The Official Random Video Thread!

[Steve Mack]

Have to say that despite all my efforts, you guys are a hard sell on towels.

Sorry Jay, but every time you mention it I'm reminded of Towelie.

I don't think it would work around here these days really, maybe once but not now.

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[woodworkingboy]

I'm digging Towelie! A little confused, but he means well.

 

[Jack]

Cool vid from Treetools:

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[Burnham]

Nice find, Jack. Very nice.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool 'lil thing there, at the end,

 

[High Scale]

Pass the bucket.

 

[woodworkingboy]

The guy they show as the arborist, I don't think was really doing the main tasks, they always cut away when his face would be seen. Why de do dat?

 

[Jack]

IDK, Jay ... you made me watch it again -- which is good. It looked to me like there was plenty of recognizable shots of him body thrusting, swinging, chopping & chucking wood, running a chainsaw & handsawing (particularly liked the pirate grip on the handsaw in his teeth). Are we talking about the same vid -- or did I miss your point?

That was a nice touch at the end about the "same tree ...".

 

[woodworkingboy]

Same vid. it just looked very contrived, so I must have woken up suspicious, Jack, I'll accept your take that it is real. I even felt compelled to analyze if that was really a piece of Sycamore that he was holding at the end.

 

[Jack]

I see your point, now. Yeah, it could be, as you say; "contrived". But, I'm quite willing & happy to accept it as no more contrived than a good poem or 'dramatization' to get an important emotion across. I think the guy (Tom Fellows) is the real deal and the message of the video is quite well done ... however 'contrived' some of it may be.

 

[Burnham]

It's not supposed to be a documentary, Jay .

 

[MasterBlaster]

Maybe he wanted a better climber than him and he didn't wanna mess up the storyline.

 

[woodworkingboy]

You make a good point, it's the message and not the massage, or along those lines. I just have this thing about when they get stand ins to fake doing stuff requiring skill, because they want a certain look that the real deal may not have in terms of the proper..ah...cosmetics? I dunno, to me it somehow seems degrading to the people that have actually made the efforts....often huge efforts, to learn to do what they want to try and depict with an actor. Picky, I guess... I'll crawl back into my cave.

 

[MasterBlaster]

This is so weird. I'd love to know the science behind it.

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[woodworkingboy]

Hope the pay is good.

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[Burnham]

It is, if the boat catches well, and you live to draw it...ask NiceGuyDave about fishing up there...nasty.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I recall Dave's discussions on his fishing experience...some of the Japs being bastards. Tough work was the impression.

 

[Burnham]

Tough may be an understatement, and the bastards running the show are perhaps the least of the hazards.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'd have loved to have done it!

 

[Burnham]

I'd bet a bundle you would have thrived at it, Butch. Maybe but for the cold, but anyway, that sort of challenge would seem to be right down your alley.

 

[woodworkingboy]

According to one website, 15 to 20 grand a month, $100,000 per season for a crew member is common. Deaths are down due to various reasons, fewer and larger boats. Less competition makes for more choice when you want to go out. Boats aren't so overloaded with the fear of capsizing. Guess you missed the more fun times, MB.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I can't believe they don't wear hardhats!

 

[woodworkingboy]

I couldn't believe that they all weren't attached to a rope. I imagine somebody washed overboard in those conditions would be hard to save. It might not even be noticed.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Amazing ...... Something I would never do... But amazing.
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[Burnham]

I love my life too much to risk all it like that. I'll just have to be satisfied with several notches down on the wow scale.

But as I think about it a bit and sip my scotch...

More than once, not often but more than a few times in my working life I've had other sawyers, or climbers, say to me something like "I cannot believe you took that tree, no way would I go there". I suppose my reaction to this is no different...if you are confident that you have the chops, I guess it comes out to the same thing, somehow. Kudos to the young man, and I hope he lives long.