I goofed...here's the pic...I hope!

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Hell no, I didn't try to fall these myself...I only have a little brush saw, and know enough about chainsaw use to be scared every time I fire it up. I called a friend I've known since he was a grade school kid. He the "baby" brother of a now deceased buddy. He's a pro cutter, has worked in the woods for decades. Here's Lonnie, pruning one of the Lombardi Poplar limbs. Yeah, he's pretty strong, but climbing hills and using 50 lb. chainsaws all day will do that to you...

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gee, lok at the size of his post-its!!

I was thinking the same thing... the Post-its look huge.

Those are wedges in his back pockets.

wedgies?

maybe they are slices of cheese in case he gets hungry....you know how sometimes cheese cuts crooked??

uh-oh, i just said cut cheeze!! here we go....

Haha, that's a mighty big saw for pruning. His upper body must be built like Arnold. Working a chainsaw is exhausting, but then again, it doesn't take a lot to wear out 150 pounds of me. :) Go Stihl!!!

someone recently tried to sell me a gas hedgetrimmer....i thought, "that must get heavy after a while''''''"

Yep, wedgies...first a face cut is made in the direction you want the tree to fall...cuts this time were either "straight" or "dutch", depending on the degree of lean of the tree, how the wind is blowing, other factors. Then the back cut begins, the 36" long saw bar teeth biting through the backside. Once the bar is into the tree far enough, the wedges are tapped into the back cut with the flat side of an axe until firm. Then a little more cutting,
a little more tapping of the wedges. I was standing far aside during this part. Cut wrong, and a tree this size can "barberchair", split lengthwise...this sends sharp and long "splinters" flying...splinters than can kill as quickly as a ninja's sword. One of the many reasons that logging is considered one of the most dangerous occupations on the planet. I digressed....as the tapping and cutting progresses, there is almost a dance between the cutter and the tree...watching the tree top, you can see it begin to "dance" back and forth...this "dance" covers a sway & jiggle area of several inches at first, then develops into more than a foot....finally, the fatal lean, letting you know she's going to fall...at this point, as the back cut opens, Lonnie would grab his saw, and scramble out of the way... Branches snap and then Whoomph!...she's down. The next step is the limbing..first the limbs on top of the log, done standing on the log, caulk boots giving the grip....then a practiced eye cuts the side & bottom limbs off while standing on the ground. This step is also a knowledge thing, because it could ruin your afternoon to have tons of log roll on you. Guys, a good cutter earns every dime he makes, and to watch one work is to watch performance art. Like Tyson is a wrench artist? Lonnie is a chainsaw artist....:D

Yeah...sort of like Arnold, only functional. Some time ago, some promoters out of Portland thought they had a scam to fleece the locals of Sweet Home, where Lonnie lives. An armwrestling tourney. The promoters brought the Oregon arm wrestling champs from various weight classes to Sweet Home. Most of the "champs" from the Portland area. The plan was that the Portland folks would leave with all the prize money, being state champs soon to go to Petaluma for the world championships. Far as I know that was the last time Lonnie arm wrestled, because he snapped a bone in his older brother's arm as they duked it out in the "middleweight" semi finals. The Portland "champs"? They lost every weight class. The Sweet Home folks were kind of saddened that they didn't come back the next year...:rolleyes:

noone knows where Lonnie called home, he just drifted into town and stayed all alone,
didn't say much, kinda quiet and shy, and if he spoke at he just said "TIMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hasta la vista Jonny Ramone!!El Padre de Punk Rock!!! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1095312556.jpg

those rice pics remind me of Leland's Pimpster a few years back :D

Paul, Lonnie is a pretty big guy! Too bad I missed the excitement!

Just found this one

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(Poor woman)

LOL LOL that is hilarious

HOOT! Oregon law says you have to wear a helmet...it doesn't say how...

I've observed that the youth of today are sufficiently stupid that baseball hats need to come with instructions (the long "brimmy-thing" goes in the *front*), but that kills me.

JP

Nasser el Sonbaty - Body Builder who has 3 Masters Degrees in History, Political Science and Sociology.

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This is what ran Google back in 1999 when they first started....

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