Hello Everyone,
I am cutting some very nice loblolly pines for my new mancave project,...er..workshop expansion.
I started cutting a large (for me) log about 25 inches diameter. I was really tired of the heat,
hauling logs, stacking, stickering ect. I went to turn the cant for the final squaring cut and I'd
about had it. I was too wore out. I really needed someone to offer some assistance, a helping hand.
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I called out for some HELP...PLEASE!!!
Then it happened. I heard a loud whooshing sound overhead.
Look, up in the sky. It's a bird....no....it's a plane....it's....it's.....
It's LUMBERDOG!!!!!!!!
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That's right folks. Lumberdog, strange visitor from an alien planet.
Posing as Shadow, mild-mannered pooch belonging to my daughter,
Lumberdog can run off critters and varmints from the largest of slabpiles,
stack and sticker heavy boards and turn cants with a single paw.
Before I could bat an eye he was off to chase a squirrel away. So I went on with my
sawing. Loaded 19 2x4s, 1 2x6, 1 1x10, and 3 1x6 on the tractor.
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Lumberdog came running to the drying barn to help stack and sticker. So I went to get some water, when I got back all I see is
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Well, I reckon Lumberdog will at least keep the critters and varmints run off from the slabpile.
Maybe???????
Now that's man's best friend! Great looking lumber and great looking dog.
-lee
If you had been in Mississippi, I would have thought you were going to say it was the Magicman that swooped in! :)
:D :D :D :D
Thanks for the laugh, Greg. I actually "laughed out loud" at that one. You tell a good story. Nice spot for milling you've got there.
Woof-woof-woof, wag-wag-wag, pant-pant-pant, (scratch, sniff. lick :-X), Woof! wag-wag..........
Pass this message along to LD, he'll understand.
I hope he isn't too upset about you sawing HIS wood.... :D
Comical, I like it!
I need me a Lumberdog like that one ;D.
Nice dog 8) 8) and a nice tractor too ;D ;D 8) 8) 8)
Great pictures !
How big a log do you think he'd 'fetch' ???
Quote from: sprucebunny on July 01, 2012, 06:18:01 AM
How big a log do you think he'd 'fetch' ???
I had a border collie years ago that loved to play fetch. I finally tried throwing a 6 foot 2 x 4. Since it laid flat, it was hard for him to pick up but no problem for him to carry.
He laid it aside and brought a "stick" over to throw next. I think it was a piece of firewood about 5 inch diameter by 2 foot. He'd pick those up on a full out run and barely break stride.
Handsome pup you've got there. :)
Nice picture of your dog on the cant. My wife's dog loves to play in the sawdust. Kinda off a long hair dog and she will come back with sawdust on her face and my wife knows the dog has been with PaPa.