SNIPE

[woodworkingboy]

Nice going sierratree.

 

[Al Smith]

Geeze this stuff gets confusing to me .Know I understand the good old flat bottom ,wedge down most of use,the open face wedge top and bottom and the west coast Humboldt .Lawdy you get to talking about snipes which I think is an invisable bird ,Dutchmen which are just people you can't understand or those slice type things Gerry B used in the top of that big redwood I'm kinda in the lost lane .On that slice thing whatever it's called I still wonder how they ever got it knocked out of the log .

I'm going to have to read the book I guess rather than just look at the pictures

 

[Burnham]

 

[pantheraba]

double hahahha...good one, Al..my eyes glaze over some times, too...you ain't alone, bro.

 

[woodworkingboy]

How he got those big slices out, I could only figure that Jerry has a way to sedate the tree.

 

[gf beranek]

What? The block, cheese, pie, undercut? Lot of names for it, but never heard of slice. I bored, pryed, split, sawed, whittled, kicked and cussed to get them out. Of course. All standard procedure.

 

[Al Smith]

What ever it's called it must have weighed a ton .I have no idea about redwood but had it been oak ,at least 4-500 ibs .

 

[sierratree]

was there a picture you're refering to? did i miss a thread?

 

[sotc]

History going on here. Back around '85 I think, Jerry topped a redwood in a big way. Theres a poster you may have seen titled "150' up, still 7' diameter". You may need to buy his other book too

 

[MasterBlaster]

Speak of the devil!

<ha>

 

[gf beranek]

Oh, that cheese. They take a little bit of wrestling and coaxing and cussing, but eventually they all come out.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I like the cast on the foot, in the aerial shots.

 

[woodworkingboy]

That poster is still a topic of conversation at tree faller's tea breaks thousands of miles away. "Sono takai tokoro mada ni meter ijo chokai desuyo! Segoy....shingeranai!" (and other sorted exclamations of disbelief and approval)

 

[stig]

Such as: " Det er kraftædeme løgn det der, det må være fotoshoppet. Ellers er det godt nok noget af et sæt nosser den stodder render rundt med!!!!"

 

[Tucker943]

Here in PA, the common response is "Holy f^@*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[gf beranek]

You don't say?

 

[Burnham]

Believe it, Jer.

 

[Jed]

That poster's up on the wall in our shop. We all use it to make the trees we do every day look small.

 

[Rborist1]

Here in PA, the common response is "Holy f^@*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Up here in the Great White North the common response is similiar, only with an "eh" on the end!

 

[FJR]

I just sent that poster in to get framed... only took 3 years. I would not trade it for anything! Thanks Gerry

 

[gf beranek]

At the time it was just a stunt to prove to myself that it could be done. That's all.

Of course the pictures keep it alive today.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What??? I thought you were doing stuff like that 2, 3 times a week!

 

[sierratree]

Yeh Gerry.......now that's a block out face and a snipe.............oh wow...................must have been really fun.......the one for the books..........thanks for the inspiration.........

 

[Bermy]

...or 'eh, eh bye, you fool fullish!

WOW.

 

[Jed]

Eh Fiona? What's that?