Did something dumb today.

[thecfarm]

A four foot level has bite the dust.
I fixed the bush hog today and was mowing in front of the house down by the garden.
We use the bush hog like a mower. We do mow a lawn with a mower.
I was going to build a herb bed around  last fall. Never got to it. Somehow I left my level down there too. I was mowing and saw the 4x4 and the level. came back around and hit one of the 4X4 four and that was it for the level. The front tire run it over as I was stomping on the brake.
Can be used to level out rounded corners now.

[SwampDonkey]

Like my father. Leave a few tools on the ground when fixing something in the field and dig it up next fall on the harvester when it rides up the elevator bed. 

[TreefarmerNN]

Here I am with head down in shame.  We had a call today with a person who had fallen while at the bottom of a very large hill.  This person was probably 350 lbs.  we weren't carrying them up.  We had to cut a path up a creek bottom to be able to get a sxs close and then carry the rest of the way.  The chainsaw I was using was idling way too high.  See where I'm going.  On one of my cuts I turned and swung the saw a bit too close to my leg.  It caught my pants and scratched my leg.  And I do mean scratch.  It wasn't even bleeding.  I did rip the hole bigger to make sure the damage wasn't bad.  It was not.  I asked the captain of the truck it came off of to either fix the idle or have our small enigine guy do it tomorrow.  I got very, very lucky.  First time I've ever done that.

Years ago we were selling firewood.  I came in for lunch one day and looked at my insulated coveralls and found them cut just above my knee.  Saw had gone through all three layers of the coveralls but not my pants underneath and I never realized it until I sat down. 

[GAB]

Like my father. Leave a few tools on the ground when fixing something in the field and dig it up next fall on the harvester when it rides up the elevator bed. 

Hardened steel in the field chopper knife head kind of ruins a day and quite a few cnotes.
GAB

[Rhodemont]

Was unloading a beam off the mill yesterday.  Did not have it centered just right on the forks so the end tipped down when I came off the bunks.  Dang, the corner caught the wires going into the tail lights and ripped them out.  I have only gone out with the trailer one time since bringing it home but have it on my list to fix.  Will have to pull new wires through the frame.
          
            

[Magicman]

Maybe you can grab them and pull enough slack to make some butt splices and not have to replace them.  I have had to do such a couple of times after mice cut my wiring.  

[doc henderson]

Well, I have put this off for a week or so.  I had Dallas helping get the shop cleaned and that included getting 15 rolls of insulation off a table and 24 sheets of 4 x 12 x 1/2 inch sheetrock hung.  they are now stored in and on the walls where they belong.  I had saved a dozen cans or so with broken off unrepairable nozzles to shoot next time I was out.  Dallas helped me decide to get rid of them as they sat on a shelf.  I often will put an empty can in the fire to get it really empty of what little propellant might be left.  There was a can of orange rustolium that had fallen off the shelf and split the valve stem like a spiral fracture.  often the plastic innards melt, and it just goes wooof.  Well in the fire it goes, and then Dallas had to go get a package sent off.  I hear a booom, and see 12-foot-high flames and then a miniature black nuclear style cloud that rolled inside of itself as it rose in the air.  I thinking I wish Dallas could have seen that.  I get a call in a few from Dave or EMS chief asking if everything is alright.  I am like why?  He says fire has just been dispatched to your home.  some do-gooders in the parking lot of the clinic behind me called in an explosion.  I told him I was fine and what happened and asked he call them off to be ready for a real emergency.  He said he would try, but like the police, once they get dispatched it is not usual to stop.  So, Dallas gets back, and I tell him the fire department is on the way, and of course he thought I was kidding.  so big red truck out front and 3 young guys in full gear.  I told them what happened and since we had fires a few years back, I am informed of new ordinances against burning.  I always observe red flag warnings.  I got a two-page outline of when you can burn, and told they almost never give permission to have a burn fire for wood.  You can have a social fire with a burn pit that meets the ordinance (buried but not specified how deep).  the older chief told me the rules.  I told him I was a boy scout and a leader, part of EMS, Kansas Search and Rescue and in fact their Medical Director.  I still got a warning    and the promise of a citation if it happened again.  At the end the older guy got a little smile and said you might just want to put a couple chairs down there so when you burn it will meet the ordinance of a social fire.  I was respectful and so were they.  No harm other than some orange paint on my white fence.  A good time was had by all.

[moosehunter]

We have used the chairs and cooler for years as we have the same rules. The chairs and cooler are always empty, but their there so I can say my friends are on the way!
mh

[Resonator]

Here the regulation is you have to get an an annual burning permit. You can only burn at a certain time, size of fire, and other rules, after you call in to get the daily fire danger level. 
If the fire department gets called out to your property, standard procedure is a minimum charge $1000 (or more) bill to the homeowner.

[Old Greenhorn]

Well every town and region are different and varies throughout the year depending on conditions. I used to be one of those guys that responded to those calls and had to talk to the fire owners and often make a judgement call. Many times it was just really stupid people doing really stupid things that could and sometimes did, go very wrong. We'd have to shut them down and sometimes drown the fire for them. Often it was because they had given no thought to suppression or control. No water, or using a garden hose that only reached half way to the fire, burning too high, burning on windy days in dry conditions and more than once it turned into a full first alarm call with structures being threatened or burned.
 On the other hand you have neighbors who called in because they didn't like someone and thought they could cause them grief, or were well meaning but uniformed. Sometimes it was all innocent and just a mom and dad with a couple of kids roasting marshmallows over a small fire during a burn ban (which is usually legal). But still it was a chance to educate and explain that they should have water available in sufficient quantity to control the fire no matter what happened.

 Every year at Bill's annual party we have a fire. It's not small, about 30' in diameter and 15-20' high. We pass on the fire if conditions aren't right. We have never called it in to get it listed as a controlled burn, we have never gotten a call or fire response as a result even though you can see it from space or a few miles away. Of course, in attendance are 2 or 3 Deputy Sheriffs (usually one in uniform on a dinner break) a couple of State troopers, The undersheriff, and the local Fire Chief and several firefighters both retied and active. We also have a 500 GPM Fire pump next to the pond and several hundred feet of 2 and 3" line. Last year we skipped the fire, too dry and too much wind. fun is fun, but burning your own property down is just not very smart.
 I am sure you would have been fine were it not for that mini mushroom cloud. Some folks are just nosey, but some are just trying to be good neighbors and help you out. I am looking forward to the day I get that fire truck showing up because a neighbor called it in. It will give me a chance to meet the new folks in the FD. I ALWAYS have a chair by my fires, I need it to maintain my Firewatch.  I also keep at least one silver bullet by my fires at all times.

[Rhodemont]

MM, there is a plastic plate on the other side of the mill.  I popped that off and the wires are right there coming through the cross frame tube.  Will be pretty easy to make the splices there.

[Magicman]

Good.  It's nice to be able to have a simpler fix than mine.  

[Ljohnsaw]

So as I mentioned in my Timber Frame Build, I had a fire Wednesday and Thursday. I wasn't sure where my burn permit was. They used to be good for two years and we're obtained from a fire station in person. Last year when I stopped I was instructed on how to get one online. As it turns out, the are good from June 1 to May 31.

I go online to request a new one and the site is not working properly. I send in a question to find out what I'm doing wrong.

I try with Chrome instead of Firefox and it works. I have a PDF of my approved permit in minutes. Cool. I get a message back from the Webmaster and I respond I'm good, Firefoxjust is not supported. As mentioned in the other thread, fire bans usually go up by mid-May but it is still open burn now. I looked up Wednesday, and I'm good to go.

About an hour or so into it, I hear car horn beeping on the other side of my cabin. The campground manger is all excited.

You have a burn going?  Yes ...

It's no burn now, extreme fire danger. No, I checked, it's ok to burn...

Do you have a permit? Yes, just got it on my phone ...

Well, I have Cal Fire on the property checking on things. OK, thanks ...

They never stopped by and I was able to dispose of 2 or 3 cords of firewood that nobody wants for free. I was just out of room to store any more until my cabin is finished.

Maybe I'll slap together a very stout woodshed, in my spare time...

[customsawyer]

We are no longer required to get a burn permit for small fires. Large acreage we do. Back when we had to have a permit the rules stated that it had to be hand piled or a warming fire. Well I always used my hand on the joystick of the loader, thus it was hand piled, and I always had a chill, even if it was in July.  
Even had one of the Georgia Forestry Commission guys stop by one time when it was about 100 degrees with a 115 heat index. I told him it was a warming fire. I thought he was going to wet himself laughing on his way back to the truck.