[TheForge] Brainstorming -- Trouble with trees (OT)

[Bruce Freeman]

Dave,

That certainly clarifies the problem and focuses attention!

Now, does ANYONE care to discuss my harebrained scheme for a limb & tree lopper?



On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Dave Mudge <dave at magichammer.net> wrote:
> On the subject of "The Trouble With Trees".......
> A couple of pictures can be worth a million words, or quite a lot of money.
> Take a look at what happened to my shop.
>
> BEFORE:
>
> http://magichammer.freeservers.com/images/Katrina/shop_before.jpg
>
> AFTER:
>
> http://magichammer.freeservers.com/images/Katrina/shop_after.jpg
>
> dave m
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Trees can be a bitch.  You turn around and they're enormous!  How do I
>> > trim them now!!!?
>>
>> In the early 70s, a neighbor allowed as how he had to cut down an
>> enormous and spectacular beech that grew a few feet from his house.
>> He was in his early 70s himself and opined, "It don't have to come
>> down now but if I wait till it has to, I may be to old to do it."
>> Down it came.
>>
>> My anvil stump for 30 years was a big crotch from that tree, with
>> space enough to hold a swage block alongside.  Now passed on to Gerry
>> Levy for his Peter Wright.  I still have a stake anvil mounted in one
>> of the other chunks.
>>
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>> --
>> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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>> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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Bruce
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