Burnham
Woods walker
John, your oak was just plain nasty punky dead. Hard as hell to do anything with that one besides get it to fall down.
How'd it go today?
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I've been thinking about this tree. It was overly ambitious(ridiculous) to think it could be directionally felled in any conventional sense. I'm thinking guy it up to prevent travel in unwanted directions, cripple it, then pull would be the best approach. Would you concur? Secondly, without the foresight of knowing exactly what's in the center, do think boring out a small section would be prudent to try to prevent a barberchair? Does it matter?
On this ~22" tree, maybe leave the face untouched, maybe bore ~6" out of the middle, then cut straight through the back estimating how much to leave to keep it standing, then pulling it over. If it resists pulling, cut a little more off the back. All cuts being perpendicular to the desired lay. Reasonable?
flushcut
TreeHouser
I’d make a shallow notch cripple the stump and pull until it comes over hopefully in a favorable direction. Super rotten trees like that the concern is catastrophic failure rather than barberchair imo. Mush doesn’t split it breaks.
One other amusing thing about the job yesterday. I mentioned in another thread I kept my ⅝" stablebraid in a marlboro duffel. It's a good thing I checked before I went. If I had needed it, it would've been embarrassing pulling out a wool blanket and a shotgun :^D Turns out I actually had it in a military duffel. Shows how much I use that line :^D
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Glad you guyed that. You read it right.
Well, got back from grocery shopping. Thriftshop didn't open til 11, and I didn't feel like waiting, so that made my mind up for me. On the way back, I had to drive on a freshly milled road section, and a rock got kicked up and cracked the windshield. I'm pissed. This is from a localish company that's enormous, and they do terrible paving work. Their highways ride like shit, and apparently they don't properly sweep the road after they've milled either.
I stopped at AutoZone on the way back and got a windshield repair kit. They're primarily geared towards bulleyes, but mine is a small star. I don't care if it makes it disappear or not. I just don't want the crack to spread. The system works a little differently than what I've used before. It's curing in the sun now. Fingers crossed that it bonds the crack well. This is the first decent truck I've driven in awhile, and I'm tired of driving around with cracked windshields.
I stopped at AutoZone on the way back and got a windshield repair kit. They're primarily geared towards bulleyes, but mine is a small star. I don't care if it makes it disappear or not. I just don't want the crack to spread. The system works a little differently than what I've used before. It's curing in the sun now. Fingers crossed that it bonds the crack well. This is the first decent truck I've driven in awhile, and I'm tired of driving around with cracked windshields.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
Need to relax/unwind today. Gonna go out to the desert forest aka the creepy forest aka the forest where the only things alive are the trees - salt cedars - to get out of the wind.
stikine
Treehouser
I took my rifle for a walk today. Nothing was harmed.
pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Back from a weekend in DC for a wedding; stayed with our former neighbor; neat venue overlooking the Anacostia River.
flushcut
TreeHouser
Hunting or protection? Both maybe.
stikine
Treehouser
Just deer hunting.
Never left the office today. I was trying to help the boss with paperwork, but the way he works is chaotic clusterfuck, so it cost way more time than it should. Add to that, he doesn't define the parameters of the task, so part way through, you find your approach won't work, and you have to start over.
The simplified gist, is I had to create pdfs for two different jobs out of dozens of individual photos. In addition, I had to compress the photos, and some were in apple's shittastic HEIC format, which I had to convert to something sane. All of that I can easily do by hand if it's just a couple things, but there were so many, I had to look up how to batch process them in the terminal. So, in addition to learning new things, I have to complete the job without knowing the full scope. He has shit scattered all over on the server, and nothing is logically arranged. I actually do fairly well with chaos in the physical world, but I can't deal with it digitally. There's just too much volume of data to keep track of, and it's all on a screen, not in the world with 3D coordinates. On a screen, it all looks basically the same, and is in the same place. You have to lay it all out methodically, else you spend ¾ of the time just trying to make sense out of what you're seeing.
The simplified gist, is I had to create pdfs for two different jobs out of dozens of individual photos. In addition, I had to compress the photos, and some were in apple's shittastic HEIC format, which I had to convert to something sane. All of that I can easily do by hand if it's just a couple things, but there were so many, I had to look up how to batch process them in the terminal. So, in addition to learning new things, I have to complete the job without knowing the full scope. He has shit scattered all over on the server, and nothing is logically arranged. I actually do fairly well with chaos in the physical world, but I can't deal with it digitally. There's just too much volume of data to keep track of, and it's all on a screen, not in the world with 3D coordinates. On a screen, it all looks basically the same, and is in the same place. You have to lay it all out methodically, else you spend ¾ of the time just trying to make sense out of what you're seeing.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Playing with the impact at the sawmill this afternoon. Haven't found anything challenging, yet.
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