slangegger
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The worst 4 letter word on this site...."HRBN"
Funny stuff. HBRN is going to be busy for a week finding definitions for all those terms you guys used.
I'm headed for the woods. Gotta practice my posing and wannabe-ing. I just wish I disn't have to get up so damn early to do it.![]()
The worst 4 letter word on this site...."HRBN"
Anyone got a spare fribblefile handle, I snapped mine off at the thumb guard.
That got the Balluster flange or no?
No, it is of the stringless variety. while everyone knows how tough it is to use a dull fribble, a loose fribble is a danger to itself and others. the problem is, the tension tool, know as a one-way, non-adjustable folding rachet, are fitted to each fribble and are not inter-changeable. Since the demise of the fribble Company, there are loose fribbles in use everywhere, beware the loose fribble, a sudden loss of traction can lead to excessive plunger wear and we all know what that means.
oh hell yeah
wait, are we talking about 6 point Mac-T suspensions?
a loose fribble is a danger to itself and others
Never fill the side rod's lunch box with bar oil... it's bad for your health... ask me how I know...
Now back in mamby-pamby-land...
I love cats that can claim all this BS from a keyboard...
Gary
Funny stuff. HBRN is going to be busy for a week finding definitions for all those terms you guys used.
I'm headed for the woods. Gotta practice my posing and wannabe-ing. I just wish I disn't have to get up so damn early to do it.![]()
Bob, do you mind me asking, just how early you do fire up? If I get the time zones right, I calculate you must wake up just after midnight.
I pull to fire 3-4 o'clock in the morning. That's early enough to make my non-logging friends to think I'm crazy. I know some fellows up here start in the summer in the evening and finish early in the morning. You can basically do that here, because there is sunlight through whole night.
Now it's Friday. My week is already done. I hope you all get out of the woods safe, whatever gears you wear or not, and have a good weekend.
yup, runnin iron makes for a long day.What I'm doing each particular day and how far I have to drive to work dictates what time I get up. If I'm falling I usually get to sleep in 'til two or sometimes even three in the morning. Most of my falling work is within a two hour drive from my house and we don't start work until it's light enough to see. We work six and a half hours...usually. I usually get home around three or four in the afternoon, work on the saws, sharpen some chains, and unwind. Easy hours.
If I'm running a loader I may have to get up at midnite or even earlier. Loading starts at four and, since everything keys on getting the first round of trucks loaded early, you can't be late. The farthest I'm driving right now to run loader is two hours. Any more than that and I usually camp out. The loader works all day sorting and decking logs and loading trucks 'til the late afternoon. A 12 hour work day is normal and sixteen hours days are not unusual. A lot of loader operators camp out.
Occasionally I drive truck and those days run between twelve and sixteen hours.
If I'm doing some of my contract work, falling roadside snags for the county, I get to really sleep in. Those guys don't like to start work before seven and since I have a crew of them with me all day for traffic control and such I can't start without them. I've threatened to, though.
See now why retirement is looking very good indeed? 45 years of those kind of hours is probably enough.
See now why retirement is looking very good indeed? 45 years of those kind of hours is probably enough.
Well, Bob, I think you're one of the few. Loggers used to wear out early. They considered a 50 years old fellow all done. My mentor died after 36 years in the age of 52. I think a reasonable pension plan is a safety gear too.
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