Ping Bill Gumbine

Get a picture with a person standing next to the tree. I'd like to see that.

Doug, it is NOT that unusual to have black walnut trees over 4' in diameter out in CA. Used to travel up from YC to Corning to The Olive Pit for of course, olives, and passed literally hundreds.

======>What kind of trees? Did you score any of them? (There! Now we're on topic!)*G*

Leif

================= Mac, If you don't have a rip chain, you'd be doing yourself a favor by buying one or making one for yourself. They're a skip tooth thingy and don't load up like the regular chain. You can make one by taking every other cutting link out of a regular chain and replacing with a spacer link. There's a place hat makes a chain saw mill (think the name of the company is Granville or something similar; Google it) and they have a chain for use with their mill attachment that is specifically for ripping.

Ken Moon Webberville, TX.

================= With a major femoral rupture, you don't need to wory about EMT's. You'll probably be gone before they can get to you.

Ken Moon Webberville, TX.

Right, good reason to avoid them. The problem is bystanders. they tend to try to help. Tying off the wound, giving ineffective CPR, helpful stuff like that. Just because the person is dead or dying doesn't mean that they don't get taken to the ER. That's one of the reason they call it hamburger. I've had a guy brought it who ate a shotgun. We had to do CPR with a tube to the bag because it took off the front of his face. Messy doesn't get you out of having to make the effort. My favorite was the biker who got caught in bed with the karate instrructors gf. He jumped out of the bed, grabbed a knife and got kicked in the head. We had him on life suppt until his brains leaked out his ears because the family wouldn't believ that he wouldn't "wake up". It doesn't matter. Some people are going to drop start chainsaws, some are going to ride donorcycles. We all do what we want to... or not.

Dave in Fairfax

Yep Dave, "We all do what we want to" in this transitory life. Smoking cigarets while drop starting chain saws can be the long or short of ending it. Inhale wood dust instead of tobacco smoke, the odds are better. It's a fact, not a flame, but I respect any turner's right to do both....or neither.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

We had a saying at work, "He is over twenty-one." Meaning, of course that the person was responsible for his acts. But...we have the responsibility to warn them of dangerous or stupid acts.

I think what you read was that mine was kind of self loading.. I modified the height so that it wedged against the bottom of the truck tail gate.. that way I can roll one from the truck to the saw buck, then deal with the lifting part when the log is cut into smaller pieces..

mac

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that's way too sophisticated for me, Ken... the only time we change a chain is when it's shot.. and then probably waiting too long to replace them..

OTOH, since I cut the logs in the forest and the blanks at home, I might get a rip chain for one of the electric ones at home..

mac

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I admit it.. I inhale tobacco smoke and wood dust... and I'm seriously addicted to both..

mac

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=====>Mac: So what type of self loader do you have for getting the wood logs in the truck to begin with? *G*

Leif

Even that's too much work for my taste, I chunk down as close as possible to the orig. site so the only lifting involved is (un)loading the ute.

Unless, of course, I can find a dupe^H^H^Hassistant for the day. :)

you haven't been reading my earlier posts, Leif... *g*

I usually clear the brush and run the saw, my wife loads the truck... (and earns weight-watchers points for the exercise!)

We usually go wood hunting every saturday, then she takes the other truck to work during the week, so that I can unload the truck over 2 or 3 days, one log at a time as they're being cut into blanks..

Sorta cool partnership.. she helps "start" the bowls by loading the truck, and then does most of the staining/finishing when they come off the lathe..

mac

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====>Hang onto that lady, Mac!!!! So all you have to do is convince her that she looks like she is getting fat and she goes out and makes like a two-legged self-loader!!*G* I probably missed your other posts, or couldn't read them too well through the tears after my abasement regarding use of the dropstart technique for a chainsaw! 8^(

Leif

Seems like risking your back is a lot less than risking your Life! :o)

How will you live with the Shame?!

=====>I have entered a long period of omphaloscopy as penance. It makes it difficult to read my emails, but I have lined up two mirrors to view the screen and I am a touch typist so I can respond to posts. Do not worry about me, it is right and proper what I am doing to make up for leading a rec. member on a path of dismemberment! Ommmmm! As to living with the shame, after my period of omphaloscopy, I will continue to dropstart my chainsaw and perhaps that will end my miserable existence!*G*

Leif

SNIP ..........

, I will continue to dropstart my

================ Or possibily make it more miserable {:-(

Ken Moon Webberville, TX.

Trouble not your mind Leif, all is forgiven. I too, have made poor choices in the past, although I can't remember any off-hand. Halfsheimers, ya know. 'Sides, I'm not boound by the suggestions of others, and as any who know me will tell you, I pretty much do what I want. %-)

Dave in Fairfax