I hate shagbark hickory!!!

[beowulf343]

I am beginning to think I am jinxed when it comes to climbing shagbark hickories. If something is going to go wrong for me, it happens in a shagbark hickory, Fortunately, it is never anything major, just annoying stuff-having to reclimb because I can't pull my climbing line through a crotch that is too tight, getting my throwball stuck, nicking my lanyard with my silky, ripping my earmuff off my helmet, etc-it only happens in a shagbark. And yesterday was no exception. First removal of the day was a shagbark. I tied my lowering line to the first branch to be removed and went to swing back to the trunk. But my front pocket of my jeans got caught on a branch and when I swung, it ripped the leg of my jeans right down to the knee. No problem, I always keep an extra set of clothes in the truck so I was soon back to work. Not a half hour later, I somehow got my jeans caught on a stub and ripped a huge chunk of material right out of the crotch (still not sure how I did this since I was sitting in my saddle at the time.) Anyway, I figure i'm screwed now, might as well just finish the job. But of course, the hole kept getting caught on everything and just getting bigger. By now my groundies and the homeowner are rolling on the ground (so much for trying to look professional.) Soon, the hole is big enough that I'm getting my shorts caught on limbs and I'm starting to worry about indecent exposure (the homeowner had by this time called out his wife to watch what was happening.) Suddenly the first pair of jeans weren't looking so bad, so I came down, duct taped the leg, and finished the job. After I got done, the homeowners thanked me profusely for the entertainment and we just laughed it off. BUT I STILL HATE SHAGBARK HICKORIES

 

[rebelman]

ripped jeans are cool!
Shagbark are all right, I hang out in them often.

 

[dakota]

That's all good laughs, beowolf, for everyone else anyway. But I know how those curses go. For awhile I had a problem with Tuesdays. The most obnoxious things would happen on Tuesdays, for about three months. Then that curse switched to the day before a holiday weekend - that seems to have gone away of late. Can't wait to see what'll be next. :bang:

 

[Tree Machine]

I am hexed by really good lookin female clients. Those jobs seem to always get underestimated and overserved.

Beowolf has the shagbark hickory hex, mine is the curse of the mombabe customer.

 

[Grace Tree]

50 years ago before we knew better or thought much about it, we dumped our motor oil and anything else that needed dumping in a stand of shagbark behind our barn. We also had our burn pile close enough to toast the leaves off the bottom 1/3 of some of the trees. The property is owned by someone else but the trees are still there and thriving. I deadwood them for free once a year and I was able to talk him out of cutting them down to build a larger barn. Great tall trees and he has squirrels the size of woodchucks. Pain in the neck to climb.
Phil

 

[kkottemann]

Before I went full time with my tree service I was a procurement forester for a very large timber company in our area. Most of the work I did was in and around the the Atchafalya river basin (Bottom land hardwood stands) I would buy large tracts of timber for our mill. Shagbark hickory was everywhere in those woods. We milled it and sold it to buyer as pecan flooring material. Very pretty wood, as well as extremely heavy. every log truck I every say cross the scales at the mill loaded with shagbark was well over the legal weight limit for the local highways.

 

[GlennG]

I hate the way shagbarks bust into a million pieces when you drop them but thats the only neg. I like them because the wood is light and easy to carry. There are much worse trees out there.



Glenn

 

[DeanBrown3D]

Hickory is one of the densest of all woods! It doesn't feel light to me!

 

[rebelman]

I think he means when it's been dead awhile. Hickory seems to lighten up pretty fast,

 

[TimberJack_7]

Shagbark hickory is a pain to climb but it makes up for that when I put it in the wood burner!


I hate Hawthornes.....and pin oaks before they are trimmed.....and basswood......and I am sure I could name a few more!