supersticious

[treeman82]

How many of you guys are supersticious? I've been up in trees and something will happen that makes me wonder if I should be making this next cut. For example, the saw will stall out, or the oil cap will come off, or just really anything to stop me from making the cut for a few seconds. It makes me think; is there a higher power that doesn't want me to make this next cut? I make the cut and all goes well, but for some reason that thought always crosses my mind.

 

[P_woozel]

When a Raven, or Crow lands in a tree I'm removing, especially whenit a dead nasty one I wonder if its all cool. So far so good, But yeah a thought passes from time to time.

 

[ORclimber]

Ya. Sometimes things happen that make me wonder... Like last month when the tranny went out in the topkick. Then the transfer case went out in the spare the same week. The clutch went in the chuckn' duck month before. Then when the new tranny came in the input shaft was 3/4" too long. Then when the mechanic got the tranny in the rear seal leaked, the speedometer didn't work, and something was making funny noises in the tranny. Then a week after all the little problems were fixed reverse went out while dumping. Took it back in an apparantly a pin had fallen out. Wonder if my mechanic is superstitious.

 

[Nickrosis]

Have you considered an office job?

 

[Stumper]

Superstitious? No. If the saw stalls I think that I need to adjust the carb. I certainly believe in a higher power. My Dad has an interesting story from his logging days. Cutting hardwooods. Had a big oak leave a hanger in another tree. He looked at it and proceeded to buck the tree. Suddenly the saw died and he heard the widowmaker break loose. Ran. It hit where he had been standing. The saw restarted on the first pull.:angel:

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

No; i think it is bad luck to be supersticious.

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by TheTreeSpyder
No; i think it is bad luck to be supersticious.

Me too, tho I do think that we need to respect our intuitions and closely observe patterns around us.

Superstition is taking that too far, imo; anticipating bad outcomes based on coincidences or surreal-seeming events or supposititions is negative programming. Believed-in prophecies of gloom and doom can be self-fulfilling.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I put as much stock into superstition as I do voodoo.

 

[Stumper]

Butch, Great! Did you just feel a twinge in your right leg followed by a burning sensation in your left forearm?

Hehehehe.........

 

[MasterBlaster]

HEY!

 

[Gypo Logger]

I was in a bush last year that had ghosts for sure. This wasn't only my finding, but also the women that lived there. I will elabourate another time.
The property, once owned by Dow Corning had "OW" spelled in large letters in European Larch within a Red Pine stand. Turns out the OW means "Open Wood". This OW ocupied at least 2 acres and could be readily seem from the sky and from a rise that ajoined it where I was harvesting some pretty fancy Maple.
Some strange and weird stuff went on in there.
John

 

[Stumper]

John, Did any of the strange and weird stuff happen when you weren't there?

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by netree
Does this mean you're not religious?

No, it means that my religion does not involve gloom and doom. It's the positive vibrations that are life-sustaining; attention to evil only feeds it.

OK Erik, now you know about my politics and religion. We're intimate enough now I think.