So, Anna had her first experience of a barber chair today.
Mild one, luckily.
Great teaching opportunity and as for the ruined log, the goddamned forest is full of them. ( she was a bit surprised to find, that was my take on it)
I had been on her case for making her face cuts to close. As in not open enough.
Then she forgot to gut the hinge.
That added up to a facecut closing too soon and too much hinge, plus a gust of wind pushing the tree over.
Barberchair.
It really doesn't take a skid steer in real life.
We had some wind come up around noon.
Caused Richard to have, what I would guess is the faller's worst nightmare.
He felled a tree next to a public road, had it commit, then a gust of wind stood it back up, snapped the hinge and it went across the road.
We got real busy setting the vans up as road blocks ( We have emergency flashers on them) and luckily we could redirect traffic through the forest and the forwarder was only 10 minutes away.
Having a good relationship with the forwarder drivers sure is a fine thing. When I called him and explained the situation, he set off at once.
He was hauling ass, fat plume of smoke behind him when he was coming up the road.
So we got the mess cleared up, and nobody but the MS462 was hurt.
Richard will have nightmares about this for a while, though.
One funny thing happened today.
I had been contacted by the Copenhagen furniture factory.
They were making a film about " tree to furniture".
Would I fall a tree while they filmed it.
Sure thing.
So two guys drove the 2½ hours down from Copenhagen.
I told them I'd drop one, then they could see what was going on and figure how to set up.
So I dropped a large one.
One guy came over and asked " Is that an oak?"
Nope, Beech!
Turns out the film was about oak furniture, but no-one had thought to mention that to me.
Not a single oak in the whole forest.
So they drove the 2½ hours back to the hub of civilization.
We laughed ourselves sick, after they left.
Man......................city folks
