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  1. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    The Silvey aluminum jacks look real nice, with the gauge, but those puppies are expensive! Excluding the weight, any reason not to use a regular bottle jack, if you widened the base and put on a plate over the ram? I've thought of trying to make one up with springs, like the Silveys. Have...
  2. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    Think it was in Jerry's book that he mentions about two piece jack hoses blowing out and being super dangerous, always remembered that.
  3. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    Slice and dice, you explain well, Burnham :)
  4. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    Ok, thanks! Just thought there could some pieces of wood or bark sticking up that prevented sliding the bar out in the direction you're exiting. That's a good method to know!
  5. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    Trying to understand, Burham, you're just cutting towards the back until she pops? Seems like it could be dicey to pull out a long bar and make tracks in time.
  6. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    Haha...hope NoBivy doesn't read that, about the new extreme sport, or he'll be wanting to do it on his skateboard.
  7. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    Saw a program somewhere, or maybe it was a video here....? Somebody was getting payed to take people out on his property, presumably it was his property, to fulfill their ambition of wanting to fall a big tree. I think he was getting a couple hundred dollars per tree. He' d supervise to make...
  8. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    Thanks about the lean question, you guys are great. Sure would be something to bore the back cut on one of those giants, then be trying to trip it from the back. I'd be scaaaaard.
  9. woodworkingboy

    Avenue of the Giants

    Jerry, have been wondering about something....like to take the opportunity to ask, or probably Burnham could answer.... When you have those enormous trees that have head lean, not radical head lean, but just favoring the lay, say by ten to twenty degrees or so, when you put in your face and...
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