If you have DISH it is on again tonight. 6ish or 7ish I believe.
Axmen starts with Hendrix playing a Dylan song, and it seems to fit
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If you have DISH it is on again tonight. 6ish or 7ish I believe.
Ax Men is on The History Channel tonight at 10:00. (Comcast)
PB
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Watching it now. Rerun of Sunday's episode.
That climbing equipment looked scary old. What was that, an old sisal rope? And the leather straps on the spurs looked like they could fail just by strapping them on. I couldn't figure out what the problem was on that right spur? I was hoping to see some colorful duct tape I keep hearing about.
Cutting the downed wood looks pretty hairy too. I like that shot of the guy reaching way over sawing off an overhanging log and WHAM the log lets go. That's why the long bars huh?
That's a hard way to make a living,
to any of you that do it!
Dok
Cutting the downed wood looks pretty hairy too. I like that shot of the guy reaching way over sawing off an overhanging log and WHAM the log lets go. That's why the long bars huh?
That's a hard way to make a living,
to any of you that do it!Dok
oldsaw
"Been There, Milled That"
That climbing equipment looked scary old. What was that, an old sisal rope? And the leather straps on the spurs looked like they could fail just by strapping them on. I couldn't figure out what the problem was on that right spur? I was hoping to see some colorful duct tape I keep hearing about.
Cutting the downed wood looks pretty hairy too. I like that shot of the guy reaching way over sawing off an overhanging log and WHAM the log lets go. That's why the long bars huh?
That's a hard way to make a living,
Dok
I don't understand why they just didn't duct tape around his ankle and let him climb. Yes, the equipment was kludged, not a good place to "save" money. And the climber was slower than me...and I'm slow.
Mark
If the flip line he was using was like the one I started with it is a manila rope with wire rope inside. It is actually very easy to make. He was wearing a lineman's belt instead of a saddle. The only tie in is with the rings on his hips and it isn't good for conventional tree work. Spurs don't look good very long esp if you walk on the ground with them. I would not be surprised to see this crew using alot of junky used equipment but I could be wrong.
Yeah I was wondering the same thing. If you have the duck tape then take 2 or 3 wraps around his foot, straps, and spurs and climb away.
Kludged? Gotta check wikipedia for that one.
Most loggers around here still use steel core manila and belt but climb a h#ll of a lot faster. Its tradition single tye in big saw.
parrisw
Tree Freak
I don't blame him for going slow, seeing as the dang spur was falling off.
I didn't mean to say it isn't a good system, just not good for conventional tree work. A lineman belt is quite comfortable when you are just climbing or leaning back while working.
Loggers are a conservative bunch. I predict when they pull out the duck tape it will only be the bland, silver color. Browning, who uses only the best equipment, will probably use Gorilla Tape.
The job with all the blow downs gives me the cold sweats......
I cut a 60 acre parcel that had a wind storm hit it after a over zealous select cut. The results were similar, but the trees where not as tall/big and the scope was much smaller. It was also possible to use a fowarder to prevent some of the nasty ones from kicking.
I cut a 60 acre parcel that had a wind storm hit it after a over zealous select cut. The results were similar, but the trees where not as tall/big and the scope was much smaller. It was also possible to use a fowarder to prevent some of the nasty ones from kicking.
Kludged? Gotta check wikipedia for that one.
2dogs, check it out: http://catb.org/jargon/html/K/kluge.html
Better than Wikipedia!
-Hillrat
Burvol
Bullbuck
So I researched and answered my own question and will post for others who might care
I asked earlier about the domino-falling (using one tree to knock down another). I found this on the WA State Legislature website:
Now my new question is this: What was so dangerous about that 16" DBH tree? Why would you use a much larger tree to knock down such a wimpy tree? I guess the smaller "danger" tree could have kicked back off of a log on the ground but AFAICT he had endless possibilities for escape routes. He was cutting on the edge of the cut block and could've just ran right into the standing trees.
I know the show is filmed in Oregon but thought laws might be similar.
Dominoes killed tons of guys in Oregon and Washington, that's why.
LOL...I get a kick out of your new avatar. Please tell me that's not you.
Mgal has such a nice avatar too. His is well...spooky.
Whats the matter do I need some safety glasses or something
All's I can say is this show has opened up a new way of conversation. The archeology guy walks up to me this morning and asks if I've seen it. I tell him Yeah. He asks if I really go down where they are working. Yeah, I answer. He goes, Your job is gonna be so cool! Then he asks what I'm doing today. I tell him I'm going out to kill a lot of future Green Gold. He gets it and replies, "worth millions of dollars some day."
Translation: Took Twinkle out today and worked on brushing the saplings out of a road.
Translation: Took Twinkle out today and worked on brushing the saplings out of a road.
Whats the matter do I need some safety glasses or something
LOL...No, I don't think safety glasses would do it. What I'd like to do is get that in poster size and put it up in our shop.
I'd label it..."Faller looking for work". And put down the phone number for one of our competitors.
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