[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 72, Issue 13 OT:

[Jerry Frost]

Any tree can surprise you but Birches tend to be a little trickier than 
most. It usually has to do with hidden punky trunk syndrom. Still, if you're 
not going to stand back when they fall I suppose a bounce could get ya for 
sure.

I can't tell you how happy I am to hear you approve of my new firing squad 
envisualization. (yeah, I just made that word up, I now have an excuse for 
darn near ANYTHING) I'm thinking I'm going to have to find a pottery class 
around here so I can get some tasty pics.

Approval feels Sooooo GOOD! Thanks Pete.

Jer (who usually relies on using his ATM card for a dose of approval)
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If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
The Frostworks



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 72, Issue 13 OT:


>
>
> Jerry Frost wrote:
>> That's true Pete but the birch didn't give me any warning like a last 
>> meal,
>> offer a blindfold, a last word, nothing.
> It was ever so impolite and i'm glad it will never do that again!
> Was coincidentally reading a discussion on chainsaw accidents and the
> chief related that folks were commonly killed felling birch trees when
> the tree fell and then bounced unpredictably, crushing them.
> I was supposed to help a friend drop a tree this last fall..never got
> around to it, but he just emailed that a tree ( same one?) fell during
> this last storm, taking out the corner of his deck and crushing his
> solar array ( He's off the grid)..but missed the house, fortunately.
>>
>> Hmmm, thinking about last words and facing a firing squad is forcing me 
>> to
>> change my mental image of the firing squad. My firing squad is now a 
>> bunch
>> of shapely gals loading a kiln. I guess that'd mean I wouldn't be 
>> sticking
>> my toungue out, it'd be hanging naturally.
> A much tastier vision! Stamp that one APPROVED!
> Kiln, not killing!
>>