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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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groop-bounces@groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces@groo.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Gary Grossmann<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:08 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> groop@groo.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Groop] OT: Dieter's
Question</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Dieter wrote: </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>> And just how often have you managed to make a tree fall where you
want <br>
> it to..... ;)<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Every frickin' time...except once...as you may recall from last year
when I wrote:</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
<br>
</span></font><em><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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</span></font></i></em><em><b><i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></i></b></em><em><b><i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>quite</span></font></i></b></em><em><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> up to. I made one
miscalculation and…well, as Groo would say, "Did I Err?" </span></font></i></em><i><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-style:italic'><br>
</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>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. </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>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. </span></font><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
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</span></font><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Gary</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> "The
Shed Doesn't Leak" G. </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
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