For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
Some pics I have taken at work. I have more but they are on the company computer.
This is of an excavation job. The power lines are within reach of the trees.
Say, that could be my power lines! I was a good neighbor and had the white birch that had woven itself between the lines taken down, and more recently, a giant, but mostly dead, sassafras. Then I had a silver maple taken down before it could fall on the new garage addition. Unfortunately, a few large trees in my yard are nearing the end of their lifespan. The silver had hollow areas all the way to the ground, even though it was getting leaves and looked ok to me. I have another large silver in my yard that's gotta be 50 or so years old. It makes my neighbor nervous! It'll hit my house before his, though.
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Say, that could be my power lines! I was a good neighbor and had the white birch that had woven itself between the lines taken down, and more recently, a giant, but mostly dead, sassafras. Then I had a silver maple taken down before it could fall on the new garage addition. Unfortunately, a few large trees in my yard are nearing the end of their lifespan. The silver had hollow areas all the way to the ground, even though it was getting leaves and looked ok to me. I have another large silver in my yard that's gotta be 50 or so years old. It makes my neighbor nervous! It'll hit my house before his, though.
Sounds like you need to contact an arborist and get a professional opinion on which way to go with the care of the trees.
Amateurs practices until they get it right. A professional practices until they can't get it wrong.
From an email I received at work. Not my pics but worth posting.
Here’s a little lesson in how not to do things which seems to totally escape some people. I’d love to see how the trip ended up but I feel confident he ended up in a ravine somewhere wondering why bad things seems to always happen to him. He must rank in the top 3% of the "mentally-challenged" scale.
He's hooked up and ready to fly!! It's amazing how the extra weight really smoothed out the ride in the truck. He did have to air up the rear tires a bit (around 160 psi)
He added some heavy-duty chain for extra support on the tailgate (note that he used the "Heavy-Duty 'S' hooks to attach the chain) He also paid-up for some BIG 5/16 sheetmetal screws to attach the frame to the tailgate. Yeah, he knows it's overkill, but he didn't want the possibility of having an accident.
Much of his time was spent on his front porch whittling down that MASSIVE 4x4 board to fit precisely into the ball mount receiver. Also note that he used a 14" piece of 1x4 to help distribute the load more evenly--"YOU CAN"T BE TOO SAFE, YOU KNOW!!". " It cost a little more, but you just can't be too safe when pulling a trailer of this magnitude !!".
Took this pic the other night (around 1030pm) as some thunderstorms blew through the area. Spent about 15 minutes on the back deck getting rained on trying to catch the lighting that was streaking across the sky. Didn't get a bolt, but did manage to catch some sheet lighting that lit up the entire horizon:
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
Lightning is tough to get. If you're in a really dark area with few lights around, you can use a bulb setting or really long exposure and hope to get a bolt. Everything else is luck.
Lightning is tough to get. If you're in a really dark area with few lights around, you can use a bulb setting or really long exposure and hope to get a bolt. Everything else is luck.
The storm was so fierce with so many lighting strikes a minute, I was hoping to get lucky.
Not so much, but the sheet lightning catch is still pretty sweet.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
A few more pics from the Deal's Gap area. I caught the sunset behind some clouds one evening on the Cherohala Skyway, made it look like the hills were on fire. The next pic is from a "Gentlemen's Club" just south of Knoxville on 129. The third pic is a sign on 441 heading south toward Cherokee, in the GSMNP.
I need to get a pic of one of the "elderly crossing" signs here.
There's also a stretch of highway on the way to my home town that has signs reading "Do not pass when traffic oncoming".... there's about 5 of them in a row spaced 100 yards apart.
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
-Dark Helmet
Crime ain't sumfin you should do. It's sumfin you should don't.
-Ali G
Lobster tail and Beer. Tree o' my favorite tings.
-Newfie Proverb
1) Sign in the window at one of my clients.
2) Hard to see, but that Intrigue has a blue R(ala GSX-R) with the word Racing decal on each tail light and over the third brake light in the rear window. Better watch out for that beast.
3) The third is a new NSX I saw at lunch today.
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Originally Posted by SerialThriller
I was a good neighbor and had the white birch that had woven itself between the lines taken down, and more recently, a giant, but mostly dead, sassafras. Then I had a silver maple taken down before it could fall on the new garage addition. Unfortunately, a few large trees in my yard are nearing the end of their lifespan. The silver had hollow areas all the way to the ground, even though it was getting leaves and looked ok to me. I have another large silver in my yard that's gotta be 50 or so years old. It makes my neighbor nervous! It'll hit my house before his, though.
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