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General Woodworking / Re: Watcha Makin'?
Last post by Wlmedley - Today at 10:49:04 PMAfter looking at my pictures I see what you mean,Lynn. I will add a couple 2x4s under each post.One thing I have is plenty of lumber.Thanks for the observation.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Maintaining the state park...
Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 10:35:46 PMWhere I cut out firewood and thin, it's sorta looks parkish for a year or two until I get new aspen sprouts. Then the moose move in and chew aspen suckers, the odd deer around, but we have like 3 or 4 deer around here you hardly see. I took a video awhile ago before are started an area, no undergrowth, not even a hazel or a currant bush. Stuff coming now. About 10 years ago I remember talking with a moose hunter I never knew, not from here, and he said he saw 7 or 8 deer sitting where he was at. I said I've been here for over 50 years and I've never seen more than 3 or 4 together ever. Anything is possible, but I'm thinking BS to. Same deer 2 or 3 times. 
Go up the Tobique River watershed in winter, any time they were cutting wood you could count 50 deer or more in one bunch, no trouble at all. 
Go up the Tobique River watershed in winter, any time they were cutting wood you could count 50 deer or more in one bunch, no trouble at all. #3
Forestry and Logging / Re: Maintaining the state park...
Last post by Andries - Today at 10:21:24 PMBarbender, I have relatives in Europe that come to visit from time to time. You're exactly right in your comments about the reaction to North American forest lands. "Oh my! Not tidy. So much work to do!"
But if those Finns had seen a southern yellow pine plantation in Georgia, they might just feel right at home.
I remember being absolutely gob-smacked when I saw forests in northern Europe that had number tags on each and every tree. At family reunions we all got a real laugh about the extreme differences between the boreal forest in Canada and the manicured forests of Europe.
I guess it's all about the end goal and the right tool for the right job. Swamp donkey is swinging a clearing Saw for TSI work in the Maritimes. Cfarm is getting it picture perfect because it's close to his house. I am using my pole saw for clearing sight lines in the curves around reclaimed old logging roads. Live music might be thinking about parklands, trailers and camping.
Everyone has their own toolbelt.
The only system that sure as heck wouldn't work, up here anyway, are Southside's cows. There'd be an explosion in the bear and wolf population and not a cow to be seen anywhere.
But if those Finns had seen a southern yellow pine plantation in Georgia, they might just feel right at home.
I remember being absolutely gob-smacked when I saw forests in northern Europe that had number tags on each and every tree. At family reunions we all got a real laugh about the extreme differences between the boreal forest in Canada and the manicured forests of Europe.
I guess it's all about the end goal and the right tool for the right job. Swamp donkey is swinging a clearing Saw for TSI work in the Maritimes. Cfarm is getting it picture perfect because it's close to his house. I am using my pole saw for clearing sight lines in the curves around reclaimed old logging roads. Live music might be thinking about parklands, trailers and camping.
Everyone has their own toolbelt.
The only system that sure as heck wouldn't work, up here anyway, are Southside's cows. There'd be an explosion in the bear and wolf population and not a cow to be seen anywhere.
#4
General Board / Re: The weather 2024
Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 10:05:56 PMThe outside air has been so dry here, it could choke a horse. I leave the window up and it's like dry air off a wood stove. 
#5
General Woodworking / Re: Watcha Makin'?
Last post by Magicman - Today at 09:59:01 PMMaybe not needed but I would add trimmer studs beneath the headers that the roof posts rest on.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Felt Diesel wiper for Norw...
Last post by rusticretreater - Today at 09:52:38 PMI didn't make it, someone else on the forum did though I forget who. I probably got it off of the sawmill mods thread which is 76 pages long now.
The person took a Uclip, expanded it a bit and then welded a block on it that allowed a hydraulic fitting to be screwed in. Then a hydraulic elbow is added. A tube is brazed to the end of that and to the end of a brass elbow(cropped in the image) that leads to the diesel tank. The lube pads are made of felt. I don't know how it is mated to the blade guide.
The person took a Uclip, expanded it a bit and then welded a block on it that allowed a hydraulic fitting to be screwed in. Then a hydraulic elbow is added. A tube is brazed to the end of that and to the end of a brass elbow(cropped in the image) that leads to the diesel tank. The lube pads are made of felt. I don't know how it is mated to the blade guide.
#7
General Board / Re: Making it through another ...
Last post by Old Greenhorn - Today at 09:39:26 PMSpot on, it's definitely a game, like craps.
Way back in the early 80's I got a job as a Senior Applications Engineer which sounds neat, but it was really being a skilled machinist working as a salesman for a specialty superfinishing tool. I was 'senior' because they hired a younger fella to help me do the tool shows. (He was unimpressive, barely an all-around machinist, and did whatever he was told, but if you didn't tell him anything, he didn't do anything. Not a self starter, you could say. ) Anyway, sales were new to me and they had a couple of high end big dollar investors that were very successful businessmen and knew sales and the psychology of selling. They gave us a crash course in qualifying prospects, reading human 'tells' and driving quickly to a meaningful connection (hopefully resulting in a sale and a new client), OR casting the prospect aside as a tire kicker pretty quickly and not expending time on a time waster. Caustic though it was, they were pretty dang accurate in their methods and we (my junior and I) would make a game out of who could read prospects at a show quickest and home in on the good ones. It was an amusement that made a 2 or 3 day show go faster, and also a fascinating glimpse into how people think, talk, decide, and behave. I learned a lot and I carried those 'reading skills' through the rest of my career up to now. I continue to hone them, just for fun, it fascinates me a little. Most shows I have ample opportunity to 'practice' on people as I entertain questions and conversations about their needs and interests. On average I would guess about 20-40 interactions during a 5 hour show. At this show, there was 1 which made it clear to me "we have no buyers here". (AKA ' these are not the Droids you are looking for'.) This show reminded me of when we did a tool show in Charlotte, NC and they had a cold snap with a little snow in the suburbs, the temp was around 20° during the days of the show and they thought the world was ending, schools were closed because some found ice on a road (frozen puddle) and nobody came out. The local news was selling it as a 'natural disaster' (stay home if you don't HAVE to be somewhere). It was 8 below when we left NY for the show, so bright sunshine and 20° was like a Caribbean vacation to us. People stared at us as we walked up the street in open sport coats while they were wearing any and every piece of heavy outerwear they owned. But with a filled convention hall of exhibitors (about 300) we had less than 600 people come to the show over a 3 day period. Normal would have been around 6-10,000 people in that period. The show was beyond a total bust for everyone and exhibitors were setting up card tables and playing poker in groups of booths. We had a TV in our booth for playing videos of our tools through a VCR and a lot of folks asked us if we could rig it to get local tv and at least watch the news, a ball game, or the Andy Griffith show...anything. (We tried, no joy.) I will add that of all the shows I did around the country, from LA to NY, the Charlotte show was by far the nicest one to work at, get setup, do the show, and get out. The staff and the town were the most pleasant to work with that I had experienced. It's a shame the weather killed that show. (And if your curious, Detroit was at the other end of that spectrum, they wore me out and had me on edge the minute I walked in the hall and it didn't let up until I got home.)
Anyway, today was a 'Charlotte day' for me as far as the show went. It's gonna happen, all you can do is lay back, laugh, and enjoy what you can out of it, then move on the next day. Life doesn't come with any promises except that it will end eventually.
Way back in the early 80's I got a job as a Senior Applications Engineer which sounds neat, but it was really being a skilled machinist working as a salesman for a specialty superfinishing tool. I was 'senior' because they hired a younger fella to help me do the tool shows. (He was unimpressive, barely an all-around machinist, and did whatever he was told, but if you didn't tell him anything, he didn't do anything. Not a self starter, you could say.
) Anyway, sales were new to me and they had a couple of high end big dollar investors that were very successful businessmen and knew sales and the psychology of selling. They gave us a crash course in qualifying prospects, reading human 'tells' and driving quickly to a meaningful connection (hopefully resulting in a sale and a new client), OR casting the prospect aside as a tire kicker pretty quickly and not expending time on a time waster. Caustic though it was, they were pretty dang accurate in their methods and we (my junior and I) would make a game out of who could read prospects at a show quickest and home in on the good ones. It was an amusement that made a 2 or 3 day show go faster, and also a fascinating glimpse into how people think, talk, decide, and behave. I learned a lot and I carried those 'reading skills' through the rest of my career up to now. I continue to hone them, just for fun, it fascinates me a little. Most shows I have ample opportunity to 'practice' on people as I entertain questions and conversations about their needs and interests. On average I would guess about 20-40 interactions during a 5 hour show. At this show, there was 1 which made it clear to me "we have no buyers here". (AKA ' these are not the Droids you are looking for'.) This show reminded me of when we did a tool show in Charlotte, NC and they had a cold snap with a little snow in the suburbs, the temp was around 20° during the days of the show and they thought the world was ending, schools were closed because some found ice on a road (frozen puddle) and nobody came out. The local news was selling it as a 'natural disaster' (stay home if you don't HAVE to be somewhere). It was 8 below when we left NY for the show, so bright sunshine and 20° was like a Caribbean vacation to us. People stared at us as we walked up the street in open sport coats while they were wearing any and every piece of heavy outerwear they owned. But with a filled convention hall of exhibitors (about 300) we had less than 600 people come to the show over a 3 day period. Normal would have been around 6-10,000 people in that period. The show was beyond a total bust for everyone and exhibitors were setting up card tables and playing poker in groups of booths. We had a TV in our booth for playing videos of our tools through a VCR and a lot of folks asked us if we could rig it to get local tv and at least watch the news, a ball game, or the Andy Griffith show...anything. (We tried, no joy.) I will add that of all the shows I did around the country, from LA to NY, the Charlotte show was by far the nicest one to work at, get setup, do the show, and get out. The staff and the town were the most pleasant to work with that I had experienced. It's a shame the weather killed that show. (And if your curious, Detroit was at the other end of that spectrum, they wore me out and had me on edge the minute I walked in the hall and it didn't let up until I got home.)Anyway, today was a 'Charlotte day' for me as far as the show went. It's gonna happen, all you can do is lay back, laugh, and enjoy what you can out of it, then move on the next day. Life doesn't come with any promises except that it will end eventually.
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General Woodworking / Re: Watcha Makin'?
Last post by Wlmedley - Today at 09:36:35 PM
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General Woodworking / Re: Watcha Makin'?
Last post by Wlmedley - Today at 09:32:47 PMA fellow a couple miles up the road from me asked me if I would build a old time wooden well curb for him.He has a drilled well with a 58" square concrete pad around it and wants to hide well casing.He said he wasn't in a hurry for it but being I agreed to build it last fall I figured I better get on it.He left the designing up to me and this is what I have so far.Plan on using board and batten siding but don't know whether to use poplar or hemlock.Also going to put roof on and a beam across to mount pulley.Don't really know what to charge but thinking $500 would be a good price and give s me something to use my lumber for.url=https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=353604]
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Maintaining the state park...
Last post by barbender - Today at 09:26:54 PM I'm not saying that folks should maintain their property one way or the other. Only that sometimes, people will do things on their property that is contradictory to what their goals actually are, because they don't know any better.
I've worked on private timber sales where the timber was being removed to provide wildlife habitat- then the landowner wanted what was left to "look like a park". Well maybe that would be the way to go if you had open country species like bison and elk, but not for whitetails and ruffed grouse😊
I've worked on private timber sales where the timber was being removed to provide wildlife habitat- then the landowner wanted what was left to "look like a park". Well maybe that would be the way to go if you had open country species like bison and elk, but not for whitetails and ruffed grouse😊
