How'd it go today?

How well does that wood hold together in a finished product? Those gaping holes would make an interesting tabletop if it were cut into cookies.
 
I managed to get my cat6 cable run at the sawmill today. It should have been simple, but that's not really how my projects go. I had some 1" water line and 100' of direct bury cat6. There was some water in the pipe, which made sucking the string through a bit arduous. It turned out the fun from the antenna to the sawmill was about 116' . I had a 25' cable, but the connector wouldn't fit inside the water pipe. This morning I bought a 1.25" LB to use as a somewhat weather tight junction box. It was a bit of a WAG as to where to cut the pipe to install the LB. Ideally it needed to be very close to where the end of the 100' cable was. I don't think I coyote have gotten any closer. I'm hoping this is an omen for my luck going into 2025. :/: Tomorrow I'll get the inverter wired and try the antenna.

A bit blurry, but I cut the pipe right at the connector. I'll take a bit of dumb luck whenever I can get it.

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Today, Rob and I made many many small cuts. Had to preform some major hackery on a climbing rose that destroyed a fence with snow load. Customer will likely have us install a trellis to prevent a repeat. Raised the skirt on a pine for driveway clearance, untangled some mulberry limbs, and assisted Rob in hacking at some juniper shrubs. Blah blah blah, make happy client, make hours, bread and butter kinda day.
 
cow job went great, pieced out a dying ash in about 20 minutes, dropped a ~30" pine, bore cut the pine, tried to use a soft dutchman, chain around it and a bore cut to avoid a barberchair and to swing it away from the neighboring white oak, couldn't get the chain tight due to the binder snagging on the tree and it was kinda out of reach so I left it hanging loose (wasn't going to hurt anything by being loose), bore cut as planned and barely got more than a bars width of cutting done before she popped, ended up snapping the neighboring white oak, not what I wanted but everyone knew it was most likely going to completely tear off the stump and go with the lean anyways, customer didn't mind, we cleaned up the damaged part of the oak, ended up with a very happy new customer and a very fat tip at the end!


got half way through dumping logs at the mulch yard, loader operator came over saying he wants us to move to the other side of the pile, I set the box down, move the trailer, start dumping again and trailer battery just dies, it took us probably 30 minutes of work to wiggle the logs free, tried to coax the box up a little more at a time and had to "persuade" the logs out via some highly technical work (back up really fast and slam on the brakes)

guess I have some troubleshooting to do tomorrow, and a load of logs to haul to the mulch yard since we didn't have time today

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WoodCutr said:
cow job went great, pieced out a dying ash in about 20 minutes, dropped a ~30" pine, bore cut the pine, tried to use a soft dutchman, chain around it and a bore cut to avoid a barberchair and to swing it away from the neighboring white oak, couldn't get the chain tight due to the binder snagging on the tree and it was kinda out of reach so I left it hanging loose (wasn't going to hurt anything by being loose), bore cut as planned and barely got more than a bars width of cutting done before she popped, ended up snapping the neighboring white oak, not what I wanted but everyone knew it was most likely going to completely tear off the stump and go with the lean anyways, customer didn't mind, we cleaned up the damaged part of the oak, ended up with a very happy new customer and a very fat tip at the end!


got half way through dumping logs at the mulch yard, loader operator came over saying he wants us to move to the other side of the pile, I set the box down, move the trailer, start dumping again and trailer battery just dies, it took us probably 30 minutes of work to wiggle the logs free, tried to coax the box up a little more at a time and had to "persuade" the logs out via some highly technical work (back up really fast and slam on the brakes)

guess I have some troubleshooting to do tomorrow, and a load of logs to haul to the mulch yard since we didn't have time today

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Rotten tree like that was never going to get manipulated with a gimmick hinge :).
 
Burnham said:
Rotten tree like that was never going to get manipulated with a gimmick hinge :).
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I pretty well figured, not a gimmick hinge by any means, but there was no hinge in the world that was going to steer that tree, did however make for a great excuse to get more time on the new 400!

the face cut didn't even do anything, that tree was going where it went no matter what, could have tied it off and pulled it maybe, but would have likely broken it in half before you changed the direction of fall
 
it has its place for sure, that tree wasn't it lol

like was mentioned the other day, green softwoods tend to handle it better, the trees we have out here usually don't let you play with the hinge, they will rip right off the stump before the face cut closes, but yeah, I agree it wasn't the right cut for that tree at all
 
cory said:
I'm tend to be super organized and clutter free and it seems to work for me but people that seem disorganized etc may be just as overall effective cuz it works for them
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IME, clutter results in frustration and breaks in concentration that impeded safety, efficiency, and quality of outcome.



I'm not always the best, but getting better at it.


My friend Dan nearly died twice from tripping. "Brother Charlie" woke up bloody on the concrete shop floor after a two hour "nap" with a Hella headache. Slipped or tripped or something.
 
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I split wood today too. Bet mine was easier; white pine :^D

I probably wasted more time though. The pine hardly seems worth it, but it's gotta go somewhere, so I guess it'll go in the stove.
 
I used to be really persnickety about what firewood I went after; putting in the time and effort to locate on the NF, cut, split, haul, stack, finish split, etc. Almost without exception, old growth Douglas fir.

Now retired, I find myself using almost anything handy...from our property, even somewhat deteriorated, any species except Cottonwood. Small is fine, even some of the brush species that are heavy and denser than most trees. We scavenge behind the powerline clearance crews, and natural blowdowns on our rural roads.

Our house stays as warm and cozy as ever :).
 
Burnham said:
I used to be really persnickety about what firewood I went after; putting in the time and effort to locate on the NF, cut, split, haul, stack, finish split, etc. Almost without exception, old growth Douglas fir.

Now retired, I find myself using almost anything handy...from our property, even somewhat deteriorated, any species except Cottonwood. Small is fine, even some of the brush species that are heavy and denser than most trees. We scavenge behind the powerline clearance crews, and natural blowdowns on our rural roads.

Our house stays as warm and cozy as ever :).
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That's ok, until you start giving the furniture the side eye. :/:
 
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