i think if there is a running undercurrent it is best to be light humor than aggressive put downs, pushing and shoving.
i think JP does a great job, a big guy with a light hand; is quite a trick, and dynamic range!
Originally posted by Art Martin
I want to thank the people on the Arboristsite for all the nice comments about me that they have posted over the past several years. I have met many great people on this site and have formed some life-long friendships because of this site.
However, lately, there has been too much turmoil, dissension and distraction. This has gone too far. It has become a personal attack by a small group of people .....
As long as this bunch is allowed to participate on this fine site and spew their hatred and poison the minds of people who are just trying to improve and enhance their knowledge about chains and chainsaws, nothing productive will be gained. This same tribe ruined the Fort Bragg Paul Bunyan Days Logging Show in just two years. That show had been the highlight of the Paul Bunyan Days since 1939. They took it over and now it is gone.
Perhaps these people will eventually go away and the Arboristsite will recover to the fine level for exchanging ideas and knowledge that it has been. In my case, I guess they accomplished what they set out to do. I don’t want this to spill over and ruin the rest of the site. I will bid my friends farewell and will continue to help people on a personal level.
Art Martin
his last post of 9-15 this year, a real loss; to the chainsaw forum, so he went home to the peace away from here with his generations of experience in tow.
Originally posted by dbabcock
I think it's become fairly evident to me from talking to various people, that Art Martin could easily keep his own website going if he were to choose to do so. Because he won't, I thought it would be very informative for Art to have his own thread where he could talk some more about the way things used to be in the old days. He has many pictures that we can get posted one way or the other.
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I'm reposting the picture that Gypo posted of Art sawing a big tree. Ken says that there are many things about this process that only Art knows: like when you're 15 feet in the air on a springboard and the tree starts to go, what do you do with yourself and a 60-70 lb. saw. Or maybe: what happens when the 1/2" chain in a 6 foot bar decides to get jammed and the gear drive saw bucks you off the board.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Art!
The thread started by DBA about Art's times has become over 400 posts, extending 11 pages and 26,000 views. That's volume!
(The attatchment is pix from DBA, Gypo etc. of Art's times, a guy that should have had his own tin type postage stamps celebrating a spirit and way of life even few of us could chase, has left here over stuff like JP refers to....)
July 27-Quote Me
....But, i say we have all failed, that if 2 say those things about 'us', 20+ have left without the respect of such a salutation/explanation; why would they bother? So as these 2 raise their hands to be counted, my heart sinks; for i have settled here, to give the most to the most (people), and have those people making me think as i due they, that leverage has dissipated.
i reach deep to bring forth some of the things i painstakiningly have wrought, almost like a deep soul searching and assembly of my experience, i need meditative kinda peace for that as others likewise that try hard to think clearly etc.
may 8:
Gentleman let this table be round.
We are all used to being warriors against the odds in the field; commanding cooperation of giants -the largest living organisms to wander our earth. Wee seem to be a breed that locks horns with the bull, and thru conniving and determination of body, mind and soul; just don't give up before it does, ushering its nose to the ground with control and grace. As wee ants stand before these matchstix! (One of my favorites Murph!)
There aren't many like us, if you can't wave or nod passing another crew on the road a block from the job; and end up up side down in the air; Who ya gonna call? i'm sorry to say, that i know exacly what Nick is talking about; and long before now.
All that aggresive energy, can be used in its place not hear. Here ye, can tip visors and toss these things around. Fold in things and views, see if they work for you.
Peace.
jun 30
i see peoples wanting to be looked on as polished profession-alls; carrying on like they were loud, rowdy roughnecks behind a seedy bar; trying to intimidate and prove each other out. i guess that is the ugly side of male competition; but think it should be channeled and controlled better! The war is in the fieds against gravity and injury i feel; not against one of the few on the planet that could rescue you in an emergency the way we push the odds. Nor against the only, almost chosen; few that can share and expand your own experiences; and also can do so through this medium.
i see the possibility of quiet thinkers and learners (with their own enrichening contributions) shying away from these loud, unsettling abashments; - short changing all. For i have felt these tides in myself; but have chosen to stay in the thin times; but what of those i try now (and previously) to speak for?
i think this board is great; and perhaps haven't thanked ya for it lately. But; i think it is great and dynamic enough, to try to be just this good positive, shining thing you have birthed, without the rest. i hope i am never really taken negatively, all ways and always try to peacefully present and explore. Ok lil'sarcasm and word-play for balance too!
Jul 07:
If Y'all wanna be the Supremes,
You must learn
the write tune.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T;
What it really means to me;
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Jul 10:
Well, let's not give Darin anything else to regret for what he has brought us!
Whoa, deja vous to ya too, the quotes of mine, those dates are from last year!
