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Started by whitepe, November 02, 2002, 10:22:42 AM

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whitepe

The wife and I took a vacation day on Friday Nov. 1st
and drove from Peoria back to her folks place near
Bluffton, Indiana. We took the LT15 along cause the
father-in-law had about 10 logs to saw up and I was
going to store the LT15 in his barn till next February or
so cause I'm not like Kevin and I don't go out and saw in
the snow.
Anyway, one of the Father-in-laws friends stopped by and
we drove around back of the old dairy barn to unload
the LT15 from my 6 X 10 foot tilt bed trailer. I took the
web straps off and the three of us were going to drag
the mill back a little bit and then tilt the trailer bed
to lower it to the ground. As we were sliding it back
the bed began to tilt and I said to my father-in-law.
Oh, you already took the pin out?  To which he responded
No I didn't.     That's when I remembered that I had dropped the clip pin last weekend in the grass at home or someplace
where I couldn't find it so I put the pin in thinking that I'll
get another clip pin up at the house.  Well, obviously
I forgot to do that    :-/ :-/

I drove 250 miles yesterday afternoon with no pin
to prevent the trailer bed from tilting with absolutely
no problem. Oh well, they say that ignorance is bliss.

This reminds me of the time that I dropped a brand new
Sears clothes washing machine off the back of a different
trailer traveling about 60 mph  on i-74 through downtown
Peoria.  Oh well, that's another story for a later time.

We got 4 cherry and 1 hard maple log sawed this
morning. This afternoon we have 1 basswood and
three oak logs to saw up and we having a lunch break
right now.

More later.

Whitepe

blue by day, orange by night and green in between

Jeff

QuoteThis reminds me of the time that I dropped a brand new
Sears clothes washing machine off the back of a different
trailer traveling about 60 mph  on i-74 through downtown
Peoria.  Oh well, that's another story for a later time.

Perry did you see the I'm a dummy thread? ;)
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Corley5

Speaking of pins....  Dad had been hauling firewood with the tractor and a trailer without a hairpin in the hitch pin.  He hauled seven or eight loads no problem.  The first load I hauled the pin jumped out, trailer rolled backwards partway down a hill and stopped when it backed into a tree >:( >:( >:(  What a pain in the butt to get it hooked back up.  With a full load of green hard maple there was no picking the tongue up by hand.  I got the loader bucket under it and after several attempts finally got it blocked to the right height so I could hook it back on to the drawbar but not before I rounded up a hairpin.  It wasn't going to happen again.  If I was a good operator I would have checked my machine before using it and saw that there was an accident waiting happen but I didn't.  No one got hurt, no equipment was damaged and Dad was gone to Florida so I couldn't, politely mind you, tell him what I thought.  Now I'm amused by it but at the time I was P.O. ;D ;D
Burnt Gunpowder is the Smell Of Freedom

Fla._Deadheader

All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Tom

You're not going to tell him are you Harold? :D

Fla._Deadheader

NAAHHHH. I'm just curious where all the old sawyers go, when they aren't sawing??  
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Jeff

Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Fla._Deadheader

All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Tom


Jeff

Old sawyers go every 30 minutes. Haven't ya noticed that Tom is sawing at home today yet every time you stop by the computer he is on? Has to run to the bathroom every 30 minutes. Might as well check out the forum while he's in the house. :D
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Tom

When you live in the woods, the whole world is a bathroom.  I like to go to the house for a glass of sweetened iced tea.  How else can one schedule frequent enough bathroom breaks.?:D

Fla._Deadheader

All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Jeff

I'm tellin ya its true. I aquired this picture of another old sawyer with a cut away of his chair. now we know why he aint checking the forum every half hour on the weekend.

Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Fla._Deadheader

Has that seat got a trap door?? Looks like usin that funnel would be tricky  ::) :D
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Tom

Mirrors, Harold, Mirrors.  It's all done with Mirrors. :P

ARKANSAWYER

     I must come to Bibby's defense as he was working a farm show this weekend with WoodMizer and his motherboard is out at home.  (no not Mary, his computer).  Also us southern boys do not have a problem hitting that funnel as we all know that cold causes shrinkage ;D
ARKANSAWYER
ARKANSAWYER

Fla._Deadheader

Actually, when ya get to most of our age, ya might be usin a straw  :D
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Noble_Ma

I should have the wife read this post!  She always yells at me for going in the woods.  I tell her she's just jealous because she has to squat to go ;D

Bibbyman

All right yous guys!  Gone a couple of days and you start picking on me.

Well,  I'm back so watch out!  :o
Wood-Mizer LT40HDE25 Super 25hp 3ph with Command Control and Accuset.
Sawing since '94

whitepe

Jeff,
Yea I read the I'm a dummy thread. I couldn't let you get
all the credit.  ;) :D

Wow just look it this thread and to think that it all started
with a missing pin.  

BTB,  When my LT15 is in Illinois I put it down the lane
about 200 yards from the house around the corner of the drive
hidden from the house by the growing corn so my wife
couldn't see me going outside.  Since the corn was
harvested, I had to move the mill to Indiana behind
the father-in-law's old dairy barn so she couldn't see me going
there either.
The father-in-law and I got 9 of the 9 logs sawed up.
4 cherry, 3 oaks and one hard maple. We didn't have
time for the basswood.  We ended up with about 1200-1400
bd feet or about 2.5 whacks.  For all of you guys in the lap
of luxury with hydraulic mills you should try turning
24 inch diameter burr oaks on the LT15 mill.  All my father-in-law kept doing all weekend  was complaining about how hard turning the logs  were.  He's 74 now and when he was 60 he climbed Mt.  Shasta in California.

P.S. to Jeff, Have I got you in suspense about the Sears washer?

blue by day, orange by night and green in between

Bro. Noble

Perry,

Missin Pin----Pissin Min    not much difference.

I don't know about Jeff and the washing machine,  But after learning how you handle your cargo, You're nuts if you think you'll ever get me on the back of your motorcycle.

Noble
milking and logging and sawing and milking

Jeff

Yes?

Do you know how to keep a guy from peoria (or near) in suspense?
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

whitepe

Noble,

Well, If you won't go on my motorcycle maybe
my wife will take you on her Harley.  Several
years ago the wife, a friend and I had our bikes
up in the eastern U.P. of Michigan near Jeff's
bear hunting cabin.  We stopped at the Hessel
bakery and my friend bought a cherry cheesecake
and the folks at the bakery put it in a cardboard
box.  Well my friend had no luggage carrier so
he put it in my tail trunk.  When we got back
on the otherside of Cedarville we had cheesecake
splattered all over the inside of the box.
Another time the wife and I ran into Bruce and Jessica
Maze (spelling?)  at the bakery in Detour.  Bruce and
his wife had given up their teaching jobs down below
to live in the U.P. Bruce is now a guard at a prison
somewhere in the eastern U.P.  He rides his Harley
to work on second shift about 7 or 8 months a year.
He said that one had to watch out for the three D's
while riding in the U.P.  That would be deer, drunks,
and debris.  He has driven over deer hit by a vehicle
in one lane while he was in the other, he has run over
lawn chairs falling off of campers and he has dodged
his fair share of drunks in the wrong lane coming
home after second shift.

Jeff,
Now for the Sears washer story.  Back in 87 when we
were living in Peoria and just before we moved to our
current location we had purchased a new Sears washer
for the new house as our old ones sold with the other house.
I went downtown after work with my car and trailer
to pick it up about 5:30 PM and when I got there I had
discovered that I had forgotten my tie down straps.
I didn't have enough time to go home and come back
before they closed at 6:00 PM.  My trailer had
some 2X4's nailed to the wooden bed that had
been used as rear wheel chocks for the motorcycles.
So I put the washer on the trailer in front of the chocks.
I was about 1 mile from home and had just
come around a bend in I-74 and was just about to the
exit.  A gust of wind came up, tipped the washer over
and I felt the bump when it landed on it's side
on the trailer. Unfortunately some of it was overhanging
the end of the trailer add it rocked for what seemed
2 or 3 seconds before it slid off the back of the trailer
about a 10 inch drop.
I was expecting to see it tumble end for end and break
into a million pieces.  Instead, since it was packed
in a heavy waxy cardboard it just slid to a stop in the
middle of the right hand lane. By the time I stopped
I was at my exit. So, I got out ran back and slid the
box back to the trailer about 200 - 300 feet.  
Just as I got there and before I had loaded it back
on the trailer a man in a new cadillac pulled up
and put his window down. I was expecting him to
say would you like some help getting the
washer back on the trailer.  Instead he started cussing me
out for losing the washer. I was so *pithed by
his tongue lashing that I gave the box a big old bear
hug and picked it up and loaded back onto the
trailer in one motion.  The only thing that was wrong
with the box was a small whole made by an eye bolt
that was fastened to the trailer to tie down the bikes.
I've always said that if I ever met the packaging
engineer who designed the box that I would buy him
dinner or something.  That washer is still going strong
today and has never had any repairs except for
a new drain hose.  8)

Whitepe


blue by day, orange by night and green in between

Bibbyman

Your washer story is similar to my chair story;

My family is dirt poor and some don't even have dirt.  But one Christmas all of my mom's brothers and sisters and grown grandchildren went together and bought my grandmother a glider rocker for Christmas.  As mom clerked at the local store at Christmas time so she was able to order it at cost.  

It came in the week before Christmas and I was given the task of bringing it to our house to wait for Christmas morning.  We got it loaded into my 69 El Camino and pushed the back of the chair it up against the front of the bed.  

All went well until we turn onto the blacktop road heading out to the farm.  I got up to about 50 and looked back in the mirror to see the chair slide back,  hit the tailgate and tumble over it.  It all happened in slow motion but there was no time to react or prevent it. :o

We were not so lucky.  A chair went over the tailgate but what we retrieved was a large torn up burlap sack full of sticks and cotton padding.:'(  

Fortunate for me,  mom was along to witness the event.  She somehow came up with another chair in time for Christmas.  
Wood-Mizer LT40HDE25 Super 25hp 3ph with Command Control and Accuset.
Sawing since '94

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