Poor, poor tree...

Gorog

Gorog

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Let us all take a moment out of our day to lament the death of a tree branch......okay, that's enough time. Anyway, yeah, I felled my first substantial tree branch, and it felt pretty substantial when Mr. SUNSHINE (my dearest father), told me to lug it across the yard to the waste pile, even though I am going to use it.... Anyway, if anyone wants to see it, I'll try and make this photo thing work:
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Okay...I think it worked...lets try another one. This is me, looking very surly and mean, though, anyone who knows me knows that looks can be very deceiving.
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Okay, I'm going to cut short and view the fruits of my picture taking labor. Peace everyone.
 
OK, what did you cut it with, and what are you going to use it for?

BTW, you look entirely different than the pic I had in my head of you.
 
I cut it with an Irwin Universal hand saw, and let me tell you, it was a PAIN to work with. A tooth chipped off the saw, another one bent out place, and I was cutting at a horrific angle, combined, it made for a tough time. But gravity helped in the end, I kept it up to a point where the sheer weight felled it, at the expense of trapping my stupid saw in the base where I was cutting the branch at. So I had to acquisition some help from Pops to get the stupid saw out. I think it has reached the end of its life, the saw has, honestly, induction hardened teeth is no substitute for forged, milled or/and hand cut teeth, I think, but I could DEFINITELY be wrong. Anyway, yeah, I am going to make something like a giant walking stick out of it, because my other one completely split down the middle. And, as for the picture...well I can't read minds, but I can say the beard and 'stache is temporary, I look much younger without it, and I look even younger with a good smile instead of that ugly little half sneer on my face...I don't like taking pictures of me, I think its almost a waste of digital memory, but, at the same time I do, sort of...is that weird and vain, or is it normal? Anyway, I might get a better pic up of myself if anyone wants to see me, and get rid of the cute but very unrepresentitive spider baby as my avatar. Okay, peace.
 
Gorog said:
I cut it with an Irwin Universal hand saw, and let me tell you, it was a PAIN to work with. A tooth chipped off the saw, another one bent out place, and I was cutting at a horrific angle, combined, it made for a tough time. But gravity helped in the end, I kept it up to a point where the sheer weight felled it, at the expense of trapping my stupid saw in the base where I was cutting the branch at. So I had to acquisition some help from Pops to get the stupid saw out...
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Make a slight undercut first, where the pinch point is going to be. Then do the rest of the cut from the top.

Similar ideas when felling or bucking with an axe or a chain saw, or even a khukuri. Pinching a saw is the least of the bad things that can happen when you don't account for the tensions and compressions in the wood.
 
True that, my friend. I will take your knowledge into consideration. Thank you.
 
i do love the Darwins. one of my favourite Darwin Award cautionary tales: they don't come any more stupid than this.

"For being named Lantern, he wasn't very bright."

(7 May 2002, Wisconsin) Lantern, 30, enjoyed playing a private game with his wife. He would pull down his pants, place the barrel of a shotgun against his scrotum, and tell her to pull the trigger. They had played this game frequently, to his immense pleasure. The gun was unloaded, of course.

On this pleasant Friday, he was excited to try again. The thrill was even larger because his wife's girlfriend was pulling into the driveway at the time. "Shoot 'em off before she gets here!" Lantern told his wife. She pulled the trigger. But this time, the gun was loaded.

Emergency crews arrived to find Lantern bleeding profusely from his groin, wearing shoes and socks, with his pants down around his ankles. The police were told it was an accident, and the couple didn't know the gun was loaded. Lantern was admitted to the hospital in critical condition, where he survived to earning the indisputible right to the rarest of honors: the Living Darwin Award.
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:) just ever so slightly off topic, sorry!
 
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