C'mon, folks, where's the pics? Some of us want to see what we missed!
sucks I couldn't make it at all this weekend
well first weekend in november next year...
I had a great time, great folks, nice logs, excelent food, perfect weather, lots of saws, not much more any man in his right mind could ask for. Thanks to all that did the planning and setup, thanks to Bob for the cool bumper stickers, Thanks to Bill for letting me run your 090:msp and PM me about the other saw consider it sold, thanks to the cook, could someone PM me a email or address so I can send her a special thankyou note. I better lay off the thank you's starting to sound like I won a Emmy or something. But I would like to say I will help out all I can and do whatever needed for next years GTG. A Lets get the photos and videos up asap. one more THANKS AGAIN :msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin:
C'mon, folks, where's the pics? Some of us want to see what we missed!
Cody and I had a great time! Cody questioned me about porting the entire ride home after he ran Gologit's Sling'red MS660. The food was great and of course I ate enough for two grown men. I liked the low key no ego attitude that everyone had. The GTG was very family friendly. Lots of nice saws and enough logs to make everyone happy.
When the vid of Gologit and me cutting down the fir is posted please take it with a grain of salt. I screwed up Gologit by not coordinating with him before we started. Then of course I'm deaf as a stump and I had earplugs in and Gologit's saw was running so I couldn't a dern word he was saying even though the crowd heard every word. At least Cody did because he told me I sucked afterward. And yep my backcut was way off level. At least Gologit's gunning cut was level.
Also for some of the newer cutters out there the area around the hinge wood was somewhat rotten, as expected, so the hinge broke on the off side. An area of wood about 10" by 8" just broke off as the nose of the bar was sweeping over. The rot combined with the lean broke it out. It really had no effect on the direction of the fall but had that tree been standing straight and if no wedge was set tight that may have pinched the bar or thrown the tree off the gun. A tree that bad looking and standing straight would have gotten a test bore.
Thanks to all the folks who put in the time and effort to make this event happen. I had a great time even if my C70 was being recalcitrant and I had to bug out early. It was interesting to see the variety of saws. There were some really impressive machines, but I was especially taken by the 024 with the 42" bar - what a concept!
I'm looking forward to next year.
Isn't that saw great? It responds to "tickling" and on the opposite end, will power on through stuff when needed. It has a nice burbling sound. The only thing that could make it better, would be some Hello Kitty stickers and bling.
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