There are still a few rotten stumps out in the woods behind my cabin with the sloping back cut and no notch. I stumped all of the ones within sight of the roadSomething wrong with farmers cuts.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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There are still a few rotten stumps out in the woods behind my cabin with the sloping back cut and no notch. I stumped all of the ones within sight of the road
There was a large black locust stump at the neighbors that would have been there forever if they wouldn't have dug it up with an excavator.
It's now out in the woods behind the house they built, I think I have a picture of it somewhere, it was sweet.
The slacker cut!
- Is there any other kind?
My brother used to have an 020 … what a loud SOB, but it cut well, just could not get the idle right. I hear that model is prone to carb problems. I forget the reason, but there is something different about it.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Too far away. It's always been a dodgy, unpredictable place that's claimed lives in the past though so was surprising to many they started tours to and on it a few years back.
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1 Corinthians 15:33I'm not sure I read that "translation".
IMO, part of the 'thrill' of visiting an active volcano is the risk. Along with sky diving, auto racing, swimming with sharks, etc.
Unfortunate that it happened, but not unforeseeable.
Philbert
You are correct Philbert … running chainsaws … riding my bike on the road … driving a fast car … hiking on the edge of a cliff to see the views … yea, I'm guilty!
Hopefully, if you recognize the risk you can reduce it … but you can't eliminate it.
Even riding roller coasters, which I used to love to do … not the safest thing in the world!
Hopefully, if you recognize the risk you can reduce it … but you can't eliminate it.
Even riding roller coasters, which I used to love to do … not the safest thing in the world!
Interweb pic Brett . The one I worked on had a white handgaurd on it.Geez Jeff you have some nerve posting pics of firewood here.
I had safety chain sometimes and was also running 73 series Oregon chain on 72 series bar because the guy at the hardware store told people that 73 was "better" than 72
panolo
Seldom right...Always opinionated!
I had 3 saws when I joined: 445 husky, cs-490, and a crappy mac. Still have all 3.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
I hear what you are saying and agree to an extent that personal responsibility plays a big part. However, consent needs to be fully informed and in this case I feel it has never been enough to say they are told of the risks and signed a waiver, when the for-profit operators knew the place is notorious for what are termed unheralded eruptions (the absolutely fark'n atrociously if not criminally negligent geotec-conjuring carnival crystal ball gazers masquerading as geo-scientists here had the alert level at 2 of 5 and only raised it after the start of the eruption and then only to 4 during the eruption) and has killed in the past. The very fact there are tour operators going there is an undeniable implicit downplaying of those risks, no matter what they say pre-trip.
If we want to hark on about personal responsibility, someone in govt has it too, for giving the operators a licence. Also the Iwi who allowed it to go ahead when they clearly have a veto over what happens there. All those in positions of power to stop the tours and in full knowledge of the lethal history of the place bear some responsibility for this too. Just as much as the dead. The difference being those in power and those who profited, get to go home to their loved ones, get to be consoled over Christmas. The families of the dead get to bury their loved ones over Christmas, if they can find and recover the bodies off the Island.
Further, a person speeding in their car is cognisant of the risks too, yet it's illegal. Someone taking heroin is cognisant of the risks but it's illegal. It's an interesting thought process to go through all the things we can do in society and how the collective decide what is and isn't legal. Also, why such decisions are made. Take trekking or climbing mountains for example. We positively encourage it here - it's a great earner. Yet every time someone dies or needs a rescue we think nothing of the risks we are demanding rescuers take to bail their arses out or retrieve the bodies. It's not just the thrill-seekers who have agreed to put themselves in danger we need to consider. It's not just the balancing of risk and reward for person and country/company coffers. It's not just the lives of the rescuers. It's not just the families left behind, etc. It's quite interesting where society draws the line.
Well it was -11 on the house this morning. Sounds as though we were in the cold spot as my friend who lives near the big swamp which is normally the coolest spot in the area had -10.
Save some of that cold air, and use it to A/C your place in August?
Philbert
Philbert
You make some real good points Kiwi, and worse than that, if they got engulfed by lava, there are no bodies to bury! It they are not killed by other factors first, that must be a horrible way to go.
Probably very fast though.
I thought lava eruptions are more hollywood than real world. I've not read about the details in this case, but assumed th deaths and injuries would be poisonous gas or struck by a lump of ejected debris (rock/ash).
