[Groop] OT: Dieter's Question

[Gary Grossmann]

Hey!  I wasn't foolishly bragging about no one being able to call me a fool!  I was foolishly bragging about being able to make trees fall where I want them to, except the one time when I was a fool and my foolish master plan didn't work, which would have caused me to look foolish had anyone been fool enough to watch the foolish proceedings.  Of course, it was rather foolish to bring up my one failure, but Dieter asked, so I foolishly answered, as any fool can plainly see.  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John T 
  To: groop at groo.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:16 PM
  Subject: Re: [Groop] OT: Dieter's Question


  Of course only a fool would brag about no one being are to call him a fool! 

   

  John P. Torregrossa

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  From: groop-bounces at groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces at groo.com] On Behalf Of Gary Grossmann
  Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:08 PM
  To: groop at groo.com
  Subject: Re: [Groop] OT: Dieter's Question

   


   
  Dieter wrote:   
   
  > And just how often have you managed to make a tree fall where you want 
  > it to..... ;)

  Every frickin' time...except once...as you may recall from last year when I wrote:
   
  I tried to cut down a giant, completely out of control, big leaf maple that is just a couple feet from my shed that doubles as a pump house.  The tree has 12 stalks that range in size from 6" to darn near a foot in diameter and half of them lean to one degree or another over my shed.  I am very good at getting trees to fall where I want them to with my trusty axe and buck saw, but this presented a special challenge which, it turns out, I was not quite up to.  I made one miscalculation and.well, as Groo would say, "Did I Err?"   

  I had predicated getting several of the stalks to swing just far enough away from the shed by using one of the other stalks as a pivot point.  It turned out not to be strong enough enough and so all four started leaning towards the shed, with two leaning up against it. The pivot stalk at least kept the others from crashing onto it. I was able to climb up onto the shed, quickly cut off some big branches, push the stalks away as they fell, and got away with only a couple of nicked shingles.  If I had done a couple fewer chops or been a little quicker climbing onto the shed even that wouldn't have happenned.  
   
  It retrospect, it was a two man job.  But the nice thing about doing these kind of things by yourself is that when you make a complete fool of yourself, there is no one around to see it.  
   
  Gary "The Shed Doesn't Leak" G. 
   


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