[AT] Knowing when to call it a day

[Phil Auten]

 From the picture it looks like the tree was cut back at some time. All 
those limbs growing out where the limb was cut off before. That looks 
like a real chore to me. And that Bois 'd Arc is also hard as nails too.

Phil in TX


On 11/16/2019 2:10 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>
> Cecil wrote:  “I had not thought of taking the saw off the bar.  I 
> will store that in the fuzzy memory bank for future use...”  That was 
> the one bright spot for me of the whole experience, when I saw my 
> chainsaw bar impaled into the ground:  At least the saw itself hadn’t 
> been on the receiving end of all that energy.   The bar took a beating 
> but I had a spare in the shop, so I was back in business today.
>
> And “In the fireplace, the wood is so dense that a small pocket of 
> moisture in the wood can turn into an explosion.”  Yep.  I burn a lot 
> of it in my wood stove where it’s safely behind the doors, but even 
> there I have to be careful when opening the stove to feed in more wood 
> or even when opening the ash pan door… the sudden rush of air 
> sometimes precipitates a frenzy of sparks that shoot out all over the 
> place.
>
> I went back out and finished cutting up that tree today, without 
> further incident other than cursing the difficult nature of those 
> trees in general.   I took the attached photo to show a particularly 
> nasty section… it doesn’t all look like that, but a little bit is more 
> than enough.
>
> Dean Vinson
>
> Saint Paris, Ohio
>
>
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