Today....

[davidwyby]

Uh….



These guys backed into the leaf pit and were lucky I stopped in.



Another mortality on a friend’s place. :-(



Desert conk?!

Who can resist a good sand pile?

 

[southsoundtree]

Lost a drive motor seal on my Boxer.

Luckily, I bought a micro-x that's been filling in okay.

We removed 26 trees fir a shop build. Took firewood to people in need, left some chainsaw-millable logs and lots of chips. We would blow directly into their trailer fir use on other areas of the property, as well as a pile near the shop site.

Helped them with orchard knowledge.


5 pieces of ocean fish and 3 Benjamins as a tip.

 

[Dan Thornton]

Last week I was thankful for the safety training I have learned and made habitual.
I did what I intended never to do - I cut through my lanyard while aloft.
Yes, I know. I know better.
I was cutting off a branch - the part of the lanyard in view was a safe distance below the cut. I didn't look this time to see exactly where the lanyard was on the other side of the main stem.
Cut. Then suspended animation. My body floated away, causing my spurs to come out of the tree.
I was hanging on my climbing/safety line about three feet from the main stem.
Completely safe.
Looking at my cut lanyard.
Tied a double fisherman's knot onto the carabiner and kept working with a slightly shorter lanyard.
And a memory.
The good habits of safety are worth keeping - even if sometimes they just seem to slow me down.

Now to build a new habit - offer my groundsman a $25 bonus every time she catches me making a cut without seeing or physically touching my lanyard on the opposite side of the stem.

 

[oceans]

24” of 3/8” LP on cannon super mini on a ported 60cc, the bees knees. Thru coast live oak like butter. High speed low drag. Firewooding one I rigged down recently. View attachment 102199

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I had to try the biggest axe you can buy. 8lb council fire axe.


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One coming up, 48”

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Loading cottonwood, or adjusting trailer weight balance. Logs were winched on.



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Wow, that almost looks like a harvester bar…kinda wider through the mid length, or am I just seeing things?

 

[oceans]

Lost a drive motor seal on my Boxer.

Luckily, I bought a micro-x that's been filling in okay.

We removed 26 trees fir a shop build. Took firewood to people in need, left some chainsaw-millable logs and lots of chips. We would blow directly into their trailer fir use on other areas of the property, as well as a pile near the shop site.

Helped them with orchard knowledge.


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And one happy looking dog!

 

[oceans]

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Last week I was thankful for the safety training I have learned and made habitual.
I did what I intended never to do - I cut through my lanyard while aloft.
Yes, I know. I know better.
I was cutting off a branch - the part of the lanyard in view was a safe distance below the cut. I didn't look this time to see exactly where the lanyard was on the other side of the main stem.
Cut. Then suspended animation. My body floated away, causing my spurs to come out of the tree.
I was hanging on my climbing/safety line about three feet from the main stem.
Completely safe.
Looking at my cut lanyard.
Tied a double fisherman's knot onto the carabiner and kept working with a slightly shorter lanyard.
And a memory.
The good habits of safety are worth keeping - even if sometimes they just seem to slow me down.

Now to build a new habit - offer my groundsman a $25 bonus every time she catches me making a cut without seeing or physically touching my lanyard on the opposite side of the stem.

Never hurts to double check. Good on you for being tied in twice!

Sometimes we’ll get into some real irregular trunk wood, especially with lots of coarse or exfoliating bark…anything that can snag up a nice true lanyard and/or main line path. It’s nice to confirm with someone on the ground that it’s clear for making a cut with a large saw.

 

[davidwyby]

Wow, that almost looks like a harvester bar…kinda wider through the mid length, or am I just seeing things?

Yes, the tip is small. I think bigger belly resists chain slinging off. Came across this looking for something else.

 

[oceans]

Yes, the tip is small. I think bigger belly resists chain slinging off. Came across this looking for something else.

Would you say that shape is due to a wider belly or smaller tip than a standard bar. I ask only because my experience with “pointy” bars is they don’t seem to plunge well or offer the same capabilities in tighter spots, ironically, as a rounder profile. It’s interesting for sure.

 

[davidwyby]

Would you say that shape is due to a wider belly or smaller tip than a standard bar. I ask only because my experience with “pointy” bars is they don’t seem to plunge well or offer the same capabilities in tighter spots, ironically, as a rounder profile. It’s interesting for sure.

I will have to compare to another bar but I wanna say both. Definitely a narrower tip. It bores ok as I recall. Carvers use very narrow tips. I o no

 

[southsoundtree]

Pointy bars are low- kickback and worse for boring.

 

[Bart_]

I heard the surreal slow motion fall backwards fall story, but caught by a second lanyard, from exactly the same error before. Guy was spooked as he told me. You're not the first person to do it.

 

[Matias]

I heard the surreal slow motion fall backwards fall story, but caught by a second lanyard, from exactly the same error before. Guy was spooked as he told me. You're not the first person to do it.

Having taken a few falls from limb failures, I can attest to how surreal that moment is. Time seems to slow down so extremely that you'd swear you had time to consider what might be about to happen, but when I look at the total distance, it seems impossible to think all that in such a brief instant.

 

[oceans]

Having taken a few falls from limb failures, I can attest to how surreal that moment is. Time seems to slow down so extremely that you'd swear you had time to consider what might be about to happen, but when I look at the total distance, it seems impossible to think all that in such a brief instant.

The first place I ever experienced that time dilation was as a young teenager working as a carpenter. When working on multi span staging, we’d often have one 2” thick plank overlapping another 2” thick plank at the center jack. You know, it gives me pause to think of all the times I took the 2” plummet of peril, but enough to have cemented the feeling. You get so used to navigating that overlap while focusing on hundreds of shingles, but the moment you forget…

 

[oceans]

@davidwyby that photo of the heavy leaner above the swing bench reminds me of all the tire swings people set up for their grandkids. Seems more often than not they choose the largest, deadest branch to tie it to. Just makes you wonder, that’s all.

 

[davidwyby]

The first place I ever experienced that time dilation was as a young teenager working as a carpenter. When working on multi span staging, we’d often have one 2” thick plank overlapping another 2” thick plank at the center jack. You know, it gives me pause to think of all the times I took the 2” plummet of peril, but enough to have cemented the feeling. You get so used to navigating that overlap while focusing on hundreds of shingles, but the moment you forget…

This morning the warped-from-heat roof of this thing popped like a Snapple lid under my weight and I thought I was going off the edge. Long way down to hard dirt parking lot…

 

[oceans]

This morning the warped-from-heat roof of this thing popped like a Snapple lid under my weight and I thought I was going off the edge. Long way down to hard dirt parking lot…

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Yeah, like 13’ down! Probably pooped up with quite a sound as well. I just hope they brought it to you empty and clean.

 

[southsoundtree]

A drive in my neighborhood to get to 'the' Steamboat Island.

We've had a black beer and a mountain lion sighted within 2 miles of my house.

Supposedly, my groundworker spotted a lion watching is at work during a quite time while I was climbing and pruning around 10 years ago.

 

[oceans]

A drive in my neighborhood to get to 'the' Steamboat Island.

We've had a black beer and a mountain lion sighted within 2 miles of my house.

Supposedly, my groundworker spotted a lion watching is at work during a quite time while I was climbing and pruning around 10 years ago.

Thanks for the tour! Hope the apex predators keep a safe distance.
We had a black bear reported in my old town and I could hardly believe it until I caught a glimpse for myself. That thing was FAST!

 

[Mick Dempsey!]

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Last week I was thankful for the safety training I have learned and made habitual.
I did what I intended never to do - I cut through my lanyard while aloft.
Yes, I know. I know better.
I was cutting off a branch - the part of the lanyard in view was a safe distance below the cut. I didn't look this time to see exactly where the lanyard was on the other side of the main stem.
Cut. Then suspended animation. My body floated away, causing my spurs to come out of the tree.
I was hanging on my climbing/safety line about three feet from the main stem.
Completely safe.
Looking at my cut lanyard.
Tied a double fisherman's knot onto the carabiner and kept working with a slightly shorter lanyard.
And a memory.
The good habits of safety are worth keeping - even if sometimes they just seem to slow me down.

Now to build a new habit - offer my groundsman a $25 bonus every time she catches me making a cut without seeing or physically touching my lanyard on the opposite side of the stem.

Missed this.
I tell my apprentice climber that it is the job of the groundsman to watch out for this where possible on big blocking down work.
Even a quick ‘am I alright here?’ Is 2 seconds work.
Glad you were tied in elsewhere.

 

[Jehinten]

We had a black bear reported in my old town and I could hardly believe it

Same here actually. I thought it was a fb hoax at first. Central Missouri and a cinnamon black bear hung out in town for about a week. This was last year and there had never been a bear sighting there before.