Dan F
ArboristSite Operative
Like I said, I'm scared of my saw, but if I didn't make it clear, I also respect it for what it is and can do. I don't let that fear paralyze me though. I use it for what it was meant to be used for, all the while giving it the utmost respect. The second that respect goes away is the second it bites. Hard.
It's not like I've been running a saw for just a couple of days or months either. I've been running a saw for well over 10 years, not on a daily basis though, but frequently enough. I'm 24 now (I know, I know, I'm still young, but my 5 month-old makes me feel a LOT older at times. Probably just gonna get worse, right?
), and I believe Dad gave me my first saw lesson when I was in the nieghborhood of 10 years old. I was big for my age, but the Jonsenreds 630 was (and still is) a mighty big saw. I learned respect for that saw (and all others) at a young age.
I'll also admit that I don't use the CB probably as frequently as I should. Perhaps that comes from my little Poulan without a CB (it does have a hand gaurd though). I've cut a lot of wood with that little green machine and I've always had to pay extra special attention to what I was doing. The brand notwithstanding, I wouldn't DREAM of taking that saw up in a tree because of the lack of a CB.
Maybe my respect for machinery and equipment comes from an upbringing that taught me that from the get-go. It never hurts the respect for that equipment when you see your grandfather's left hand with only a two nubs where the four fingers were and a nub for the thumb.... Got it caught in a corn picker many years ago.....
I know it was another thread entirely, but as to the cost of books, MB, you don't have a leg to stand on.... I will agree completely with what Nate said about the cost of books in college. $84 is NOT expensive. ONE book (out of about 4 for the class) cost me $150 about 4-5 years ago (Time Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture). Was it worth it? Yes, I still use it. Harrison Flint's book, Landscape Plants for Eastern North America, cost me about $95. I still use it. I didn't have to buy it, but I bought Dirr's book, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, used for about $45. I use it too. I'd hate to think about the amount of money I spent on books over the four years I was at Purdue. That is just part of getting an education though.
But then again (this is a cheap shot, I know, I probably shouldn't take it, but after all of the comments I've seen from MB so far, I will), I do know how to read a book....
Dan
It's not like I've been running a saw for just a couple of days or months either. I've been running a saw for well over 10 years, not on a daily basis though, but frequently enough. I'm 24 now (I know, I know, I'm still young, but my 5 month-old makes me feel a LOT older at times. Probably just gonna get worse, right?
), and I believe Dad gave me my first saw lesson when I was in the nieghborhood of 10 years old. I was big for my age, but the Jonsenreds 630 was (and still is) a mighty big saw. I learned respect for that saw (and all others) at a young age. I'll also admit that I don't use the CB probably as frequently as I should. Perhaps that comes from my little Poulan without a CB (it does have a hand gaurd though). I've cut a lot of wood with that little green machine and I've always had to pay extra special attention to what I was doing. The brand notwithstanding, I wouldn't DREAM of taking that saw up in a tree because of the lack of a CB.
Maybe my respect for machinery and equipment comes from an upbringing that taught me that from the get-go. It never hurts the respect for that equipment when you see your grandfather's left hand with only a two nubs where the four fingers were and a nub for the thumb.... Got it caught in a corn picker many years ago.....
I know it was another thread entirely, but as to the cost of books, MB, you don't have a leg to stand on.... I will agree completely with what Nate said about the cost of books in college. $84 is NOT expensive. ONE book (out of about 4 for the class) cost me $150 about 4-5 years ago (Time Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture). Was it worth it? Yes, I still use it. Harrison Flint's book, Landscape Plants for Eastern North America, cost me about $95. I still use it. I didn't have to buy it, but I bought Dirr's book, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, used for about $45. I use it too. I'd hate to think about the amount of money I spent on books over the four years I was at Purdue. That is just part of getting an education though.
But then again (this is a cheap shot, I know, I probably shouldn't take it, but after all of the comments I've seen from MB so far, I will), I do know how to read a book....
Dan
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