[AT] OT: Lucky break and a very lucky break.

[Mike]

Hi Will, I really hate dealing with leaners, there was a man killed 
around here when for whatever reason he decided to get underneath one 
and it picked that time to go. I need to harvest some ash for this 
winter, and my situation is similar to yours, fairly thick forest with 
very tall trees. Unless you are Paul Bunyan it is almost impossible to 
drop one without it getting hung up in the canopy. What I tend to do is 
drop the tree and when it inevitably gets hung up I hook about 80' of 
chain to the base of the tree and just pull it with my tractor til it 
drops out. Makes for real tedious work. Nice firewood though because 
being that they grew for height, they don't have many branches.

Mike M

On 9/3/2014 7:05 AM, Will Powell wrote:
> Yes, that was a lucky break.
>    
> I guess I will confess that I had one yesterday also.
>    
> An ash tree had fallen in my woods (an ash bore victim)  and I decided to section it up into 10 food sections and eventually pull it out with a tractor.
>    
> I have an old growth forest and all of the trees go straight up to compete for the sunlight.
>    
> On the way down the ash knocked over the top of an oak tree about 30 feet up in the air. The oak was still connected but the top was tangled on the ground with the top of the ash. At the break the oak was about 6-8 inches in diameter. I knew that the oak would require some attention and thought I would come back with a long chain later and attend to it.
>    
> Started sectioning the ash, got three 10 foot large sections cut and moved toward the top. I cut a 6 inch diameter section which released some of the energy in the top and it rolled away from the trunk..... All of a sudden the top of the oak thumped down in front of my face, about 12 inches away parallel  to the ash. It shook the ground.
>    
> Well, that was really a widow maker. I've cut down well over 50 large old growth trees, some over 30 inches in diameter and I've never been this close to major injury or potential death...
>    
> Need to keep my guard up with tractors and trees. I'm always going to address the leaners first from now on. Upright trees have so much potential energy...
>    
> I won't be telling my wife about this one.
>    
>    
>    
> Regards,
>    
> Will
>    
> SE PA.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "hill, charlie" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "email, Antique" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 10:45:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT:  Lucky break and a very lucky break.
>
> Well it's very certainly 220 V.  Actually the capacitor might only
> be pulling from one leg and might just be 110 V but it's got
> a lot of kick coming out. It would have smarted!
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 9:55 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Lucky break and a very lucky break.
>
> Glad you're OK Charlie, I don't mind working with 110v, but when working
> with 220v, I'm VERY careful.
>
> Mike M
> On 9/2/2014 8:08 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> My air conditioning went out today.  I could tell by the way it was trying
>> to start
>> and failing that it was something to do with the start capacitor.  Well I
>> just replaced
>> that a few months ago so I was figuring I got a bad one.  I disconnected
>> the
>> power,
>> pulled the cover off and thought myself lucky to find that one of the wire
>> connectors
>> that fastened a wire to the capacitor had corroded and burned into.  No
>> problem, I can
>> fix that.  I grounded out the capacitor for safety reasons,  pulled the
>> old
>> connector off
>> the lug, put a new connector on the cleaned up wire and stuck it back on
>> the
>> capacitor.
>> What's this ..... a big spark.  Turns out I had not grounded out the
>> capacitor.  I attempted
>> to but apparently my screw driver didn't find a good ground when I did it.
>> That's what I mean by a very lucky break.  I could have been badly shocked
>> and maybe even
>> injured.  Just by fate I didn't hit the lug on the capacitor with my hand
>> in
>> the process.
>> Well, not exactly luck because I'm always careful around electricity but I
>> could have accidentally
>> hit it.
>>
>> Just a reminder to myself and everyone else to be careful and check twice.
>> Yes the AC fired off and runs fine now.  Cost me about a dime.
>> Wonder what that would have cost me if I'd called the service rep?
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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