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newguy18

Yep i think so.

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Kevin Altschwager

EKKA, I am doing fine. There has`nt been much rain here, please send some our way. The lower south east of south Australia has never been so dry. See what you can doo for us.

cheers Kevin.

bstewert

Thanks Sean for the link on posting pictures. I'm on a Mac, so I wasn't able to follow the steps listed. Let me know if the Octopus Tree in Cape Meares shows up. It may be an attachment, not embedded. Couldn't figure that out yet.

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Sean Freeman

Yes it came up fine.......what an extraordinary tree.....I love that sort of thing (weird trees)

Eric Frei

SA has what, 500mm rain in average year, so what have you been getting?

What a huge and unusual tree!

Sean, where's that thread????????? We had a thread .... searching searching, hmmm your turn.

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Sean Freeman

I'm guessing you mean this one Weird and unusual tree shapes

LeifR

I am fine, thank you. Here in Norway we have spring, the snow ist almost gone. Though, in the mountains there is a lot left.
Concerning my woodwork, I am just now cutting logs on my Logosol mill. I own a small wood, an I have cut down some trees during the winter. I have also bought some trees from neighbours, maple, oak, ashwood. Quite big trees, about 90 cm diameter. At least that is quite big around here.
I am a woodworking teacher, so I work with wood almost every day.
Greetings to all from Norway.
LeifR.

newguy18

its going good,got paid for the golf cart,got even more than i was asking.

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White Oak Willie

If you want to go skiing up there in Sask. then go ahead. We'd go skiing down here too, but it's so hard to get the boat up onto the ski lift...! Yep, the temp here in Nashville is midddle 70's farenheit and it's dry, dry, dry. Summer is on the way in the U.S. south and I am more then ready for it.

GregoryR

Things are great in this part of CALIF. We really dont have any water to spare right now. They are trying to desalinate ocean water to make up some more. We dont have much in the way of weather here either, never to chilly or warm, its nice almost always.
Im glad I ran across you guys. I was searching for info on deep root feeding some birch, maple and ash trees for a client. I havent done it before, but I have most of the equipment, being that I own my pest control company.

Aerial

A sure sign of Spring is when I get the Antique Yamaha SR500 out of Winter storage and take it for a spin:





I've been getting a lot of clean up work done with my new Stihl, but the only thing I've climbed is my roof to fix some Winter storm damaged shingles.

Aerial

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TreeDimensional

I had one just like that, I sold it to a collector. Now I know you are suffering from late-middle-age-crazy. All you need to do now is stop bathing and grow a beard!

If the wife finds ALL your new tree climbing stuff, she will get the house, Porche, and everything else. You WILL be left with all the tree gear and the worst bike Yamaha ever made.

The valve train in mine made enough noise to wake the dead. Even after it was rebuilt, I was ashamed to be seen on it.

Aerial

Oh I don't know, the wife is pretty used to my excesses by now. And she does love to ride:

The Laurel Mountains and Fallingwater - ADVrider

But I will admit that she wants me to get "A Bad Ass Harley" as she puts it, but I am resisting. The SR500 is, as you mentioned, a collectors item and I drove 1200 miles and paid about $1000 more for mine than it cost brand new.

When the stator failed I drove another 1200 miles to get another one as a parts bike, and this Sunday, if the price holds on eBay, I'll be picking up a third one. Could have bought that Harley I guess, but I just like the Thumper aspect of the thing.

Aerial

Aerial

For those that read the Adventure Rider article, this was my 50th Birthday present:



Nice little Cessna, fully aerobatic and a blast to fly!

Aerial

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Eric Frei

You got all them toys and you want to stuff around with trees!?

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Aerial

Well yes, the thing clatters like ball bearings in your hubcaps (try that on a friends car for fun), but I have an ace mechanic who says I should worry if the noise goes away.

It's all part of the ambiance of a large displacement single cylinder "Thumper".

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TreeDimensional

I foget what all they did to the valve train, but it was all new. It was quieter for about 200 miles and then back to the racket. The funny thing was it never missed a beat.

I agree with Ekka, why would you want to mess with trees. I had to laugh when you showed your 50th birthday present, I am NOT looking forward to my next birthday cause it is the 50th. The best present I can imagine getting, is to be left ALONE! OR 2 twenty-five year olds.

So for your next big-un what are you gettin'? A trip to the Alps might appropriate so you can use the ice axes, that the Missus doesn't know about!

nytreeman

Wet and cold/snowy here in upstate NY the first half of the month but the last 2 weeks or so have been really hot 80-90 fahrenheit,July weather,should be in the 50's in april,getting really dry now,lots of brush/grass fires but supposed to be in the 40s next week and maybe some wet snow

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Aerial

They over tightened the valve clearances to get it to quiet down.

Why mess with trees? Cause I had more excitement than I've had in years in my first (ill advised) experience.

I sold that airplane after three years of having a blast with it. made money on it too.

Once you are 60 every birthday is a big one. As to what I'll get, whatever suits my fancy.

Aerial

Sean Freeman

Sorry, I miissed that when it wass first posted........what a beauty! You're blessed having such "toys" .... very envious.

Aerial

Thanks Sean, it's not in bad shape for a 30 year old motorcycle. Same for the Airplane, also a 1978 model.

I guess I just like old stuff.

Aerial

funarty

Old stuff is good!I never buy a car out of the 70's/80's,just love the oldies
Tho I love new cars people buy cause I get to buy the old ones cheap

Therrin

Hey look its a thumper!!!!

I rode 2 of those one year for a couple months each. Both were borrowed from the gal I bought my Yamaha Vision from. One was pretty stock but had a nice super trapp pipe with no baffles. We ended up putting some back in later on, but ya get out on the freeway and open her up and it was pretty loud.

The other was nicer. Yamaha 1978 SR500. Nice growl for a 500 single. Had a yoshimura exhaust. fender eliminator, metzeler tires, bit lower, race bars, racing seat, custom gas tank, small signals, handgrip mirrors... some custom engine work.

As I recall, part of the forward frame was actually an engine oil reservoir. Kind of acted as an air-cooled setup. Thought it was niffty.

The stock one was a bit rascally to kick-over sometimes.


Fun Bike!!! Nice to see one again.
Had more power than my xz550, which was actually, TD, probably the worst built. =P
Shaft drive v-twin, but the electrical system was crap. For a while I was goin through a starter a month, a battery a month, or TCI. Damn thing got to be too expensive to keep goin. They only made it for 2 years anyway. One of the first water-cooled bikes Yamaha put out. ('82) Comfy ride.

Aerial

See, the thing is the SR500 can blow the wheels off most "Bad Ass Harleys" to about 90 mph. And on any road that has curves in it my little Yammy can run away and hide from the best of them.

It's a real shocker to blow by a group of Harley riders and become a vanishing dot before them. Especially sweet if one of them tries to keep up. Full up it weighs a 375 lbs. And the only thing that drags at maximum bank angle is the side of my boot.

It was derived from the TT500 dirt bike, of which there were thousands sold. In fact I had the TT500 in my wild youth, so going back to this bike was in fact part of my "late middle age crazy", but I still bathe and shave regularly.

Aerial

Aerial

Yes the frame on the SR500 (and the dirt bike variant TT500) holds the oil which does help cooling, critical in big bore singles.

I helped this along by adding a somewhat trick horseshoe oil cooler from a modern Honda dirtbike:



Also note the dual disk setup taken from a XS 650 Yamaha:



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newguy18

The pics don't work.Hows the bodythrusting coming?

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treevet

A couple infos foryou Greg tohelp. We no longer use the terms DEEP root and FEEDing. Roots aren t as deep as once thought and fertilizing is more appropriate as the tree makes it s own food and you are supplying some raw mtls. for it.

Stay low on the nitrogen and as you prob know, you need to educate yourself on proper dose and timing and even the possible lack of need for fertilizing. I wouldn t think of using equipment that ever had any herbicides in it or mtls not compatible w trees. Just a few tips off top of head. You may want to start a thread. Good subj this time of year.


Nice bike Aerial, I had a Suzuki T500 Titan 73 I believe a few years ago. 2 cyl and it was nicknamed Suzuki screamer (2 cycle) and it flew (and screamed) Also few years ago I had a thumper in a Kawa klr 650 1996. What a nice ride.

deer man

Ekka, thought this was just for me! Looks like every one got one!

Keeping busy here summers started today but i am sure tomorrow will be rain again!

Aerial

Fixed that, inadvertantly broke rule # 5 and foobar'ed my images trying to delete useful link.

The wife likes it.

Aerial

Aerial

In my younger days I had a Kawasaki three cylinder 2 stroke that was also a screamer. Seized the engine at about 70 mph while wearing T shirt and no helmet. That was a screamer as well, but the screams came from me.

Egads, I was wild when I was young.

Aerial