Who is your logging, sawing, woodworking buddies.

[doc henderson]

Well Dr. Hagley a cardiologist, came down to engrave on a top shelf for a 4 y/o little friend of his.  her book shelf broke.  The other day she asked his favorite color and then proceeded to draw a picture for him using of course a lot of blue crayon.  

[doc henderson]

I also work with saw dust jimmy.  He is a wood turner but likes to fix and refinish 0ld stuff and make new furniture.  He likes to make stuff for ladies older than him, so it feels like he is being a good youngster.  



there is Jimmy



and his friend (friend of his deceased mother-in-law) on her bench with accommodation for her two cats to sit next to her.

[doc henderson]

Ok you have heard me talk about my buddy Dallas.  He is a professional manure spreader.  Is neat as a pin, hardworking, and we help each other often.  He has helped me with mechanical issues like the track loader.  We have built hunting blinds, and taken down trees, as well as paneled his shed and man cave area.  He has taken me on several deer hunts, and he has quite the shed collection.



that is Dallas looking for the hose leak.  I had to push a little on the control then jump out and look where the fluid was coming from.  He got me over the hump on the two-man part of that job.  He loaned me the Puller to work on the dump truck and had differential fluid and hydraulic fluid in 5-gallon buckets on hand



Here we are getting ready to take down an old elm that is leaning the wrong way toward a fence and tree row.  His loader.



his cat Sammy in memorial in the man cave.



Dallas in the man cave


Dallas in a half-done round bale hunting blind.  We worked together on the windows.




done-er.


more!





bear claws, bow harvested.



now in the ERC stool with epoxy









sheds going back up.  his shop is the talk of the town



He came down and we added wheels and a handle to make his buzz box portable.



We help each other back and forth, and no one know or cares who is ahead! we both win.

[WhitePineJunky]

😃 

[doc henderson]

Well, you never know what some wood will end up.  I gave some elm rounds to my friend of 30 years, @Cardiodoc .  He was warned they would crack, and he heeded that and spent time and money on wood preservative.  These are 4 inches thick, and he flattened then with a router sled.  he has had much loss the past several years.  He lost his dad and brother and most recently his adult son.  He came over yesterday to make an insert to add to one of the tops.  It was doing well, but he had dropped it and completed a crack that he recently had repaired.  I have no idea how much time he has put into this wood.  He sent me a pic of the added insert.  In memory of Chris.

[maple flats]

My wood cutting, sawmilling buddy was my grandson who worked with me both in my blueberries and cutting/splitting wood for both my home and my evaporator. Then he graduated college and those days were mostly gone. 
He then went into the Navy and has been in there for 6 yrs in EOD (explosive ordnance disposal), not the choice I'd would have liked him to take. He actually went completely thru Navy Seal training and completed it, but unfortunately too many completed it in his group, he got eliminated when, after hell week they cut the extras by having a sprint against the rest of the group. They had never had any sprinting in their training nor were they told to practice sprinting. All running was for endurance. Anyways, he ended up out of the Seals. He then was recommended for EOD and he took it, he did have the option not to. At times he does work with the Seals. 
Now, my newer buddy is another grandson, who is 15, turns 16 in Nov. He used to help me often, but now he got a part time job and he's in football, Practice is 5 days a week, sometimes 6. That makes it hard to get him now, and after football he has basketball.
However I might have a new buddy. He's in his 40's and recently got laidoff, so he has taken up woodworking. He makes and sells some beautiful stuff. He now has some logs he wants to saw into lumber and he'll work with me doing it. It sounds like he might want to do that aften, we'll see.
Without that I generally and have for years worked alone. On felling for both firewood and for saw logs my wife (also 77) does help and she is a good help too, but only too often she's busy working in our local community garden, or 3 days a week she also volunteers at our food bank, plus our own garden and likely 25 or so fruit trees. In fact she just went to harvest vegies at the community garden, they then are given to several food banks where the hungry can get them free.

[doc henderson]

So, I mentioned @Cardiodoc lost a son.  he has been working on these elm cookies for a few years and suddenly unfortunately, they had a project.  A table for his daughter in remembrance of his late son, and another for his (step) daughter.  He treats her as a daughter.  








both delivered.  remember 4 inches thick and 4 feet in diameter.  heavy.

[rusticretreater]

My logging buddy is a local gent named Joe.  His son went through a divorce and had to sell, so I bought his property.  Joe had helped his son build the house I live in.  Joe's family used to own all the land around mine and he was born on a neighboring property.  So he has taken a keen interest in my welfare and my 8.4 acres.

He has an old skytrac that is a monster and he takes out all the dead trees.  I have so many down now that I kinda sigh when I look at the work ahead of me.  Tells me I can use the Skytrac anytime I need it.  Great guy.  I go over to his house and play pool every thursday.  I am indeed fortunate.

[WV Sawmiller]

   Looking at the original question I realize that is a hard question to answer.

   I don't have anyone who works directly with me on my milling, logging or woodworking projects. 

   I consider most of my customers my friends and enjoy seeing and hearing what they plan to do with the wood we produce. 

   Many of my customers I see regularly at the big flea market I try to visit each weekend between March and October as weather and work and family issues permit. The other vendors there are friends and we compare notes and make suggestions and help send each other business when we get the chance. We also buy and sell to each other.

    The most honest answer is my woodworking, sawing and logging buddy's are the members here. Many I have never met but they have helped by answering my questions or posting topics that helped me do or try things I would not have done on my own. 

   Thanks to you all who may have helped me finish a project or just brightened my day through something you said or did without ever knowing.