Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

... rs, a good saw is hard to beat. Blades last longer in a good saw even though they are cutting much more material.

Kyle,

I would imagine so ... I know that U.B. has said that the saws @ the fab shops where's he's worked pretty much mostly just ran and ran without a lot of having to screw with them ... despite the dipnoids he worked with abusing the crap out of them.

Would love to have an Ellis saw ... but that ain't in the cards at the moment. Would also be nice to have a tension gauge to set the blade tightness ... but @ $250+ that ain't in the cards either.

Hopefully the mods we did to my Tool Gypsy Chicom unit will allow the blades to last a little longer than they have been recently.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 0940, sunny, 55F with 76% humidity. Forecast high of 66F with 0% chance of rain this afternoon, and a low of 39F tonight. I was able to wait for most of the frost to melt before I had to load the scalper. It was after dark when I finished last night, and I was about froze {40F at the time}, so I waited to load it this morning before work. But I got it returned and was only a couple minutes late for work.

Hope everyone has a good weekend,

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

Larro, that's a nice straight furrow. Will you use an auger to dill holes for the trees?

If you had seen the whole row you wouldn't say it's straight And the trees are planted using a pine tree planter. It is a piece of equipment with a round cutting blade in the front, and a curved plow point right behind that with an opening for you to put the seedlings. You hold them in place until the back tires packs dirt around them. 15 years ago when I planted the longleaf's here at the house I was sore for days from riding the planter. The bad news is I'm 15 years older now.

Here is a planter I found using Google Images. The folks in the picture should have scalped their land. Grass will steal most of the food and water from his trees.

 

[Larro Darro]

Would love to see video of that in action.....how much experimentation did it take to get that smooth and even cut? Need to do much adjusting of the 3-point?

I had to let the top-link out a little from where I had it for transport. But the main thing is to try to go as shallow as you can and still move all the sod. If you go too deep, the sod you are turning up will be higher, so the tractor tires will be that much above the furrow and it is hard to get the planter low enough. I've planted close to 100 acres of trees, so I have some experience, but the last was 15 years ago. I'm hoping it is like riding a bike. {except maybe not as hard going uphill}

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

Good morning mi amigos. Trailering the wife for an 11am training session. Should leave plenty of time for a ride this afternoon.

There is no reason you can't let her ride in the truck with you. Or is there?

 

[Larro Darro]

I took a nice hot shower this morning, confident knowing that the main shower drain was now connected, which apparently it had never been due to wires getting crossed/lack of GC oversight frankly, so for the last week I have sent hundreds of gallons of hot water down into the full conditioned crawl space, creating a lake a foot deep in one corner of my newly remodeled home.

You can imagine my reaction to the hvac guy, who was there to enlarge the heat ducting into the new bathroom (tile floors way too cold) and add a return in the bedroom area, and I got the Mr Drew, you have a small problem. The Anglicized version of Mister Drew, we have leetle problem.

So emergency call to the plumber, who showed up in an hour, somewhat embarrassed because they were the folks who should have hooked up the drain, but they didn't know the tile guy had cut the pipe. The GC sure did know...and this one day after the two week old cheap Chinese wax seal put down by the carpet guys laying vinyl in the small upstairs bathroom, failed, due to a cockeyed install and a wax seal that unlike the two dollar more one, medium brown vs white/clear btw, was junk compared to what the plumbers brought. So water leaking down through the hallway ceiling, luckily never dripping actually, necessitating a trip to Lowes for Kilz ,but thankfully I caught it early on. Hopefully the ceiling will dry out without issue and I can then paint over after it's totally dry.

So your lesson of the day is don't skimp with wax seals. The alternatives are not how you want to spend part of your Saturday. But the best part is I'll forget about all of it when I head out to the woods this afternoon with my loppers and chain saw. Hundred feet a day. All is good.

Dang Drew, you should write a book about your remodel troubles. Maybe you could recoup some of your $$$.

Larro

 

[bakerg]

Aerial photos of Detroit. Interesting and fascinating too in a way.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ay/exposures-detroit-by-air-alex-maclean.html

In the distance, you can see my home land of Canada as Windsor can be seen across the Detroit river.:thumbsup:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Drew, sorry about your troubles, but glad about your patience. You BP would be off the chart and your life shortened if you let it get to you. I've always dreamed of having a big budget and going furniture shopping in NC. Enjoy your trail cutting you Conquistador.

Larro, hope the tree planting goes well. Does the state do all that much to promote it?

Roy, bundle up and burn another stack.

Buppies, glad we can't smell you anymore. Hope the pain goes away fast too.

RS, a secret to the smaller saws is to have good bearings that guide the blade and good hydraulic control. Install a needle control valve in necessary. Also, baby a new blade with low feedrate for the 1st ten minutes.

JDgreen227, if she'll have you, I ain't getting in the way bro. Have fun with all of it. Hectic until the big day/big moment and then it all is great.

 

[sodamo]

61°F and no rain last 24 hours. A tad on the chilly side due to the dryness of the air LOL

Be safe
Have a great day

02-22-2013 10:41 AM

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Waiting for it to "warm" a bit before giving a couple of rows in the garden a 2nd till. Then we are planting onions. We like the white onions. Some years they do better than others.