How'd it go today?

[Dave Shepard]

I'm sitting here at the sawmill using the internet. It's absolutely perfect out right now. I just heard a big tree go down somewhere on the neighbor's, and then a very ticked off bird making a racket. Not sure what that was all about. All kinds of wildlife drama going on around here.

The rats in the walls of the grain building just woke up. Time to go home! Internet might be off at home, but no rats to zip up your trousers!

 

[davidwyby]

Today I was @SeanKroll ’s groundie, good times.
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@SeanKroll ethan said he’s got more trees dying. 😕 I know we kicked some ideas around as to what it might be, but I don’t remember.

 

[treebilly]

Guess we lost a bobcat today🤬. I don’t have a clue what the boneheads did. This was at one of our dumping and mulch yards we own. The neighbor sent me the pic. He wasted a fire extinguisher while our guy called the fire department. Probably means we have to get a new skid steer before I get a new crane

 

[Burnham]

That will most definitely not buff out.

 

[BIGTWIG]

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Guess we lost a bobcat today🤬. I don’t have a clue what the boneheads did. This was at one of our dumping and mulch yards we own. The neighbor sent me the pic. He wasted a fire extinguisher while our guy called the fire department. Probably means we have to get a new skid steer before I get a new crane

I lost my Bobcat T300 last summer. Birds build nests on the engine. The ones right inside the
door are easy to spot but then they will build a nest far enough into the engine bay you can’t see or reach the nest. I was moving some gravel from winter snow plowing last year when the bobcat stopped, started throwing codes, and beeping. When I looked back, it was billowing black smoke.

 

[BIGTWIG]

 

[Kaveman]

Well, our occasional grapple fire certainly seems small scale...

 

[BIGTWIG]

Well, our occasional grapple fire certainly seems small scale...

0/10
Do not recommend.

 

[stikine]

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Damn

 

[Dave Shepard]

Back at my sawmill to use wifi to watch some YouTube. Laptop, just taken off charger, goes black. It's this a thing, sudden laptop death? 2025 is really shaping up to be a pos.

 

[davidwyby]

New shoes

Need a mullet to go with those wheels

Daughter driving practice to the doons


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[davidwyby]

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[SeanKroll]

@SeanKroll ethan said he’s got more trees dying. 😕 I know we kicked some ideas around as to what it might be, but I don’t remember.

Could be drought, root zone impact, root disease, likely 2 or all 3.


I don't recall the felling or stump cuts. Laminated Root Disease has a distinctive decay pattern.

 

[cory]

Crazy all the different climactic zones CA has, from lush to barren

 

[davidwyby]

Crazy all the different climactic zones CA has, from lush to barren

Maui has them very close together

 

[Cobleskill]

We drove up the east coast of the Big Island. Lush rain forest. Over the crest on the north side and boom, desert with cactus. Amazing.

Hawaii is a wonderland. Lots of cool stuff away from the popular tourist stuff, although good stuff there too. We were fortunate to explore Oahu and Hawaii.

 

[pete mctree]

Have you met up with Deva ?

 

[Cobleskill]

He was still in California when we were there. Would have been great. He was posting quite a few pics for a while. Wish he would post more.

 

[SkwerI]

I finally mounted an air compressor in my dump truck today. It barely fit in the 18"x18"x24" box mounted under the dump bed. The compressor is a Puma PD-1006. It draws up to 30 amps so I ran a 8ga wire for power. The wire coming out of the machine is prob 10-12ga but less than 1' long.
I have a couple new DeWalt cordless tool bags that came with tools I purchased, they make great tool bags. I loaded one up with several air tool accessories- a tire chuck, air nozzle, 1/2" impact wrench, a 25' pvc air hose and some sockets for the impact. I also have room for a 12 ton bottle jack, my plugging kit and a few other tools in the box. This keeps it separate from my saw box and my rigging gear box.

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I used the compressor today for the first time to refill a flat tire on my buddy's dump trailer. Took about 4 minutes to inflate it from less than 5 lbs to 60 lbs.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Climbed a bunch of oaks this week. Tuckered out. Mostly hazard mitigation.. large broken limbs and some tidy up.
Tad tuckered out I'm afraid.

 

[flushcut]

No typy type go sleepy.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

First, dinner.

 

[WoodCutr]

spur of the moment chipper rebuild, 3 1/2 hours to pull the fuel tank, both fenders and the engine, got a buddy that will bring his fullsize skid out to put the engine back on since my machine isn't too happy about lifting that 4BT and the whole power unit package

 

[flushcut]

Foood!

 

[Dave Shepard]

I downloaded some YouTubes to watch offline, then was too stupid to figure out how to open YouTube offline. (It was hiding)