Falling pics 11/25/09

[treeslayer2003]

Colton, one thing you gotta understand is that Bitz has something like 9 kids. He starts the day 3mbf behind the 8-ball, and has to catch up from there

Seriously tho, you should check out some of his videos. It doesn't look rushed, but the dude is definitely not ****ing around. If Handsome Mike would ever get around to putting a video up, I'd bet it would look similar, just more handsome.

thanks Jon but im not fast like bitzer or Clint.......well not any more lol. but i don't work the same way either.........my normal day has me falling for an hour or two then i'm on and off the skidder, topping, loading, wrenching, dealing with land owners......and foresters...........falling is a vacation for me.

 

[HuskStihl]

don't any body else here have the neck problem?

It's hard to tell if I do, cause the rest of the body is such a mess

 

[1270d]

I get it man, as long as the boss is happy. It drives me nuts when I know I could be more effcient. Its very easy to become stagnant in production. A guy who ran the skidder for me for a month said thats its like I'm always trying to beat myself. Like I'm in competition with myself. I have a bar I try to raise every day. Sometimes I do sometimes I don't.

I have always tried to provide this level of performance no matter who or where I work. I hate sandbaggers

 

[HuskStihl]

Me too. I'm just a tenderfoot landowner, but I'm frequently mistaken for a hired hand or handyman, 'cause I'll bust my ass all day in the Texas heat when I'm working the land. (Never, ever, ever mistaken for a pro faller. Prolly the littered fence and shed debris that gives my amateur status away)

 

[treeslayer2003]

It's hard to tell if I do, cause the rest of the body is such a mess

why is your body a mess? something tells me you weren't always where you are now...........

 

[HuskStihl]

Nothing honorable. Just bad hips, back and shoulders from being an undersized D-man in ice hockey

 

[Trx250r180]

It is from packing that sweedish saw around

 

[northmanlogging]

look up...............yes..........i have to do it before i start, i can't while at the stump..........neck to stiff and efed up. i will say it is easier with a wrap and the saw tuned over cutting a higher stump.
don't any body else here have the neck problem?

Neck is one of the few bits of me not broken and sewn back together... wrong...

But I've never been real flexible, and my shoulders pretty much start where my jaw ends, so yeah I look up when I start and try to when the tree starts to go, but mostly I just run and hide.

Taking a knee helps, but not much.

 

[bitzer]

Colton, one thing you gotta understand is that Bitz has something like 9 kids. He starts the day 3mbf behind the 8-ball, and has to catch up from there.

Thats it Jon! You figured it out! The funny thing is its really not that far from the truth. My wife doesn't work either.

I'm day five on some BAD stomach bug. Slept in every day this week. Have to keep a roll of tp nearby. Heading to the woods now. Gotta put wood on the landing every day. Even if its a little.

 

[treeslayer2003]

carefull bitz, you ain't 100%..................

 

[bitzer]

carefull bitz, you ain't 100%..................

No sir I ain't! No ones guna make money for me though. Thanks for the thought. I do slow it down a bit when I'm in rough shape. I just take more time for thought and I try to be happy with the wood I put on the landing. All I can eat is breads and crackers otherwise it feels like something is trying to claw its way out. Donettos and cheez-its seem to stick ok.

 

[Gologit]

No sir I ain't! No ones guna make money for me though. Thanks for the thought. I do slow it down a bit when I'm in rough shape. I just take more time for thought and I try to be happy with the wood I put on the landing. All I can eat is breads and crackers otherwise it feels like something is trying to claw its way out. Donettos and cheez-its seem to stick ok.

Working sick is no fun but sometimes you just have to do it. Don't forget to stay hydrated.

 

[treeslayer2003]

i can go till i get a fever, then im down for the count........

 

[northmanlogging]

If I hurl I go home... otherwise I've always toughed it out, miserable at work, or miserable at home, at work I'm at least getting paid. And to Hel with the other jokers can't cover their mouths when coughing anyway, or wash their hands...

Did I mention I'm getting really sick of being a machinist and am really starting to talk myself into logging full time...

 

[Gologit]

Did I mention I'm getting really sick of being a machinist and am really starting to talk myself into logging full time...

Not in those exact words but we kinda got that impression.

 

[treeslayer2003]

well............i can't very well try n talk you out of that.........you know the deal. good luck to you sir.

 

[northmanlogging]

Made a promise to the War Dept I'd have X amount in biz savings before pulling the plug on stability...

 

[Gologit]

Made a promise to the War Dept I'd have X amount in biz savings before pulling the plug on stability...

Good idea.

 

[chucker]

Made a promise to the War Dept I'd have X amount in biz savings before pulling the plug on stability...

? what is stability...? more like IN-stability for a norm to the usual.....

 

[RandyMac]

instability?