whadja do today?

[tree md]

I love to tinker in the shop. I spend a lot of hours in there.

Yesterday I made a mailbox for a friend down the street who is dying of cancer. She hasn't said so but you can tell she is preparing for the end. Anyway, somebody had run over her mailbox and she was just getting her mail delivered to her office in town and hadn't replaced it. Now she is home bound and needs to be able to receive her mail there now.

I am what you would call a jack leg carpenter. I love to work with wood but I am not a pro by any stretch of the imagination. I have never worked as a professional carpenter but have rebuilt some decks and done repair work for people. I love to have a chance to get my tools out and see what I can do. It was raining yesterday so it was a perfect day to work in the shop. I made the mailbox and put a post in the ground close enough where my friend can get her mail without having to leave her car. The earlier rain made for some easy digging with the post hole diggers. It was a relaxing day of keeping my hands busy doing something I enjoy. Just missed drinking a beer at the end of the day. I am laying off right now for health reasons and I miss my beer at the end of the day. I even have a fridge in the shop where I used to keep my beer and it's empty, empty, empty...

 

[Mikecutstrees]

We took down a 28" white pine. Sandwiched between power lines two fences and over a shed. Then Talltreeclimber pruned a few branches off a maple. All went smooth. Had to get out of the bucket for the last few branches and the top of the pine. All went smooth. Then after work I climbed a 20" Norway and limbed it out blew out the top and dropped the stick. Was a nice little job. Came home and fueled the fuso and dumped the chips.Taking tomorrow off. Have a happy easter everyone! Mike

 

[EdenT]

I love to tinker in the shop. I spend a lot of hours in there.

Yesterday I made a mailbox for a friend down the street who is dying of cancer. She hasn't said so but you can tell she is preparing for the end. Anyway, somebody had run over her mailbox and she was just getting her mail delivered to her office in town and hadn't replaced it. Now she is home bound and needs to be able to receive her mail there now.

Good use of the day MD. Best wishes for your friend.

 

[jefflovstrom]

We just had a mild earthquake, freaked the kids out.
Jeff

 

[tree md]

6.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA MEXICO, THEN A 2.3 IN COBB CA, 4.0 IN COBB CA AGAIN, 3.4 IN JULIAN, 4.5 IN JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS AND SEVERAL MINI AFTERSHOCKS IN THE LAST HOUR

That's copied and pasted from a friend's post on another website Jeff. He works a 911 center in Seattle where they have seismograph equipment.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Thanks, thats cool info. Felt kinda big here in San Marcos.
Jeff

 

[tree md]

33 minutes ago:

5.0 IMPERIAL CALI JUST NOW. HOLD ON HUYA

8 minutes ago:

4.3 IN CALEXICO CA

 

[treevet]

My daughter is in Cardiff by the Sea and we just heard about it.

 

[talltreeclimber]

We took down a 28" white pine. Sandwiched between power lines two fences and over a shed. Then Talltreeclimber pruned a few branches off a maple. All went smooth. Had to get out of the bucket for the last few branches and the top of the pine. All went smooth. Then after work I climbed a 20" Norway and limbed it out blew out the top and dropped the stick. Was a nice little job. Came home and fueled the fuso and dumped the chips.Taking tomorrow off. Have a happy easter everyone! Mike

thow up those pics i took

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Thanks, thats cool info. Felt kinda big here in San Marcos.
Jeff

http://quake.usgs.gov/recent/index.html

This site will give you quake maps and shake maps that are real time

The data at the top gives you the date/time and location, you can get several different overlays for the map. This one is instrumentality, there is a ground acceleration...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/
here you can see all the quakes on the globe, and zoom in to an area. The legend is to the right and it shows by magnitude and time as in last hour, day or week. Which show how the activity clusters are moving around.

This is the historic seismisitiy map

Geology is one of my other minor fascinations.

 

[mikewhite85]

I didn't even feel it in Los Angeles. I was at Easter Dinner and playing with my girlfriend's little cousins outside when it happened. Apparently the people sitting inside felt it though.

About a year ago I was in a jacaranda in OC and the client runs out and asks if I was ok. I had no clue there was even an earthquake! I think it ended up being a 3.1. I have lived in LA for two years now and still haven't felt one.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Today i took down 5 medium-large cottonwoods, I set up the Wraptor to work my way up the first tree, tied in, set blocks and rigging line so we could run the GRCS to rig the other four off of the center tree. Went up the other ones with the wrpator and got them all on the ground with 4 hours in the tree, and minimal ground damage.

Also there was not as much raking to do since I could tip-tie the tops and rig long sections out. Not a whole lot of shock loading to knock twigs, buds and deadwood all over the yard.

Paul Cox did a good one with that drill adaptation. I been wondering, for a few years, if I could adapt a heavy-duty cordless drill to haul my lardazz up.

 

[TreeTarget]

Today, the trunk of one tree was milled into nice pieces by the boss...will make nice tables and such later...Loaded the rest (2 chunk loads, maybe 3, I lose count...and two brush loads. Just got over last week's soreness, now comes more blessings...
Would much rather the soreness of work, than the headaches of psuedo-work.
I know, I know...no job is more important than another, but papercuts and desks and ties and cliques are no match to a free fitness regimine, working outside and not only cutting things up, but also making functional art from the destruction.

C'est la vie

 

[treevet]

Today, the trunk of one tree was milled into nice pieces by the boss...will make nice tables and such later...Loaded the rest (2 chunk loads, maybe 3, I lose count...and two brush loads. Just got over last week's soreness, now comes more blessings...
Would much rather the soreness of work, than the headaches of psuedo-work.
I know, I know...no job is more important than another, but papercuts and desks and ties and cliques are no match to a free fitness regimine, working outside and not only cutting things up, but also making functional art from the destruction.

C'est la vie

You may have some undeniable potential here TreeTarget. You are starting to talk like a tree man. Yin and Yang. Wax on wax off grasshopper.

 

[tree md]

Easy money today. Had to spray and fertilize. Took me about 2 hours. At right at $375 an hour I'll take it. Wish I could do that everyday...

The big tree is on the agenda for tomorrow. Finally got a day where I don't have to deal with the winds blowing 40 MPH, rain or having to deal with Doctors. So it's on tomorrow. Got another bigun to do Friday.

 

[tree MDS]

Good luck tomorrow man.

 

[TreeTarget]

Dealt with poison ivy...

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Algebra homework, about 50 graphing problems and exam corrections

 

[Mikecutstrees]

Oak removal Wednesday

Here is a picture of the half way point of the red oak we removed on wed. We had it down, cut up, stump ground and topsoil and seed finished in just over 8 hours. An excellent job all in all. Only annoying part was the guy who was supposed to get the wood thought he could take a whole 30" oak in one trip in his dump trailer. Made cleanup a bit harder working around the wood etc. But it was a good day..... Mike

 

[tree md]

I got everything out from over the house on my tree. Very tedious. Having to take it in small bites. Very small landing zone so I had to wait for every thing to be cut and cleared before I could lower another one so my guys aren't tripping over it. Having to put a tag line on every piece to make sure it don't swing into the lines. I could have finished today but it would have been dark by the time I left and I don't like hauling at night. I decided to finish the spar tomorrow. Also got a stump ground.