robutacion
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G'day folks,
I was looking at some old pics when I come across a series of pics I took years ago when my wife and I, we got a big bunch of tree trunks that I have been cut and piled into a big pile to be burnt at an appropriate time.
I recall well this event that got us busy for a few days, cutting and loading the trailer with "fairly" manageable size logs, surrounded by liquified cow manure avalanche that was moving rather too fast towards to where the wood/tree trunks were.
That didn't endup being our/my biggest problem, despite the fact that we found ourselves a couple of times, with our feet/boots well sinked into cow $#!T. The event that could have caused me a much worse result was when, and due to the slipest nature of these particular tree bark when wet (rain or due) dues was the cause in this event.
I was well hight on top of the huge trunks pile, with a chainsaw in my hands running while cutting small sections of these 2'+ round trunks when, I slipped in between trunks and got one left stuck in one of the many gaps between the trunks, while I felt backwards, towards where my wife Merissa was standing (on solid ground) waiting for me to roll the logs down and have her to roll them, into a small gap that we had still clean from the cow $#!T that, and as I mentioned previously, was growing daily and covering any available ground, near that spot that was the lowest spot near the cows shed.
I fell backwards pretty badly, with the chainsaw running in my right hand while it swang passed my head, as I was falling back. Poor Merissa, she panicked and froze for a few seconds while I was looking at her sort of up-side-down, my foot was jammed between 2 trunks and I has literally hanging by one leg, staring at the blue sky.
I never saw stars, even though, my Husqvarna helmet went flying almost hitting Merissa. What an awkward position that was and how painful it became in no time at all, I thought that I had broke my spine again, I was numb...!
Anyway, I asked Merissa to climb closer to me and take the chainsaw out of my hand and turn if off, that was my first priority and in no time, I was upwards again and trying to unstuck my foot/boot from a gap that seemed impossible to have allowed my boot to fit in but it did however, getting it out, was another story altogether.
It all endup well, and I was walking again and back into the job, after I had time to reflect into what had just happened and what could have happened to either me or Merissa, if we were having a bad day, sure, it wasn't one of best days either but, I got out of it, amazingly well, considering.
Now, the pics I saw, were not from the wood pile and that location, but from a day or so after, when I was slicing some of the logs, and make round bowl blanks to be put to dry, the thoughts and images of what happened before I got to that day, were as vivid as they were the day it happened, all these years ago, and if I recall correctly, this happened before I join to IAP, I remember well to have wrote a story about it, in the forum I was in at the time, the WW Australia so, and unless you have read some of my work prior me joining IAP, this would be possibly, the first time you have heard of it.
In either case, was what I saw in those pics that, made me consider making one of my IAP games and share those pics with all of you.
There are a few pics but for now, I will be focussing on a couple that show wood shavings from the chainsaw that, looked like snow white, I believe the whitest wood shavings I ever saw and therefore, I would like you to tell me, what wood name they come from or, the tree species name that were in that big pile that almost killed me...???
The conditions and prize are the same as per previous games...!
Best of luck.:wink::biggrin:
Cheers
George
I was looking at some old pics when I come across a series of pics I took years ago when my wife and I, we got a big bunch of tree trunks that I have been cut and piled into a big pile to be burnt at an appropriate time.
I recall well this event that got us busy for a few days, cutting and loading the trailer with "fairly" manageable size logs, surrounded by liquified cow manure avalanche that was moving rather too fast towards to where the wood/tree trunks were.
That didn't endup being our/my biggest problem, despite the fact that we found ourselves a couple of times, with our feet/boots well sinked into cow $#!T. The event that could have caused me a much worse result was when, and due to the slipest nature of these particular tree bark when wet (rain or due) dues was the cause in this event.
I was well hight on top of the huge trunks pile, with a chainsaw in my hands running while cutting small sections of these 2'+ round trunks when, I slipped in between trunks and got one left stuck in one of the many gaps between the trunks, while I felt backwards, towards where my wife Merissa was standing (on solid ground) waiting for me to roll the logs down and have her to roll them, into a small gap that we had still clean from the cow $#!T that, and as I mentioned previously, was growing daily and covering any available ground, near that spot that was the lowest spot near the cows shed.
I fell backwards pretty badly, with the chainsaw running in my right hand while it swang passed my head, as I was falling back. Poor Merissa, she panicked and froze for a few seconds while I was looking at her sort of up-side-down, my foot was jammed between 2 trunks and I has literally hanging by one leg, staring at the blue sky.
I never saw stars, even though, my Husqvarna helmet went flying almost hitting Merissa. What an awkward position that was and how painful it became in no time at all, I thought that I had broke my spine again, I was numb...!
Anyway, I asked Merissa to climb closer to me and take the chainsaw out of my hand and turn if off, that was my first priority and in no time, I was upwards again and trying to unstuck my foot/boot from a gap that seemed impossible to have allowed my boot to fit in but it did however, getting it out, was another story altogether.
It all endup well, and I was walking again and back into the job, after I had time to reflect into what had just happened and what could have happened to either me or Merissa, if we were having a bad day, sure, it wasn't one of best days either but, I got out of it, amazingly well, considering.
Now, the pics I saw, were not from the wood pile and that location, but from a day or so after, when I was slicing some of the logs, and make round bowl blanks to be put to dry, the thoughts and images of what happened before I got to that day, were as vivid as they were the day it happened, all these years ago, and if I recall correctly, this happened before I join to IAP, I remember well to have wrote a story about it, in the forum I was in at the time, the WW Australia so, and unless you have read some of my work prior me joining IAP, this would be possibly, the first time you have heard of it.
In either case, was what I saw in those pics that, made me consider making one of my IAP games and share those pics with all of you.
There are a few pics but for now, I will be focussing on a couple that show wood shavings from the chainsaw that, looked like snow white, I believe the whitest wood shavings I ever saw and therefore, I would like you to tell me, what wood name they come from or, the tree species name that were in that big pile that almost killed me...???
The conditions and prize are the same as per previous games...!
Best of luck.:wink::biggrin:
Cheers
George
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