Falling pics 11/25/09

[HuskStihl]

A good open face will eliminate those kinds of problem. Just sayin... If it was really wind shook you probably whoulda known in the face...

Shake is a very pungent sour smell. You can definitely smell it. Very loud in red oak, water oak, and bastard oak. I think the smell is actually an acid, I think it is called tanic or tantric acid.

I think 56 is talkin about wind "shaking" the tree and being able to see the face subtly opening and closing. Holy ####, did I just answer for the kid? I better be right!

 

[jrcat]

I have gotten into some ant riddled wood before....didnt end well for the ants or the chain.

 

[bustedup]

I think 56 is talkin about wind "shaking" the tree and being able to see the face subtly opening and closing. Holy ####, did I just answer for the kid? I better be right!

Well sounds right

 

[bustedup]

I have gotten into some ant riddled wood before....didnt end well for the ants or the chain.

Ant killer lmao

 

[roberte]

I have gotten into some ant riddled wood before....didnt end well for the ants or the chain.

you think ants are fun, try cutting into a bat cave.
oh and lets go with the ants and uncles joke too

 

[bustedup]

you think ants are fun, try cutting into a bat cave.
oh and lets go with the ants and uncles joke too

You been in a cave with batman??? was bat girl there too??? lol

 

[roberte]

You been in a cave with batman??? was bat girl there too??? lol

im sure there was both kinds in there. hollowed out aspen tree top

 

[HuskStihl]

Ever noticed how fast "ant damaged" timber will dull a saw? Being that I don't have, and have never been told a formal answer as to why this happens...I came up with my own!

Here it goes...and please set me on fire if I m nowhere near right. Ok, so the ant eats the wood, the acid in it's stomache break it down, changing the eaten wood's chemical composition. Something must happen that turns the sawdust...and I say sawdust because that it essentially was wood before the carpenter ants ate it, and basically comes out as saw dust from Hell.

I bet all you guys have noticed it while cutting, surely. Well I used to run Si-Chrome dipped saw bits that were actually pretty tough even in dirty logs. If I would hit a log with a carpenter ant colony in it...INSTA DULL! I mean you might as well shut her off and get out the saw jockey...cause yer dull!

disclaimer...I'm an idiot

nah, I've noticed that to, really any rotten wood. dad says snake crap dulls a saw :msp_scared:

Another possibility is that the critters track some sort of abrasive, dirt like material into the wood that interacts poorly with all the tantric acid and snake poop, dulling the chain:biggrin:

 

[jrcat]

Ant killer lmao

Yes......yes I am

 

[twochains]

nah, I've noticed that to, really any rotten wood. dad says snake crap dulls a saw :msp_scared:

Honest as Hell... I made a pass on a ERC and a fricken snake shot out at the tail man!!! I also sawed a ERC and out of the fork of the log (real ingrown, black and nasty) I hit a clutch of eggs, upon further inspection you could totally tell by the zygote that they were snake eggs! Very neat! The zygotes looked like gigantic sperm with eye balls and a egg yolk sac! Needless to say, the secretary got to see one real up close like...wait...ummm, huh? Never mind... I used to pull the most awesome pranks...I threw an armadillo in her office and slammed the door real quick! :hmm3grin2orange: Some people wanted to fire me over that...go figure

 

[bustedup]

Another possibility is that the critters track some sort of abrasive, dirt like material into the wood that interacts poorly with all the tantric acid and snake poop, dulling the chain:biggrin:

Your getting technical now

 

[jrcat]

When the earth aligns with the moon mars and jupitor the extra gravitational pull fluxes the flux capacitor and dulls the chain ...but only on wednesday.

 

[bustedup]

Honest as Hell... I made a pass on a ERC and a fricken snake shot out at the tail man!!! I also sawed a ERC and out of the fork of the log (real ingrown, black and nasty) I hit a clutch of eggs, upon further inspection you could totally tell by the zygote that they were snake eggs! Very neat! The zygotes looked like gigantic sperm with eye balls and a egg yolk sac! Needless to say, the secretary got to see one real up close like...wait...ummm, huh? Never mind... I used to pull the most awesome pranks...I threw an armadillo in her office and slammed the door real quick! :hmm3grin2orange: Some people wanted to fire me over that...go figure

Calling the short bus for ya bro lol

 

[jrcat]

I used to grease up door handles put duct tape over head lights and wire the hot line off the brakes to the horn..... I was baaadddd but hey at least the drivers used to do a thorough pre trip on the trucks:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[jrcat]

TC you used to run head rig? I always wanted to but never got a chance. I was told a good sawyer could make good lumber from a junk log and a bad sawyer could make junk lumber from a good log lol. I ran bull edger some and did more than my fair share of stacking and only enough grading to be dangerous lol

 

[twochains]

Yep. 9 years on a Meadows #1 full auto, I was a solo sawyer (no backup + no vacations= burn out)

 

[Rounder]

Another for the record before I hit the hay- Gologit, Hammer, Rounder, 056, Randy(in his heyday), GreyStroke, Greenwedge, and a few others could cut circles around me.

And you'd probably hand me my ass in hardwoods Bob.....Ported 390's do put the wood on the ground real quick....Fun stuff.

Take care - Sam

 

[056kid]

Wind shake is damage from wind. Seperation of the grain, usually radially. in my experiences it can sometimes be full of liquid, and acts heavy on the stump.

 

[jrcat]

In my neck of the woods it is mostly hemlock that gets shake. Then it is basically chipper fodder. I have yet to come across any hardwood here with shake but then again I do stand to be corrected.

 

[treeslayer2003]

Wind shake is damage from wind. Seperation of the grain, usually radially. in my experiences it can sometimes be full of liquid, and acts heavy on the stump.

that's exactly right, like when a water oak lets loose all on yer leg and ya smell it rest a the day.

I see I really missed some bs while I was gone