How'd it go today?

[No_Bivy]

I need to climb one of those.....

 

[flushcut]

Failure to cleanup is a shortcut I frequently take. In pure time savings, I'm probably saving a little bit, but factoring in pain and frustration, it's on the losing side of the equation. You'd think I'd learn. Any year now...

My number #1 rule is: Tho shalt not clusterfu ck thy worksite.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Holy shit! John! Good to read ya mang.
How ya been bud?

 

[No_Bivy]

not bad. yourself?

 

[pete mctree]

Hey John, nice to read you again dude 🙂

 

[CurSedVoyce]

not bad. yourself?

Getting better every day 😌

 

[SkwerI]

Yep. Just a piss test. No worries on passing but annoying. Only about 90 minutes of wasting my time today. I’m on the clock to go but really not worth the time to drive in and back. Reminded me that I’m due for a DOT physical by the end of the year. Guess I’ll schedule that for an inopportune time. I did have time to get stuff done around the house afterwards.

What I discovered here in Florida anyways is that when getting your license renewed if you indicate that your driving is Intrastate rather than Interstate then you are not required to get the DOT physical. I went 15 years without ever having a DOT physical then one time I thought "Yeah, it might be helpful to put Interstate in case I ever have to take my bucket truck out of state for storm work." Then all of a sudden I gotta get a physical every other year. After hitting 140 on my blood pressure once, they changed it to every year. Finally got it switched back to Intrastate a few years ago so that hassle is over.

Yeah I'm a couple weeks late replying, don't get over here very often any more.

 

[cory]

Good to read ya, stick around, vet

 

[Dave Shepard]

Baseboard made it through the night. I think it thermosyphoned enough to keep from freezing. -5⁰ this morning and predicted to be 5⁰ colder tonight. The wood stove is keeping the upstairs ok, but I guess sitting on the couch watching YouTubes is off the menu until spring.

 

[lxskllr]

Well, nothing broke so far, so that's good.

 

[flushcut]

A couple of fans to help circulate the heat.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I've tried in the past. All the heat goes up. Right now, you are freezing sitting on the couch, then stand up into 80⁰ near the ceiling.

 

[flushcut]

Bigger fan?!

 

[Dave Shepard]

I've thought about hot air duct in the basement from the wood stove to the other rooms. Central heating is really the only way to heat this shack. This year has been a disaster, hoping for better luck next year.

 

[lxskllr]

A couple things I'd try with the supplies I have, and assuming a freestanding woodstove...

Fan behind the stove blowing across it into the room.
Fan pointed at the ceiling.
Bricks stacked as a heatsink

 

[lxskllr]

Your place is pretty old, right? Does it have holes in the floor to distribute heat? If not, maybe installing some would help.

 

[davidwyby]

Maybe the first sticker I’ve ever put on one of my vehicles



Feliz navidad from skinny claus

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Kavey prune poplars away from roofs today. He did some turd polishing too. No pics of turd though.

 

[Kaveman]

Better to not have pics of the turd, I don't want to claim that wreck. It's not my fault it is the way it is...

Another frigging beautiful day in California. Looks like the rest of the week is all rain...

 

[Dave Shepard]

Close to zero last night. Anderson connectors paid off big time. Two batteries are better than one.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Did a couple small work climbs today. Need the money. Need this gut of mine worked off
Singed in one of our fires, dead skirt and one hot side. Cedar and one pondo. The smaller one. 45 or so feet in the cedar, 75 in the pondo. SRT. Burned some piles and what we cut previous. 3 hour day. Cant complain. Here comes the rain.

 

[lxskllr]

Does deadwooding your trees help protect against fire? IOW, does it give them a significantly better chance of surviving without attached deadwood?

 

[Dave Shepard]

I've been running the mill a little this week. Feels good.

 

[Dave Shepard]

My sister has been propping her phone against a Milwaukee battery lately, so I grabbed a chunk of cherry from the garage. Measured it against my phone, and roughed it out. Then I hand planed it and cut a groove in it. The cherry had been hanging between the floor joists in the cellar since our grandfather built the house in '51.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Does deadwooding your trees help protect against fire? IOW, does it give them a significantly better chance of surviving without attached deadwood?

Yes, better fire protection. 🔥 if a fire burns grass under the trees, less chance it will climb the dead wood and dead needles.
2: the wounds will compartmentalize faster at the collar and requires less energy than say, pinching off the limb or warding off insects that are drawn to the peeling bark wounds.
I have a tree up the hill from my place, I wish I could find the pics. After taking all the burnt limbs off, we nick named it a Mariposa Palm Tree. I went back and checked on it removing a limb that died on it. About 2 years after the first prune. Collars were compartmentalizing nicely.
You can see that damn tree from the road today. Greenest pondo on the hill. It's grown quite a bit. Place was damn near scorched earth. All the parameter trees on the edge of the fire line we cut to prevent a fire taking the hill, held pretty good and just got scorched with minimal casualties. All the buildings we fire scape hardened survived. Pretty damn amazing.