Fun story Jed!...so who had to get the axe out of the drink??..or was it left in there..lol
Jay: Compulsory smile?... I'da wanted to fight them boys for not telling me. You're story is WAY more messed-up. At least, I have only my own buffoonery to blame for getting laughed at... which... I gotta say... is badly (if disgustingly bitter) needed medicine for a soul like mine.
OH! Rajan (and Scott)... I didn't finish the story... The boys were already laughing, so I figured, what the heck, and I just lay down on my belly with a self-fabbed, "reacher," (you just--Birch would be a good species here--grab the first branch you see, and then trim the first branchlet on it to about 3" to form a bit of a hook--super good for getting 'hangers' out btw) and fished it out, only having to reach my arm in for a full retrieval.
Rich: Wow, that's pretty cool. I like your boss better than mine, methinks.
Sam: You're a freakin MAN, that looked pretty scary. I got no experience in Eucs, but heard stories. Man, I've heard some CRAZY stories from old-timers. One guy tried to wrap the tree 3 times, (before portys) cause his climber was taking a giant top... freakin thing "speed-barked," on him (blasts the bark off so that the rope's now just running on pure cambium) and sucked him up (jackass wouldn't let go) into the tree canopy while the top flew to the ground. No injuries worth speaking of. Pretty sure I read that story on here somewheres, just in case anybody was thinking of calling BS on it. (Help me, Butch.) Ohh... and in the story that I read, the groundie flew up over the power lines from the cetrifugal force of the 'wraps' unwrapping, as he sailed ever upwards, before tucking up safely in the canopy like a scared cat fleeing an angry dog. That's the story as I read it, but I want to continue it somehow. I want for the groundman to be so pissed that he forces the climber to give up his gear right there up in the tree, and then free-climb down the rope so that HE can get a taste of what a thankless job of brush-dragging it can be for stupid climbers who don't give a care for jeopardizing a guy's safety like that.
Cory: Thanks for the vid, but it was a bit hard for me to keep a straight face while watching it, since it put me in mind of Butch's "Boutiqe Firewood," parody vid he posted up about a year er so ago. I dunno... something about the melodramatic slow-mo, combined with the rather maudlin music, plus the sentiment about "trees removed so easily, and sometimes needlessly," made me think about so many, young jackasses these days (that the media has demonized--and stupidly demonized, imho--as "millennials") who would nostalgically harken back to "purer and simpler times," whithout acknowledging that it is was with mere axes and cross-cuts that all of the world's monster forests were decimated without the least though of retaining a proper vestige for posterity's sake. I figured that you would resonate with this last point, since you seem to deeply lament the loss of so much OG. I've never shared your opinions at all till rather recently, but I may be coming around a bit. You've certainly influence my thinking on it a great deal... that and the astonishing photographs from the old-timer's books.
Sorry gents... a bit too much philosophy (and wordiness) for the work-pic thread, I well confess. Matter o fact, the only "work" pic I have today is the pic that I took while driving to work this morning of the smoke that's STILL choking us out from all of the B.C. fires that Reg started just to roast-up that poor Coogar.
