RandyMac
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Sounds like you posted all that other stuff for nothing.
Question on a man purse :) while working on the rigging?
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Sounds like you posted all that other stuff for nothing.
Hey, that's great. Didn't mean to get you riled up. I think it's good that you're going to hang out in the F and L threads. That way if we need any questions answered, like "what lawnmower should I buy" or "what's the best fertilizer to put on my petunias," or if we need to learn how to prune roses you'll be right there for us. I feel better already.
I'd like that. I am hoping one of the NW timber guys would invite me up for a vacation. I would REALLY like to make it to Australia, but I don't see that happening. As much as I might seem like a bookworm, I am far more an outside type.
I'm not sure where I got the "lawn monkey" moniker. I think I have more than enough credentials and experience to fit in with any forum on AS. I certainly have more chainsaws and tree equipment than most of the participants here.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
Here as in Arboristsite, or this forum?
If you came out here for a vacation what would you want to see? Would you want to job shadow somebody and get an idea of what it's really like or just drive through?
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
Holy Dog####!
I bury mine, usually. The white flag is a nice touch though.
Where I'm working now, the woods is a hell of lot more sanitary then the gas stations I pass on the way.
My number one rule when leaving the house- ALWAYS carry a knife on me. Its amazing how a knife will come in handy in the woods or anywhere.
I bury mine, usually. The white flag is a nice touch though.
Where I'm working now, the woods is a hell of lot more sanitary then the gas stations I pass on the way.
My number one rule when leaving the house- ALWAYS carry a knife on me. Its amazing how a knife will come in handy in the woods or anywhere.
Yup, I'll take the woods anytime. Some of those mini mart bathrooms ought to have HAZ MAT placards and an MSDS sheet on the door.
You really have little respect for anybody that doesn't walk the same path in life as yourself, do you? Every comment seems fair, but drips with sarcasm and derision.
To answer your question, I have driven past the big timber, but never got to walk around in it. Going up a redwood (or any other tree that clears 100') would be spectacular. They don't get that big around here.
I could spend a week in the woods without ever getting bored. My idea of a good time is to get so far from the city, that I cannot see a single street light on the horizon.
I would also like to watch a yarder & crew in action. (I have a project coming up that calls for recovering a couple truckloads of brush & trees across a creek and 450 feet away, and up a 50-75 foot cliff.) I am working on setting up a miniature yarder-style operation with my little knuckleboom crane, but I have a lot of bugs to work out. Right now, we just cut the stuff up and hump it up the hill.
I cannot imagine that stupid axman program's depictions of a yarder at work have anything to do with reality, so I would have to see the real thing in action.
Tillamook
ArboristSite Member
WOW this thread went allong ways lol lots of good info on crappin in the woods 
Thanks again to all who replyed to my question, I ended up putting an old ammo can to use as my lunch bucket and I can fit a few other things I will want to have with me in there too so it should work good and I wont get as much crap as I would with my purse
Hope to be headed out into the brush tuesday so ill keep ya posted how it goes. O how I look forward to early get ups and tight packed crummy rides with stinky loggers:jester:!! Thanks again!
Thanks again to all who replyed to my question, I ended up putting an old ammo can to use as my lunch bucket and I can fit a few other things I will want to have with me in there too so it should work good and I wont get as much crap as I would with my purse Hope to be headed out into the brush tuesday so ill keep ya posted how it goes. O how I look forward to early get ups and tight packed crummy rides with stinky loggers:jester:!! Thanks again!
HorseFaller
ArboristSite Guru
+1 on the gas stations can't do it. Last time I worked the rigging for this crew. One of my buddy's had cut the unit we where in. there was a large stump, about 4 1/2" across and about waste high at a squat. This stump was on a hill right in the middle of the clearing. One of our roads went right next to it, just far enough away to be in the clear. As I ran out of the turn I got to the stump I saw the white flagging. I ran around the other side just find the trap. I had heard already my buddy bragging this was his favorite thing to do. Crap on one side of stump, and toss the paper to the other side. Needless to say there was a present left right off the cutters crummie front bumper. Those winch bumpers make good handles.
oldmanriver
ArboristSite Operative
Dirt...... what dont kill ya will only make you stronger :msp_smile:
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Sport Faller
Gate Pimp
Don't kids eat a lot of dirt?
It must be a ####### Christmas Miracle that playgrounds aren't littered with the bodies of dead kids
It must be a ####### Christmas Miracle that playgrounds aren't littered with the bodies of dead kids
I heard a story about a guy who had really bad allergies. He heard something about hookworms curing allergies, so he went to Africa, asked where the bathroom area was, and stomped around in it with bare feet. He got hookworm.
His asthma went away. Somehow, he "harvested" his hookworms and was marketing them as an allergy remedy until the FDA shut him down. The story ended with, "He is now in Canada."
If all those nasties are in the ground out here, I had best toughen my feet in and go barefoot.
Louie Lamour used to write that the west was a less infectious place than the east.
Dr Lawn, 
is that true?
His asthma went away. Somehow, he "harvested" his hookworms and was marketing them as an allergy remedy until the FDA shut him down. The story ended with, "He is now in Canada."
If all those nasties are in the ground out here, I had best toughen my feet in and go barefoot.
Louie Lamour used to write that the west was a less infectious place than the east.
Dr Lawn,
is that true?
Yes.
All of the above are true, down to using the worms as an agent to alleviate allergies. Apparently, humanity (or at least some of us) are living such a clean, disease free existence, that we don't give our allergic systems something to do...so it starts over reacting to any antigen that comes along. I was recently reading about a similar treatment that has not quite made it into mainstream medicine: fecal transplants. Yep! Get a nice collection of #### from somebody healthy, and pump it up the butt of the afflicted. All done and sanctioned by a practicing physician.
The larval forms of hookworm are waiting in the soil to grab on and crawl through your skin. Tough feet won't help much, since they prefer the thin skin between your toes. My understanding is that their survival rate is a bit lower where the soils are sandy, with lower organic content. I think that matches up pretty well with "the west".
I doubt if Lamour really had that understanding, though. The biggest problem was the poor sanitation practices in Appalachia. [I have read most of his books, incidentally]
All of the above are true, down to using the worms as an agent to alleviate allergies. Apparently, humanity (or at least some of us) are living such a clean, disease free existence, that we don't give our allergic systems something to do...so it starts over reacting to any antigen that comes along. I was recently reading about a similar treatment that has not quite made it into mainstream medicine: fecal transplants. Yep! Get a nice collection of #### from somebody healthy, and pump it up the butt of the afflicted. All done and sanctioned by a practicing physician.
The larval forms of hookworm are waiting in the soil to grab on and crawl through your skin. Tough feet won't help much, since they prefer the thin skin between your toes. My understanding is that their survival rate is a bit lower where the soils are sandy, with lower organic content. I think that matches up pretty well with "the west".
I doubt if Lamour really had that understanding, though. The biggest problem was the poor sanitation practices in Appalachia. [I have read most of his books, incidentally]
Central concept of this book. The author, Lynn Margulis, was at one time married to Carl Sagan, and is pretty well-respected as a scientific thinker. I'm inclined to agree on the allergies; how many folks suffered life-threatening food allergies before Penicillin was available? I'm not sure either, but I'm betting that it would be mentioned at least as often as Tuberculosis if it was as common then as it is now.
Oh, and, as for that poop thing:
I'm not allergic to anything, including bees, poison ivy, or stinging nettle. I wonder what that says about my clean living?
I damn sure don't need any poop transfers, either. I wonder if there is a donor list, and if they get paid for their "donation"? I need to work on my retirement fund.
I damn sure don't need any poop transfers, either. I wonder if there is a donor list, and if they get paid for their "donation"? I need to work on my retirement fund.
Fuzly
ArboristSite Operative
Does elevation have anything to do with it?
Just seems this fall when deer hunting or fixing my roof this spring, whenever I would climb up the ladder and get settled in, I would get a rumbling sensation and have to climb back down. Just thinking out loud...
That's why I'm afraid to go out West. I think those big mountains would raise havoc with my digestive system.
Just seems this fall when deer hunting or fixing my roof this spring, whenever I would climb up the ladder and get settled in, I would get a rumbling sensation and have to climb back down. Just thinking out loud...
That's why I'm afraid to go out West. I think those big mountains would raise havoc with my digestive system.
