How'd it go today?

One of the problems with the safety glasses is your eyes feel in safety. They don't prepare for an intrusion as they usually do when working in a nasty environment with dust and chips flying everywhere. So when the one debris manages to find its way behind the safety glass, and it surely apens, it can find directly a well opened eye and trashes your good mood.
The common safety glasses are very valuable, but only to protect against a direct hit, not for swirling debris. My opinion anyway.
I'm sure there are some models up to the task, but I didn't find them in the usual offer.
 
davidwyby said:
I wear safety glasses that fit so close they’re almost goggles…still get tons of crap in my eyes. Desert
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same here, I've never once worn a pair of safety glasses and NOT get stuff in my eyes, even safety goggles still let stuff in

I get less in my eyes without them
Marc-Antoine said:
They don't prepare for an intrusion as they usually do when working in a nasty environment with dust and chips flying everywhere.
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I just now realized, humans went THOUSANDS of years without safety glasses, and only in the last 50-60 years or so we decided to make them mandatory, what changed in 60 years? OSHA, the same people that will hand out a quarter million dollar fine for a $12/hr employee not wearing safety glasses while hanging drywall

looking at the OSHA fines, someone dying on the job has very minimal consequences, but someone not a hard hat or eye protection is a big deal, its not about the safety, its about money
 
WoodCutr said:
finished Wednesday's job, Wednesday went really crappy, today I brought help, had equipment lined up, everything was perfect, textbook day, got into some funky double rope tree pulling to help "contain" the stems from the hemlock behind the shed as we fell them, worked really nicely

start a 2 or 3 day job tomorrow, I bid it for 3 days but hoping to squeeze it into 2 and take Tuesday off while still making a days pay to sit at home, then another 2 day job Wednesday hauling logs, been busy all the sudden

new machine has 24 hours already, yikes


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Nice looking machine, similar to my Avant. You mentioned no need for the boom extension but I find it super handy. I leave mine fully extended almost all the time because it puts the grapple out where I can see it easier. I suck it in when picking up heavy pieces but then I still extend it out to get over the top of my 4' sides on my F450 bed.
The BMG grapple will be super handy feeding the chipper but the root rake style grapple will be super handy for almost everything else. Do yourself a favor and buy one of those grapples like the one you are renting. It is what I use 95% of the time. I bought the BMG style grapple, used it twice in the first 9 months and sold it. IMG_0435.JPG

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I plan to get a root rake like that one, I've ran them with and without tele, sure I'd use it but I don't need it, never once had something my boxer wouldn't get to, and this machine has even more reach

loaded this in about 15 minutes with no tele, gonna 100% get a BMG, right now I have to cut everything to 6ft long or so just to carry stuff out past a house, BMG can carry stuff sideways so I can do whole limbs without cutting, was very efficient on my boxer, I had both styles and used the bucket grapple maybe 10 times in 2 years, vs the BMG almost every day
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WoodCutr said:
I plan to get a root rake like that one, I've ran them with and without tele, sure I'd use it but I don't need it, never once had something my boxer wouldn't get to, and this machine has even more reach

loaded this in about 15 minutes with no tele, gonna 100% get a BMG, right now I have to cut everything to 6ft long or so just to carry stuff out past a house, BMG can carry stuff sideways so I can do whole limbs without cutting, was very efficient on my boxer, I had both styles and used the bucket grapple maybe 10 times in 2 years, vs the BMG almost every day
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Get the scoops and broom with your BMG,
 
got most of a clearing type job done, one fallen red oak, 400 feet of river bank to clear and another 300 or so feet of underbrush in a row of Leyland cypress

MT100 bad a bad detent for the auxiliaries, had to wrap wire around the lever to be able to operate it so the rental yard came out and dropped off an S925TX, which turned out to be a huge upgrade, way nicer machine, faster and almost double the HP, runs that bush hog pretty well till you manage to suck a 10ft long limb into it and lock it up...

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My F350 went kaput coming home from a tire mount and picking up RX last week.
I had topped off the fuel before I left the town the tire place was.
Truck started running like crap and had to get towed home.
You don't want your fuel to look like this.
Had to bottom drain 6 gallons before she would run again. 20250321_141743.jpg
 
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CurSedVoyce said:
My F350 went kaput coming home from a tire mount and picking up RX last week.
I had topped off the fuel before I left the town the tira place was.
Truck started running like crap and had to get towed home.
You don't want your fuel to look like this.
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Damn, that's bad
 
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Well, that phone is trashed. Got my old Motorola to connect to the WiFi. Much better quality devise. I'll never buy another Samsung again. Screen quality is better in every regard, cameras are significantly better, etc. Dadgummed thing just don't like to charge no more, gotta kink the cable just right. Oh well. Should be able to get it fixed later this week. Have to fix the screen so I can then transfer over to a new phone.

Anywho, Boss and I climbed a pair of sequoias about a handshake apart. Was nice to spike a proper conifer again, instead of these nasty bullpines. Ground the stumps and bucked all the logs up, then prepositioned the mini for tomorrow. Getting hot round here already.

@davidwyby I'm looking at some Danner loggers that I think will be ok. They gots a 365 day guarantee, and at $260, I think they're pretty reasonable. We shall see.
 
I have made yet another irresponsible marketplace purchase, and am in the middle of making this fit, it's way too short, my truck doesn't have brackets for it, and I don't really have help so its a massive pain in the rear to fit up, but I'm making it happen one way or another, haven't gotten the welder out yet but I think I will, trying to use the cab to mount it but it might be easier to make a frame bracket for it

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(not entirely irresponsible, I've been meaning to swap it to a stack since I got the truck, weed burner = eye and throat burner, even just hooking the chipper up would give me a headache from the fumes)
 
I'm calling today a win. Last fall I buried a 1" water line from my internet bridge antenna to my board edger. I had stolen the battery from the edger to run my internet. Starting in October there wasn't enough solar to keep the battery maintained. It's not a deep cycle. I figured if I hooked the solar and inverter to the edger, I could run everything. Unfortunately, the antenna never came back to life after the move. I had to join three pieces of Cat6 to make the distance. Bulk cat6 is pretty cheap, so I ordered 150'. They sent 300'. Well, I have a tool to make up rj45 connectors, so I pulled a new one-piece line to the antenna. I now had power to the antenna, but no internet. After a lot of messing around, I figured out that last fall I had bumped a tiny little switch under the antenna, and now everything is working. My edger battery was dead as a door nail due to some one, or something turning the edger key on. I have no idea how it could have happened accidentally. I put the solar panel on it a few days ago, and it seems to have charged up again. At any rate, it ran the internet for a few hours after the panel was covered with snow. I shut it down for the night. I have a new group 31 deep cycle battery for the edger, I just have to make a battery tray for it. With a big deep cycle, I'm not expecting any issues until late next fall or early winter.
 
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