A Slow Day gets Exciting

[Magicman]

Things started out just ho-hum.  500bf of Pine & Poplar and 1Mbf of live edge sawn ERC and I was done at 1:30.


 
Nothing special or unusual.  I load up, get paid, and then check my cellphone for missed calls.  Yup, there is one from a previous customer who is also a Friend and FF Member.  He has a chainsaw slabbed up Poplar log loaded on his truck that he wants sawed?  OK, I can do it this afternoon.  Meet me at Marty's.

I go home, eat, and head to the bank before sawing the Poplar.  My phone rings, it's my Poplar guy.  Lynn, I am stuck.  OK, can an F250 with a 12K winch pull you out?  I get the general location and head out.  He is about 10 miles away.  Phone rings again.  Call me just before you get here and I will meet you at the road.  My clothes are wet and muddy and I don't have anything on but my boxers.  So now here I am driving along looking for a nekkid man.


 
And I found him just as he had described.


 
He was stuck for sure.  The differential was on the ground and the wheels were spinning freely.  The single line pull did not work.  We would have to use a block.


 
A chain from the block to his trailer hitch and we are now making progress.

He had some awesome Poplar.


 
The colors in the 24" slabs and boards were eye popping.  I guess so were those plaid drawers.   

[BCrabtree]

That is some nice looking poplar.

[WDH]

Kinda Sasquatchy looking if you ask me. 

[drobertson]

I think I can smell it from here!   better than smoke! I reckon,  ;D  whatever it takes is a good motto,

[fat olde elf]

The Life and Times of the one and only Magic Man  !!!

[Bill Gaiche]

Did he learn anything about mud bogging? bg

[hackberry jake]

I've been "The boxer guy" before. It sure ain't no fun when the water is cold... One less article of clothing and I could have used this smiley 

[hunz]

I can only imagine a stranger's thoughts passing by a muddy fella in his drawers. ....with FF members, it can just be another adventerous day! Thanks for sharing Lynn

[Andy White]

Lynn,
Never a dull moment around you! With all the cable work you done this past few days, you should hang your "rigger" shingle!     Andy

[red oaks lumber]

man you guys gotta learn to drive! there should of been mud everywhere . dripping off the mirrors gobs should be on the roof, and he wouldn't need to be pulled out. :D

[WDH]

You should have made him unload all that poplar first before you pulled him out  :D. 

[petefrom bearswamp]

Great story.
Always good to help a friend in need.

[Dodgy Loner]

man you guys gotta learn to drive! there should of been mud everywhere . dripping off the mirrors gobs should be on the roof, and he wouldn't need to be pulled out. :D

I'm with red oaks- that feller should have just gassed it and he could have easily gotten out! What is it with these southerners who don't know how to drive in the mud?!

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

man you guys gotta learn to drive! there should of been mud everywhere . dripping off the mirrors gobs should be on the roof, and he wouldn't need to be pulled out. :D

I'm with red oaks- that feller should have just gassed it and he could have easily gotten out! What is it with these southerners who don't know how to drive in the mud?!

Dodgy,

Just trying to figure it out.

Beings how you're currently living in MS and you previously lived in GA (if memory serves me right...), that means you are either:

A southerner, bred and born.

OR

A carpetbagger.

So, which do it be?

Herb
Southerner

[Larry]

Here son, hold my beer while I show this boy how to drive. :D ;D :D

Spoken as a true southerner. ;D

[ArnoldFarms]

Lol, you never know what the day has in store!   

[Dodgy Loner]

man you guys gotta learn to drive! there should of been mud everywhere . dripping off the mirrors gobs should be on the roof, and he wouldn't need to be pulled out. :D

I'm with red oaks- that feller should have just gassed it and he could have easily gotten out! What is it with these southerners who don't know how to drive in the mud?!

Dodgy,

Just trying to figure it out.

Beings how you're currently living in MS and you previously lived in GA (if memory serves me right...), that means you are either:

A southerner, bred and born.

OR

A carpetbagger.

So, which do it be?

Herb
Southerner

Herb: I am a southerner, born and bred. And that's all I got to say about that ;)

[backwoods sawyer]

Some can 4 by some can't that has been proven ;D
However that naked satchsquach issue must be a southern thing :-\  :D

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

Some can 4 by some can't that has been proven ;D
However that naked satchsquach issue must be a southern thing :-\  :D

Shoot, that mud puddle don't need no 4 by.

I remember my Dad going thru lot worse than that in an old '53 F-100 with a flathead 8. It only had two wheel drive, but my Dad believed in keeping them rolling. He didn't know but two speeds on the highway, stopped and full throttle. I remember he got a ticket once and framed it. Doing 85 mph in a 65 mph zone. He gladly paid the ticket, said he'd be able to prove that truck could go that fast now...

Herb

[Mooseherder]

Looks like you almost made it through Dodgy.
Had you been able to travel a couple more feet forward we wouldn't even know you wonder the woods in yer underwear. :D

[Magicman]

 ???  I guess that we could DNA that hand print and determine who the truck driver was......Maybe?? 

I do know this in the driver's defense.  Someone with some giant 35" tires and made that puddle much more than a normally equipped truck could ever cross.   :D

[red oaks lumber]

once our frozen tundra thaws alittle our roads look like that for months :D

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

...  My phone rings, it's my Poplar guy. ...



 

Lynn, that Poplar guy looks kinda Lonely to me...

:D :D :D :D :D :D

Herb

[Red Clay Hound]

I have no idea who the guy in the boxers is! :

[Magicman]

I say nothing.