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Ron...I turned in early and missed your last post. All the best thoughts for the little gal.
Good thoughts.
SliverPicker
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She knows what to do. Give her time and she'll be good-to-go.
That's a heck of a Christmas present!
That's a heck of a Christmas present!
Uh... What is CDH? Either way, kids are tough, and doctors have amazing tools...
treeslayer2003
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she is a cutie Ron. hope she continues to recover, all my best my friend.
treeslayer2003
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hey west coast folks, hope your all ok.........see some bad flooding over there..........
high and dry... though I'm not sure if I can get to the logging job today...
Thanks for the kind posts.
CDH is congentital diaphragmic hernia. A relatively rare birth deflect where the diaphragm has a hole in it. If on the left side the stomach and intestines crowd the heart and the lungs particularly the left lung. If on the right side then the liver and intestines crowd the lungs and heart. Either case it interferes with the development of the heart and lungs. Our granddaughter has it on the right which is the most rare - about 1 in 5000. Her heart was actually displaced to the greatest extent her specialist doctors have ever seen. She also had less than 40% of her diaphragm. A very very serious situation. Nonetheless, the surgeon found a crumpled but functional right lung during surgery and sufficient space in her abdomen for her liver and intestines. This has not been the case for the other CDH babies there and our hearts ache for them.
Bittersweet, but yes, this will be my best Christmas without a doubt.
Ron
CDH is congentital diaphragmic hernia. A relatively rare birth deflect where the diaphragm has a hole in it. If on the left side the stomach and intestines crowd the heart and the lungs particularly the left lung. If on the right side then the liver and intestines crowd the lungs and heart. Either case it interferes with the development of the heart and lungs. Our granddaughter has it on the right which is the most rare - about 1 in 5000. Her heart was actually displaced to the greatest extent her specialist doctors have ever seen. She also had less than 40% of her diaphragm. A very very serious situation. Nonetheless, the surgeon found a crumpled but functional right lung during surgery and sufficient space in her abdomen for her liver and intestines. This has not been the case for the other CDH babies there and our hearts ache for them.
Bittersweet, but yes, this will be my best Christmas without a doubt.
Ron
treeslayer2003
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isn't Randy Mac close to the coast?
Close enough that if he walked in his sleep he could get his feet wet.
treeslayer2003
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well i hope hes doin ok in it.......
So I went and cruised a job today... its 10 acres of a 197 acre parcel that hasn't been logged in 100 years, some of these trees where left when they logged way back when ever...
Any way its steep ground, I've logged steeper, and there is a road sorta through the bit he wants logged, Doug Firs approaching 4', hemlocks not far behind, Alder with 30' of good peeler logs, the evergreen timber all knocking on 100' tall everything sounds great right?
Now for the problems, dude started cutting already, has at least one tree parked in another, slopping back cuts... lengths are a little funky, but I can deal with that if he stops now...
Other issue is dude made a deal with some other "logger" says he gave him 5k to "move equipment in" well suffice to say, the "logger" never showed... Makes me nervous, I mean I don't mind shafting a crook, but crooks tend to show up and demand retribution, then I have to shoot somebody... anyway it gets messy...
There is also an ongoing dispute with the county... county wants part of his property, county morons already have a hard on over logging because of the Oso slide... so dude don't want to get no permit... which I really don't care one way or the other, but if the county wants to get pushy I get stuck in the middle... though a DNR permit would be plenty...
So to make a long story short, this is the kind of job I've been looking for, but do the less then optimal circumstances add up to make me walk away? I've done dumber ****, and I'll probably do it again... but somethings telling me to walk on this one...
Any way its steep ground, I've logged steeper, and there is a road sorta through the bit he wants logged, Doug Firs approaching 4', hemlocks not far behind, Alder with 30' of good peeler logs, the evergreen timber all knocking on 100' tall everything sounds great right?
Now for the problems, dude started cutting already, has at least one tree parked in another, slopping back cuts... lengths are a little funky, but I can deal with that if he stops now...
Other issue is dude made a deal with some other "logger" says he gave him 5k to "move equipment in" well suffice to say, the "logger" never showed... Makes me nervous, I mean I don't mind shafting a crook, but crooks tend to show up and demand retribution, then I have to shoot somebody... anyway it gets messy...
There is also an ongoing dispute with the county... county wants part of his property, county morons already have a hard on over logging because of the Oso slide... so dude don't want to get no permit... which I really don't care one way or the other, but if the county wants to get pushy I get stuck in the middle... though a DNR permit would be plenty...
So to make a long story short, this is the kind of job I've been looking for, but do the less then optimal circumstances add up to make me walk away? I've done dumber ****, and I'll probably do it again... but somethings telling me to walk on this one...
Forgot to mention some jack wagon Has been sneaking in and stealing maple... not for firewood but for instruments and such.
treeslayer2003
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i won't work without a permit.......to much can happen now days. they like to write large fines now.....at least here, idk about your neck o the woods.
as far as the other logger, that can get tricky to, no contract i assume?
as far as the other logger, that can get tricky to, no contract i assume?
fake contract, never heard of the guy or his "management company" also mentioned having a skidder that holds 200 yds of cable...
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Gut would be screaming "run". Those are the sorts of jobs where you get dragged down to devious and disrespectful levels because that's whatever every other bastard involved is like, but they'll always beat you with their experience at said level, so you end up in an utterly no-win situation. You lose your own self respect by even contemplating shady **** you would normally never do, and you lose financially when assorted agendas come out to play and rip you off or leave you holding the smoking gun they fired.
treeslayer2003
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i would at least verify ownership and get the permit. those folks will know if any thing is goin on with the property. you might as well try and get along with them if your gonna log.......you'll be seeing alot of them.
good luck with it northy. i don't give up on work easy, but i will stay legal any more.
good luck with it northy. i don't give up on work easy, but i will stay legal any more.
oh i've always verified ownership... lots of renters want to make a quick buck and skip town...
Listen to your gut...and double check the paperwork.
