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#1
General Board / Re: Making it thrugh another y...
Last post by Old Greenhorn - Today at 09:58:54 AMYeah Res, this is on my mind all the time, but it's tricky because every show gives you a somewhat different foot print. To use your example, for me it's as if some folks walk by, see the big benches and tables out front and assume I don't have any 'milk'. They never go to the far end of the 'store'. But people who are really looking will come in and find stuff no matter what.
Ted's idea is interesting and I may very well try some of that if I can figure out how. I have been putting the eye candy out front, hopefully getting them to stop and they do BUT not always do they walk in to look at everything. You can just see the corner shelf in the left corner of that photo. This grabs a lot of eyes and I had several people this show trying to figure out where it would fit in their homes. Happens every single show. But I still have it. It's one piece when I see folks looking it all over that I mention I would consider an offer on it. It's a pain to pack, takes up a lot of room and frankly is not my best work. I've been moving it for about 4 years now. But with al the attention it has gotten, it is still here.
For this show I felt I may not have been a good match for the people who walked in, they were looking for flea market stuff, not crafted pieces. I believe that will change as the season goes on.
I will also keep messing with how the booth is laid out. Most times I am too crowded, this time I had more room that I have ever had, so a new 'problem'.
Ted's idea is interesting and I may very well try some of that if I can figure out how. I have been putting the eye candy out front, hopefully getting them to stop and they do BUT not always do they walk in to look at everything. You can just see the corner shelf in the left corner of that photo. This grabs a lot of eyes and I had several people this show trying to figure out where it would fit in their homes. Happens every single show. But I still have it. It's one piece when I see folks looking it all over that I mention I would consider an offer on it. It's a pain to pack, takes up a lot of room and frankly is not my best work. I've been moving it for about 4 years now. But with al the attention it has gotten, it is still here.
For this show I felt I may not have been a good match for the people who walked in, they were looking for flea market stuff, not crafted pieces. I believe that will change as the season goes on.
I will also keep messing with how the booth is laid out. Most times I am too crowded, this time I had more room that I have ever had, so a new 'problem'.
#2
The Outdoor Board / Re: A Forestry Forum snake hun...
Last post by WV Sawmiller - Today at 09:50:07 AM(Our story continues)
Tom yells "come help. I can't hold him much longer." Doc and Howard rush over and Doc says "Youi better hold him you big dummy. You've caught a rattlesnake! I thought we were just after pythons and I did not bring my anti-venom. Maybe you better just turn him loose. They aren't worth anything anyway." Howard quickly corrects him "Maybe not here but I have a neighbor who preaches up at a little church up the holler and they pay pretty good money for them. They like to 'Take up the serpent', as he calls it at special services. I'll take this one home to him".
Tom says "This can't be a rattlesnake. It has to be 10' long!" Howard takes a good look and says "Nope, he's not an inch over 8' I bet. Here, I got his head pinned down with this forked stick. Now you slide the rest of him in this tater sack and we'll tie him off."
Tom and Doc finally get the snake started in the sack after a couple of failed attempts and Howard shakes him down into the sack and ties the top securely. After that he says "I think we need to move to another spot. Tom made so much racket yelling I bet he's scared off any other snakes in the area." Doc agrees and Tom is certainly ready to leave this area especially after Howard reminds them rattlesnakes often travel in pairs.
They trek back to swamp buggy and load the snake in the side box and finally get it started again. They drive about a mile and Doc says "This looks like a good spot. Let's try it here." They get out and start looking and Howard spots movement under a small swamp cabbage palm. Sure enough it is a big python. In fact it looks like a mating ball with several males chasing a female. Howard grabs a couple of 8' males and Doc gets a secure grip on the 12' female. Tom manages to snag a 6' juvenile that is trying to escape the ruckus. His hands are still sweaty from the last snake he caught and he doesn't get a good drip and it twists around in his hand and bites him on the thumb and wrist and a couple of other unimportant places. Howard tosses his snakes in a bag and jerks the 6' snake off of Tom. It comes free with a good chunk of flesh still in its jaws. Tom looks down at the blood spurting from his wrist and gets too close to Doc and the big 12' female gets a double loop around his neck and starts squeezing tightly.
Howard gets the bags tied off with the smaller snakes and Doc says "I need some help here. Tom's face is starting to turn purple." Tom mumbles something incoherent about "These purple jokes ain't funny no more. Get this thing offa me!" Howard gets a grip and he and Doc play tug of war for a few minutes with snake with Tom in the middle and finally the snake tires and Tom falls to the ground gasping for breath, blood still oozing from his left wrist and a pretty bad rash around his neck from the rough snake scales.
Doc gets a pressure bandage on Tom's wrist and decides that is good enough and he and Howard resume hunting. They agree this is a pretty good spot. Tom is still a little miffed and heads off on his own mumbling something about "true friends and real buddies" and such.
Tom sees a patch of dead grass and leaves next to the canal and hears something "Nunk, Nunk, Nunk" so he goes over to investigate. He sees a couple flashes of white and yells back to Howard and Doc "Hey guys, I think I found a python nest." He starts digging inside as Doc and Howard rush over to help. "Ouch!" Tom yells and pulls his finger out of the nest with a 10" baby alligator firmly attached. Howard yells at him "That's not a python nest. Its an alligator nest." Tom replies "You Dang dummy I figured that out" and raises his right hand with the baby gator still attached. Howard replies "Yeah but don't you know mama gators protect their nest?"
Sure enough a mini-Tsunami erupts from the canal as an angry 10' mama gator come boiling up out of the murky water. Tom turns to run and shakes junior off his torn pinky and back into the nest with his siblings and heads for a lone cypress tree and practices he Elevator tree shinny technique. It works – almost. Mama G lunges and just before Tom gets out of range and grabs hold of his left boot. Another tug of war ensues and finally Tom's brand new Muck boot he had just bought at Cabelas the day before for this trip comes free. He yells down and the mad dinosaur below "Hey, those cost me $150". The irate mama gator shakes it then swallows $75 worth of rubber boot. She waddles over and lunges up but can't quite reach Tom's other boot to finish her meal Tom grabs the first limb and pulls himself up another couple of feet and breathes a sigh of relief. "Safe at least he mumble/grumbles. Then he sees the distinctive football shape of a 3' long hornet's nest and hears a loud buzzing. This can't be good!
Tom yells "come help. I can't hold him much longer." Doc and Howard rush over and Doc says "Youi better hold him you big dummy. You've caught a rattlesnake! I thought we were just after pythons and I did not bring my anti-venom. Maybe you better just turn him loose. They aren't worth anything anyway." Howard quickly corrects him "Maybe not here but I have a neighbor who preaches up at a little church up the holler and they pay pretty good money for them. They like to 'Take up the serpent', as he calls it at special services. I'll take this one home to him".
Tom says "This can't be a rattlesnake. It has to be 10' long!" Howard takes a good look and says "Nope, he's not an inch over 8' I bet. Here, I got his head pinned down with this forked stick. Now you slide the rest of him in this tater sack and we'll tie him off."
Tom and Doc finally get the snake started in the sack after a couple of failed attempts and Howard shakes him down into the sack and ties the top securely. After that he says "I think we need to move to another spot. Tom made so much racket yelling I bet he's scared off any other snakes in the area." Doc agrees and Tom is certainly ready to leave this area especially after Howard reminds them rattlesnakes often travel in pairs.
They trek back to swamp buggy and load the snake in the side box and finally get it started again. They drive about a mile and Doc says "This looks like a good spot. Let's try it here." They get out and start looking and Howard spots movement under a small swamp cabbage palm. Sure enough it is a big python. In fact it looks like a mating ball with several males chasing a female. Howard grabs a couple of 8' males and Doc gets a secure grip on the 12' female. Tom manages to snag a 6' juvenile that is trying to escape the ruckus. His hands are still sweaty from the last snake he caught and he doesn't get a good drip and it twists around in his hand and bites him on the thumb and wrist and a couple of other unimportant places. Howard tosses his snakes in a bag and jerks the 6' snake off of Tom. It comes free with a good chunk of flesh still in its jaws. Tom looks down at the blood spurting from his wrist and gets too close to Doc and the big 12' female gets a double loop around his neck and starts squeezing tightly.
Howard gets the bags tied off with the smaller snakes and Doc says "I need some help here. Tom's face is starting to turn purple." Tom mumbles something incoherent about "These purple jokes ain't funny no more. Get this thing offa me!" Howard gets a grip and he and Doc play tug of war for a few minutes with snake with Tom in the middle and finally the snake tires and Tom falls to the ground gasping for breath, blood still oozing from his left wrist and a pretty bad rash around his neck from the rough snake scales.
Doc gets a pressure bandage on Tom's wrist and decides that is good enough and he and Howard resume hunting. They agree this is a pretty good spot. Tom is still a little miffed and heads off on his own mumbling something about "true friends and real buddies" and such.
Tom sees a patch of dead grass and leaves next to the canal and hears something "Nunk, Nunk, Nunk" so he goes over to investigate. He sees a couple flashes of white and yells back to Howard and Doc "Hey guys, I think I found a python nest." He starts digging inside as Doc and Howard rush over to help. "Ouch!" Tom yells and pulls his finger out of the nest with a 10" baby alligator firmly attached. Howard yells at him "That's not a python nest. Its an alligator nest." Tom replies "You Dang dummy I figured that out" and raises his right hand with the baby gator still attached. Howard replies "Yeah but don't you know mama gators protect their nest?"
Sure enough a mini-Tsunami erupts from the canal as an angry 10' mama gator come boiling up out of the murky water. Tom turns to run and shakes junior off his torn pinky and back into the nest with his siblings and heads for a lone cypress tree and practices he Elevator tree shinny technique. It works – almost. Mama G lunges and just before Tom gets out of range and grabs hold of his left boot. Another tug of war ensues and finally Tom's brand new Muck boot he had just bought at Cabelas the day before for this trip comes free. He yells down and the mad dinosaur below "Hey, those cost me $150". The irate mama gator shakes it then swallows $75 worth of rubber boot. She waddles over and lunges up but can't quite reach Tom's other boot to finish her meal Tom grabs the first limb and pulls himself up another couple of feet and breathes a sigh of relief. "Safe at least he mumble/grumbles. Then he sees the distinctive football shape of a 3' long hornet's nest and hears a loud buzzing. This can't be good!
#3
Timber Framing/Log construction / Re: Spruce? Green or dried?
Last post by Resonator - Today at 09:43:09 AMI've cut a lot of spruce off my land, and as BB said you can get face checks in posts and beams. It varies in each piece how big the cracks get. You also may have to skim cut/plane the faces flat after it dries, I've used 6x6 for pole shed framing and noted this when nailing horizontal boards to them. As usual when logging the butt log and the next log up are usually best grade, the higher up the tree and more clusters of knots the weaker it gets.
#4
General Board / Re: Making it thrugh another y...
Last post by Resonator - Today at 09:32:54 AMIn retail sales there's a whole system they've developed after studying buying habits of people as to how they lay out the floor plan of a store. For example the milk coolers will always be at the back of the grocery store, because you'll have to walk through the entire store to just to get a jug of milk, and are likely to grab other products on the way through.
#5
Forestry and Logging / How much Face Cut Angle Can Yo...
Last post by weimedog - Today at 09:29:10 AMWhile the Humboldt vs. Conventional discussion can take off into the weeds, how about a subset of that discussion? Face cut angles? In soft wood or more brittle species, a shallow cut angle works pretty well as typically as soon as the face closes the hinge simply breaks. Out here in Hardwood that same situation results in fiber pull. 
SO the geometry has to be modified as fiber pull is a way to reduce the money on the landing. Another nuance is as the tree begins it's trip to the ground, it "crushes" the hinge at some level as the entire weight of the tree is now on and bending a much smaller x-section of wood, this crushes and helps promote the hinge to break. I've done literally 100's of close up video on different species to document this. SOME better video than others. Some made the channel to discussion reasons most have not. My (selfish ) research on the subject the goal. Here is one of the more recent ones. Second tree actually is very useful to watch.
Did another on the location of the back cut & resultant high wood or not on pulls.
This from the winter job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se4-Jk9Q-tU
SO the geometry has to be modified as fiber pull is a way to reduce the money on the landing. Another nuance is as the tree begins it's trip to the ground, it "crushes" the hinge at some level as the entire weight of the tree is now on and bending a much smaller x-section of wood, this crushes and helps promote the hinge to break. I've done literally 100's of close up video on different species to document this. SOME better video than others. Some made the channel to discussion reasons most have not. My (selfish ) research on the subject the goal. Here is one of the more recent ones. Second tree actually is very useful to watch.Did another on the location of the back cut & resultant high wood or not on pulls.
This from the winter job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se4-Jk9Q-tU
#6
General Board / Having to Buy Tires.
Last post by SawyerTed - Today at 09:22:23 AMMy truck needed tires. We use a nationwide retail chain because there's no telling where we might drive.
I hate to buy tires, brakes, gravel and shoes. I know the necessity each but they just get used up!
There's $1,200 gone!
I hate to buy tires, brakes, gravel and shoes. I know the necessity each but they just get used up!
There's $1,200 gone!
#7
Chainsaws / History of the Stihl 028
Last post by gman98 - Today at 09:20:26 AMCan anyone here tell us about the history of the Stihl 028's? When they were built, what market/users were they designed for? I got a couple of them a while back and they seem to be nice bulletproof saws.
#8
Forestry and Logging / Re: Humboldt vs. Conventional
Last post by weimedog - Today at 09:17:58 AM Another discussion is about the species of a tree & fiber pull characteristics. Here they pull, out there in soft wood world they break so face cut angles can be less.
This is where I ended up after 25 years in this stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed72a3ugc2I
This is where I ended up after 25 years in this stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed72a3ugc2I
#9
FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! / Re: What's for dinner?
Last post by K-Guy - Today at 09:15:00 AMI made smoked pulled pork sandwiches on rolls with coleslaw. This is the only thing I eat coleslaw with. Generally I never eat cabbage.
#10
Forestry and Logging / Re: Humboldt vs. Conventional
Last post by weimedog - Today at 09:13:16 AMThat's a good thing, a meaningful discussion of why a particular approach is used. On the flats, I use a conventional and have the hinge in a root flare if possible. Certainly as close to the edge to Get ALL of the wood I can to the landing. Can save over a ft per tree vs. Humboldt partly because to use a Humboldt I would have the bar in the dirt to cut that low. So save a foot a tree using conventional and My log buyers takes the measurement FROM the base on the veneer & trees where the face cut is out of the money wood. Adds up quick at over a buck a foot. Using the conventional on a typical 100 tree job is 100ft of timber. Also typically pine and other soft wood around here is less than 300 a thousand, so LOTS vs every bit of it is the norm AND feller bunchers as it's tough for a logger to make a living getting 1/2 of 300 a thousand on soft wood. Out west soft wood is the norm. Here Hard Wood with much higher value is the norm. Different techniques to maximize return on investment have been developed in both area's. Why it's tough to listen to the one size fits all and push for Humboldt's by some of the large high volume Pacific North West Canadian channels for anything other than pure entertainment and to see other peoples worlds.
