Black & White Ebony

Limbs, Limbs, Limbs.... 

Nice Kirk  
What's that dark thin lam in the center of the stack from the tips coming back to the riser?

Quote from: Mad Max on November 14, 2025, 03:52:54 PMNice Kirk  
What's that dark thin lam in the center of the stack from the tips coming back to the riser?

Bear paw stable core. .015 thickness

These are updated pics of my head injury almost 2 months ago(Sept. 24)

Seems to be healing fine.

Thanks, Bue. I have to give thanks and credit to the 2 PAs that stitched me up. I think they knew what they were doing.

What happened Pat? Did the wife go after ya with a cast iron frying pan? 
I'll bet that rang your bell pretty good....

Kirk, a cast iron skillet couldn't have been much worse. And the bell is still ringing after almost 2 months. I've got a call into my Dr. today to see about the dizziness.

Quote from: Pat B on November 18, 2025, 09:52:38 AMKirk, a cast iron skillet couldn't have been much worse. And the bell is still ringing after almost 2 months. I've got a call into my Dr. today to see about the dizziness.

So how did you get that knot on your gourd?

Well today i had a different type of wood working adventure. I finally tuned up my big saw and started a bit of wood cutting for the woodstove. But I didn't last long out there. The saw was running great, but the damn chain was seriously dull. I tried touching it up with a file out there, but the file was the wrong size. It cut better, but wasn't blowing chips like it should. 

This Husky 266 XP will run a 3' bar no problem, but i run a 28" bar for more power. When its good and sharp it will pull 3/4" chips and run though a 3' log like butter with a chisel tooth chain. So i quit early and brought it back in the shop where i found the right sized file and got a nice edge on those teeth. I'm ready to blow some chips now!





Funny thing is that this saw sure seems heavier than it used to... LOL

Kirk, I was cutting a 20" red oak that hung up in smaller trees. I waited a few days before going back to it. After studying the situation I slowly removed the smaller trees that hung up the oak and it gradually lowered to the ground. As I was reducing the oak to firewood size logs a dead pine about 20' behind and not affected by what I was cutting broke in half and a piece about 8" in diameter and 12' or so long fell and hit me. When the bells stopped ringing I drove my truck back home on the other side of our property then my wife drove me to the hospital. The funny thing is I stored my saw, oil and gas under my wheel barrow like I do when cutting wood and don't remember doing it.




This is the culprit that hit me

Quote from: Kirkll on November 18, 2025, 09:05:04 PMSo how did you get that knot on your gourd?

You guys have short memories, go back to post #140.

Good to see you're healing up, Pat.


Mark

Man you are a lucky guy.....They call those widow makers for good reason. Falling dead trees is seriously dangerous. I've had a few that the top portion snapped off and came very close to getting me before. I hate messing with dead trees.

This pile of logs I'm working on now were brought down piece at a time by a tree removal company the electric company uses. Didn't cost me a dime either. Being right along side the road, and power lines across the street, the electric company footed the bill.

A few years ago we had a heat wave here that killed quite a few of our big fir trees. We had a week of weather hitting 115-118 degrees. It took a year or 2 for them to die completely, and I contemplated taking them down myself a few times. But... due to the location between the house and the power lines, it would require climbing them and bringing them down piece at a time, or rigging some cables to pull them down into the road. Either way was just too much for this old man. My tree topping days are long gone and my climbing harness is collecting dust.   In my younger years I topped trees over 80' in the air before. That is a hell of a rush.... 

Kirk

Years ago I worked for a tree service down on Hilton Head Island, SC. I was part of the ground crew. One day I tried on a pair of spurs got up the tree about 2 steps and missed the next one. That was the end of my tree climbing with spurs. 

Quote from: Pat B on November 19, 2025, 11:49:06 AMYears ago I worked for a tree service down on Hilton Head Island, SC. I was part of the ground crew. One day I tried on a pair of spurs got up the tree about 2 steps and missed the next one. That was the end of my tree climbing with spurs. 

I worked construction for many years as a general contractor, & subcontractor, and when things slowed down I worked for other companies doing a variety of things.

 One year we had a huge wind storm coming in with winds forecasted to be 60-70 mph in the valley here. On top of that, it had been pouring down rain for weeks before this making it a certainty that we were going to have a lot of trees come down in this storm.... Not having a lot going on for work at the time, I rolled the dice and reserved a mobile crane for a week with an operator.

When that storm hit, it was bad. Damn near shut the whole city down with trees down everywhere. Man did I hit the Jack pot on that one. I spent the whole week going from one house to the next removing trees that had fallen on houses for $1000 bucks a pop. That was only half of what the tree service companies were charging. But..... I had no branch clean up, and got all the firewood.... I spent 4 months cutting firewood after that storm and cut well over a 100 cords. I bought a small 2 ton dump bed truck for hauling wood and delivering firewood. During the clean up from that storm I did a lot of tree topping and tree removal. I had a guy working for me with climbing experience that showed me the ropes..... but.... I was in my late 30's at the time. Hell I don't even like climbing ladders anymore at age 70.