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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    As it happens, we're getting one of ours cut down tomorrow for 1500 baht.

    Team of five blokes, apparently.
    Did they all have their choppers out?

    Any pics?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    As it happens, we're getting one of ours cut down tomorrow for 1500 baht.

    Team of five blokes, apparently.
    Fifteen hundred Baht or DIY and get knocked off a ladder by a giant log. Let me consider the options for a moment.

    Yes, I think I'll go with the Cyrille solution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Fifteen hundred Baht or DIY and get knocked off a ladder by a giant log. Let me consider the options for a moment.

    Yes, I think I'll go with the Cyrille solution.
    You say that as if being knocked of a ladder by a giant log is a bad thing. Apparently you have never been wacked on the head by a log.
    I'll tell you, after a couple of times you don't even notice it. In fact, after a while you kind of miss it.
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Fifteen hundred Baht or DIY and get knocked off a ladder by a giant log. Let me consider the options for a moment.

    Yes, I think I'll go with the Cyrille solution.
    Many people are just fat and lazy with no tool skills.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tunk View Post
    Many people are just fat and lazy with no tool skills.
    I don't think there is a dependency between fat + lazy and no tool Skil (see what I did there ?) , some just have five thumbs in the middle of their palms and others have way too much money.

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    I think what's important to understand is individual capabilities.

    While cutting down a tree like Tunk did is admirable, bottomline does it make sense? I have a Dewalt Sawzall and have used it many times but I would never use it to cut down a tree. In the end there has to be a risk versus cost. To spend hours and hours to cut a tree down yourself has a cost and risk associated with it. Sure it's nice to say you cut it down yourself but for $50 or $60? Really?

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    Quote Originally Posted by tunk View Post
    Many people are just fat and lazy with no tool skills.
    OI! I'm not fat!


    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    some just have five thumbs in the middle of their palms and others have way too much money.
    This^!!! And I have the five-thumbs issue, sadly not the latter

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    Of course you own a Sawsall, there is nothing you don't own, nothing your money can not buy...except skill. You have all the tools hanging on the shop wall like trophys, but you have no skill. You like to talk the talk, you are a damn good bullshitter. But when it comes time to walk the walk you sit in the shade and sip a cold drink. You buy a huge ass tree, hire a Thai man to plant the tree, and then bitch because your FIL doesn't take care of the tree. You build a mansion and then try to buy your happiness, if I just had a crotch rocket I'd be happy, no I need that new SUV to be happy, and a 56" TV, if I just had that Smart watch then I would be happy, and of course you need a pool. You worship money. Then you walk out the gate and are too cheap to throw a bone to a street dog WTF kind of man are you ? Go so far as to tell your wife go bitch at the old woman on the corner, tell her to stop feeding street dogs. You show a picture of a grill big enough to grill a whole pig, with one lonely steak out in the middle because you are too cheap to buy USDA for your wife and FIL. What kind of man are you? There will always be people that suck up to a rich man. I am not one of them, your money don't mean shit to me snowflake. Now FO back to your pool thread.

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    Nobody cuts down a tree like that with a Sawsall.

    Unless they haven't got better things to do

    I'm amazed/impressed that you did that

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    I would not expect your average man to take on that tree with a Sawsall. Many weekend warriors own a Sawsall, but they are far from being professional. An HVAC man is a professional, the saw was invented for us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tunk View Post
    Of course you own a Sawsall, there is nothing you don't own, nothing your money can not buy...except skill. You have all the tools hanging on the shop wall like trophys, but you have no skill. You like to talk the talk, you are a damn good bullshitter. But when it comes time to walk the walk you sit in the shade and sip a cold drink. You buy a huge ass tree, hire a Thai man to plant the tree, and then bitch because your FIL doesn't take care of the tree. You build a mansion and then try to buy your happiness, if I just had a crotch rocket I'd be happy, no I need that new SUV to be happy, and a 56" TV, if I just had that Smart watch then I would be happy, and of course you need a pool. You worship money. Then you walk out the gate and are too cheap to throw a bone to a street dog WTF kind of man are you ? Go so far as to tell your wife go bitch at the old woman on the corner, tell her to stop feeding street dogs. You show a picture of a grill big enough to grill a whole pig, with one lonely steak out in the middle because you are too cheap to buy USDA for your wife and FIL. What kind of man are you? There will always be people that suck up to a rich man. I am not one of them, your money don't mean shit to me snowflake. Now FO back to your pool thread.

    Easy Tunk. You are showing your fangs a bit and generalizing Fat and Lazy. Not all are Fat and Lazy. Some are just realistic.

    You did same with Ant on his shop.

    Nice job on tree. You are proud. We all get that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tunk View Post
    I would not expect your average man to take on that tree with a Sawsall. Many weekend warriors own a Sawsall, but they are far from being professional. An HVAC man is a professional, the saw was invented for us.
    Still; I would have used a chainsaw and gotten it overwith.

    I'm lazy and don't do work I don't have to.

    And certainly doesn't make it harder than necessary

    Up to you

    (I have never set foot in a fitness center either )

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    (I have never set foot in a fitness center either )
    Photo of helge earlier this month - viking blood beats fitness centres :


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    Nope, not me

    I do not wear watches

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    Was a good effort. Having a bit of luck probably helped!

    As for sawing that log, there is bound to be a guy nearby who has a chainsaw with a very long bar/chain and a jig setup which he uses to rough cut board. The local guy does it full time. Here the local handy man has a fair size planer and he can do fairly long lengths of board up to around 30 inch in width.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tunk View Post
    Of course you own a Sawsall, there is nothing you don't own, nothing your money can not buy...except skill. You have all the tools hanging on the shop wall like trophys, but you have no skill. You like to talk the talk, you are a damn good bullshitter. But when it comes time to walk the walk you sit in the shade and sip a cold drink. You buy a huge ass tree, hire a Thai man to plant the tree, and then bitch because your FIL doesn't take care of the tree. You build a mansion and then try to buy your happiness, if I just had a crotch rocket I'd be happy, no I need that new SUV to be happy, and a 56" TV, if I just had that Smart watch then I would be happy, and of course you need a pool. You worship money. Then you walk out the gate and are too cheap to throw a bone to a street dog WTF kind of man are you ? Go so far as to tell your wife go bitch at the old woman on the corner, tell her to stop feeding street dogs. You show a picture of a grill big enough to grill a whole pig, with one lonely steak out in the middle because you are too cheap to buy USDA for your wife and FIL. What kind of man are you? There will always be people that suck up to a rich man. I am not one of them, your money don't mean shit to me snowflake. Now FO back to your pool thread.

    Jeepers, let it all out!

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    Good thing there were no spirits living in the tree! We had a huge tree taken down when we built a road and there was a brief discussion about that before they put it down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    Nope, not me

    I do not wear watches
    Sorry, that was a pic of your twin

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    Quote Originally Posted by thailazer View Post
    Good thing there were no spirits living in the tree
    How can you be so sure?

    Maybe one found a new home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Sorry, that was a pic of your twin
    Yes
    He's a bit of a weight watcher

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    You young kids with your newfangled power tools , chain saws and sawzalls, back in the day real men used a machete, or if you lived in the civilized world a broad side sward .
    What a bunch of wimps you all are .
    I look at you general direction and sneer. Pathetic!!
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    Does this one count Buck? I took it down with just a machete. Maybe doesn't count, it was a soft wood.DIY...Tree Removal-dscf4571-jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by tunk View Post
    Many people are just fat and lazy with no tool skills.
    When I was taught to use a chain saw one of the many things I was instructed never to do was to work above ground level. That requires greater expertise, which I respect. Having followed that instruction I have survived long enough to know that my tree felling days are now over.
    One day, so long as the next falling log is as kind as the last, you will grow old enough and wise enough to accept that some tasks are better delegated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    When I was taught to use a chain saw one of the many things I was instructed never to do was to work above ground level. That requires greater expertise, which I respect. Having followed that instruction I have survived long enough to know that my tree felling days are now over.
    One day, so long as the next falling log is as kind as the last, you will grow old enough and wise enough to accept that some tasks are better delegated.
    Tung, AKA Stumpy has no problem operating chain saws at any height . LOL

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