So if you didn't do anything airgun related what did you do today?

[Lt. Dan]

Fire-pit night at Kris's!

Roasted hot dog wieners and marshmallows.  Smores,  yum.. count me in.

Pine smoked dogs, reminds me of camping out when I was 11 years old.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Roof repair and clean the pine needles of the awning and did some waterproofing on my shed, rain is coming! My body really hurts from the kind of work I did today, and I only worked from 8AM to 2:30PM. I feel like I worked a 14 hour day. Getting old is the pits! But at least I still made myself useful, that feels good mentally. 

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Day 7 of the Messy Michael Cleanup has come to an end. All the dead leaners are gone. Now to clean up the dropped stuff and the brushy stuff away from the house. I have plenty of red maple and oaks that have volunteered on my property so I will be able to move some around. It will be hot next summer without the shade in the morning but that's okay, maples grow pretty quick. Hopefully in a few weeks I can get a garden started and have some fresh greens to cook.

No burnable firewood I take it?
Lots of pine if I recall.

Oh it's burnable and it won't take long to get rid of it either. Yes, it's pine, not good for a fire place but great for an outdoor warming fire.


The view from above, as you can see I was just about maxed out on extension.

Wow Kris...that boom is almost high enough to do an  "Airborne Combat Jump"  from. 

I am sure.... that you will be glad.... when all the work is finally done.


Best Wishes My Friend - Tom

[Sqrl Klr]

Got a 50ft section of dark thicket bulldozed out of the way with my tractor on a trail in my woods. Now hogs can't hide behind it anymore since I can see them in the day or at night too now with it all cleared out. Did that because one time I spooked a bedded hog out of thicket on each side of me not even 10ft away which nearly made me soil my britches. Pulled vines and thorns out of trees 40ft high with the tractor as well, some of which fell on me. Hope I don't get another round of poison ivy rashes from it as I'm on steroids to clear them up from doing that last week by hand with vines 60ft high and up to wrist thickness. 

[maraudinglizard]

Wow Kris...that boom is almost high enough to do an  "Airborne Combat Jump"  from. 
I am sure.... that you will be glad.... when all the work is finally done.
Best Wishes My Friend - Tom

Tom, full extension on that machine is 70ft, Genie does make one that reaches 125ft. I do have my limits to some extent. I have work on and in stuff that high in the past. Today will be the last day I have 2 more I would like to get down before they pick up the machine.

Fire-pit night at Kris's!

Roasted hot dog wieners and marshmallows.  Smores,  yum.. count me in.
Pine smoked dogs, reminds me of camping out when I was 11 years old.

Dan, I was thinking about that the other night when I was burning some of it to make room to get the machine around in the yard.

Roof repair and clean the pine needles of the awning and did some waterproofing on my shed, rain is coming! My body really hurts from the kind of work I did today, and I only worked from 8AM to 2:30PM. I feel like I worked a 14 hour day. Getting old is the pits! But at least I still made myself useful, that feels good mentally. 

I have to agree with ya on that one, I have to call it quits when the one leg won't move any more and the pain is unbearable. So far I have really done well with this project, no major flares to deal with.

[anti-squirrel]

You folks are hardcore!

After work yesterday, I continued my leaf clean-up.  Three pine trees, 5 hickory trees, a Holly, and dozens of Oak trees seem to end up in my yard.   After relocation outside the chain-link fence, I let them accrue, then I mow with prejudice.  My mowers never get used for grass- only mulching leaves.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Roof repair and clean the pine needles of the awning and did some waterproofing on my shed, rain is coming! My body really hurts from the kind of work I did today, and I only worked from 8AM to 2:30PM. I feel like I worked a 14 hour day. Getting old is the pits! But at least I still made myself useful, that feels good mentally.

I am glad to report all my roof and waterproofing efforts paid off, I accomplished all I set out to. It POURED too, so I am glad it all worked!

[Insanity]

Day 7 of the Messy Michael Cleanup has come to an end. All the dead leaners are gone. Now to clean up the dropped stuff and the brushy stuff away from the house. I have plenty of red maple and oaks that have volunteered on my property so I will be able to move some around. It will be hot next summer without the shade in the morning but that's okay, maples grow pretty quick. Hopefully in a few weeks I can get a garden started and have some fresh greens to cook.

No burnable firewood I take it?
Lots of pine if I recall.

Oh it's burnable and it won't take long to get rid of it either. Yes, it's pine, not good for a fire place but great for an outdoor warming fire.


The view from above, as you can see I was just about maxed out on extension.

Wow Kris...that boom is almost high enough to do an  "Airborne Combat Jump"  from. 

I am sure.... that you will be glad.... when all the work is finally done.


Best Wishes My Friend - Tom

Looks high enough for a Air Assault rappel.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Day 7 of the Messy Michael Cleanup has come to an end. All the dead leaners are gone. Now to clean up the dropped stuff and the brushy stuff away from the house. I have plenty of red maple and oaks that have volunteered on my property so I will be able to move some around. It will be hot next summer without the shade in the morning but that's okay, maples grow pretty quick. Hopefully in a few weeks I can get a garden started and have some fresh greens to cook.

No burnable firewood I take it?
Lots of pine if I recall.

Oh it's burnable and it won't take long to get rid of it either. Yes, it's pine, not good for a fire place but great for an outdoor warming fire.


The view from above, as you can see I was just about maxed out on extension.

Wow Kris...that boom is almost high enough to do an  "Airborne Combat Jump"  from. 

I am sure.... that you will be glad.... when all the work is finally done.


Best Wishes My Friend - Tom

Looks high enough for a Air Assault rappel.

Yup... it sure does !           Lets Do It.......Now !   

[oldnamvet]

That view would make me really queasy. Dangling my feet out over 3000 ft of air from an HU1A didn't bother me but this would for some reason. Any more I even deer hunt from the ground rather than climbing 20 feet into a tree stand.

[maraudinglizard]

That view would make me really queasy. Dangling my feet out over 3000 ft of air from an HU1A didn't bother me but this would for some reason. Any more I even deer hunt from the ground rather than climbing 20 feet into a tree stand.

This machine's platform will get to swinging real good if you jerk the controls real quick, the wind will do a good number on it as well. I had to wait to take the tops down when the wind was not blowing. If you get sea sick easy this is not the machine be on. 

[Sqrl Klr]

You folks are hardcore!

After work yesterday, I continued my leaf clean-up.  Three pine trees, 5 hickory trees, a Holly, and dozens of Oak trees seem to end up in my yard.   After relocation outside the chain-link fence, I let them accrue, then I mow with prejudice.  My mowers never get used for grass- only mulching leaves.

I did the same. Loaded numerous dead falls in my back yard with the tractor and tossed them along with hundreds of feet of vines and thorns over the fence corner to help fill in some creek washouts on both sides of the corner. My left leg feels twice as big as my right after all the clutching I've done the past 2 days. 

[avator]

Spent the past few days on a forklift at work trying to get things in order for weekly audits. My old body is paying the price. It's screaming at me that I need to be more active on a regular basis. Use it or lose it.

[maraudinglizard]

Spent the past few days on a forklift at work trying to get things in order for weekly audits. My old body is paying the price. It's screaming at me that I need to be more active on a regular basis. Use it or lose it.

Bill, I know what you mean, I was using a skid steer last night to load some atlantic white cedar that was free, this morning I am paying for it. I am in the process of unloading it(more ouch) and stacking it with the tractor, then this afternoon I go get the rest of it.

[avator]

Slow and steady Kris... 

[mac]

I ran heavy equipment for 30 years and the skid steer was my least favorite. When you had to get things done quickly it would beat the &^^& out of you compared to the big stuff.
As far as man lifts...I didn’t do so well. I’m not good with heights and it tested my nerves to have to go up in them. I think the highest I went was 60ft to weld on a conveyor head pulley and I hated it ! Just looking at the photo Kris posted makes me uneasy lol. No way would I jump out of a perfectly good airplane  . God bless all of you that do or did for our armed services. My future son in law starts airborne training Monday in NC.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I ran heavy equipment for 30 years and the skid steer was my least favorite. When you had to get things done quickly it would beat the &^^& out of you compared to the big stuff.
As far as man lifts...I didn’t do so well. I’m not good with heights and it tested my nerves to have to go up in them. I think the highest I went was 60ft to weld on a conveyor head pulley and I hated it ! Just looking at the photo Kris posted makes me uneasy lol. No way would I jump out of a perfectly good airplane  . God bless all of you that do or did for our armed services. My future son in law starts airborne training Monday in NC.

I always wanted to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, but never got around to it. I settled with seeing how high and how far I could jump a motorcycle. I never needed or sought an audience, I did it just for the adrenaline. I had a friend that said I made 60-70 feet high on his Yamaha, that's what it looked like to me also, it blew out the shocks and forks when I landed. I took off at about 75mph off a steep ramp. That was the hardest landing I ever had where I kept on the wheels. My wrists an ankles hurt for about three months after that too. The man lifts look like they don't move fast enough to be that high up. I know dropping straight down without a chute is not that fun at the end, LOL!

[Hoosier Daddy]

No way would I jump out of a perfectly good airplane . God bless all of you that do or did for our armed services. My future son in law starts airborne training Monday in NC.

As an ex-Crew Chief, I can assure you... there is NO SUCH THING as a perfectly good airplane.
 

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

No way would I jump out of a perfectly good airplane . God bless all of you that do or did for our armed services. My future son in law starts airborne training Monday in NC.

As an ex-Crew Chief, I can assure you... there is NO SUCH THING as a perfectly good airplane.
 

The goofballs working on the planes made sure???  LOL

[Insanity]

If a CH47 isnt leaking you are about to fall out of the sky... When I worked a short stint in a factory I was in a man lift with one guy and I was strapped in and i was doing wacky shack and he was not all that impressed. That was shortly after he asked me if I was afraid of heights. My response was I rappelled out of a helicopter once.