Stupid Human Tricks

[rbtree]

Hey spacemule! Awesome post!

I had to read a few of your others to get more acquainted. Hope you stick around and share more of your knowledge and interests with us!

 

[Bradley]

I can barly keep up to him and i'm in my twenties and hes 50 190 lbs ripped, from climbing, he used to shimmy out of the bucket truck when he was fifteen to get that last limb and for the past 35 years i've NEVER SEEN A BUCKET TRUCK NEER OUR JOB.

So you're 20 something and have been watching your father not use a bucket for 35 years. Must have learned how to spell "neer" the same time you learned math!

 

[MasterBlaster]

One morning four of us were crammed into a pick-up, fixing to leave the shop. I was riding shotgun with a 1/2 pint of milk in my left hand, and a honey bun in my right. The guy next to me had his head turned to the left, talking to the driver.
As we were leaving, I started to wave (with my left hand) at somebody. I forgot about the milk. I launched a milk stream straight into the talking guy's ear.
He said, "HEEEEEEYYYYY!!!" We laughed all the way to the job.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Well , bud; you win; that was befitting the title of the thread! well mebbe not the human part; but ya win anyway!

Mas'rBlas'r fer President

 

[MasterBlaster]

We couldn't stop laughing. I mean I FILLED that guy's ear full of milk! We would all settle down, and stop laughing. Then someone would start, and we'd all be laughing again. It took that poor guy a while to get all that milk outta his ear.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

Cute story MB, but you're lucky you weren't riding with me, 'cus I would have already asked you what time it was and the milk would have been spilled on your lap.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yep! I probably woulda done that!

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Turn thesituation around MB;

That kinda depends on if watch was on inside of wrist or not on hand on your side doesn't it Mike?

 

[a_lopa]

i worked at a conctrete pipe plant for a few months,stripping and putting back together moulds using a big rattle gun common practice to use your finger to pull nut out of socket dumb ass i was working with accidently hit forwards and screwed it right up finger, boy i still hear his pain

 

[rbtree]

Originally posted by TheTreeSpyder
Turn thesituation around MB;

That kinda depends on if watch was on inside of wrist or not on hand on your side doesn't it Mike?

Leave it to you too complicate a good story. C'mon guys, cant we start a good tree fight?:alien:

Yesterday's drama wuz fun....

Spydey, go wash that sticky webby stuff off yerself.

 

[rb_in_va]

Originally posted by spacemule
This is an interesting post, gm. Most people with > 130 iqs that I know have a more sesquipedalian means of communication, and not nearly the quantity of typographical errors that you seem to inculcate into every blathering collection of slime which you may think of as a posting.

spacemule,
That's 130 Canadian. So what's the conversion formula for that? Anyone?

 

[blue]

felled the wrong tree once

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by blue
felled the wrong tree once

I did the almost same thing, only I had just cut my underbed. The bossman said put it back in, so I did. It was a water oak, DBH 15", located in a large back yard. This was maybe 10 years. I've been back since and the tree looks fine. You can barely see the piecut.
I wonder how structurally sound the tree REALLY is, because of that.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

Shigo tells a story about how he was an expert witness in a court case where somebody cut a wedge and realized it was the wrong tree so put the wedge back and didn't tell. The tree fell and killed a child.
Shigo was able to autopsy the tree and tell to the week when it was cut, the same week the tree service was working in the yard.
His side won and got tons of money, it didn't bring back the child though.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Good story!

 

[SilverBlue]

Sad story actually

 

[MasterBlaster]

Actually, this is the 2nd time I've told this story. And, it's the 2nd time I asked the stability question.
I guess you were offline then, Mike.

And it's still a good story if Shigo was able to prove what he proved.

 

[SilverBlue]

But if true could Shigo really tell the week it was cut?

Or duz something smell funny?

 

[Nickrosis]

I'll second that. He told me the same story when I was at his house. He was able to identify it according to the growth rings. He's pretty amazing....give him a temperature and precipation history and a wood sample and you're gonna get a whole lot more information about the tree than you ever expected.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

As he told the story, he said he could have gotten closer to the time the cut was made, had he needed to. I believe he could have.
The other sides expert, as he told it (and I recall), was unable to differentiate between cross-section slides of root and stem tissue, which discredited him.