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[Eccentric]

Cary those hornets are nasty bastards! Have few here luckily. Randy glad you got that vacation anyway, and yeah the heat takes a toll when cutting. But come monday I will be paving in it, and one year we were on a road called geysers road, on the town of Cloverdale side. It was 105 degrees, and we were paving in the full sun. No shade I drank about two and a half gallons of water just at work that day. Randy M what kind of snakes we talking on the beach 2 legged? Aaron I almost forgot about the scorpions, Cazadero they are in many tan oaks we cut. Almost always big and black. Had some close calls. We put in culverts in a dirt section on old Cazadero road one summer, they Cazadero side. Every rock or log we turned over had a scorpion. Never seen a area like that ever, they were everywhere. Jim nice saw I entered that contes, and shared it with friends. I like echo great saws.

This little bugger was at Bothe Napa Valley State Park. I had my eye out for rattlers, but hadn't thought about the scorpions until my close call. Got stung by an angry paper wasp a couple days ago. Was defending a nest that I was removing from inside the shell on the back of my defunct Ford diesel pickup. Got me on the top of the ring finger of my left hand...........between the two knuckles. That HURT. Shot him out of the air with some wasp spray shortly after. He's now 'sleeping' in the cap from the wasp spray can. Gonna pin him to the wall by my work bench.

 

[pioneerguy600]

I think i might have run over a rattler on my last trip out to Cali, while driving along a narrow paved road alongside Clear Lake a rather big snake shot out into the road directly in front of the van`s wheels, I didn`t even have time to hit the brakes. When I glanced in the rear view mirror I could see it flopping about on the road, a bicyclist that was following close behind did a really fast move to avoid it nearly going off the road but he did not and we both continued on without stopping to find out.

 

[Brian13]

We had our 100% chance of rain yesterday. Was supposed to start doing some tree work for a friend I work with but got rained out. So I lost out on half a day, but got a lot done today. Cut down one palm, had to spike up to set a rope because it was leaning pretty good towards the fence. One of the fatter palms I have seen, almost 24" at the base. Cut down 4 small oaks, climbed 4 trees to clean out some suckers and dead branches, and trimmed 10 palm trees. Still have more for another day, as it is now I am whooped. My friend took some pics, and hopefully he will send them to me tomorrow. Unfortunately the best times to take any pics everybody was working. I got one from the palm tree we cut down, came down perfect. Landed right where I wanted, not on the fence. I will post the rest when I get them.

We do have some rattlers here. The eastern diamondback and the pigmy, have run across the pigmies out hiking as well as cottonmouths. You dont see them too much because everything is getting way to developed.

 

[NHlocal]

.....vacation.....

Cary those hornets are nasty bastards! Have few here luckily. Randy glad you got that vacation anyway, and yeah the heat takes a toll when cutting. But come monday I will be paving in it, and one year we were on a road called geysers road, on the town of Cloverdale side. It was 105 degrees, and we were paving in the full sun. No shade I drank about two and a half gallons of water just at work that day. Randy M what kind of snakes we talking on the beach 2 legged? Aaron I almost forgot about the scorpions, Cazadero they are in many tan oaks we cut. Almost always big and black. Had some close calls. We put in culverts in a dirt section on old Cazadero road one summer, they Cazadero side. Every rock or log we turned over had a scorpion. Never seen a area like that ever, they were everywhere. Jim nice saw I entered that contes, and shared it with friends. I like echo great saws.

Ayuh, we've got mainly 3 or 4 different kinds of hornets around here and they all can get ugly real fast if you give 'em half a reason. Always gotta look out for hornets. :msp_ohmy: Well Norm, I actually did do a little work this morning. Sharpened a couple sets of lawn mower blades, like I keep saying, I have a hard time doin' nothin'. But I did take the family out window shopping for the whole afternoon, just got back from that. It's still raining hard here and 52[SUP]o[/SUP], I may fire that wood stove up one more time.....:hmm3grin2orange: Watch out for those critters that can hurt ya'. :msp_scared:
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NHlocal]

.....rain.....

We had our 100% chance of rain yesterday. Was supposed to start doing some tree work for a friend I work with but got rained out. So I lost out on half a day, but got a lot done today. Cut down one palm, had to spike up to set a rope because it was leaning pretty good towards the fence. One of the fatter palms I have seen, almost 24" at the base. Cut down 4 small oaks, climbed 4 trees to clean out some suckers and dead branches, and trimmed 10 palm trees. Still have more for another day, as it is now I am whooped. My friend took some pics, and hopefully he will send them to me tomorrow. Unfortunately the best times to take any pics everybody was working. I got one from the palm tree we cut down, came down perfect. Landed right where I wanted, not on the fence. I will post the rest when I get them.

We do have some rattlers here. The eastern diamondback and the pigmy, have run across the pigmies out hiking as well as cottonmouths. You dont see them too much because everything is getting way to developed.

Hey Brian, I'm listening to the rain beat down on my roof as I am typing. Planned on finishing up that Oak today, ah well. Like Norm said, it's good to take vacation day. :msp_tongue: Great pic, do those palms cut any different than other trees? Does the wood act any different? Landed right where you wanted, not on the fence. :hmm3grin2orange: That's good stuff. Sounds like you're staying pretty busy, that's good to hear. Looking forward to more pics. :msp_thumbup:
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Aaron changed that sig pic eh?Nice!! Jerry those bastards are fast, had rattlers out run me it seemed. Teach the bicyclist to tailgate eh? Brian good stuff, only done a few small palms myself. Pain kept having to pull the cover on my pole saw, those fibers kept plugging it up. Easy cutting though. Nice 044 that yours? Those pygmies can be bad I hear, danger wise. And cottonmouth is notorious for sure. Randy I have to stay busy myself. Jeanie and I went to some yard sales toady with the dogs. Nice ride nice relaxing day.

 

[Eccentric]

Aaron changed that sig pic eh?Nice!! Jerry those bastards are fast, had rattlers out run me it seemed. Teach the bicyclist to tailgate eh? Brian good stuff, only done a few small palms myself. Pain kept having to pull the cover on my pole saw, those fibers kept plugging it up. Easy cutting though. Nice 044 that yours? Those pygmies can be bad I hear, danger wise. And cottonmouth is notorious for sure. Randy I have to stay busy myself. Jeanie and I went to some yard sales toady with the dogs. Nice ride nice relaxing day.

Thanks Norm. That's what my 900D looked like when it was new...

 

[Joe46]

This little bugger was at Bothe Napa Valley State Park. I had my eye out for rattlers, but hadn't thought about the scorpions until my close call. Got stung by an angry paper wasp a couple days ago. Was defending a nest that I was removing from inside the shell on the back of my defunct Ford diesel pickup. Got me on the top of the ring finger of my left hand...........between the two knuckles. That HURT. Shot him out of the air with some wasp spray shortly after. He's now 'sleeping' in the cap from the wasp spray can. Gonna pin him to the wall by my work bench.

Got hit twice today by paper wasp. Evidently they had a nest on the underside of the canvas tarp I cover my log splitter with. Went to take it off and they got me. Once I figured out where they were coming from I terminated the little buggers.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Aaron changed that sig pic eh?Nice!! Jerry those bastards are fast, had rattlers out run me it seemed. Teach the bicyclist to tailgate eh? Brian good stuff, only done a few small palms myself. Pain kept having to pull the cover on my pole saw, those fibers kept plugging it up. Easy cutting though. Nice 044 that yours? Those pygmies can be bad I hear, danger wise. And cottonmouth is notorious for sure. Randy I have to stay busy myself. Jeanie and I went to some yard sales toady with the dogs. Nice ride nice relaxing day.

We don`t have to deal with snakes over here on this coast, I sure don`t like them but would not kill one for no reason. That poor guy on the bike looked really scared when that snake popped up behind the van, he dis everything he could to stay away from it. He was following rather close behind as we were descending a rather steep grade and I was not going over 40 mph. Think I would rather deal with the bears than snakes and scorpions.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Nice Aaron Joe those wasps are nasty got me before. Jerry never really thought about no snakes in Canada. Makes sense though. I don't hunt for those rattlers, but if they find me it's usually not there best choice. For a little creature with a little brain they are aggressive, and seems like they can be smart too. I knew many logger faller friends here who run into them in the woods. Between them ,and yellow jackets some areas were tough on those guys.

 

[Brian13]

Hey Brian, I'm listening to the rain beat down on my roof as I am typing. Planned on finishing up that Oak today, ah well. Like Norm said, it's good to take vacation day. :msp_tongue: Great pic, do those palms cut any different than other trees? Does the wood act any different? Landed right where you wanted, not on the fence. :hmm3grin2orange: That's good stuff. Sounds like you're staying pretty busy, that's good to hear. Looking forward to more pics. :msp_thumbup:
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

Day off? I find no matter how bad I want a day off, when it gets here I end up bored out of my mind and feel even more tired then when working LOL. The palms are a lot messier than most trees, they are real fibrous and soft. The one I cut down was dead and mushy, didnt even like spiking it, was like putting your spikes into cork. Even when live the wood is week and makes a poor hinge. The frawns will clog up your saw bad and pack your filter with garbage. They can have rats, snakes, squirrels, and roaches living in them as well as wasp nests on the underside of the palm frawns. Just a all around dirty nasty tree.

Aaron changed that sig pic eh?Nice!! Jerry those bastards are fast, had rattlers out run me it seemed. Teach the bicyclist to tailgate eh? Brian good stuff, only done a few small palms myself. Pain kept having to pull the cover on my pole saw, those fibers kept plugging it up. Easy cutting though. Nice 044 that yours? Those pygmies can be bad I hear, danger wise. And cottonmouth is notorious for sure. Randy I have to stay busy myself. Jeanie and I went to some yard sales toady with the dogs. Nice ride nice relaxing day.

Yeah they are nasty, and clog up a pole saw quick. Yes that is my 044, one of my main work saws with the 200t. I put a 046 p/c on it and it is awesome! It still has a few tanks to go before its broken in to. The pigmies are bad, they will mess you day up. Some of the pics I have seen are horrible, skin bursting from the swelling with the skin looking a deep dark almost purple red. Worst part is they are small and easy to miss. And the cottonmouths are not as bad as they are made out to be. Still wouldnt mess with one if I didnt have to though.

Like I said earlier the best time to take pics we were all busy working. But got a couple more.

One of the few tangles of the day.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Nice pictures Brian, looking good man. 046 p&c should be a real good strong work saw, very nice.

 

[NHlocal]

Great pics Brian,
You look like you're gettin' pretty comfortable up in the tree, nice! :msp_thumbup: Ayuh, I'm not so good with "days off", unless it's a "recovery day", sick, hurt, or just plain beat up. I'm always thinking about finishing whatever job I'm on or how I'm going to do the next one coming up. Thanks for the insight on the palms, I like to learn about stuff like that, we don't get too many palms up here in New Hampsha'. :hmm3grin2orange: The 200t is a great saw, I couldn't get along without mine. Watch out for the critters.....
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[Rounder]

Hi Norm, Brian, all you others. More great pics, always interesting to see arborist type stuff. Don't know much about it, looks like you guys have to buy even more crap than me!

Supposed to have a helicopter on Monday, so I'll bring my camera, and maybe drive up the crick after work and snap some pics if they actually show up and actually fly a log......believe it when I see it.

Take care, be safe - Sam

 

[pioneerguy600]

Nice Aaron Joe those wasps are nasty got me before. Jerry never really thought about no snakes in Canada. Makes sense though. I don't hunt for those rattlers, but if they find me it's usually not there best choice. For a little creature with a little brain they are aggressive, and seems like they can be smart too. I knew many logger faller friends here who run into them in the woods. Between them ,and yellow jackets some areas were tough on those guys.

Poisinous snakes are almost nonexistant in Canada, only a couple of places like Southern Ontario and the very Southern parts of our prarie Provinces may have rattlers. Lethbridge in Southern Alberta is one place I heard they have rattlers. Around my area there are none at all, we have some non poisinous snakes that are harmless to humans. Now hornets and wasps we have plenty of and anyone working in the woods runs into them many times a season, they hurt like heck.

 

[Brian13]

It does make a good work saw Norm. I have been wanting to take it back apart and try porting it, but I am afraid I might make a paperweight out of it:hmm3grin2orange:. And Randy I really like my 200t as well. I havnt put fuel in the 192t since I got the 200t up and running. Been living on the wild side lately and took the leash of the 200t for a short clip. Havnt got tangled, but I am afraid I will drop it LOL. Hey Sam, how are things over there? Still real busey? Looking forward to the helicopter pics. There is lot of stuff to buy if your going to climb. And it seems like there is always something you need LOL.

 

[Rounder]

Pretty slammed Brian, 5 days a week and they always want six. #### that. I got to go fishing for an hour today, that's about the best I can manage anymore for fun.

Seems like any work that involves chainsaws involves a fair bit of coin......probably be buying another one in a month or so...

 

[NHlocal]

It does make a good work saw Norm. I have been wanting to take it back apart and try porting it, but I am afraid I might make a paperweight out of it:hmm3grin2orange:. And Randy I really like my 200t as well. I havnt put fuel in the 192t since I got the 200t up and running. Been living on the wild side lately and took the leash of the 200t for a short clip. Havnt got tangled, but I am afraid I will drop it LOL. Hey Sam, how are things over there? Still real busey? Looking forward to the helicopter pics. There is lot of stuff to buy if your going to climb. And it seems like there is always something you need LOL.

.....there is ALWAYS something else you need.....:hmm3grin2orange:

.....I've got a pretty good leash, with all the cutting I have done I haven't had to unclip it yet(I'm also scared I'll drop it :msp_scared: ).....

 

[parrisw]

Poisinous snakes are almost nonexistant in Canada, only a couple of places like Southern Ontario and the very Southern parts of our prarie Provinces may have rattlers. Lethbridge in Southern Alberta is one place I heard they have rattlers. Around my area there are none at all, we have some non poisinous snakes that are harmless to humans. Now hornets and wasps we have plenty of and anyone working in the woods runs into them many times a season, they hurt like heck.

Hey Jerry there is Rattlers in the interior of BC, startled me the first time I saw the sign!!!!! Gets pretty hot there in the summer months.

 

[Rounder]

Hey Jerry there is Rattlers in the interior of BC, startled me the first time I saw the sign!!!!! Gets pretty hot there in the summer months.

Amazing where they crop up. Seems like they only need a month or two of good summer living to call a place home.