[Groop] OT: Dieter's Question

[Dieter Opfer]

I can plainly see that. What pirates? Did I err?

Gary Grossmann wrote:
> 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 <mailto:comics230 at cox.net>
>     *To:* groop at groo.com <mailto: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!
> 
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>     John P. Torregrossa
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>     *From:* groop-bounces at groo.com <mailto: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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