I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK

[unixronin]

I cut down a foot-and-a-half-thick, fifty or sixty foot dead tree this morning ... with an axe.  Specifically, the new Fiskars axe that perspicuity gave me.  It took me maybe half an hour.

(Of course, it must be said that apparently no-one had told the tree how this was supposed to work.  It dropped in the opposite direction to the one I'd planned, towards the back-cut instead of the undercut, and hung up in another tree for several hours before a gust of wind brought it down the rest of the way.)

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[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

pictures or it didn't happen ;)

yah, i've seen trees fall 45 degrees, and get caught by the wind and stay falling for a while. sometimes, they flip other way. good to have multiple lanes of exit.

and undercut be damned, if the tree looky like a left, but is secretly weighted righty, it's going right. they do that :>

congrats.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I can take a photo tomorrow of the stump and the fifteen feet or so of trunk I haven't cut up yet. :) Too tired to do it today.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i was thinking more along the lines of project shots from A-Z... not just the finished kill shots ;)

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Bit late for that, I'm afraid. But I'm photodocumenting the Great Reconstruction. Which is now looking like about $12,000 by the time they tear out all the rotten wood we found along the base of the front wall and fix everything there properly.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

$12k now? wooh. i'm expecting a motion picture now!

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$12k

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

I do hope that nothing else is found in the way of damage or incompetent construction.

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, Fiskars...I have two pairs of Fiskars electrician's scissors. My feelings for them scare me sometimes.