Post #196165 by GMAN on Wed, Nov 2, 2005 3:45 PM

Polynesiac, Hewey, Ben, and Alohabros,

Thanks for the kind words. I'll keep trying to carve and post pieces that you guys will find interesting.

I went out tonight after a hard day of fisheries management and dropped a troublesome cedar tree for a friend. I've been working from two that fell on his property in a hurricane last year. This one was hanging over telephone and cable lines and I was a bit nervous about being responsible ($-wise) if I took the whole show down. We also needed to lay it down between my friend's fence and his pool. I put a good notch in it and we tied a control line on it up high and tied the other end to his jeep. As I worked the back cut, my friend put tension on the line with his truck. When it started to go, I signaled to him to move forward, and it went down perfectly, nice and slow, and controlled.

I cut six nice sections to make tikis out of and cut several of the branches up to make tap handles. Too bad I can't use any of it for like a year, but hey, I have four big sections of the dry stuff still to carve. I painted the ends of this new stuff and stacked it in the garage. Happy Happy - Joy Joy!

-Gman