Falling pics 11/25/09

[Gologit]

Thanks pardner, I appreciate it. I'll be okay; At least my wife has a good job! Besides I have lots of off season things I can be doing (probably should be doing that instead of b'sing on the computer,lol). Finally got my saw shop close by, and I have lots of work to do in there!

LOL...A wife with a good job is almost as necessary to a faller as a good saw.

When these slow times come just figure you're taking early installments on your retirement...while you're still young enough and healthy enough to enjoy it. It works for me.

Your portable saw shop is a nice set up. Sure beats seeing how much stuff you can cram into a pickup.

 

[Meadow Beaver]

I don't know that I would shell out the clams for a Pro Sharp, I don't really have any reason to, in the near future. Who knows besides I'd prefer a SDM-4

 

[Greystoke]

I don't know that I would shell out the clams for a Pro Sharp, I don't really have any reason to, in the near future. Who knows besides I'd prefer a SDM-4

Yeah, they have definitely gone up since '97

 

[Jacob J.]

Okay...I decided against my better judgment to go snap some pics, cuz I got all excited about my saw shop, like a little kid. So, let's just call these the "before I got it restored to its original state" pics.

I forgot about my awesome box on the front tongue that I store most of my tree climbing gear in. You can see some of the damage on the front right corner, under the snow. Also, she is a little rusty from living in Southeast Alaska.

As you can see it is cluttered right now.

Now, I gotta get to work on it so that I can show the "after" pics.

Wow, that's the coolest, smartest portable set-up I've seen yet. Sure beats a tar-paper shack in the woods.

LOL...A wife with a good job is almost as necessary to a faller as a good saw.

When these slow times come just figure you're taking early installments on your retirement...while you're still young enough and healthy enough to enjoy it. It works for me.

Yeah, I always figured that when there's work, there's work, and when there isn't, there's other things to do. It's good to see guys aggressive about going after work but it's also good to see guys have other things lined up so they don't have to get all stressed out about layoffs.

 

[Gologit]

Yeah, I always figured that when there's work, there's work, and when there isn't, there's other things to do. It's good to see guys aggressive about going after work but it's also good to see guys have other things lined up so they don't have to get all stressed out about layoffs.

Yup...I'll chase the work as hard as anybody but sometimes it just isn't there. This business isn't any good for a guy that stresses out over things he can't control.

If you want a steady dependable income, job security, a predictable work environment, a twenty minute commute on pavement, and dry feet...this just ain't the business to be in. :greenchainsaw:

 

[forestryworks]

damn, nice setup tarzanstree

 

[coastalfaller]

I started going to work with my Dad when I was about 9. I would ride with the catskinner and run to set chokers, and just ride along. I tried Coppenhagen about that time too. LOL When I was 22-23 I had a small business in fuels redutctions, thinning, and hazards in the winter with an established friend. I would go help out my Dad with some light cutting and buck my ass off, when the timming worked out and one day I never left. He was doing a little gypoing on the side and got a few big jobs. I was the happiest person in the world...finally had steady work with the old man. You see he is technically my step Dad, but that is never ever mentioned. He never had a son either. He's my best friend and hero. I know it sounds cheesy, but he is. What a man. My biological father got killed by an unsound Tammarack, in a nasty, brutal accident scene. Ended up cutting off his arm on the handle bars during impact, serious blunt wounds and his head was caved in over the power head of a brand new 084. It was hard growing up. I was in the first grade when he died. My mom remarried within a year. It was confusing as to who my Dad was. We butted heads and this and that, but now we are super super tight. I call him Dad because he is my Dad and growing up I wanted one so bad, he raised me right, and is my Dad, you know? My mom's side is full of loggers too, just grew up around it and started dabbling in it at a young age. I think I mentioned it before, but nothing like giving a lesson to a 12 year old with a 655 Pro with the chainbreak removed, LOL.

I know exactly what your saying. 3 of my kids are technically not mine, but they're mine, if you know what I mean. It's great to hear from that perspective.

 

[coastalfaller]

Tarzan's set up

That is an awesome set up, Tarzan! Very impressive! We've got saw shops in our camps, but to have it be mobile like that. I like it!

 

[Greystoke]

I started going to work with my Dad when I was about 9. I would ride with the catskinner and run to set chokers, and just ride along. I tried Coppenhagen about that time too. LOL When I was 22-23 I had a small business in fuels redutctions, thinning, and hazards in the winter with an established friend. I would go help out my Dad with some light cutting and buck my ass off, when the timming worked out and one day I never left. He was doing a little gypoing on the side and got a few big jobs. I was the happiest person in the world...finally had steady work with the old man. You see he is technically my step Dad, but that is never ever mentioned. He never had a son either. He's my best friend and hero. I know it sounds cheesy, but he is. What a man. My biological father got killed by an unsound Tammarack, in a nasty, brutal accident scene. Ended up cutting off his arm on the handle bars during impact, serious blunt wounds and his head was caved in over the power head of a brand new 084. It was hard growing up. I was in the first grade when he died. My mom remarried within a year. It was confusing as to who my Dad was. We butted heads and this and that, but now we are super super tight. I call him Dad because he is my Dad and growing up I wanted one so bad, he raised me right, and is my Dad, you know? My mom's side is full of loggers too, just grew up around it and started dabbling in it at a young age. I think I mentioned it before, but nothing like giving a lesson to a 12 year old with a 655 Pro with the chainbreak removed, LOL.

My older Brother used to bribe me with Copenhagen all the time...had my first one when I was about 5 lol! Have quit several times and I always have a hankerin for one. Sounds like you and your Dad have a good relationship, and you come from a logging background; That is awesome! Probably why you appreciate those things so much! Later pard,

 

[Greystoke]

Hey guys, thanks for the compliments about my saw shop...I am excited to get it set up again...It's always a good place for me to hang out

 

[Cedarkerf]

That is a cool shop Cody really like the way the pro sharp works but my wallet made me settle for the RazursharpII. You could bring the shop to a GTG for a field shop

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Hey guys, thanks for the compliments about my saw shop...I am excited to get it set up again...It's always a good place for me to hang out

Looks like you need a little woodstove for your shop.

 

[Metals406]

Hey guys, thanks for the compliments about my saw shop...I am excited to get it set up again...It's always a good place for me to hang out

Looking forward to more pics of the shop as you work on her. . . Remember, you know a guy up here that can weld a little.

If you need help in that area.

 

[Curlycherry1]

My old man dragged me to work with him in construction when I was 7. That was just what us kids did when mom worked and dad did not want to pay daycare. Friends joke I was born with a hammer in one hand and a circular saw in the other.

I started running a chainsaw bucking up big old maples on my grandmother's property when I was 9 and by the time I was 11, almost 12 dad turned me lose on a woods and I worked alone dropping the cutting firewood. I am sort of amazed sometimes that I am still here. I cut some pretty big old sugarmaples with no defined lean and only my wits about me. Not all of them went anywhere near where I planned for those first 2-3 years.

 

[Cedarkerf]

My old man dragged me to work with him in construction when I was 7. That was just what us kids did when mom worked and dad did not want to pay daycare. Friends joke I was born with a hammer in one hand and a circular saw in the other.

I started running a chainsaw bucking up big old maples on my grandmother's property when I was 9 and by the time I was 11, almost 12 dad turned me lose on a woods and I worked alone dropping the cutting firewood. I am sort of amazed sometimes that I am still here. I cut some pretty big old sugarmaples with no defined lean and only my wits about me. Not all of them went anywhere near where I planned for those first 2-3 years.

Remember when I was 15 clearin an acre of big Firs for a family friend getting paid5 dollars an hour(back in the day that was a lot of money)pinching the bar in a beautiful by todays standard 30" Doug fir and choping it out with an ax thank goodnes it was down a hillside nothing to hit. Wow that seemed like it took hours. It was at least50 feet to the first branch and straight. Finished fallin, buckin and limbing so they called their logger friend to come and yard up the logs and had my first lesson in what the lay was. I think pic up sticks came into the conversation. Dumb kid lesson learned. I believe there was also what patty calls some use of inefficient language. Dumb kid.

 

[Metals406]

Remember when I was 15 clearin an acre of big Firs for a family friend getting paid5 dollars an hour(back in the day that was a lot of money)pinching the bar in a beautiful by todays standard 30" Doug fir and choping it out with an ax thank goodnes it was down a hillside nothing to hit. Wow that seemed like it took hours. It was at least50 feet to the first branch and straight. Finished fallin, buckin and limbing so they called their logger friend to come and yard up the logs and had my first lesson in what the lay was. I think pic up sticks came into the conversation. Dumb kid lesson learned. I believe there was also what patty calls some use of inefficient language. Dumb kid.

Well. at least you had youth and inexperience for an excuse Brian. . . We had fallers playing pick-up-sticks out of pure laziness (or stupidity?). I mean, why wedge a tree when you can just fall it the way it wants to go??

 

[Cedarkerf]

Well. at least you had youth and inexperience for an excuse Brian. . . We had fallers playing pick-up-sticks out of pure laziness (or stupidity?). I mean, why wedge a tree when you can just fall it the way it wants to go??

Yea I was on top of the world had my brite orange Stihl suspendersmy lee logger jeans my power house 032 and for good measure stagged the pants and red plad flannel shirt. I was a "logger " in my head looking over my handy work I figured I was related to Paul Bunyan. Got my 5 bucks an hour for the whole job anyway and back when they were prototyping dirt that was good money for a teenager

 

[slowp]

Is it heated? I think a fridge might be a good thing too.
Pardon me, I've been looking for a tiny trailer to go camping in and just spent a lot of time looking at websites.)

Good night all.

 

[Jacob J.]

Good night!

 

[Gologit]

Good morning!