Random pics (that you took) thread...

[00wyk]

Nice looking place.
Did they drop the rest of the tree once they took all the limbs off the yard side?

Nope. One of the reasons I was called in was the London arborists wanted a small fortune, and they would only remove the entire tree for insurance purposes. I left as much of the tree as I could as per the owner's wishes. I did tell them I felt a bit apprehensive about it, but they told me not to worry. If it falls, it falls. They will tell the kids to stop playing around it. But we know how that goes...
Another thing to note is that in the photos, the tree almost looks like a normal sized Beech. That thing is about 120 foot tall and maybe 6 foot DBH. It's a very old beech. Just the two limbs we chopped made enough firewood to last them a couple of years. That was about 4 years ago and she is still together. So wish them luck.
When it does need felling, it will have to be cut down to the trunk by a brave climber, and then I presume someone is gonna make a huge totem pole carving out of it, because there's no way they are gonna have a big enough crane truck in that garden without destroying it, and no way will it fall without cratering that lawn.

 

[Steve]

Came in to work and this was found over in the abandoned mall next door. View attachment 228062

Did you take it Wayne? A dollar is a dollar!

 

[chipper1]

Nope. One of the reasons I was called in was the London arborists wanted a small fortune, and they would only remove the entire tree for insurance purposes. I left as much of the tree as I could as per the owner's wishes. I did tell them I felt a bit apprehensive about it, but they told me not to worry. If it falls, it falls. They will tell the kids to stop playing around it. But we know how that goes...
Another thing to note is that in the photos, the tree almost looks like a normal sized Beech. That thing is about 120 foot tall and maybe 6 foot DBH. It's a very old beech. Just the two limbs we chopped made enough firewood to last them a couple of years. That was about 4 years ago and she is still together. So wish them luck.
When it does need felling, it will have to be cut down to the trunk by a brave climber, and then I presume someone is gonna make a huge totem pole carving out of it, because there's no way they are gonna have a big enough crane truck in that garden without destroying it, and no way will it fall without cratering that lawn.

Sad, should have just taken the large branch to the right and the double that went to the right( the one with the swings attached), would have at least made it symmetrical after removing all the branches they did . That wouldn't necessarily be following "pruning" protocols to remove that much branch structure, but heck neither was what was removed already. I don't understand why it was ever pruned at all, great location for that tree unless there's a house/structure directly behind it.
It looks massive, I've only seen a few that may have been anywhere near that size, and they were very tall and in sandy soil. I have no idea how those ones in the city are still alive, where do they get water from, are the roots in the sewers.

 

[00wyk]

As happens with most suburban and country places - 'this used to be all fields'. The Tudor house on this property is nearly an actual Tudor house. It's a couple of hundred years old, so not exactly Tudor era, but close on it's heels. So it is an authentic house built in the style by similarly trained craftsmen blah blah. At one point the owner of this house would have maybe owned much of the land in the area back when a trip to London was a days ride in a carriage. Eventually, as London spilled out in to the suburbs, this sort of thing happens. It's about 5 or 6 acres or so now. With a fair few houses in the area similarly landed. The value is probably appalling. That's how you get huge trees in the 'city'. The center of London is still 20 miles away as the crow flies. Even 20 miles away, this is considered a suburb. If you consider the M25 to be the outer ring road of London, this property is still well within that boundary.
When this tree was planted, there probably was no electricity in the area.

 

[ChipsFlyin]

Some old school for the ride into work.

 

[redline4]

 

[Steve]

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How is that 129 treating you?

 

[redline4]

How is that 129 treating you?

I've got over a gallon of fuel through it.
It's been great. Starts real easy, 3 pulls tops cold, as in single digits cold. 1 pull warm.
I have not been gentle with it. Typically I'm stuffing the blade 4-6" into the snow snd cutting the stuff off there.
The loop handle has not presented an issue either.

 

[00wyk]

Just doin a bit of grindy grindy

 

[Definitive Dave]

Some old school for the ride into work.View attachment 228163

seen queensryche a good handfull of times in concert

 

[ChipsFlyin]

seen queensryche a good handfull of times in concert

Cool!!! I haven't seen them live since the mid 90s when they came to Pittsburgh with Suicidal Tendencies at the Civic Arena. I got surrounded by Pittsburgh police that night for making a u turn. Fun fun - didn't get in trouble. They were looking for a similar car. Fortunately they didn't see all the beer we stashed.lol The good old days...

 

[00wyk]

Quiet in here...

Husqvarna 444SE

 

[Bigmac]

 

[Sawrain]

Some diy distilling, still early days.

 

[chipper1]

Quiet in here...

Husqvarna 444SE

Sorry, wont let it happen again.
One of my kids came back home 359, and I adopted a couple others 346 and 562.

 

[Dub11]

Did you take it Wayne? A dollar is a dollar!

No, hell naw!

 

[chipper1]

Whoops, forgot the random picture .
The ported 357 came in for a little tuning and wanted in on the reunion.

3 series photo op.

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

On the way home from work last night, the (non)driver of this water transport stalled going up the hill. This is the third vehicle to stall right in front of me this winter. I'll give the kid learning to drive stick in a dually Dodge some slack, but this guy, and the PennDOT snow plow driver don't have an excuse.

 

[chipper1]

On the way home from work last night, the (non)driver of this water transport stalled going up the hill. This is the third vehicle to stall right in front of me this winter. I'll give the kid learning to drive stick in a dually Dodge some slack, but this guy, and the PennDOT snow plow driver don't have an excuse.
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That's actually a ticket, he's not in control of the vehicle.
The snow plows are mostly automatic these days, wonder what the heck happened there?

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

That's actually a ticket, he's not in control of the vehicle.
The snow plows are mostly automatic these days, wonder what the heck happened there?

The road between home and work is an old buggy path, pie crust road that has never been improved. There are several tightening curves that run into hills that get steeper as you go to the top. A lot of drivers get surprised by them. You have to be on the binders pretty hard to not overturn, and then just when you are trying to accelerate, the hill gets steeper and kills all your momentum.

As far as I know, our big state plow trucks are still manual, because they like to be able to ride the clutch feeding a paver or stone spreader box (big no no, but they do it anyway).