The "Not So Pro" discussion thread...of course Pros are welcome!

[bustedup]

I dont know . Yeah it is circumference.

LOL just 13' dia is kinda big lol .....13' cir be about 4' dia (slightly bigger)

 

[bustedup]

be safe Jr catch ya tomoz .....ok

 

[rwoods]

My dad regularly brought us rattles home. He skinned a few. He respected them but like most he wanted everyone of them dead. My mother is the one who drilled fear into us. I had nightmares until my late twenties about being trapped by rattlers and cotton mouths. It didn't help that while I was in first grade a six grader got bit by a rattle snake just a few feet off school grounds and almost lost an arm due to the venum and the tourniquet. Nor that we were taught beginnning in first grade how to use a tourniquet and the now determined useless snake bite kit where you cut an "x" over each puncture and suck the poison out. Copperheads seem to be the most predominant poisonous snake here in upper East Tennessee. Timber rattlers next. Plenty of rat "black" snakes as well.

Ron

 

[jrcat]

be safe Jr catch ya tomoz .....ok

Im sure someone will tell me how moronic I am for that mistake on the size of that tree. ohwell personally I dont care.

 

[treeslayer2003]

Im sure someone will tell me how moronic I am for that mistake on the size of that tree. ohwell personally I dont care.

it no big deal man, jus a word malfunction. we know what ya meant

 

[treeslayer2003]

yup, pop had me scared ta death of snakes. till cut a piece full of copperheads. I had ta get over it or quit, killed a dozen with a pine limb. I aint too scared of um no more but I don't like um.

 

[rwoods]

TC, my younger brother (who wanted to be a cowboy but ended that career because he was spending more time on a treeskidder pulling a chopper in the scrub than on a horse) brought home a young wild boar that they had trapped. I helped put it in a large dog pen made out of woven horse fencing. It would charge the fence repeatedly straight at you. It didn't seem to mind its busted snout. Even a crazed wild cow will back off after a run or two but not this thing. It upended a 100 pound dog house and rolled it down its back in one of its charges. Tossed a 12" by 4' pine log like it was nothing. I believe I would rather take on a bear twice its weight. Ron

 

[northmanlogging]

TC, my younger brother (who wanted to be a cowboy but ended that career because he was spending more time on a treeskidder pulling a chopper in the scrub than on a horse) brought home a young wild boar that they had trapped. I helped put it in a large dog pen made out of woven horse fencing. It would charge the fence repeatedly straight at you. It didn't seem to mind its busted snout. Even a crazed wild cow will back off after a run or two but not this thing. It upended a 100 pound dog house and rolled it down its back in one of its charges. Tossed a 12" by 4' pine log like it was nothing. I believe I would rather take on a bear twice its weight. Ron

gimme a tin hat a spear, and turn me loose on it always wanted to go medieval boar hunting, crazy I know but if ya pulled it of and lived to tell about it...

 

[roberte]

gimme a tin hat a spear, and turn me loose on it always wanted to go medieval boar hunting, crazy I know but if ya pulled it of and lived to tell about it...

Try it with a gun first, 230 lbs on the hoof, last one I shot.

 

[RandyMac]

 

[roberte]

Nice, yes sir.
The hand gun pig hunt.
Then comes the knife

 

[bitzer]

This is interesting...the largest known living soft maple is 16 ft in diameter at chest height.

Acer rubrum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's circumference. Its around 5ft diameter. I'll bet theres bigger out there. I cut soft maple all the time. A lot on this job. Its rare to cut a big one and have it sound with a light heart. Bushels up like a sum##### though.

 

[bitzer]

This count for co-dominant?

Clint- sometimes its a lot faster to throw a conventional (Saginaw) face in. Especially in big hard maple or anything with a big swelled butt and high root flare.

View attachment 299034

 

[ropensaddle]

Try it with a gun first, 230 lbs on the hoof, last one I shot.

I have a friend that hunts them with knife his biggest was 500 lbs! They bay em with cataholla and pits then two of them grab the hind legs and walk em into trailer or the third cuts its throat with his Arkansas tooth pick.

 

[jrcat]

Treesslayer delete you PM's

 

[jrcat]

I dont know TS Still cant send you a pm.

 

[treeslayer2003]

darn bolt fingers don't always do as brain tells um

 

[jrcat]

darn bolt fingers don't always do as brain tells um

I hear ya there.. I've got big hands... they dont always do what I'm tellin them lol

 

[jrcat]

Mornin Roberte ..... have you cup of JW coffee yet?

 

[roberte]

Mornin Roberte ..... have you cup of JW coffee yet?

good day sir,
not yet but, working on it :msp_smile: