
The best part is how the parts that extend out and go behind my ears are very curved, which means that they sort of wrap around the back of my head, which will keep them perfectly in place whenever I go climbing! I used to have trouble with my previous pair of glasses, because they would start to slide down my nose once I started to sweat, and I kept having to push them back into place repeatedly with my finger. Also, I shelled out for the polarized lenses, which will help reduce glare and, evidently, it also improves color perception, and it will protect my eyes from UV radiation. As someone with blue eyes (people with this eye color have the most sensitive eyes out of any color), this is pretty important.
Filmed a video of myself demonstrating and testing a friction hitch that I created and developed which works without a rope wrench. After I finished editing the footage, I uploaded the video to my channel and published it. You can watch the video on my hitch making thread if you are so inclined.
I've decided that I'm going remake the first 40-50 videos that I made on my YouTube channel. Every single one of those video covered one knot each, and in my original videos, I simply showed people how to tie the knot. However, back then I did not know as much about YouTube-ing as I do right now (over 1.5 years after first creating my channel), all of those 40-50 earliest videos were a) shot in portrait mode; long form content must always be shot in landscape mode; only short form content (Shorts) should be shot in portrait mode, b) I used the light from my head lamp and one of my flashlights in order to illuminate my table where I filmed my tying demos, which resulted in a light that looked too yellow and which was emitted from the wrong directions; my current lighting is much whiter and emitted from overhead from two separate directions, c) at that time, I did not have the deep black table cloth that can be seen on my "tying table" in all of my videos about knot tying that came after all of these videos and, as a result, the lights I were using created distracting reflections on my uncovered, highly shellacked table, and d) in my earlier videos, there is sometimes a distracting amount of miscellaneous crap on the table, in full frame of the camera, which is super unprofessional looking. Oh wait, one more: e) all of those early videos were published to YouTube without me having done ANY editing whatsoever, which is something that I would never do now that I use one of the best video editing software programs currently available (Adobe Premiere Pro).
Inspired, I've already redone the videos for four really awesome knots and my new approach goes well beyond simply teaching the viewer how to tie the knot. Now my videos will involve an introduction, a tying demo (for some knots there are more than one tying method that will be demonstrated), some knots include demos for how to install closed pieces of hardware onto the knot, and for every knot there will be a discussion/demo about some of the best ways with which the knot can be used effectively.
Super excited that I've almost hit 6K subscribers. Last month, according to my statistics, I had the best month EVER. In fact, it was so good that my view, watch time, and subscriber counts were so high that it was DOUBLE the amount of the best month I had on record prior to February. Also, I'm making increasingly more money through the AdSense program, and last month I made a record amount of money ($111). This month, in March, I'm already on track to a) perform even better and b) to make more money. Woooohoooo! 🌳🌲🌴🍁🍂🌵
The best part is how the parts that extend out and go behind my ears are very curved, which means that they sort of wrap around the back of my head, which will keep them perfectly in place whenever I go climbing! I used to have trouble with my previous pair of glasses, because they would start to slide down my nose once I started to sweat, and I kept having to push them back into place repeatedly with my finger. Also, I shelled out for the polarized lenses, which will help reduce glare and, evidently, it also improves color perception, and it will protect my eyes from UV radiation. As someone with blue eyes (people with this eye color have the most sensitive eyes out of any color), this is pretty important.
Filmed a video of myself demonstrating and testing a friction hitch that I created and developed which works without a rope wrench. After I finished editing the footage, I uploaded the video to my channel and published it. You can watch the video on my hitch making thread if you are so inclined.
I've decided that I'm going remake the first 40-50 videos that I made on my YouTube channel. Every single one of those video covered one knot each, and in my original videos, I simply showed people how to tie the knot. However, back then I did not know as much about YouTube-ing as I do right now (over 1.5 years after first creating my channel), all of those 40-50 earliest videos were a) shot in portrait mode; long form content must always be shot in landscape mode; only short form content (Shorts) should be shot in portrait mode, b) I used the light from my head lamp and one of my flashlights in order to illuminate my table where I filmed my tying demos, which resulted in a light that looked too yellow and which was emitted from the wrong directions; my current lighting is much whiter and emitted from overhead from two separate directions, c) at that time, I did not have the deep black table cloth that can be seen on my "tying table" in all of my videos about knot tying that came after all of these videos and, as a result, the lights I were using created distracting reflections on my uncovered, highly shellacked table, and d) in my earlier videos, there is sometimes a distracting amount of miscellaneous crap on the table, in full frame of the camera, which is super unprofessional looking. Oh wait, one more: e) all of those early videos were published to YouTube without me having done ANY editing whatsoever, which is something that I would never do now that I use one of the best video editing software programs currently available (Adobe Premiere Pro).
Inspired, I've already redone the videos for four really awesome knots and my new approach goes well beyond simply teaching the viewer how to tie the knot. Now my videos will involve an introduction, a tying demo (for some knots there are more than one tying method that will be demonstrated), some knots include demos for how to install closed pieces of hardware onto the knot, and for every knot there will be a discussion/demo about some of the best ways with which the knot can be used effectively.
Super excited that I've almost hit 6K subscribers. Last month, according to my statistics, I had the best month EVER. In fact, it was so good that my view, watch time, and subscriber counts were so high that it was DOUBLE the amount of the best month I had on record prior to February. Also, I'm making increasingly more money through the AdSense program, and last month I made a record amount of money ($111). This month, in March, I'm already on track to a) perform even better and b) to make more money. Woooohoooo! 🌳🌲🌴🍁🍂🌵
Kaveman
Treehouser
According to Google, I'm half way done with my road. I'm about to start day three. Apparently I'm getting about .1 of a mile a day. I guess we have weather coming in, which will phuk everything up, so I better get at it.
Maximalist
Treehouser
Today I found a very interesting tree -
Kaveman
Treehouser
That tree has some stories to tell!
Maximalist
Treehouser
I do not know how this ash-leaved maple (Acer negundo) behaves in America, we also call it the American maple, but this tree does not want to grow up at all. This maple tries to grow with a slope, and quite often has a significant slope. This specimen surpassed all the rest of its fellows!)
Kaveman
Treehouser
Many oaks in the College Station area of Texas develop extremely heavy ponderous branches, and blocks supporting them is a common sight. Often the support blocks are made of steel, stone or concrete, to inhibit bugs and rot. Don't have many hardwoods in Arizona, so I'll have to look into it's habit here in the states.
Mick!
TreeHouser
We have Acer Negundo here as a garden tree, never seen it do that. I wonder if it’s snow causing it to bend?
Cobleskill
Treehouser
I thought that looked like a box elder. The young twigs didn't look purple enough. Had to check the Latin name. They tip over here, but usually uproot or break off and die. Weed tree that was not around in the wild 50 years ago. Stupid people planted it for a yard tree and now we are infested along the creeks. If all the other species die maybe it will be welcome.
Kaveman
Treehouser
I looked it up because i didn't major in Latin like @stig. It's box elder. Yeah, shit tree. The one @Maximalist posted is still remarkable for its size, I don't know I've ever seen one that big.
I didn't "major" in Latin.
Back in the day, we had to take a year of Latin in 9th grade and pass an exam in order to qualify for college.
When you fart around in as many languages as I do, knowing the Linnean/Latin name of things makes it easy to communicate with others of the same ilk.
Back in the day, we had to take a year of Latin in 9th grade and pass an exam in order to qualify for college.
When you fart around in as many languages as I do, knowing the Linnean/Latin name of things makes it easy to communicate with others of the same ilk.
Kaveman
Treehouser
They only offered Spanish in high-school. Besides 9th grade (freshman year) was the last one I completed. No regrets.
Maximalist
Treehouser
I think that the slope is formed during the growth process. The snow has absolutely nothing to do with it. I always thought it was a feature of this breed.
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