What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
I wish we had frozen ground. I have clay muck.
That is all.....
That is all.....
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Yuck!!!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Best just burn shat on
it.
it.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
But we can't do that a lotta times.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Rain and wind, with little breaks. Enough for a 20 minute orchard pruning bid, and back in the truck for a downpour.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
9* F this morning but no wind and the sun has come out. Looking to be a beautiful day😎
Mellow
BCMA
32* here this morning. Had to put on an extra t-shirt and a windbreaker.
vharrison
Island Girl
Yep, 49 nine here this morning and the wind was howling. Warming up today though, it is beautiful outside.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Cold and raining here!
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Cold and raining, here, too. Not torrential, but enough to diminish motivation.
Marc-Antoine
TreeHouser
Very nice day but frozen mostly all day.
I was late at work because the parking brake's cable of my van was stuck by (supposedly) some frozen water in its sheath. I put a basin on the exhaust outlet at the rear to send back the hot fumes under the frame and the electric blowing heater of the bathroom under the cab. Not very efficient but it worked with some times.
I didn't set the brake this night !
I was late at work because the parking brake's cable of my van was stuck by (supposedly) some frozen water in its sheath. I put a basin on the exhaust outlet at the rear to send back the hot fumes under the frame and the electric blowing heater of the bathroom under the cab. Not very efficient but it worked with some times.
I didn't set the brake this night !
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
LOL!
flushcut
TreeHouser
A touch below freezing with light snow but snow for the next three days.
Steve Mack
Life Member.
120F where I used to live in Sydney, 85 here. Putting up with some cold winter days pays off when summer comes.
flushcut
TreeHouser
That shrinkage looks painful for Florida.
Burnham
Woods walker
The worst part of that shrinkage factor is trying to get your near frozen tiny short little penis out through your many layers of long underwear, wool trousers, fleece outerwear, and Gore-Tex or similar rain/wind proofs...just to take a piss 
.
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Marc-Antoine
TreeHouser
Today, bye bye the freezing, welcome the rain !
Water on the dirt freshly expanded by the freeze. What a mess. Bucking the trunk made some nice splashes of dirt, not really mud, just dirt spitting out under the logs.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Had a dry day or two, but...
Weather made for alturnamats.
Weather made for alturnamats.
Marc-Antoine
TreeHouser
Less rain today, but with wind. It almost made me see-sick.
I was topping again an ash in a camping lot. Two caravans with big fabric awnings under me, 3 steel (paper thin) garden sheds, a plastic boat on a trailer stuck in the ground and some edges to shrink even more the landing zone. The regrowth tops on the mains old cuts were about 30', at 46' high, so the tips barely cleared the roofs during the swings. With the wind, there was no way to know where the broken stuff wanted to land and aiming the tops was tricky.
I came at one hair to lost a top over me by a strong gust of wind. It was a front leaner though, but the wind pushed it back up-right just when I finished my backcut. Luckily, my bar was still in and the hinge held.
Stressing day.
I was topping again an ash in a camping lot. Two caravans with big fabric awnings under me, 3 steel (paper thin) garden sheds, a plastic boat on a trailer stuck in the ground and some edges to shrink even more the landing zone. The regrowth tops on the mains old cuts were about 30', at 46' high, so the tips barely cleared the roofs during the swings. With the wind, there was no way to know where the broken stuff wanted to land and aiming the tops was tricky.
I came at one hair to lost a top over me by a strong gust of wind. It was a front leaner though, but the wind pushed it back up-right just when I finished my backcut. Luckily, my bar was still in and the hinge held.
Stressing day.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Something orb-like glowing in the clouds.
Must be a ufo, cause Sol's been AWOL the last few days. I miss winter. I guess I've had all the winter's I'm gonna have unless I move. 40s and overcast. On the stream job today, and it was a muddy mess. I'll probably take my climbing gear to work tomorrow in case I get some time to work on that mulberry. Good climbing weather at least.
Burnham
Woods walker
A dislikable day, M-A...we all have had them and know how stressful it is; kudos for prevailing without damage.
I recall a miserable time having to spur up FAR too high above my felling cut with my lanyard FAR too low below my position, to be able to muscle a top back into the face and over to the fall, in just such a situation as you describe. That just sucks the hairy moose lips.
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