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[wroughtn_harv]

Jim I did seven logs I believe in about three hours. Three of those were trees cut last year and they debarked rather quickly. According to my friend with the power washer the secret is the high pressure and the swirl head. He said the swirl head is about a hundred dollars but it's the secret.

I'm taking my time getting out today because of the finger and I don't plan on working as hard as I normally would. I've also got to find a new wand for the pressure washer.

I was trying to get on the pile of logs to get a better angle, you need to keep the head of the power washer as close to ninety degrees as possible for maximum effectiveness, when I slipped. I broke not only the finger but the power washer wand too.

When my son in law tore up his finger working with me on the staircase in Highland Shores the doctor told him that we fracture our fingers all the time because the bones are so small. I believe that and accept that the pain is just the break telling me to be cool because things aren't a hundred percent.

The finger looks normal from the middle knuckle to the end. But it's about twice it's normal size between the hand and the knuckle. I do know the first thing I did upon getting back up was to move the end of the finger because I felt something let go when I went down.

 

[EddieWalker]

Harvey,

Sorry to hear about your finger. Sometimes you have to pay for your good luck with little setbacks from time to time. LOL

I'm a big fan of cedar logs and have a small collection of them myself. I realy like the preasure washer system for cleaning them up. Thanks. I also like shaping them with a belt sander and sawzall to get them just right. I've found that you can do some pretty major shaping to a cedar log and get it to fit just about anywhere without ruining the overall look of it. The more character they have, the better!!!!!

Eddie

 

[patrick_g]

Harv, It made my long time healed finger break twinge a little to just read of your misfortune. My break was between the last knuckle and the tip so it was NOT a big deal, just quite uncomfortable.

Yes, it makes for frustrating keyboarding. I was designing and building computer software at the time and was spending 6-7 hours a day at a keyboard. I was SO GLAD when I could take off the aluminum finger protector and touch a key with the bandaged finger without too much pain. I had some problem hitting only one key at a time with the bandaged finger.

3600 PSI !!!! You are lucky that in addition to breaking the finger and the wand that you didn't inject yourself with the high pressure stream. That is NOT A GOOD THING.

My pressure washer is much lower pressure (1800 PSI) and does a fair job of cleaning the cedar bark on logs but NOT A GOOD JOB AT ALL of removing bark most of the time. I'll have to give some consideration to a higher pressure unit as I would likek to debark some of my materials.

I have a fair supply of the bark-on-one-side slabs that are cut off at the mill to square the cant. I was thinking of cleaning them with my pressure washer, letting them dry, and spraying them with something (TBD) to prevent the bark from shedding after the wood is installed (interior use.) If I use a higher pressure washer I might be able to strip the bark as you did. (Uh, hopefully without the broken bone and wand.)

How many gal per minute does your washer spray? High pressure is only part of the story. If I can't get enough volume of water at the high pressure progress will be oh so slow. Also, could you say a little more about the special head that makes it work so well?

TIA for any info.

Hope you are digitally competent soon.

Pat

 

[rtdiggr]

Sorry to hear about the finger becareful when you wave at people the may take it the wrong way [middle finger]

On the plus the cedar looks great and pressure washing sure beats the old way of peeling off the bark.

Shane

 

[rtdiggr]

Hey Jinman i like your new avitar is there a story there? That is a very interesting angle.

Shane

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Harv, It made my long time healed finger break twinge a little to just read of your misfortune. My break was between the last knuckle and the tip so it was NOT a big deal, just quite uncomfortable.

Yes, it makes for frustrating keyboarding. I was designing and building computer software at the time and was spending 6-7 hours a day at a keyboard. I was SO GLAD when I could take off the aluminum finger protector and touch a key with the bandaged finger without too much pain. I had some problem hitting only one key at a time with the bandaged finger.

3600 PSI !!!! You are lucky that in addition to breaking the finger and the wand that you didn't inject yourself with the high pressure stream. That is NOT A GOOD THING.

My pressure washer is much lower pressure (1800 PSI) and does a fair job of cleaning the cedar bark on logs but NOT A GOOD JOB AT ALL of removing bark most of the time. I'll have to give some consideration to a higher pressure unit as I would likek to debark some of my materials.

I have a fair supply of the bark-on-one-side slabs that are cut off at the mill to square the cant. I was thinking of cleaning them with my pressure washer, letting them dry, and spraying them with something (TBD) to prevent the bark from shedding after the wood is installed (interior use.) If I use a higher pressure washer I might be able to strip the bark as you did. (Uh, hopefully without the broken bone and wand.)

How many gal per minute does your washer spray? High pressure is only part of the story. If I can't get enough volume of water at the high pressure progress will be oh so slow. Also, could you say a little more about the special head that makes it work so well?

TIA for any info.

Hope you are digitally competent soon.

Pat

Pat, the middle finger on my right hand has a permanent twist to the left at the last knuckle. I broke it many years ago and of course, never went to the doctor.

One of the interesting things about that injury was I could pull with that finger without pain but touching it in a pushing motion produced excruciating pain.

The current injury doesn't seem to affect the typing after I just start doing it and things warm up if you will. The pain kicks in when the middle knuckle and above are touched.

On the pressure washer, I've noticed that washing off the bark on cut boards has to be done very carefully or you can destroy the sapwood. The pressure is too great it seems. On a whole log I'm careful around damaged areas because it seems to want to peel the sapwood where it's injured.

I'll look at the tip but my friend told me it was the secret.

 

[ScottAR]

Probably a 0deg nozzle with a 360deg spin head. I've seen it called a turbo nozzle and a "Whirly Bird." (sp?) They use those nozzles to strip paint so I'd guess it's one of those. As for pressure/volume, I'd figure about 3500psi@3gpm or thereabouts would do quite well.

 

[jinman]

Hey Jinman i like your new avitar is there a story there? That is a very interesting angle.

I don't know if this is what Harvey meant by "This, that, and the other," but I'll give you a little background and a link to the rest of the story.

Silt Happens

Shane, that's a picture my wife took of me while I was finishing the job of digging out my pond in late 2005. I had a dozer dig out a huge layer of silt and he left me a bit of a mess to clean up. I finished it over several months before we ever got any rain. In that photo, I'm descending down the pond dam while scraping the loose silt to the bottom where I'd load up my bucket and bring it back up to dump on the back side of the dam. I kept expecting to see the oil pressure light come on because I figured all the oil ran to the front of the oil pan. Luckily, that never happened and my tractor performed flawlessly. I hauled hundreds of yards of additional silt out of the pond. The avitar brings back lots of memories, all of them good.

Here are a few attached photos also.

 

[patrick_g]

I kept expecting to see the oil pressure light come on because I figured all the oil ran to the front of the oil pan. Luckily, that never happened and my tractor performed flawlessly.

Jim, I too have operated in steep uphill and down hill attitudes and never experienced an oil pressure warning
B U T...

If I go nose high radically enough the hydrostat runs out of fluid (well, at least it quits working forward or reverse.) Then you are sitting there looking like you are waiting for main booster ignition and lift off. So far self rescue has always worked.

I raise any ground engaging implement on the 3PH and use the FEL bucket to push me backwards. It has worked to get me down so far. Of course if I didn't try to go vertical or to radically close to vertical there wouldn't be a problem. Said another way... drive like a sane man and it won't happen.

Nice pond, by the way. Given the color it could pass for an Oklahoma del norte pond instead of one in Baja Oklahoma.

Pat

 

[rtdiggr]

Jim I didn't mean to hijack a thread. That is quiet the project, i am suprised i missed it i sometimes pick on someone with lots of post[you] and read most of the posts.

The pond looks great thanks for the reply and the link.

Shane