Post #328270 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 6:57 PM

We took over our very own little corner of the park over today, showed the tree guys how we hack up their throwaways, got a bunch of free wood, and got a bunch of new wood supply contacts. Glad we went. Thanks to all for working away while I was out scamming logs and food the whole time.

Zaya's pictures from today

Who needs a pop up when you have a 100 year old tree for shade. Our demonstration station:

Clysdalle shows up the pros

4WD trying to blow out his lower discs

Billy will stop when they drag him away(to the looney bin...)

Mr NoName plots his next move

Mieko shows Hank how she still has all her fingers left after all this time carving little pendants

Cammo made a couple guest appearances today

Cammo claims that I go to these and never do anything. I'm like that dude who hasn't surfed since '87 who talks about surfing all the time. Here I am boring people with all my arcane tiki knowledge

This guy asked me where the bathroom was and I didn't shut up about tikis for 35 minutes.

All these people were watching the carvers until I stepped into their line of sight and started talking about my mug collection.

My favorite part was watching all the tree guys freak out over how we use our chainsaws. I guess we do everything wrong, from a safety standpoint. They don't understand that we are more careful than them because we are not covered by workman's comp insurance. No insurance insures an accident free work environment.
Here 4WD models proper safety gear.

Before today, I only imagined what safety gear looked like

I saw a big piece of ficus that these guys were going to chip up. I asked if I could have it instead, and they said sure. They even used this $19,000 machine to carry it to my truck for me.

That's a nice piece of wood right there.

And finally Bella rips the eyes out of one of the sample tikis.

That was fun. Glad we got to do it.

Buzzy Out!