Help Me Mr. Wizards

[Sport Faller]

You're braver than me.

I thought we decided they didn't give you a hat?

They won't even feed you food. Course a hat don't come with it.

ohhh yeah, geeze, the hat only comes with the 5 part DVD series Log safer, slower, harder that's only 5 easy payment of 19.99 plus s+h*




*shipping and handling is 29.95 even if you pick it up in person, because hey, it had to be shipped from somewhere and they've been handling it

 

[slowp]

I've not seen one of those windchimes. Must be a Montaaaana thing?

 

[Samlock]

Im feeling a bit sensitive now as I sit here at the visiting head of state residence in Dublin in my Husky protective trousers, orange Husky jacket and waiting to put on my orange Stihl helmet with back flap... just waiting for a passerby to call me a dweeb !

Orange walk in Dublin??? I'm glad you had your helmet on, in case of some Molotov's cocktails (on the rocks).

2dogs
Is that video really demonstrating how GOL deals with a heavy head leaner?! Can you imagine if that were a 3' D-fir or redwood and you had the cut an open face notch 4' tall and two feet deep? What a crock! Does the wind not blow in GOL-land? Do you have to stop and touch yourself after each cut or can you just put the friggin tree on the ground? Those people don't what a heavy head leaner really is.

Haha, 2dogs, this may not surprise you a lot, but I've actually used that cut ("beaver cut") maybe 3-4 times in real life. All face and no back cut it is. The idea was to make the tree to go over slowly in order to get the top past a wire or an eave without breaking it.

 

[2dogs]

Orange walk in Dublin??? I'm glad you had your helmet on, in case of some Molotov's cocktails (on the rocks).



Haha, 2dogs, this may not surprise you a lot, but I've actually used that cut ("beaver cut") maybe 3-4 times in real life. All face and no back cut it is. The idea was to make the tree to go over slowly in order to get the top past a wire or an eave without breaking it.

I have used the scooping beaver cut on springpoles but never falling.

 

[slowp]

I'll probably flunk out because that tree, from what I could see, didn't even look like it was leaning. Maybe the camera was at the wrong angle. Maybe my head is tilted? Did it lean??:rolleyes2:

 

[Metals406]

I just watched another GOL video on TheTube. I don't have the energy to list everything I saw that was unsafe.

But I will say this: FER CHRISTSAKES!! SHARPEN YOUR DAMN CHAIN!!

Are dull chains a GOL requirement for "safety"?

 

[Sport Faller]

I just watched another GOL video on TheTube. I don't have the energy to list everything I saw that was unsafe.

But I will say this: FER CHRISTSAKES!! SHARPEN YOUR DAMN CHAIN!!

Are dull chains a GOL requirement for "safety"?

Makin her a little dusty instead of chips huh? :hmm3grin2orange: they're prolly using dull green label safety chain, hey it's got the word "safety" in the product name

the next step in the GOL evolution will probably be the guy who invented the "bearproof" metal suit sportin an eager beaver with rescue crew depth limiter installed

 

[8433jeff]

Flatlander subscription.

 

[lfnh]

I just watched another GOL video on TheTube. I don't have the energy to list everything I saw that was unsafe.

But I will say this: FER CHRISTSAKES!! SHARPEN YOUR DAMN CHAIN!!

Are dull chains a GOL requirement for "safety"?

Yup. and waiting for the one that shows up with a full face respirator..

 

[lfnh]

I'll probably flunk out because that tree, from what I could see, didn't even look like it was leaning. Maybe the camera was at the wrong angle. Maybe my head is tilted? Did it lean??:rolleyes2:

probly the pink sunglasses help with perspective.

 

[2dogs]

I'll probably flunk out because that tree, from what I could see, didn't even look like it was leaning. Maybe the camera was at the wrong angle. Maybe my head is tilted? Did it lean??:rolleyes2:

GOLlum said it was leanining so it WAS leaning. slowp you are gonna be dern lucky if the GOLers don't tie you to a "post" and burn you as a heretic. You best not ask any questions.

 

[Metals406]

Dude, tighten your chain more. . . It can still move. . . Barely. Oh, and nice framing hammer.

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[Metals406]

That video shows safe sawdust production. . . Production of chips is a tripping hazard, and also less degradable.

 

[lfnh]

Wonder if GOL'ers have GTGs and if so, what goes on ?

 

[Sport Faller]

Dude, tighten your chain more. . . It can still move. . . Barely. Oh, and nice framing hammer.

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before I watched this video I didn't think I could actually hear a sprocket nose degrading and a chain stretching, but i was wrong, also the Greenies probably hate GOL, every tree they cut down also comes with a 1 acre circumference clear cut :jester:

 

[slowp]

GOLlum said it was leanining so it WAS leaning. slowp you are gonna be dern lucky if the GOLers don't tie you to a "post" and burn you as a heretic. You best not ask any questions.

I am merely a retired forester type. My friends who pay me in hotdogs, beer, and I-Cut firewood, have a patch of Christmas Trees gone wild, that they want thinned. I hope GOL teaches limb unlocking techniques so we won't have to hook up the tractor to pull them down. I suspect it will be a lot of tractor hooking up.

30 years ago, they planted regular Doug-fir for Christmas trees and found out that in our area, one has to plant Christmas Tree stock to get the beautiful trees. So, I have been invited to a thinning. Maybe I'll get some green firewood out of it or small Scandihoovian candles. It should be fun, we usually burn stuff and practice our recreational lying.

 

[slowp]

I'm not too thrilled with all the reaching around, and walking around the trees that they do in those videos. It just isn't the same as the
"Gotta tilt yer hat" then smoothly cut the big tree down in the Pat/Greenwedge video.

 

[Metals406]

A saying comes to mind with all this GOL stuff. . . "Gear Queer".

A Gear Queer, is all rigging and no yarder -- Or as Jameson says, "All hat and no cattle."

So, I think they should rename the course GQL -- Gear Queers' of Logging.

 

[lfnh]

the leaning over constantly checking where the tip was and the final in ur face look was a real gem.

 

[Slamm]

before I watched this video I didn't think I could actually hear a sprocket nose degrading and a chain stretching, but i was wrong, also the Greenies probably hate GOL, every tree they cut down also comes with a 1 acre circumference clear cut :jester:

LOL, thats one of the things that I noticed, they cut every dammm thing down around the tree. If you can cut the 8.8-11.5" diameter tree from one side, why are they de-foresting the other side of the tree???? LOL.

I mean the "fence post" guy was cutting stuff that was 20 feet away that had nothing to do with where he was cutting or where he needed to go, LOL. I would have had the tree down in the time it takes them to de-sappling the forest floor, LOL.

Good stuff,

Sam