missing my job :(

[homersipes]

Took me year's to learn how to sharpen the saw than it did to learn to drop trees

sharpening is tough, first few times I filed a chain, it would cut a circle I could file one side really well and the other well...... not so well   there are some really neat ways to drop trees.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkgWFh9lDs  I dunno why but I want to try this 

Ahh that explains it. I thought you'd be insane to do 110 hours regularly.

yeah was nice to work a month then have 2 full weeks off   really 7 days a week youre only working 15 hours a day which isnt too horribly bad 

[Flench]

sharpening is tough, first few times I filed a chain, it would cut a circle I could file one side really well and the other well...... not so well   there are some really neat ways to drop trees.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkgWFh9lDs  I dunno why but I want to try this  :Dyeah was nice to work a month then have 2 full weeks off   really 7 days a week youre only working 15 hours a day which isnt too horribly bad 

Yep , that's the same way I learn to cut , same saw and all . I got three saw's now a 18 / 21 and a war hog of a saw a 32 . I drop one the other day and when it hit it explode into a thousand pieces it was so rotten , it was cool , wish I had a good video camera .
EDIT" I did just learn something from that next video , never knew about the stick trick .

[Flench]

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I had a stihl 048AV with a big bore kit and 28 inch bar, that was a beast of a saw, stupidly I sold it to my neighbor as I dont have any trees and dont heat with wood and he needed a saw .  I have an OLD Hoffco that needs a bar and chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPKtn7vmTG8  looks like this   yeah rotten trees are awesome when they explode, I dropped a huge cherry that was rotten last summer that competely exploded when it hit, only thing left was the branches

[Flench]

I had a stihl 048AV with a big bore kit and 28 inch bar, that was a beast of a saw, stupidly I sold it to my neighbor as I dont have any trees and dont heat with wood and he needed a saw .  I have an OLD Hoffco that needs a bar and chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPKtn7vmTG8  looks like this   yeah rotten trees are awesome when they explode, I dropped a huge cherry that was rotten last summer that competely exploded when it hit, only thing left was the branches

Nice , Would you be interested in selling it ?

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well my tree cutting job came to a stop yesterday, I quit.  I had a bad breakfast sandwich and was pukin and coming out other end, and my foreman said I should just go home, I couldnt make it 5 mins without throwing up, so he calls the manager and he comes down to take me to my truck.  I get in and immediately get an attitude and he then states " you are afraid to work" so I respond by ummm no it has nothing to do with work and had him pull over and hurled again.  So I get back in and he then says, "well if you werent drinking all weekend you wouldnt be hung over"  Now I DONT drink AT ALL, NEVER, so I say, Sorry dude but I dont drink at all never have and never will, and he states back " yeah sure thats what every drunk says"  So at this point      I told him to stop the fluff'n truck and I walked about 5 miles back to my truck.  I was like I dont need you telling me what and who I am because you have no idea who or what I am.  Not exactly what I said, there are a few words left out which would get me banned    So I start hopefully next week with another tree company.  The company that I was with was very unsafe, we took down a tree with a 100' crane the other day, the crane operator had NO concern for anyone on the ground, he almost whacked a guy on the head with the hook, no tag lines on anything, I was like wow WTF!! 

[Dragon]

My son in law works the pumps in Oklahoma, he is on site now but isn't sure how long it will last.  Until crude jumps up to $50 bbl their future is unknown.  While I like the cheaper gas prices, it's tough knowing that he will lose everything if it doesn't climb back up soon. 

[homersipes]

Yeah it sucks bad, lots of guys have been laid off.  I think its going to cripple north Dakota, they have adjusted to the high incomes, rent is UNBELIEVABLY high there and without big paying jobs will be a lot of families on the streets.  Will keep him in prayers and thoughts.  I know the feeling about losing everything, I don't cherish the idea of struggling to live again.  Oil is up and down though, part of it.   

[Flench]

well my tree cutting job came to a stop yesterday, I quit.  I had a bad breakfast sandwich and was pukin and coming out other end, and my foreman said I should just go home, I couldnt make it 5 mins without throwing up, so he calls the manager and he comes down to take me to my truck.  I get in and immediately get an attitude and he then states " you are afraid to work" so I respond by ummm no it has nothing to do with work and had him pull over and hurled again.  So I get back in and he then says, "well if you werent drinking all weekend you wouldnt be hung over"  Now I DONT drink AT ALL, NEVER, so I say, Sorry dude but I dont drink at all never have and never will, and he states back " yeah sure thats what every drunk says"  So at this point      I told him to stop the fluffluff'n truck and I walked about 5 miles back to my truck.  I was like I dont need you telling me what and who I am because you have no idea who or what I am.  Not exactly what I said, there are a few words left out which would get me banned    So I start hopefully next week with another tree company.  The company that I was with was very unsafe, we took down a tree with a 100' crane the other day, the crane operator had NO concern for anyone on the ground, he almost whacked a guy on the head with the hook, no tag lines on anything, I was like wow WTF!! 

You did the right thing there .
Shoot man , I save a bunch burning firewood . No way I could pay to heat my home with LP . I burn 250 gallons of LP with the fireplace going a year as it is . That be about that much a month with out the fireplace .

[homersipes]

we have a pellet stove I was going to put my wood stove in the house, but the metalbestos pipe was going to cost like 3k, was something like 250 for 2 feet, and I would need at least 30 feet, plus a hearth and stuff inside, we only paid 1600 for stove and everything.  a ton of pellets runs me between 250 and 300 which lasts a month or so, so its not bad at all and it keeps the house above 70.  We used to have an oil fired steam boiler for heat and we were going through 275 gallons of fuel oil at 4.50 a gallon in less than a month before we got the pellet stove    Yeah no thanks hahaha  LP is one of the worst heats you can have, it burns at a much lower BTU than anything else and is quite expensive.  I think this summer I am going to try and build a pellet maker out of an old snowblower that I have laying around, doesnt look that hard to build one its just getting the framework to be able to withstand the loads and pressures.