OMG! My Wife's and I Next Tree

[clint53]

Gotta tell you and others with true helpmates. Thank God every day for her cause a good number of us don’t have a true helpmate to help. Used to have one but let her get away due to being stupid. Just sayin

I'm thankful every morning I wake up. Debbie and I have been married 45 years come November 15th.
She is what keeps me going and can out work me any day.
Thank God I married a country girl.

 

[clint53]

Load #3 today from the Big White Oak.



That splintered stick hit me square in the face shield today.


To close with the 462.

Thanks for looking.
Clint

 

[Philbert]

To close with the 462.

They did their job, but it does not look like the protective fibers were hit?

https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/chaps-repair.324300/
Philbert

 

[clint53]

They did their job, but it does not look like the protective fibers were hit?

https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/chaps-repair.324300/
Philbert

Looks like only two teeth touched them. I didn't know it until I was finished and took the champs off.

 

[clint53]

Seems like every time I turned around yesterday there was a cable sticking out of the ground.
We pulled out 5 pieces with the truck. Never hit any of it with my saw thankfully.

 

[clint53]

Santa was listening.
I am now ready for that 5 foot oak.

 

[clint53]

My wife and I finally got back to the huge oak.
Load #4

 

[Hickahollar]

I like those old home lights .

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Then you get stuck several times and a Skidder goes by your truck while you are cutting, runs over the end of a 5 inch cut down gum and it flips up and turns in mid air and lands across the hood of you truck.
We just may be a little nuts.

I had a branch catch in the tire chains and whack me right in the mouth.
The 648D door design wasn't very good and this one, like most others, broke off long ago.
(It slides like a barn door. Can't swing open, front tire is in the way)

 

[clint53]

I like those old home lights .

Me also. The XL12 was one of the best firewood saws made back in the day. I just got the SXL 925 a few weeks ago. It needs some work, but it's a very strong saw.

 

[clint53]

I had a branch catch in the tire chains and whack me right in the mouth.
The 648D door design wasn't very good and this one, like most others, broke off long ago.
(It slides like a barn door. Can't swing open, front tire is in the way)

Yep. I've never been a logger, but it's like a logger told me in 1976 when I first started cutting firewood "There are thousands of ways a saw can hurt you." The same goes for logging equipment.
I try to think of what he said every time I get out of my truck to cut.
Being around logging all my life and working at a paper mill for over 43 years I know some bad horror stories.
I had a logger friend that was killed by a hickory that sprung back and busted his liver. He died in his sons arms.
I glad you lived to tell about what happened to you.

 

[Hickahollar]

Me also. The XL12 was one of the best firewood saws made back in the day. I just got the SXL 925 a few weeks ago. It needs some work, but it's a very strong saw.

Yeah I like those xl12s my buddy has one I've been trying to get off him for a while

 

[clint53]

Yeah I like those xl12s my buddy has one I've been trying to get off him for a while

They cut like they are mad with a stack muffler.

 

[jerrycmorrow]

I got a complete xl12 in a box. You can have it if you pay the ride. Only thing I know bout it is it needs a coil; I think. But won’t swear to it. Points look good and condenser tests out okay. Resistance on coil leads is not good.

 

[clint53]

I got a complete xl12 in a box. You can have it if you pay the ride. Only thing I know bout it is it needs a coil; I think. But won’t swear to it. Points look good and condenser tests out okay. Resistance on coil leads is not good.

@Hickahollar
Here you go.

 

[Hickahollar]

I got a complete xl12 in a box. You can have it if you pay the ride. Only thing I know bout it is it needs a coil; I think. But won’t swear to it. Points look good and condenser tests out okay. Resistance on coil leads is not good.

Let me text you tomorrow Its a little late today.

 

[clint53]

My wife and I are done with this white oak finally.

 

[Hickahollar]

Clint I got one of mine own thanks to heavy winds blowing down a big branch. Fell it today. Its 38 inches where I cut it.

 

[clint53]

Clint I got one of mine own thanks to heavy winds blowing down a big branch. Fell it today. Its 38 inches where I cut it.

That's a hoss. I've never worked as a logger, so I use a lot of caution when felling.
Most of what I cut is left behind by loggers.
Here another I cut a while back that almost took out a building.

 

[Hickahollar]

Yeah that was a little bit close. Didn't look like it would touch the building from there.