How'd it go today?
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we only worked 2 hours or so on this job. 1700 cuts… used up 1/3 of one little battery.
sadly it resets when you turn it off… would be interesting to know how many cuts i‘ve made after i finished all 700+ trees.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
what tool is that?
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I've been helping a guy get his mower running. Turns out the problem was he listens to his brothers. 
A simple (-ish) carb clean and it's purring away again. I did have to run to Deere for a 1 mm diameter 7mmx9mm o-ring for the carb. Kawasaki could have used a 2 mm diameter and saved all 19 million service calls for a bad microscopic o-ring. Deere put a lot of tin and junk in the way that didn't help. In fact, they rotated the engine 90⁰ instead of having the carb hang off the back like most zero turn mowers. Oh well, it's done now. Maybe he won't store his mower under a pine tree anymore.
A simple (-ish) carb clean and it's purring away again. I did have to run to Deere for a 1 mm diameter 7mmx9mm o-ring for the carb. Kawasaki could have used a 2 mm diameter and saved all 19 million service calls for a bad microscopic o-ring. Deere put a lot of tin and junk in the way that didn't help. In fact, they rotated the engine 90⁰ instead of having the carb hang off the back like most zero turn mowers. Oh well, it's done now. Maybe he won't store his mower under a pine tree anymore.
Headed to my second job for the day, just craned out a broken pine and another dead pine next to it, 2 hours on site along with every higher up at the brick yard I put the crane in breathing down my neck about blocking in product
No pictures unfortunately, went well, got paid, everyone's happy
No pictures unfortunately, went well, got paid, everyone's happy
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Bailed on the job today. Got up in my tree and it had broken hung stuff I had not seen that there was no good way to climb out to. Bucket time. Going down here in a bit to pick it up
flushcut
TreeHouser
I’m enjoying the day from my recliner. It’s hot and the air is so wet you could drink it. Five minutes outside and you start sweating, like the heavy uncontrolled sweating where every pore looks like the waste gates at the Hoover Dam.
was 93 and like 90% humidity here, sunny day with zero hint of rain when I got home at noon
its now 88, and pouring rain, I think my driveway is about to float away, but low humidity of 55%, despite all of this "cool weather" we still have a heat index of 100-110 across town right now
Kaveman
Treehouser
Went for a ride and found a big patch of ripe wild blackberries! Been waiting for this since I first spotted the vines around here in November. They're in the fridge, firming up before washing. Picked about a pint of them, because I just so happened to be in possession of a pint of hard cider. No, I was absolutely not riding out to one of my favorite black oaks to enjoy the view and a brew... definitely not.
And that's the proper way to spend an unexpected day off. Oh, also, there was a delicious two hour nap! Weather was quite agreeable today.
flushcut
TreeHouser
I see no evidence of this alleged brew being in your hypothetical possession.
flushcut
TreeHouser
105 and dry sounds nice. High heat and high humidity is like being under a magnifying glass.
Yeah. It should be like that in the am and blast furnace in the afternoon. Not complaining. Prolly get it in August.
Looks like someone 💩 on my palm tree. 😡
Big wheels keep on turnin
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Side of RV trailer. White is warm. Gray can’t touch for very long. Black BURN instantly.
Big wheels keep on turnin
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Side of RV trailer. White is warm. Gray can’t touch for very long. Black BURN instantly.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Lift day followed by a dentist appointment. By far the easiest, fastest, least painful extraction I've ever experienced, and it was a wisdom tooth growing almost straight sideways. Doc Karen at Yosemite Dental is a consummate professional, and I'll never have another dentist if I have my way.
I swear that tooth felt five times the size it is, while it was butchering the inside of my mouth.
I swear that tooth felt five times the size it is, while it was butchering the inside of my mouth.
pigwot
RuMi's, Juni's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Gpa! (#5 soon)
A local tree crew took down the last two original trees at the house I grew up in... a double-trunk Red Maple splitting at the base and a Pin Oak suffering from BLS.
That maple was the "first" tree I climbed repeatedly when I was five years old. Sixty-five years ago I was scrambling to the top of that tree!
I went and spoke to the crew, and they nicely loaded three logs and a chunk of the base of the larger trunk into my dump trailer (minis are awesome!).
Cut the ends of the three logs and sealed them. I'll mill some of it and cut turning blanks from the rest.
Ran out of steam in the heat, so I'll deal with the basal cut chunk tomorrow.
That maple was the "first" tree I climbed repeatedly when I was five years old. Sixty-five years ago I was scrambling to the top of that tree!
I went and spoke to the crew, and they nicely loaded three logs and a chunk of the base of the larger trunk into my dump trailer (minis are awesome!).
Cut the ends of the three logs and sealed them. I'll mill some of it and cut turning blanks from the rest.
Ran out of steam in the heat, so I'll deal with the basal cut chunk tomorrow.
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Kaveman
Treehouser
Someday, I'd really like to purchase something you make from that. A small piece, as befits my budget, but I'd like to add something to my collection from your storied past good sir.
pigwot
RuMi's, Juni's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Gpa! (#5 soon)
Kave,
Yes, I’ll add something for you to my list.
I’ll surely have packages heading West. I’ve been thinking of what to make for David with his mesquite.
Yes, I’ll add something for you to my list.
I’ll surely have packages heading West. I’ve been thinking of what to make for David with his mesquite.
flushcut
TreeHouser
You have some really nice occlusal anatomy. I loved carving teeth like that.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
On the way home, I have to pass through my village. The speed limit is 30, then it goes to 40 on my road, but a little too soon. You go over a hill and around a corner, then it's clear sailing. As I was just coming home now, and around that corner, I had to do done evasive maneuvering. I thought to myself "that's a crappy place to par...that... that's a bear!" Big boy sitting on his butt taking up half my lane.
Nutball
TreeHouser
Sounds like a bear of a turn
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Wow!
A lot of wood splitting at home.
Rounds have been drying in the sun.
I have a lot of wind and sun in my firewood spot, so all should be plenty dry by mid-October when it's about time for a fire. Lots of b maple and madrona with some doug-fir. About 3/4 of a cord of small cedar chunks and cedar mill- ends for kindling. A large rolling garbage can of splitter birds for fire starter. Plenty of cedar saw chips for making fire starters.
Much more orderly around my property after some good work from my new guys and myself. Part needing to get stuff done, part training, part balancing with summer parenting, part I was a bachelor for a week.
A lot of wood splitting at home.
Rounds have been drying in the sun.
I have a lot of wind and sun in my firewood spot, so all should be plenty dry by mid-October when it's about time for a fire. Lots of b maple and madrona with some doug-fir. About 3/4 of a cord of small cedar chunks and cedar mill- ends for kindling. A large rolling garbage can of splitter birds for fire starter. Plenty of cedar saw chips for making fire starters.
Much more orderly around my property after some good work from my new guys and myself. Part needing to get stuff done, part training, part balancing with summer parenting, part I was a bachelor for a week.
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