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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: SteelyT on January 09, 2024, 09:22:35 PM

Title: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: SteelyT on January 09, 2024, 09:22:35 PM
Before you pity me......
Doesn't that actually signify that "I'm living the life?" 8)
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: thegoodlife on January 09, 2024, 09:24:59 PM
Absolutely:)
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Nebraska on January 09, 2024, 10:19:35 PM
Sometimes ladies just don't appreciate man glitter.  :)
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Old Greenhorn on January 09, 2024, 10:41:59 PM
I try to be thoughtful and I knock off most of it, only leaving the stuff that is glued to my clothes by sweat.

The only alternative is to take off all your clothes and leave them outside the door. How would that go over? :D ;D
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: barbender on January 09, 2024, 11:10:26 PM
I am like the sawdust version of Pigpen. I just leave a trail wherever I go. If it's not from the sawmill, I'm running a chainsaw or the firewood processor. Yes, I'm living the life and so are you, SteelyT!😁
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Brad_bb on January 09, 2024, 11:10:56 PM
You just need to learn to strip naked outside and then come in the house and give your wife the crazy eyes and say "Well..... I'm ready!"
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: terrifictimbersllc on January 09, 2024, 11:24:49 PM
I stop at the air compressor in the garage on the way in.
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: longtime lurker on January 10, 2024, 12:45:22 AM
Everything I own is full of sawdust and dog hair.

Seeing as it's just me and #SharPeiPuppyLove that seems to not be too much of an issue
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: barbender on January 10, 2024, 02:09:47 AM
I forgot to mention the dog hair...with all of the sawdust and hair, our house could probably more properly be called a den or lair😁
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Ianab on January 10, 2024, 02:10:51 AM
Unfortunately, giving the other half a new vacuum cleaner for her birthday doesn't seem to solve the issue.  ??? :D

My problem is more sawdust in the pocket gets into the cell phone charge ports... That's both my problem, and self inflicted.    ::)
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: chickenchaser on January 10, 2024, 06:31:52 AM
Yessir...as long as I empty my pockets and remove my boots OUTSIDE....she's good.

Even tells me I smell good after sawing pine.
And no.........

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Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Magicman on January 10, 2024, 07:45:37 AM
A leaf blower will get most of it off, but you really need a tailgunner to do it.

Yesterday I was a total sawdust mess.  I had a heavy SW wind directly in my face all day.  Sawing was difficult and I was sawing large logs which is the worst.  I thought that I was OK until I started removing my shirt when I found that sawdust had blown down my collar and I had sawdust all of the way to my drawers.  (No Picture).  Hopefully today will be better.
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: jpassardi on January 10, 2024, 07:56:52 AM
Lynn: thanks for sparing us the photo!  :)
Yeah, large logs puts the sawdust higher and helps to get more of it in your face...
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Rhodemont on January 10, 2024, 08:10:11 AM
Mariann had me set up the old washer in the basement and connect it to the sump pump line.  A load of sawdust ridden work clothes and I get notice to go clean out the filter.
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Don P on January 10, 2024, 09:38:58 AM
One of my favorite clients was an elderly lady we were remodeling for. We were wasting time trying not to track into the house and she said "You all quit worrying about that, I live in my house  :D"
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: B.C.C. Lapp on January 10, 2024, 12:33:23 PM
My wife never minds the saw dust.  She says sawdust on the floor, and everything else I get near, means money in the bank.   8)
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: SawyerTed on January 10, 2024, 01:35:20 PM
My wife considers the sawdust a good thing too (within reason).  Not only does it mean dollars earned, it means her retired husband is staying busy and active, not drinking barley pop by the fire all day (which happens on occasion anyway).   8)

As long as I'm sawing, stacking lumber, cutting up slabs, shoveling sawdust etc. I don't HAVE to go to the gym or go running with her.  Her I don't mind, it's running I don't like.
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Southside on January 10, 2024, 02:04:02 PM
We had 3" of rain yesterday, had around 100 hens that decided not to go back into their elevated, portable, coops, instead they decided to roost under the coops - that's not an option - the coops have slatted floors, we had 3" of rain, the birds had to come out from under the coops....being covered in sawdust would have been the least of my worries...
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: chep on January 10, 2024, 10:11:28 PM
I was wondering when Southside would chime in about what he heads inside the house smelling like.  :D
I'll stick to sawdust and she plays it like she minds. But she knows if I'm in the sawdust then I'm a happy boy doing what I love
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Southside on January 10, 2024, 10:36:13 PM
Yea - I stood outside in the rain, literally hosed myself down from head to toe - most of which ran into my Muck Boots  it was a wonderful experience.   ::)
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: chickenchaser on January 11, 2024, 05:29:40 AM
Southside

I began to chuckle between "decided " and "roost " - only because I knew the end of the story. The only thing more pleasant than a relatively "clean" wet chicken is a shicolate coated wet chicken.

Do you suppose we could roll in a sawdust pile and it would work similar to Oil Dry?

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Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Stephen1 on January 11, 2024, 06:58:42 AM
I dug out clean winter pants from last winter and yep....sawdust in the pockets
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Resonator on January 11, 2024, 02:48:53 PM
I've heard ladies say that sawing Spruce smells like Christmas. smiley_christmas
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: chet on January 11, 2024, 03:42:50 PM
When chipping lots of Spruce, Balsam, Cedar or Yellow Birch I got comments on how well I smelled. Especially in winter.  :)
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: terrifictimbersllc on January 11, 2024, 05:42:50 PM
Maybe should try sawing some mistletoe, no? :snowball:
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Big_eddy on January 11, 2024, 06:28:28 PM
A word to the wise. Before tossing the chainsaw pants into the rags and grubby wash, empty all the pockets. Micro fibre rags do not want to let go of chainsaw chips!!
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: Peter Drouin on January 12, 2024, 07:08:16 AM
Ann was the same way and did not care. One pocket was full of sawdust the other was full of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Can't tell you how much I miss her.  :(  5 years now gone. Time goes by fast.
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: OlJarhead on January 18, 2024, 11:36:01 AM
Darci does NOT like me tracking in the sawdust LOL but she does love the smell of lumber being made and the results of making said lumber or making something with it so puts up with me, sorta.  She often tells me to strip off the outer layer in the garage FIRST!  and if you know Darci, you know you better listen to the Sgt Major!  ;D :D
Title: Re: Getting in trouble for coming into the house covered with sawdust
Post by: SawyerTed on January 18, 2024, 11:56:04 AM
It's "The Admrial" at my house  :D