Unregistered how's it going?

judylou

A bit sad today, as I type, I am watching the council cut down an old established English Plane Tree outside my house. They said it was rotten and a danger, but it only appeared to me to have a few dead limbs and had plenty of big green leaves before they dropped this Autumn(Fall).
Anyway, what can you do?

Bob Tooley

Judylou,

Will they allow you to plant a 'memorial tree' so the loss can be remembered and replaced ? Sometimes it helps to know a tree-loss death, no matter how it occurs, has been memorialized by the new life of new tree.... I'm Sorry for your loss and I don't believe you'll ever find a rational reason why some groups do the things they do....

judylou

Thanks Bob,
I'll certainly contact the council to see whether they will replace it with another.
Cheers
Judy

arborjockey

And I'm back........the original arborjockey. sorry treevet I set sail again and have set up shop in oregon. would of liked to hang out and tell tree stories. Any how daniel boon (ohio botonist) said white pines were ,at one time the easts tallest trees but they were so valued 4 sail masses that the giants all got logged.

newguy18

Right now,i am hungover,i went to one hell of a party last night,now i gotta get a ride to go pick my truck up from a co worker's house.I still have to go to work too,damn.

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new tribe

Helloooo EKKA,
Things are slow here rain 3 days dry 2 keeping up with the yard is a full time job. Had to re-plant a lot of the garden its been to cold for these parts. My full time job has cut back to 4 days a week and it don't look to get better anytime soon.I hope to get out and do some climbing soon to try some new knots and practice using my new sling shot. Hope every thing is going well with all you guys and keep up the good work.

Eric Frei

Dang rain, rain rain rain!

Got spoiled with 3 years of drought now we're getting pissed on nearly every day and I'm so over it.

Got some interesting surprise pics I'll post up soon.

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Bob Tooley

Damn bored...........doctor's appointments on the few sunny days we've had and rain on the days I could be out working....

Eric Frei

Why you always hanging around the doctors?

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Bob Tooley

They're monitoring my heart and have me on a blood thinner so they are constantly trying to match diet, medication dosage and etc., They take the blood one day, read the results, then call to give you hell because the dosage wasn't right and they want you to come back...on the next sunny day it seems,... to re-take more blood.
It's nothing serious, but it certainly isn't how I wanted to start out the summer.

davidtibbetts

It's getting warm over here in the States I am in North Georgia. I was looking at some of the trees you have in Austrailia man they are big.
The schools over here are out for summer. Just got a cal to meet a lady to see her tree and give price... I'll be back

treevet

welcome david

treevet

tallest tree in this state is a w. pine. a big sticky adventure to climb. decent size limbs will break right off under your body weight.

what the hell you doin in oregon?

newguy18

Sounds a lot like our short needle pines,you can not trust their limbs for a tie in.

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treevet

yesterday they forecast no rain. Downpoured all day and we got soaked, mud everywhere. Today they forecast rain and not a drop all day. Quite unprepared but we got some work done even though the ground is saturated.

Last the week it rained so hard the creek by my lot over flowed and turned into a river. It floated a thousand plus pound dumpster down the road right into my dump trailer. Mud and $hit from the creek all over my lot and I got filthy cleaning up some today. Last time this happened was about 25 years ago.

I went in to the gym towards the end of the rain day yesterday. Talking to a guy about a back injury he had. They wanted to operate and after talking to some people the guy, about my age of 60, said he is going to opt to go to his grave with this injury. I told him I had a number of work related and other injuries also that I was taking to the grave too. Funny the talk of the aged. Soon it will be about what pills were taking.

I am taking absolutely no pills and haven't for more than 20 years. Tonight a guy no showed me in my A level racquetball match. A new guy, about 30 to 35 years old who told me he was a top level in the city player approached me and asked me if I wanted to play him a match while giving me the "I'll go easy on you" routine. I pounded him in an hour match that had him saying he hadn't been beat that bad in a long time.

Some bennies to climbing trees all your life.

Jeff Darby

lol, they dont realise who their playing against (physical strength wise) when they challenge a treeworker worth his or her salt!

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we'll teach em JayD

alanmd

Good morning Ekka. First time here. I have a question about a tree of mine. Maybe you can point me to the right forum to post it at. Things are good here. Pretty warm during the daytime and stormy in the evenings.

treevet

go to "ask and arborist" and ask away. And...welcome.

alanmd

Thanks for the info. Heading that way now!

Aunty Bob

Most Excellent, theres water coming from the sky,
Im out in the garden and i dont have to fry
things are growing, before my eyes
and
are Paullownias good guys?

Bob Tooley

In Maine you need a scuba tank to go outdoors, and the gardens are turning into sea weed beds...I'm going fishing off the deck this afternoon because the motor on the boat to get to the car doesn't want to start...

stargazer

I'm lucky, I purchased a 60ft long boathouse years ago. I actually can drop a line out the window and catch big bass.

When I was in third grade and learned about the "lake dwellers" I used to dream of having a trapdoor in my bedroom floor where I could fish. I really wanted to be a lake dweller. The boathouse is as close as I've gotten. It's really just a big "barn" that was used to store a large boat in the winter and as a commercial shipping point in the summer to the upper lake where there were no roads.

I'm waiting for the rain to let up so I can saw up some lumber for a new dock. Have some old blue stained and worm holed pine cants, and a few pine logs I dropped earlier so I could get at some big ash trees shading my garden. The ash is so nice I hate to cut it all into firewood, but can't think of a need for ash lumber. Could get some nice planks out of it though.

Bob Tooley

Some places were using ash for axe, shovel handles and baseball bats, but I don't know of any mills around here still exporting the rough milled products. I lived on a lake in Camden as a kid, and in the winter all you could hear were the 'shotgun' type blasts as the ice froze and cracked...nice place in the summer though...all the out-of-state girls who's parents had camps...and very bored girls... so I guess I was singled out to be the good ambassador to the region... after all..someone had to do it...

new tribe

Hello....you guys make me feel old, my youngest just turned 24 and my oldest is 26 both fine young men. My favorite drink would be a Coke or just plain water. Things are still slow here down to 4 days a week but theirs plenty to do at home. keep them vids coming and pics. Be safe and keep between the yellow lines.

stargazer

I know bowling pins are ash. Would it make good oars? Or too heavy? I might like a set of oars. Think I could get some two foot wide planks out of it. One plank would make more oars than I could use. It's pretty long too. The guys who make my mill said ash was the toughest wood to saw around here. Wonder if they ever tried black locust? I've got some, man that is tough wood. Some has been lying dead on the ground, with young stuff old enough to vote growing around it, and the locust is still sound. Burns like coal. Even makes clinkers! Very heavy and hard.

Ever hear of "Dr. Ruth"? She grew up on the next lake over, 1/2 mile down the shore from a boy's camp!

newguy99

Im doing great, thanks. I am wanting to buy me a new saw and im having trouble deciding which one. My choices are between a 576xp or a 385xp. I will mainly be running a 20 inch bar in hardwood sometimes a 24.

stargazer

Hello, new tribe! I'm old, so it must be someone else you are referring to! My favorite drink would be fresh watermelon. Mine all died in this cold weather, I'm going to replant with some I'm sprouting indoors where it's warm, but I'm afraid it's too late in the year here in Maine. I've been breeding my own melons but choosing them for size, not speed.

Oh, I ate a lot of wild strawberries today, growing all around my sawmill.

Bob Tooley

It can't be me either... I use to have one of Bell Saw's portable mills set up on cement tubes and running off an 8-cylinder 'flat head' chevy engine..and later bought a lobster trap mill when traps were wooden..we sawed all the hardwoods, and did some custom cutting for other people... I heard no one today could find good sawyers anymore that knew how to get the most out of a log and not have waste, or against-grain cuts.. I guess there aren't many homeowner mills left... You must be over in the Belgrade area...
Melons are a 'real hard' crop to grow,... do you use a cold frame for them in early spring, or go the direct in-ground route ? I had gardens years ago...(had to with the high food prices and the new 'victory garden' approach.), but when I stated going to Florida for the winters, there wasn't much need for canning, preserving and freezing vegetables any longer..so they're now just more areas of grass to mow. My present 'outdoor work' is trying to understand and appreciate the wooded areas more after all these years of taking them for granted.. I still have more questions then answers, but I guess that's what 'leads a person down the road'...

stargazer

West of Sebago Lake. I have a Thomas band sawmill, manually operated. 20 hp Honda engine, will cut a 32 inch beam about 27 feet long, if you can get the log there! I don't try to do production work, just what I need myself. Real handy when repairing old buildings with the odd or full sized lumber. No shimming and using crappy small dimensioned modern stuff. Also historically correct lumber for old homes. Also almost no cost lumber if you have logs, just blades and gas.

I don't consider myself an expert at avoiding waste. I do OK, look it over and shim the small end so the grain runs pretty straight. The bandsaw makes such a narrow cut that is saves waste and produces very little sawdust.

When I was a young lad I helped my great uncle with his shingle mill. He also had a circular sawmill and was a good blacksmith. I loved helping him, and enjoyed the blacksmithing. Looking back, just realized, never once did the thought of pay cross my mind when I worked there. It was a lark, and we'd go hunting with his hounds instead of working half the time. I thought of it as a privilege, not a job.