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TreeHouser
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How'd it go today?
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Kaveman
Treehouser
So, I finally had the dreaded conversation with Sarah. With the cold weather setting in, I can't have the girls staying in the camper with me anymore. I don't like it, I'm not happy about it, but I can't have them getting sick or some such because they're spending the weekend in my aluminum icebox. I'm on a waiting list at two different rv parks, which is all the parks that stay open year round. MAYBE, there will be a spot for me in late October, MAYBE. Looks like I should have built put the camper after all. The trailer wasn't that hard to come across, i hadn't anticipated how hard to find a lot would prove.
All that said, traveling for the sake of work, just became a lot more justified. I've been suffering to stay close to my babies. If i can't have them, why stick around? The phone works long distance just as well as short. Cheaper transportation just moved up the priority list substantially. Along with getting some work done to my truck like tires and bearings and such. If I can get the girlfriend's Subaru on the road without too much headache, I may end up coming out to help @CurSedVoyce just for the giggles. If I don't adjust my current wages, he could afford me right easy, since I apparently work for the love of arborculture alone...
All that said, traveling for the sake of work, just became a lot more justified. I've been suffering to stay close to my babies. If i can't have them, why stick around? The phone works long distance just as well as short. Cheaper transportation just moved up the priority list substantially. Along with getting some work done to my truck like tires and bearings and such. If I can get the girlfriend's Subaru on the road without too much headache, I may end up coming out to help @CurSedVoyce just for the giggles. If I don't adjust my current wages, he could afford me right easy, since I apparently work for the love of arborculture alone...
Treeaddict
Treehouser
Ethanol free, no doubt.
Nutball
TreeHouser
Possible, but I doubt it. They do say "may contain UP TO 10% ethanol" not that it must contain any.
I used Stabil, 2 stroke oil, and kept the can sealed in a cool area.
I used Stabil, 2 stroke oil, and kept the can sealed in a cool area.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Well, I think I might have a pinched rib, not a pulled muscle. Put in ten hours today and feel better now, at 7:30pm, than I did at 7:30am. Still hurting, but not near so bad. We'll see how I feel in the morning.
Oh, and I'm single again, oh well. Moving on.
Oh, and I'm single again, oh well. Moving on.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Battleship game.
The old man drinks a couple beers. You throw the cans on the pond.
Each shooter picks a can and tries to sink the other guys can before he sinks yours.
Nutball
TreeHouser
'Murica!
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
That’s awesome Jim.
My back seems better. I even got a quick climb in today to fix an older cabling job. I just had to reinstall a J-lag and re-hook the existing cable. I recommended adding an additional cabling system higher but they don’t want to pay for that at this time.
My back seems better. I even got a quick climb in today to fix an older cabling job. I just had to reinstall a J-lag and re-hook the existing cable. I recommended adding an additional cabling system higher but they don’t want to pay for that at this time.
Did nothing today. Went outside a few times to contemplate the best way to cover the truck bed, but everything's wet, and I don't want to try things out that probably won't work, while getting covered with crud in the process.
Just came in from outside, and found a present by my garage...
Dave sent me a charger for my new saw, and it's now lit up with the red lights of joy! Thanks Dave, I really appreciate it :^)
Just came in from outside, and found a present by my garage...
Dave sent me a charger for my new saw, and it's now lit up with the red lights of joy! Thanks Dave, I really appreciate it :^)
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
You are welcome. Have you tried the saw yet?
I have not. The battery came out of the box too dead to cut with(1 bar). I also want to try to hold off til my Baileys order gets here. I'll then have the Xcut chain to compare with the Oregon, and I can compare them in OOTB condition. Assuming the Xcut is somewhere close to fitting, I want to take a bunch of pictures, and do some test cuts and post results. Might be interesting for someone, cause I couldn't find anyone using the Xcut on the Milwaukee with my less than thorough online search.
pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Fellow nurse who is a Red Cross coordinator in NC sent these photos of Chimney Rock, NC before and after the Helene-generated rain came through. Boone, NC also submerged, and many other areas in bad shape.
Cell towers out, roads impassable.
Hospital ERs calling her trying to find shelters with space and electricity to transport patients who are on ventilators from their homes, as fuel for generators is falling low.
Cell towers out, roads impassable.
Hospital ERs calling her trying to find shelters with space and electricity to transport patients who are on ventilators from their homes, as fuel for generators is falling low.
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davidwyby
Desert Beaver
Yeesh
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Kaveman
Treehouser
Been looking, just haven't had any luck in that department yet.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Do you have local use of Nextdoor?
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I was gonna say, there are apps for that
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Well, if I get it all figured out and you get some tires on, I have a place to park etc.
Went up to high country today to look at a couple jobs. Nice to be up in the forest and a cool elevation.
Went up to high country today to look at a couple jobs. Nice to be up in the forest and a cool elevation.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
If you can land a job and timing works out I can groundie or fell or whatever.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
I appreciate the offer. Climber is what we are lacking with not many ground level work.
Kaveman
Treehouser
So Friday night I went on a little adventure in the woods. This turned out to be an unwise decision.
At some point I failed to properly latch the rear door of the camper, probably after grabbing a soda out of the cooler. I was punished for my inattentiveness. On some bump somewhere, my milk crate full of gear, the cooler, and ONE of my work boots, fell out. Possibly all on multiple bumps, a veritable trail of my junk through the woods, perhaps. I discovered my mistake upon reaching the circle k, and having made a big loop, and it being fairly late, I figured I'd just backtrack and pick up my breadcrumbs as best I could.
Got gas, a redbull, and when I hopped in Gertrude to go back the other way, the distinctive sound of a bad universal joint clanked in through my driver's window. Knowing that my trucks Indian name is "Deferred Maintenance", I got out and started to check under the old girl's skirt. Found a needle 3/4 of the way out of the cup.
Insert your favorite strings of swear words here. I didn't cuss the air blue, I stained the concrete right there by the gas pump, because I did it very quietly and quickly, like a spill, or vomit.
Remember that work boot I mentioned? There was three hundred dollar bills under the insole. The crate wasn't all that worrisome, just some chain, shackles, a bottle jack and a bunch of other crap that's been in my way for six months and completely unused.
I drove about a 100 mile loop, down a series of Forest Service Roads, and the last time I got in the cooler, was at about the halfway point. I've already toasted a u-joint and it's dark, but the mountain is FULL of people and campers this weekend for reasons I don't understand.
So I do it, I backtrack, going even slower, driving very carefully. It's not just that I can't afford to lose $300, and the boot I need to make more, it's that dadgummed crate. That thing has about a hundred pounds of steel in it, and if it slid out and said plop, right there in the middle of the road, because I'm going Mach Snail through the woods like usual? Then somebody in a side by side, trying to have a good rip with their buddies in the middle of the night, comes round some curve, or over some little rise and crams that thing? Or some teenager on a quad? That could be a life changing experience.
I didn't find an ought damned thing! Not even a wet spot from where the cooler spilled! Found the spot where I had peed and grabbed that last ginger ale, but not a dang thing else. That's when I had me a hollerin.
I took Saturday off, since I was up all night driving through the woods, and I still hurt from whatever I did to myself coughing a few days ago. Still have said cough, but the intensity has relented substantially, and my nose has stopped dripping. I am going to do as little as possible today, and deal with my problems on Monday, because that seems like a mature response.
The weather is supposed to be nice today, mostly sunny, 85°Freedom, light winds.
At some point I failed to properly latch the rear door of the camper, probably after grabbing a soda out of the cooler. I was punished for my inattentiveness. On some bump somewhere, my milk crate full of gear, the cooler, and ONE of my work boots, fell out. Possibly all on multiple bumps, a veritable trail of my junk through the woods, perhaps. I discovered my mistake upon reaching the circle k, and having made a big loop, and it being fairly late, I figured I'd just backtrack and pick up my breadcrumbs as best I could.
Got gas, a redbull, and when I hopped in Gertrude to go back the other way, the distinctive sound of a bad universal joint clanked in through my driver's window. Knowing that my trucks Indian name is "Deferred Maintenance", I got out and started to check under the old girl's skirt. Found a needle 3/4 of the way out of the cup.
Insert your favorite strings of swear words here. I didn't cuss the air blue, I stained the concrete right there by the gas pump, because I did it very quietly and quickly, like a spill, or vomit.
Remember that work boot I mentioned? There was three hundred dollar bills under the insole. The crate wasn't all that worrisome, just some chain, shackles, a bottle jack and a bunch of other crap that's been in my way for six months and completely unused.
I drove about a 100 mile loop, down a series of Forest Service Roads, and the last time I got in the cooler, was at about the halfway point. I've already toasted a u-joint and it's dark, but the mountain is FULL of people and campers this weekend for reasons I don't understand.
So I do it, I backtrack, going even slower, driving very carefully. It's not just that I can't afford to lose $300, and the boot I need to make more, it's that dadgummed crate. That thing has about a hundred pounds of steel in it, and if it slid out and said plop, right there in the middle of the road, because I'm going Mach Snail through the woods like usual? Then somebody in a side by side, trying to have a good rip with their buddies in the middle of the night, comes round some curve, or over some little rise and crams that thing? Or some teenager on a quad? That could be a life changing experience.
I didn't find an ought damned thing! Not even a wet spot from where the cooler spilled! Found the spot where I had peed and grabbed that last ginger ale, but not a dang thing else. That's when I had me a hollerin.
I took Saturday off, since I was up all night driving through the woods, and I still hurt from whatever I did to myself coughing a few days ago. Still have said cough, but the intensity has relented substantially, and my nose has stopped dripping. I am going to do as little as possible today, and deal with my problems on Monday, because that seems like a mature response.
The weather is supposed to be nice today, mostly sunny, 85°Freedom, light winds.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I spent the afternoon at the raising of a workshop frame. This was the first workshop I took in 2006, and I've made it to most of the raisings, with the exception of the last three years.
