Monday, May 18, 2015
Cutting down a tree tight between buildings
This guy freaks me out using his saw so carelessly. He seems very adept with it, confident, and that's the freaky part, that's where people get hurt and lose digits. I have not seen anyone set down a chainsaw on a flat surface while it is running. I have not seen anyone leave it running lodged in the tree while they hammer shims into it. He moves all around a saw that is running and he freaks me right out. The chain is disengaged I suppose but it's just insane.
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Better to leave it in the tree, then to have it running on the ground, especially on that hard smooth surface, where the chainsaw would be moving around from the vibration of the motor.
A certain amount of luck was involved with that tree falling between those two buildings. Try 3 times. 2 out of 3 would be great.
The risk of failure is less if the buildings are close, I'd guess.
The tree would just lean rather than smashing what it hits.
Mr. Sixty Grit, please pick up the courtesy phone.
I can see now what he is doing. I appreciate his expertise but those things scare the living shit out of me. One wrong move ZWAAAAA there goes an arm. The WHOLE arm. I'm way to big a klutz for a dangerous thing like that. It's a worse thing to have around than a gun. Whoever invented the chainsaw is insane.
I'm pretty sure this guy would be disgusted how long it took me to saw 1" off the ends of my sticks. It took a long time with a Japanese-looking saw. The weird thing cut on the push better than on the pull.
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And now the sticks perfect. That one inch makes all the difference in the world. Because I want my arms to be natural not forced like a praying mantis.
That's very unsteady and wrong.
At a party in a high-rise apartment a woman who I don't know approached me and told me my canes are too short. I should get longer ones. I listened to her carefully because I was interested the whole time thinking, "you are one crass presumptuously stupid bitch you have no idea what you're talking about." I thanked her for her advice fighting the urgency to relate the feelings she provoked. I don't want the thing that she wants for me including lifestyle advice. I'm never open to that. She was trying to be helpful.
By telling me the thing I've thought about deeply and at length and for good reason and with very much thought and tested under differing circumstances, a thing that I live everyday and experience and re-think every day is wrong.
Maybe she doesn't know that I'm trying to walk properly and what's involved with all that.
I read in a book about Scottish Canadian explorers, having to do with my own name and the Scottish Canadian explorer wrote that a Canadian First Nation person told him at the time way back then during those times of exploration the indians walked differently than caucasians do, the way they hold their arms and hands as they walk is noticeable, together in front and not swinging they have a nobel even regal appearance next to caucasians who walk with their hands swinging back and forth as if sawing logs. That picture stuck in my head.
They walk this way even on hard mountain paths that white people had difficulty climbing, the natives just zipped along with their arms tucked in.
The sawing wood part got me. I think about it all the time. I just did that, saw sticks. When walking I don't want the stick to tap so far ahead of me and cause my hand to curl in passing it. I need it straight down when my arm is straight down to put weight on it if necessary and reinforce where the street is down there. So off they went, the tips, and now the sticks are perfect. They fit large hands, left and right and they look like ordinary things with no collar and no design embellishment that do not advertise themselves in any way.
This video is old. I remember seeing it a long while ago. Big props to the lumberjack on this one and not having the tree roll to one side or the other.
I have done take downs in tight spots, and so far, so good.
Most recently it was a white pine in my neighbor's yard. Missed his redbud tree, his other white pines and my truck. My aim was true.
And boy was my neighbor surprised when he came home and found his tree lying on the ground.
Good times.
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