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*Conversations with the wife.... #868263 02/10/08 05:00 PM
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engnbldr Offline OP
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>>>*...

September: "How long before the laundry room is done, honey?"

"Soon, I need to finish the workbench in the garage first."

October: "Any chance you can work on the laundry room this week, Honey?"

"Maybe. I do need to work on the shelves out in the garage."

November: "I really do need you to hook up the laundry room, Honey!"

"OK. But I need to finish the roof over the woodshed."

December: "It's becoming a PIA to haul laundry 150 miles to the other house, Honey! Any chance you could....?"

"Gotta get this wiring in the garage fixed, babe."

January: "I REALLY need you to finish up the.....?"

"I know, I know! I will get to it."

February: Honey! I need you to..."

"Yea, yea. I will get to it. Where are my clean clothes?"

"You are wearing them, there is a washtub and some soap out in your garage."

Blinkblink...

____________________________________________

.............................????????

"Laundry room is ready, honey!!"

<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />....*EB


*Beats the he** outa me!....*LOL**...
Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: engnbldr] #868264 02/10/08 05:32 PM
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Your lucky my wife is more like football, I get a 2 minute warning <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cyclops.gif" alt="" />


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96 Toyota Land Cruiser, fully locked Mall Machine :-)
Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: engnbldr] #868265 02/10/08 11:18 PM
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joelle Offline
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Hello Ted!
It's nice to see you're still kicking around this forum!
I have not been here in quite a while! Once I quite smoking, lost 120 lbs, etc, I don't sit at the computer much.
For Le's sake and yours, finish the darn laundry room!
take care
Joelle <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" />


"Sh*t or get off the pott"!

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1990 4x4RNR 3.slo auto P.O.S.
"The silver bullet"! NOT!
Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: joelle] #868266 02/11/08 02:29 AM
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engnbldr Offline OP
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Hello Ted!
It's nice to see you're still kicking around this forum!
I have not been here in quite a while! Once I quite smoking, lost 120 lbs, etc, I don't sit at the computer much.
For Le's sake and yours, finish the darn laundry room!
take care
Joelle <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" />


>>>*..120 pounds? Yow! That is a lot!

*Now yer a hottie, right?... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Le' went from 130# down to 109# after she got ran over by the little old lady in a Suburu. I finally got her to eating again though, I was afraid she would vanish. I know she feels better, she is back to being crabby.

Yep..laundry room is all done. Wiring in, R-19 in all the walls, nice siding up. Next I build a couple of neat benches and some shelves to store stuff on for her.

I would just do the laundry myself but she hates it when I do, something about her underwear coming out blue jeans colored??

*No idea why?.... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />.....Nice to see you posting!...*EB


*Beats the he** outa me!....*LOL**...
Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: joelle] #868267 02/11/08 07:58 AM
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Hello Ted!
It's nice to see you're still kicking around this forum!
I have not been here in quite a while! Once I quite smoking, lost 120 lbs, etc, I don't sit at the computer much.
For Le's sake and yours, finish the darn laundry room!
take care
Joelle <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" />


So....






What ever happened to that hot daughter of yours? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />


"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living." - John F. Kennedy

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Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: DRTDEVL] #868268 02/11/08 04:41 PM
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What ever happened to that hot daughter of yours? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />

Wow, what's it been, couple years now? The kid's probably legal by now. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />


'85 4Runner (mostly stock) <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> | '94 Miata <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> | '98 Saturn SC2 <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> | '12 Ford Fusion (wife's company car)
Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: engnbldr] #868269 02/11/08 04:55 PM
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EB- you can have your dang wind back. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />

67 MPH gusts, wildfires over half of VA. Neighbors are missing siding, gutters, sheds, and trampolines.

I've got a tow strap and come-along keeping a tree from rubbing against my shed out back. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> Of all the days wifey wanted me to buy plywood for shelves in the garage...I'm carrying SAILS through the Lowe's parking lot. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Anyone got any good advice for chopping down a 60 foot pine? All the tree services are booked for the week solid.


"Coal and people have been our two biggest exports for a long time, which has definitely shaped how we think of ourselves." Scott Hill, WV native and historian.

99 TacoTRD 177K

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Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: RichinROA] #868270 02/11/08 05:17 PM
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I'd just grab my spurs, safety belt, chain saw, and get it done. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> If you have room to drop it in one piece, that's always the best. Use your truck to put some tension on the tree if you're worried about which way it will fall. If you go that route, take a few moments, and figure out how long your rope needs to be so that you don't drop it on your rig. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> Seems obvious, but I've seen a couple different guys do it. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" />

Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: stony-man] #868271 02/11/08 05:26 PM
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I can't get a truck back there at all If I do fall it in one piece, it will either hit my shed, my fence, or the backyard neighbors shed.

I 'may' be able to get the truck in the back neighbors yard. Can't fall it backwards because there aren't any solid trees to tie it off on that way either...there only one spot to land it 'safely', and that is over the easement towards the neighbor's shed <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />

PO had all the trees out back trimmed up about 25-30 feet, so I can't climb it without gear...which I don't have or know how to use for that fact.

What are you doing this weekend? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />


"Coal and people have been our two biggest exports for a long time, which has definitely shaped how we think of ourselves." Scott Hill, WV native and historian.

99 TacoTRD 177K

Montani Semper Liberi
Re: *Conversations with the wife.... [Re: RichinROA] #868272 02/11/08 06:02 PM
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engnbldr Offline OP
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EB- you can have your dang wind back. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />

67 MPH gusts, wildfires over half of VA. Neighbors are missing siding, gutters, sheds, and trampolines.

I've got a tow strap and come-along keeping a tree from rubbing against my shed out back. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> Of all the days wifey wanted me to buy plywood for shelves in the garage...I'm carrying SAILS through the Lowe's parking lot. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Anyone got any good advice for chopping down a 60 foot pine? All the tree services are booked for the week solid.


>>>*Hey, we used up our half, it was 125 MPH when it went by here. Well, down by the Ocean, anyway. We got some 60-80 MPH stuff.

*Good thing our house is down behind a hill.

I am pretty good at falling trees, if branches are going to bust stuff then rent a hylift and cut them off. Then maybe you could top it, then drop the rest?

I know when I fell that big Fir up at the other house my wife's eyes got a bit big. I had less than 20 feet between the house and the other trees to hit. Set her dead center on the button.

I never thought much of putting lines on trees, unless there is some way to draw up the slack they can recoil and go just about any direction. I saw a guy try that with a big Poplar once, hooked his Ford pickup to it by the bumper.

I saw what was going to happen and got the he** outa the way, it started, then twisted. Dragged that Ford backwards a good 50 feet. He had his wife in the truck, in gear and trying to pull.

She mentioned some words not in my vocabulary.... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />..

*Once you get the limbs back, the rest is easy. Just cut your steering notches and lay it down.

We have some very big Red Alder we have to bring down this spring, those are man killers because they split. One last year flipped and landed where I had been standing but I knew it was going to do it so I was somewhere else by then...*LOL**...I will be using my brother's little hot rod saw and shear them on the final cuts. Then they go where we aim them.

My wife hides in the house when I am falling trees, she comes out to see if I survived, then goes back inside... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />...*EB


*Beats the he** outa me!....*LOL**...
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