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

[roberte]

Wow, you guys move fast

Coffee for tramp too. Anyone else?

 

[twochains]

slayer- our persimmon doesn't get near big enough to saw in these parts. I love persimmons though. But seriously, the persimmons here will die of old age at 8in DBH. I figure that is about the average size here.

Later

 

[treeslayer2003]

nah, I about gone too. hey northman catch ya later

 

[northmanlogging]

drunk safely, let the bed bugs bite...

 

[roberte]

Holy crap men! I'm gonna turn into a punkin in a bit! I have some serious chicken kickin' to do in the morning!

Have a good evening and hold the fort down... one good thing about rollin this thread soooo fast is that RandyMac being gone and all...he can't catch back up and set us on fire! LOL!

Later Men!

Don't be so sure about that, randymac know where were at.
Newspaper rolled around a 404

 

[northmanlogging]

Thor's stubby hammer 43 likes in one day... I feel like Richard Petty on a good day...:msp_rolleyes:

 

[HuskStihl]

For the most part I have, why lie about it. Something I said makes you think otherwise, with all due respect.

No otherwise thinking. I said what I meant, and I meant what I said.
Except for the bitzer crack, but guys like him, TB, Pac and the others are pretty much in a different league. Pretty cool they usually put guys like Bob and Randy in a still differenter league!

 

[roberte]

Northman, did you make it over to demming for the show?

 

[northmanlogging]

yup, ate too much at the bbq, got a nice sunburn, and had a wonderfull time. Thinking I might have to camp next year and try my hand at the iron man, and build a diesel powered hot saw that runs off biodiesel, with the injector pump turned way up so it billows thick clouds of black smoke, gonna name it captain planet...

 

[rwoods]

Today tulip poplar or yellow poplar is used primarily for furniture. It does not stand up to the weather very well. It is a "soft" hardwood. However, old growth poplar heartwood is tough stuff which is likely from what the mentioned mule barn was constructed. Our old mountain house was sided in yellow poplar heartwood for its first 100 years. It is still on there but has now been covered over for almost 50 years with cedar shingles.

American Chestnut is still grown, however before it can mature the blight kills it. I believe there are a few large ones that survived. American chestnut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I know on our mountain farm there were OG Chestnut stumps that would make RandyMac proud. I bought my father some of the then new hybirds 25 years ago. I keep two but they died the first year. I don't where he planted his.

Ron

 

[RandyMac]

Don't be so sure about that, randymac know where were at.
Newspaper rolled around a 404

 

[bustedup]

As I have said before in another thread...I have an entire bedroom set and a huge desk and church pew all made from "wormy chestnut". All solid wood no veneer stuff! Desk takes 4 people to move it. Beautiful wood for sure! Gotta be worth something, I have had it since I was like...hell...born I guess!

There was a town in Kentucky, it was an amish community and they had a very large surplus of "wormy chestnut", I wish I could remember the name. The American chestnut resided in Kentucky evidently before they were wiped out.

Guys...what are the chestnuts you can buy and roast? I have seen those trees before in Benton, Ky. They have a very prickly husk kind of like a Chinky pin tree.

TC the chestnuts I guess your talking about are sweet chestnut ......the Horse chestnut is poisonous. the Horse chestnut here are used for conkers lol It's a game use google it'll explain lol

 

[jrcat]

Look alive ye cackhanded deck apes. The RandyMac is near.....

 

[jrcat]

Thor's stubby hammer 43 likes in one day... I feel like Richard Petty on a good day...:msp_rolleyes:

You've had that many likes in one day? .. Then again I havent either... so.. congrats lol ..

 

[HuskStihl]

RandyMac,

You either need to sharpen that chain a whole lot better, or consider a different muffler mod! What you got goin' on there is a fire (fahr) hazard!

 

[twochains]

Sweet!!! RandyMac is in da house! Hey RandyMac, did ya see my pic I posted of my pistol?? Does that make us like brothers er sumthin'???LOL Just jokin with ya! :msp_w00t:

 

[treeslayer2003]

hey, whats up? rain....rain.....rain over here

 

[twochains]

Send some my way slayer! Man I fricken busted tail today! I got in some decent pine and way laid the set and got the load gone. Then started in on another and was told to cut pine...I did. I cut and cut getting real close to another full load, turned around 90* and my shade was all cut out...breeze stopped...then I stopped sweating! Kept the hammer down then somehow my heart was in my hard hat thumping like a train bearing down on me. I stuck my saw and had to pack out...skidder OP nowhere in site :rolleyes2:! Hike all the way out to the landing and the truck driver was back loading up pine poles. He dropped a bombshell on me....pine yard shut down!!! ####! All the long haulers who normally haul the pine down South are too busy hauling chicken to the PNW...of all places! Don't you guys have chicken houses???

So burning up I pack back in cut my saw out and hike an additional 1/2 mile and set in on a great set of scrag. I'm tore down! Got home and jumped in the shower easing it down to nearly full on cold and the water coming off my back was warm! 90* all week! Yeah!! Summer is here...ticks...dust...major heat... awesome!

Still had 3 loads leave today and got my tally from last week...should I even bother saying I won yet again??? Not even a challenge! I beat the "B" crew by 7 loads! I wish like Hell I could run against some faster guys...I would like to try some of that "bushelling" the Pro guys do! At least it would give me something to shoot for.

 

[bustedup]

You hang tight where ya at bro your doing fine

 

[jrcat]

Send some my way slayer! Man I fricken busted tail today! I got in some decent pine and way laid the set and got the load gone. Then started in on another and was told to cut pine...I did. I cut and cut getting real close to another full load, turned around 90* and my shade was all cut out...breeze stopped...then I stopped sweating! Kept the hammer down then somehow my heart was in my hard hat thumping like a train bearing down on me. I stuck my saw and had to pack out...skidder OP nowhere in site :rolleyes2:! Hike all the way out to the landing and the truck driver was back loading up pine poles. He dropped a bombshell on me....pine yard shut down!!! ####! All the long haulers who normally haul the pine down South are too busy hauling chicken to the PNW...of all places! Don't you guys have chicken houses???

So burning up I pack back in cut my saw out and hike an additional 1/2 mile and set in on a great set of scrag. I'm tore down! Got home and jumped in the shower easing it down to nearly full on cold and the water coming off my back was warm! 90* all week! Yeah!! Summer is here...ticks...dust...major heat... awesome!

Still had 3 loads leave today and got my tally from last week...should I even bother saying I won yet again??? Not even a challenge! I beat the "B" crew by 7 loads! I wish like Hell I could run against some faster guys...I would like to try some of that "bushelling" the Pro guys do! At least it would give me something to shoot for.

Good job man! Me and TS are water bound though..... cant do diddly boot jack with out steppin in mud up to the waists ....