How'd it go today?

[Kaveman]

Only worked till noon and boss asked if I wanted to take 1/2 day PTO. Sure! I get 20 days off so I don’t mind taking one or 1/2 here and there when slow.

My only call was 4 separate gas leaks in 1 residential utility room. Completely tripped the gas to the water heater and had to make 2 repairs on the furnace piping.

The homeowners name was Ms Sequoia Fields.

Trimmed a neighbors red maple back from the house to satisfy the homeowners insurance company. They actually did a visual inspection. It felt like a sloppy climb, like I was clumsy. I assume everyone has days where they move fluid like and days where they feel awkward? Maybe lessens with time?

Some days I am the ocean, the great sea itself, and I flow like water, quick up the trunks like desert rain.

Some days I am the Boulder, rolling along, with a series of jerks and starts, seeming to careen off the stems like an errant caromb piece...

Still the job gets done, the targets safe, and the homeowner happy.

Worry not friend, we all have days where we feel the hack, and others when we feel the TreeMaster.

Perhaps a Monday snuck up on you, they are sneaky creatures and can strike at any time. Also, their venom can be long lasting, if not sluiced in confidence. Beware friend! Beasts lurk there!

 

[lxskllr]

That's fantastic Kave!

 

[Kaveman]

I do try John, I do try.

All our treeple need lifted up, always.

Sometimes I must roust the poet to do them justice. I apologize that I do not have such beautific words for all, as they do escape me.

I only hope to honor the work done by those greater than myself.

 

[pigwot]

Took a break from Woodturning to make new legs for a slab of oak coffee table that I threw cheap legs on 30 years ago… finally doing it right. Took the tree down which I made the table out of in the early 1970s - slab sat in the shop another ten years before it came home.

 

[Treeaddict]

@pigwot So you’re saying there’s hope for all my unfinished projects?! I always operated with the understanding that the temporary solution would end up as the permanent solution. You blew that theory out of the water! Nice lookin set of legs!

 

[Marc-Antoine]

My wife is desperate to find out that too for my projects.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Treeaddict]

Never seen something so dusty. Just not a thing where I’m at. Have you considered a dust mask for stuff like that?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yeah, that shat will fugg your lungs bro

 

[BlackSmith]

I’d be all like…

 

[pigwot]

Done! Just need another ten years for the legs to develop a similar patina as the top has now…

 

[lxskllr]

That looks great! Combination of mid century modern and rustic.

 

[Kaveman]

A small breed dog might help encourage that patina...

 

[davidwyby]

A you're a peein breed

 

[davidwyby]

I wear a mask when I remember, or position the log lengthwise to the breeze. Didn't have either yesterday and paid for it...



Story is those logs have been down since the 80s

 

[FireFighterZero]

 

[lxskllr]

Dumb work and firewood again. Got home and looked for my feeler gauge, but I don't know where it went. I did find my toe in my toolbox...


I found that on a job ~30 years ago. Picture doesn't do it justice. It's weird looking and fun to hold. I actually thought about it recently, and wondered where it was. I'm glad it turned up :^)

 

[Cobleskill]

Stone??

 

[lxskllr]

Sorry, I meant to post that. Yea, it's a rock of some kind. Almost seems like quartz that absorbed(!) dirty oil. I haven't tried to wash it or anything cause I really like the way it looks, but floating around the last 30 years hasn't altered the color.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Jim, looks like you've got a couple of tired pups there!

 

[Treeaddict]

John told me about a one day 15% off Echo sale at a local dealer. I finally picked up a 2511T. Lovely little saw.

I was running it around the house and it attracted 2 neighbors. I saw one of them coming slowly around the side of his pole building, following the noise 🤣.

Running motors or tools generally attract most men’s attention.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm a little jealous of the box. I've yet to have gotten a box with a new saw purchase aside from my poulans, and one of those was just a paperboard wrapper around the case.

 

[Treeaddict]

I’ll give you the box! They offered to assemble it and gas/oil it up but I refused. I’d do it faster as well as see how it’s made. They said they usually don’t send one out in a box.

Is there a needle bearing on its outboard clutch? Looks to be.

 

[lxskllr]

I would imagine it has a bearing, but I haven't verified it myself.