How'd it go today?

[Burnham]

John, your oak was just plain nasty punky dead. Hard as hell to do anything with that one besides get it to fall down.

 

[lxskllr]

John, your oak was just plain nasty punky dead. Hard as hell to do anything with that one besides get it to fall down.

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]

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.

 

[lxskllr]

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]

Glad you guyed that. You read it right.

 

[lxskllr]

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.

 

[davidwyby]

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]

I took my rifle for a walk today. Nothing was harmed.

 

[pigwot]

Back from a weekend in DC for a wedding; stayed with our former neighbor; neat venue overlooking the Anacostia River.

 

[flushcut]

I took my rifle for a walk today. Nothing was harmed.

Hunting or protection? Both maybe.

 

[lxskllr]

Just taking it out for a walk. Change of scenery, and keeps it from getting bored.

 

[stikine]

Hunting or protection? Both maybe.

Just deer hunting.

 

[lxskllr]

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.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Playing with the impact at the sawmill this afternoon. Haven't found anything challenging, yet.

 

[treebilly]

Doing a rather large pin oak removal today. It was a gorgeous specimen a few years ago but with home owner projects it has been declining. Whole center main top was dead. Hoping to get it down to a spar at least. I’m leaving for Baltimore in the morning for the expo.

 

[Maximalist]

I cut down some trees today. This birch was the most interesting -

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Trivets for hot pots

 

[davidwyby]

Last night I humped a trailer load of branches and truck bed of firewood from euc kill. Tonight winching the big logs on the tilt trailer.

 

[treebilly]

Got the beast down today. A couple guys are going over in the morning to cut the log into bobcat moveable pieces. Crack doctor worked his magic and I feel much better. I need to spend time with the kids and then pack after they go to bed. I also have to see if the gate switch showed up today for my suburban. It will be nice to actually open the hatch from the rear handle instead of the key fob or the button up front. It’s been a PITA for a few years and since I had the rear panel apart might as well put on the $16 part. First world problems, I know, but I will be very happy when it’s fixed

 

[flushcut]

I cleaned up 8 saws and wire wheeled a firewood holder and oiled it.

 

[lxskllr]

What does "cleaned up" entail? How far do you go?

 

[flushcut]

Compressed air, break clean, more compressed air, taking the covers off, blowing out around the cylinders, blowing out around the carb/filters, blowing out around the drive sprocket. A good cleaning in general.

 

[Cobleskill]

Changed the multi function switch on my Buick. Dimmer switch quit working. Wish they still were on the floor. Couple hours to put it in. Not a fun job.

$40 on Ebay. $114 at Autozone. That ones probably Chinese also.

 

[lxskllr]

"dimmer switch". You're talking about the high beam(what we call them here) switch? Does that mean the default is [On]? I literally never use high beams aside from occasionally signaling other drivers.

 

[Cobleskill]

Dimmer switch is what we called it when it was foot operated. Out here in the country we use high beams more than low. Helps see deer before they run out and smash into you. The switch never worked great. You had to pull it so hard to get it to switch it bent it. Then it hit the steering wheel spoke. If you put the turns signal on it gave you more pull. Did that for the last week waiting to get the part. New Chinese cheap switch works fine.