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Had my boys birthday party today. (At mom and dads) either walks up to me and goes "mom wants us to trim up some of her trees." Which means she want me to trim up her trees lol. Been planning on that for a while, guess I need to sneak that into the schedule.
Had a good time with the family at the party, seldom we all get together aside birthday's and holiday.
 
This is why I keep coming back to the ArboristSite.
Chipper1, thank you very much.
Definitely trying this on the next jug of bar oil.
Welcome, it works well. Another advantage is the oil doesn't usually dribble down the side of the bottle, which keeps the bottle cleaner.
I also do this with other oils/fluids, such as oil for the cars, I can fill them with a gallon jug without spilling at all most times.
 
Got the cherry down yesterday, still need to get the stump cut down, this will most likely take a bit a filing as there is a lot of debris in the crotch of the 5 trees that were there, I'm amazed the cherry was so solid near the ground.
3 logs, 3 buckets of rounds, some odds for the odd crate, few pieces that went on the bonfire, and a bunch of ivy that got tossed in the woods.
There was another type of ivy I don't recall seeing before, it has some gnarly thorns on it. They were spread out more than most at probably 4-5" between them, very fine like a needle and about 3/8" long.


 
My Cousin has a Model 94 in 32-40, used to be my Uncle's. Has a 26" round barrel. I can't recall anyone ever shooting it! I think ammo is handload only.
I've got two unopened boxes. Second shelf from bottom, on either side of the red Savage box.
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Lets see your fall foliage pics. We're getting close to peak here.

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Not really foliage, but one of the most amazing natural things I've ever seen. We were coming home from WV, in bright sunshine, the rain was moving away, and ahead of us. We came around a bend on the highway and saw this very bright, vivid rainbow. I didn't think you could actually see where a rainbow started and ended. In the pics, the rainbow was dancing on the leaves of the trees only a few hundred yards away. You could see individual clumps of leaves in the different colors. Then we kept going around the top of the hill, and in the left lane ahead of us, you could see the colors coming off the asphalt. After I put the pic on the computer and blew it up, I saw it was a double rainbow also.
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Got the cherry down yesterday
I see you hired Safety the Clown to do your cutting for you. That guy has eye protection, ear protection, helmet, long pants, gloves, (OK and maybe crocs), as opposed to your typical pajama pants getup. :laughing:
 
I see you hired Safety the Clown to do your cutting for you. That guy has eye protection, ear protection, helmet, long pants, gloves, (OK and maybe crocs), as opposed to your typical pajama pants getup. :laughing:
What do you expect, I found the guy on Craigslist :laughing: .
Today he's heading out to cur the stump down, he has is 8" Redwing loggers on lol.
Lets see if we can get this done in one filing :).
 
G'day fellers, I spent the weekend down at my parents' place. I took a ranger load of spotted gum down then Dad and I went out scrounging. I have a new phone and the pics are larger so I'm going to type this slowly so I don't bung up everyone's bandwidth.

This was only a few km away in a designated firewood collection area. Looks a bit of a mess, and it was. A good sized Silvertop ash (e. sieberi) had come down near the track.

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The pic doesn't do the length of the trunk justice, but it was long and straight much like the trees in the background once you get to it.

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Picked up a couple of cubes out of the tops before getting to the trunk. Here's the old man.

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Then I started to work my way back along towards the main trunk, and there's a good 60ft or more behind Limby there.

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TBC...
 
Here I am, maintaining my lordosis while manouevring this big chunk to lift, I flipped it onto the log so I wasn't picking it up off the ground. People laugh at my old yellow cricket hat but it is big enough not to squish my fat head and also difficult to lose.

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Many cubes worth of log left, it was about 25 inches at the point I finished at.

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Dad filled the trailer a second time, the wood already mostly split and debarked.

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And I tossed this plus a bit more in the ute. There were a few big bits in the back of Dad's Land Rover as well.

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About a cord all up or close enough. :)
 
Found (and killed)my first lantern fly Saturday. Was hoping it was a fluke as it was right next to the road and hoped it fell off of a vehicle. It was kind of lethargic even though it wasn't cold. Anyway relocated 3 more today. I have some of the recommended sprays in my arsenal so I hope I can keep them somewhat under control.
 
Found (and killed)my first lantern fly Saturday. Was hoping it was a fluke as it was right next to the road and hoped it fell off of a vehicle. It was kind of lethargic even though it wasn't cold. Anyway relocated 3 more today. I have some of the recommended sprays in my arsenal so I hope I can keep them somewhat under control.
Those little tree killers have been in my area for a few years now. I hadn't seen many till last year, now you can't get away from the bastards. Makes me miss stink bugs at least they left the trees alone.
 

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