How'd it go today?

[pigwot]

Jay, I think I mentioned it in another thread, but I really liked my 238xp, and the next saw I had was the 242xp. Power to weight and the balance were great.

The Pin Oak 'electricians' didn't come back today; I called them and they were taking a long weekend to reassess and talk about what they did.
I reiterated my offer to talk to them at the site about approach and rigging and basic physics. They're going to call me on Monday and we'll have a full school session, but first, I'll have them agree to purchase Gerry's DVD set.

 

[pigwot]

Took down the tallest, most covered-with-poison ivy locust I've ever been up today. Should have taken a camera.
Groundsman marked my rope when I set up to tip out the top. I was at 75 feet and there were still 25 feet of tree above me.
Just finished hanging the washed ropes and saddle and boots and clothing. Poison ivy never bothers me much.
I get a tingly feeling on mucous membranes, like right inside my nostrils, but nothing else (so far).

 

[Al Smith]

To get real stable you about have to quarter saw anything .As luck would have it the raised panal doors I made last week were from an ash plank that was cut dead on center of the log .I went through about a dozen planks before I found one that suited me .

First I'd heard that sycamore was used for instruments .I knew maple and basswood were though .I guess every wood has a specific use ,problem is some uses are not widely known .

 

[woodworkingboy]

Jay, I think I mentioned it in another thread, but I really liked my 238xp, and the next saw I had was the 242xp. Power to weight and the balance were great.

Begs the question why the saw manufacturers don;t keep the great models in production?

One thing about stability with wood and species variations, is that we mostly think of it in that context when drying and during the early stages of being converted into something, then shortly there after. Once it has climatized to the environment in which it will remain, the inside of a house in a certain area for example, it tends to 'relax' and lose the tendency to move around so much. I have observed that there seems to be something going on within the pores of the wood after a year or so of having been made into an item, the way it responds to additional finish being applied at that stage. Some kind of stabilizing thing. Wood does hold tension, anyone who has pushed much material through a tablesaw has seen that.

 

[HolmenTree]

One more day and I'll have these 31 elms done. Finishing up the stumps today with a little rain. The town brought their single axle dump and a smaller JCB loader with clam bucket to clean up the last of the blocks.

 

[Al Smith]

Wood does hold tension, anyone who has pushed much material through a tablesaw has seen that.

How true .You can rip a plank and get nice straight boards,straight as a pool cue .Several more out of the same plank will curve like sled runners .Those make nice kindling wood .

 

[sotc]

Tied into dead sycamore? Why not take the 4' lower tie in to begin with? Dead sycamore around here has no integrity

 

[HolmenTree]

Here is another picture I took today, to show the folks on this site who "can't see a common south east lean". These spruce have a good SE lean, the street runs north -south. grey truck is travelling south.

 

[sotc]

Falling off the world?

 

[HolmenTree]

Falling off the world?

If I remember correctly there was quite a debate about this subject a while back. ha

 

[sotc]

Haha, must have been before my time I guess

 

[Burnham]

Not much of a debate...I denied it exists in my part of the world and won't let him say it is the case, period, without being questioned; Willard stands by his view that it exists in a huge band across the flatish part of the northern forested belt of the planet.

I think we both are right .

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Killed an oak today and landed a couple of broken spars to take down. Then did soccer.. Bathing kids and trying to get the house settled down so I can relax a bit... Kids are all wound up and I have to get them in early for soccer pictures tomorrow. Then after soccer finish taking a tree down we go trained out on.

 

[HolmenTree]

Not much of a debate...I denied it exists in my part of the world and won't let him say it is the case, period, without being questioned; Willard stands by his view that it exists in a huge band across the flatish part of the northern forested belt of the planet.

I think we both are right .

It would be interesting to know if the common lean for conifers in lets say Australia south of the equator would lean north east.

 

[sotc]

I thought he was referring to a flat earth
That said, at his latitude, it could be phototropism though I don't recall seeing that in Alaska. Prevailing wind?

 

[okietreedude]

did a bunch of stump grinding today finishing up jobs started earlier last week and this. Im hoping my breakdowns are done for a while.

on the sycamore subject, the stuff is crap to split for firewood. It has to be really dry and even then it can split off weird.

 

[Al Smith]

I'm just about to load up and go play with the antique saws at a GTG about 30 miles from here .I'll haul about 12-15 of those old boat anchors with me ,camera too . Buuut,hidden in that mess is a pair of screamer Stihls in case anyone has the bright idea all I do is antiques .

 

[Underwor]

Have the same SE lean in many cases in the Dakotas. I think it more pronounced as you get further up on the prairie. On the road south of Brandon there is a grove of trees that have a very pronounced lean. I think they are the only wind resistance for 5 miles. The 25 to 35 mph breezes, with occasional gust to 55, that we had the past few days does have an effect I am sure.

 

[brendonv]

Cool day this morning.

I contracted as the cutter/climber for a friend of mine this morning. They had a leaning Sugar Maple over the street and wires, I installed a 1 inch pull rope at his request, ran to a John Deere 440 skidder as the pull machine. The tree came over perfect, it was awesome. That little skidder has some freaking power, wow.

Fixing to change the long overdue oil in my Toyota, and letting that gross Burger King I bought for some reason digest.

 

[Porkbrick]

house cleaning day today, then ill be working on my custom saddle for a while and footlocking till my arms give out.

 

[rangerdanger]

Day 2 on that big Sycamore today. Used Mike, our contract climber, to work on two leads of this huge tree. We got two sketchy leads over a 200 year old cabin done. Sadly though, Mike is going out of town Monday, so we can't use him to finish the rest anymore, which means I have to climb most of it. Hopefully I can conquer most of it, its the only tree that gives me problems every year, no matter my skill level. 3 years I've worked on it and each year always gives me that scary, uncomfortable feeling.

 

[jefflovstrom@sb]

Day 2 on that big Sycamore today. Used Mike, our contract climber, to work on two leads of this huge tree. We got two sketchy leads over a 200 year old cabin done. Sadly though, Mike is going out of town Monday, so we can't use him to finish the rest anymore, which means I have to climb most of it. Hopefully I can conquer most of it, its the only tree that gives me problems every year, no matter my skill level. 3 years I've worked on it and each year always gives me that scary, uncomfortable feeling.

And you will tell the story of how you did it when you are instructing your guys years from now.
no apostrophes.

 

[stig]

I am spending the weekend helping my vetenarian friend whitewash his house.
3 coats with a 24 hr hardening time in between.
He takes care of my dogs for free, so it is nice to get a chance to help him out.
Also I quite like to whitewash ( I'd probably make a fine politician).

 

[okietreedude]

threw down some fescue seed right before the rain started. hopefully it will come up! we are supposed to get close to 2" by monday, i sure hope so cause we NEED it bad.

 

[SkwerI]

Been raining for about 28 hours straight here. Earlier today a friend of mine came over to go take the bucket truck for a drive. He needs to use it for his CDL driving test and wanted to get some practice driving it with the trailer. We were rolling along and a big green tree frog jumped out from behind the seat and stuck to the back window. I escorted him out the window but I'm thinking it might be time to clean out the cab.