Raffle for AS Member "Tree Monkey" - 30+ prizes worth over $6,000!

Rugged made
Wesspur
shop deals on amazon
Arborist Forum

Help Support Arborist Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
redbull660

redbull660

Addicted to ArboristSite
Joined
Oct 9, 2013
Messages
1,393
Reaction score
3,654
Location
Wisconsin
Many of you have been on the receiving end of generosity through these forums- via information, goods, services, or even from a benefit. One of the many purveyors of these benefits has been Scott, a.k.a. Treemonkey.

As some of you may have heard Scott just suffered a heart attack a couple of days ago. Being self-employed in this day and age, he is facing some uncovered medical expenses. Guys, Scott has paid it forward for years helping us all out with his forward thinking, innovative porting methods, sharing his thoughts and ideas on gaining chainsaw performance, and by contributions of his own to fundraisers like this.
I ask that you please help out a fellow CAD brother in his time of need by contributing what you can.

Mastermind, myself and SarahDodgeGeek have started a Gofundme page for Scott. All contributions will go to helping Scott pay some of his medical expenses. All funds will go directly to Scott so there is no middleman.

here is the GoFundMe link pretty simple - just need a credit card.

www.gofundme.com/t3vu6cd3

If you want to send a check...
Scott Kunz
s-6825 state road 27
Augusta, WI 54722
 
redbull660 said:
Many of you have been on the receiving end of generosity through these forums- via information, goods, services, or even from a benefit. One of the many purveyors of these benefits has been Scott, a.k.a. Treemonkey.

As some of you may have heard Scott just suffered a heart attack a couple of days ago. Being self-employed in this day and age, he is facing some uncovered medical expenses. Guys, Scott has paid it forward for years helping us all out with his forward thinking, innovative porting methods, sharing his thoughts and ideas on gaining chainsaw performance, and by contributions of his own to fundraisers like this.
I ask that you please help out a fellow CAD brother in his time of need by contributing what you can.

Mastermind, myself and SarahDodgeGeek have started a Gofundme page for Scott. All contributions will go to helping Scott pay some of his medical expenses. All funds will go directly to Scott so there is no middleman.

here is the GoFundMe link pretty simple - just need a credit card.

www.gofundme.com/t3vu6cd3

If you want to send a check...
Scott Kunz
s-6825 state road 27
Augusta, WI 54722
Click to expand...
Get better soon @tree monkey !!!

Let me see if I might have something for the raffle.
 
Here's the list so far, for those of you only seeing this here...

1) Mastermind ported MS660 - from Mastermind
2) Super pretty stock Jonsered 2083II - from lwhaples
3) Oregon 520 chain grinder NIB - from Definitive Dave
4) 25 Treemonkey shirts (Assuming these will be 25 separate door prizes) - from Scott0154
5) 1 fully cooked Smoked Beef Brisket W/homemade sauce & next day air shipping (Feeds 18-20 winner supply's the side fixins of their choice} From RR2'ed & Wife Suzanne
 
@sarahdodgegeek please see updated list

1) Mastermind ported MS660 - from Mastermind
2) Super pretty stock Jonsered 2083II - from lwhaples
3) Oregon 520 chain grinder NIB - from Definitive Dave
4) 25 Treemonkey shirts (Assuming these will be 25 separate door prizes) - from Scott0154
5) 1 fully cooked Smoked Beef Brisket W/homemade sauce & next day air shipping (Feeds 18-20 winner supply's the side fixins of their choice} From RR2'ed & Wife Suzanne
6)Ducks Unlimited special edition buck knife and sheath from Black River Trading Company- from SVK

image.jpeg
 
Thanks, svk! There was another addition elsewhere, so I've snuck that one in as well.
Here's a new revised list:

1) Mastermind ported MS660 - from Mastermind
2) Super pretty stock Jonsered 2083II - from lwhaples
3) Oregon 520 chain grinder NIB - from Definitive Dave
4) 25 Treemonkey shirts (Assuming these will be 25 separate door prizes) - from Scott0154
5) 1 fully cooked Smoked Beef Brisket W/homemade sauce & next day air shipping (Feeds 18-20 winner supply's the side fixins of their choice} From RR2'ed & Wife Suzanne
6) Stihl MS260, previously owned by Chity Avitar(RIP). Pictures coming soon.[
7)Ducks Unlimited special edition buck knife and sheath from Black River Trading Company- from SVK
 
Well, sadly, there is no speedy recovery from a heart attack, not in the usual sense. Starting about a week and a half after, there's walking, walking, and more walking. You can stop when you've burned through about 8 pairs of shoes, 500 pairs of socks, and 4 ipods. Maybe :D

http://www.chss.org.uk/heart-inform...overing-at-home-2/home-exercises-and-walking/

And not so much doing much of anything with a heavy, more or less static load on the heart like moving heavy things, wielding a 90-120+cc chainsaw,etc.
Add in dietary changes, not smoking(or I should say, jonesing for a nic fix for the next 9 months), plus keeping track of all the pills, and dealing with the side effects. Oops, bruise the size of a dinner plate? Better get that coumadin scrip adjusted. ;)

As longevity increases, plus post heart attack survival, everyone's gonna get to deal with this eventually. If not directly, then because someone close to you is having to deal with it. Besides having to lose major and minor vices, for guys, it's gonna be pride that's the biggest kick in the ass. See a pile of heavy stuff that needs sorting? Nope! Not unless you wanna die. Stuck lid on a jelly jar? Whole lotta nope!

Luckily, lots of lightweight fiddly stuff relating to chainsaw mods and repairs that can be done. As long as one wears a respirator when dealing with gasoline, solvents, etc, etc. Moving twigs, small branches, maybe. Logs, nope!

Then of course, stress reduction is also a good idea. Annoying people in your life who won't leave you alone? Time to invest in an electric cattle prod. ;) Annoying squirrels skittering on the roof? But too slow to plink them with a pellet rifle? Remember, you got blood thinners now. Crush up 3-4, mix with peanut butter, and leave where the squirrels can get em. Friends and neighbors mooching cigarettes? Hey, let em have the rest of your stash, and the stash of anyone else in the house. You don't need em, and they'll get to where you are before they know what hit em. lol!
 
svk said:
We need to get monkey back on his feet. Far as I know he's the only builder within driving distance of us!
Click to expand...

Figure a good 2-3 months for anything left in the pipeline. Don't want him to rush, blood thinners tend to make the fingers puffy and numb. Which would make handling a dremel/die grinder for any precision work kind of a bad idea. Not to mention the other kinds of medication side effects. Whoops! Where did all these extra parts come from? :D
 
Michigan Escapee said:
Figure a good 2-3 months for anything left in the pipeline. Don't want him to rush, blood thinners tend to make the fingers puffy and numb. Which would make handling a dremel/die grinder for any precision work kind of a bad idea. Not to mention the other kinds of medication side effects. Whoops! Where did all these extra parts come from? :D
Click to expand...
Of course he's not out of the woods yet but the main thing is he's still upright after the attack. I have a few good friends who weren't granted the second chance.

Listen to the doc and things should be looking up.
 
svk said:
Of course he's not out of the woods yet but the main thing is he's still upright after the attack. I have a few good friends who weren't granted the second chance.

Listen to the doc and things should be looking up.
Click to expand...

Good news is, your friend is dealing with well established medicine. Not something that's 1 in 500,000-million where they, just in the last 10 years, reduced deaths post op to under 30% after the first year. :D Small wonder that people took their chances with bouts of hypertensive crisis(usually leading to stroke/heart attack).

http://www.memorialregional.com/services/endocrine/hormonally-active-adrenal-tumors.cfm
http://www.medicinenet.com/pheochromocytoma/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094542/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertensive_emergency


But good news everybody! There's now an understood biological basis for this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

Not so lucky for my cousin's daughter, who racked up at least one conspiracy to commit/attempted homicide before they found what made her nutty. But, she's slightly more chill now that the tumors are gone. Just the same, ain't gonna loan her my chainsaw any time soon. :chainsaw:
 
Michigan Escapee said:
Good news is, your friend is dealing with well established medicine. Not something that's 1 in 500,000-million where they, just in the last 10 years, reduced deaths post op to under 30% after the first year. :D Small wonder that people took their chances with bouts of hypertensive crisis(usually leading to stroke/heart attack).

http://www.memorialregional.com/services/endocrine/hormonally-active-adrenal-tumors.cfm
http://www.medicinenet.com/pheochromocytoma/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094542/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertensive_emergency


But good news everybody! There's now an understood biological basis for this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

Not so lucky for my cousin's daughter, who racked up at least one conspiracy to commit/attempted homicide before they found what made her nutty. But, she's slightly more chill now that the tumors are gone. Just the same, ain't gonna loan her my chainsaw any time soon. :chainsaw:
Click to expand...
Don't want to muddle up this thread too much but unfortunately the widow makers still happen unexpectedly.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top