Random Thought Thread

[Nathan the Machinist]

@Nathan the Machinist what is happening here I'm smooth dum dum headfiller

Autism is happening there

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Had to remove a favorite tree today

 

[yoko]

Had to remove a favorite tree today

Was it sick?

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Was it sick?

Largest ash tree you've ever seen

Over the house

Started dropping big limbs. It was just a matter of time before it dropped something really big on the house

It might have had the emerald Ash borer.

Sick tree too close to the house. Had to go.

I hate it. I used to could sit under that tree in the rain and stay dry it was so dense and tall.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

I set a steel plate over the septic

That plate is 4 ft wide, for scale.

 

[Mendoman]

Are you going to save some for some knife handles?

 

[Blues]

I have some nice ash handles on a knife from Al Dippold, an old friend and M.S.
The ash was sourced from Al's farm in the Midwest.

(A very old image from an early digital camera)

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Had to remove a favorite tree today

It should never have mouthed off to my wife like that in the first place

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Are you going to save some for some knife handles?

No

But I am planning on milling it into beans for the pole barn so that it can rot and fall down too

 

[Blues]

No

But I am planning on milling it into beans for the pole barn so that it can rot and fall down too

Pole Beans

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

P

Pole Beans

Yup

 

[bluemax_1]

Pole Beans

Cool beans, in the winter?

Answers the age old question of “beans in chilly?”

 

[Murphjd25]

Back to reality today

 

[toker]

“beans in chilly?”

 

[Matthew Gregory]

Autism is happening there

Goddamnit

 

[Matthew Gregory]

Largest ash tree you've ever seen

Over the house

Started dropping big limbs. It was just a matter of time before it dropped something really big on the house

It might have had the emerald Ash borer.

Sick tree too close to the house. Had to go.

I hate it. I used to could sit under that tree in the rain and stay dry it was so dense and tall.

Did you actually just fucking say ‘I used to could’?????

 

[Matthew Gregory]

That tree was huge and awesome. I hate having to do stuff like that. I had a pair of trees similar to that in the front yard that had to come down because they were showing signs of stress, and were only 12 feet off the house. Totally changes the feel of the place, and there’s no way that the saplings I planted will ever come close to feeling that way, in my lifetime.

 

[Moorik]

I was walking through the forest—not a park, but a real forest, like 4-5 miles deep into thick woods with trees.


I was hitting a tree, testing a new edge (that's how I justify the fact that I just enjoy chopping into wood with a blade).


Some couple walked by and said to me:


"You know you're hitting and destroying living trees, right?"


I replied:


"Isn't there a whole forest of them here? Like, almost endless."


They muttered something and walked off.


The funniest part is that on the access road, tons of people are literally cutting down the forest on an industrial scale just for themselves, but what bothered them was me, the guy just whacking a tree.

The people are old, and you'd think they should know that in the past, people literally used the forest to heat their homes...

 

[Blues]

Chop deadfall and make everyone happy.

You're welcome.