A Slow Day gets Exciting

[Magicman]

Things started out just ho-hum.  500bf of Pine & Poplar and 1Mbf of live edge sawn ERC and I was done at 1:30.


 
Nothing special or unusual.  I load up, get paid, and then check my cellphone for missed calls.  Yup, there is one from a previous customer who is also a Friend and FF Member.  He has a chainsaw slabbed up Poplar log loaded on his truck that he wants sawed?  OK, I can do it this afternoon.  Meet me at Marty's.

I go home, eat, and head to the bank before sawing the Poplar.  My phone rings, it's my Poplar guy.  Lynn, I am stuck.  OK, can an F250 with a 12K winch pull you out?  I get the general location and head out.  He is about 10 miles away.  Phone rings again.  Call me just before you get here and I will meet you at the road.  My clothes are wet and muddy and I don't have anything on but my boxers.  So now here I am driving along looking for a nekkid man.


 
And I found him just as he had described.


 
He was stuck for sure.  The differential was on the ground and the wheels were spinning freely.  The single line pull did not work.  We would have to use a block.


 
A chain from the block to his trailer hitch and we are now making progress.

He had some awesome Poplar.


 
The colors in the 24" slabs and boards were eye popping.  I guess so were those plaid drawers.   

[BCrabtree]

That is some nice looking poplar.

[WDH]

Kinda Sasquatchy looking if you ask me. 

[drobertson]

I think I can smell it from here!   better than smoke! I reckon,  ;D  whatever it takes is a good motto,

[fat olde elf]

The Life and Times of the one and only Magic Man  !!!

[Bill Gaiche]

Did he learn anything about mud bogging? bg

[hackberry jake]

I've been "The boxer guy" before. It sure ain't no fun when the water is cold... One less article of clothing and I could have used this smiley 

[hunz]

I can only imagine a stranger's thoughts passing by a muddy fella in his drawers. ....with FF members, it can just be another adventerous day! Thanks for sharing Lynn

[Andy White]

Lynn,
Never a dull moment around you! With all the cable work you done this past few days, you should hang your "rigger" shingle!     Andy

[red oaks lumber]

man you guys gotta learn to drive! there should of been mud everywhere . dripping off the mirrors gobs should be on the roof, and he wouldn't need to be pulled out. :D

[WDH]

You should have made him unload all that poplar first before you pulled him out  :D. 

[petefrom bearswamp]

Great story.
Always good to help a friend in need.

[Dodgy Loner]

man you guys gotta learn to drive! there should of been mud everywhere . dripping off the mirrors gobs should be on the roof, and he wouldn't need to be pulled out. :D

I'm with red oaks- that feller should have just gassed it and he could have easily gotten out! What is it with these southerners who don't know how to drive in the mud?!

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

man you guys gotta learn to drive! there should of been mud everywhere . dripping off the mirrors gobs should be on the roof, and he wouldn't need to be pulled out. :D

I'm with red oaks- that feller should have just gassed it and he could have easily gotten out! What is it with these southerners who don't know how to drive in the mud?!

Dodgy,

Just trying to figure it out.

Beings how you're currently living in MS and you previously lived in GA (if memory serves me right...), that means you are either:

A southerner, bred and born.

OR

A carpetbagger.

So, which do it be?

Herb
Southerner

[Larry]

Here son, hold my beer while I show this boy how to drive. :D ;D :D

Spoken as a true southerner. ;D

[ArnoldFarms]

Lol, you never know what the day has in store!   

[Dodgy Loner]

man you guys gotta learn to drive! there should of been mud everywhere . dripping off the mirrors gobs should be on the roof, and he wouldn't need to be pulled out. :D

I'm with red oaks- that feller should have just gassed it and he could have easily gotten out! What is it with these southerners who don't know how to drive in the mud?!

Dodgy,

Just trying to figure it out.

Beings how you're currently living in MS and you previously lived in GA (if memory serves me right...), that means you are either:

A southerner, bred and born.

OR

A carpetbagger.

So, which do it be?

Herb
Southerner

Herb: I am a southerner, born and bred. And that's all I got to say about that ;)

[backwoods sawyer]

Some can 4 by some can't that has been proven ;D
However that naked satchsquach issue must be a southern thing :-\  :D

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

Some can 4 by some can't that has been proven ;D
However that naked satchsquach issue must be a southern thing :-\  :D

Shoot, that mud puddle don't need no 4 by.

I remember my Dad going thru lot worse than that in an old '53 F-100 with a flathead 8. It only had two wheel drive, but my Dad believed in keeping them rolling. He didn't know but two speeds on the highway, stopped and full throttle. I remember he got a ticket once and framed it. Doing 85 mph in a 65 mph zone. He gladly paid the ticket, said he'd be able to prove that truck could go that fast now...

Herb

[Mooseherder]

Looks like you almost made it through Dodgy.
Had you been able to travel a couple more feet forward we wouldn't even know you wonder the woods in yer underwear. :D

[Magicman]

 ???  I guess that we could DNA that hand print and determine who the truck driver was......Maybe?? 

I do know this in the driver's defense.  Someone with some giant 35" tires and made that puddle much more than a normally equipped truck could ever cross.   :D

[red oaks lumber]

once our frozen tundra thaws alittle our roads look like that for months :D

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

...  My phone rings, it's my Poplar guy. ...



 

Lynn, that Poplar guy looks kinda Lonely to me...

:D :D :D :D :D :D

Herb

[Red Clay Hound]

I have no idea who the guy in the boxers is! :

[Magicman]

I say nothing.   

[WDH]

If he had ever sawed with Tom, he would have had no trouble carving the spoon he would need to eat a can of peas  . 

[Magicman]

Speaking of stuck, I got the zero turn stuck yesterday while mowing the lawn.


 
Those wide flat tires don't cut in, they have enough flotation to just hit a slick spot and spin.  Getting it out was no easy chore.   :-\

[Hilltop366]

That is just a little puddle just need to remember the first rule of off road driving.

1: Anything can be overcome with the proper velocity.

[richhiway]

I had a lot of calls for stuck trucks when I was in the wrecker business, I never pulled out a guy in his skivvies though!

[sprucebunny]

Makes me wonder if his clothes were so wet and muddy he couldn't move and took them off or if he took them off before he got muddy ???

[Jeff]

Or, maybe that's all he had on in the first place. ;)

[WDH]

Yes, he might have been traveling light. 

[Bill Gaiche]

Half necked lumberjacks are hard to find. But when you do its nice to have a camera to prove they exist.  That may have been his safety gear that he had on. bg

[red oaks lumber]

kinda reminds me of the guy who went bare hunting :D the briars really tore him up ;D

[Wick]

Who is that "Un-Masked" man?  ;D

[Peter Drouin]

You can start a TV show [ the naked logger] : :D

[WDH]

It is the yellow poplar slabs in the back of the truck that gave him away. 

[Magicman]

He was a true Redneck because he waited until he was completely wet and muddy before stripping down.  I will testify that he had jeans on when we sawed the Poplar.  Muddy jeans and also shoes.   :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

You can start a TV show [ the naked logger] : :D

I've heard it all now.  :D :D :D

[thecfarm]

Stay tune for previews of The Naked Sawyer.  :D

[Dave Shepard]

Are you saying we're going to get some selected shorts? :D

[Peter Drouin]

Stay tune for previews of The Naked Sawyer.  :D

Good one  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D 


materhead

[WDH]

Is David running around naked too?  Or, did he just get fire ants in his pants  ???. 

[Magicman]

The "other" pictures that I might have taken will command a high price.  How 'bout $300 per slab  ???   :D

[Peter Drouin]

The "other" pictures that I might have taken will command a high price.  How 'bout $300 per slab  ???   :D

:D :D

[Delawhere Jack]

The obvious question is:

How can we get the Swedish Bikini Team to take up milling.......... huh-smiley

Them I would stop for. This guy..........not so much...... :-\

[Magicman]

At least we now have a standard to judge ugly by.   smiley_gorgeous

[sprucebunny]

I am probably in the minority having a different perspective  ;D

[Magicman]

OK, I'll have to give you that one sprucebunny, but at least those brown plaid drawers were ugly.  Let the record show that he did always have them on. 

[WDH]

MM,

You live on the edge. 

[Magicman]

Yup, it was a "Kinda Sasquatchy" experience.   :D

[Dodgy Loner]

I'll say this- that feller doesn't look too bright, but he does look like he knows how to have a good time! :D

[Magicman]

I did not notice whether that top slab could be used as a diving platform.  ;D   :D   :D

[Tom L]

I've been there once, down to my underwear, in mud up to my waist, digging out a truck, that was buried up to the windshield.
I look up and see this old lady walking her dog down the same dirt road. did I ever get some looks   :D :D :D


I hope no one stripped down to get that lawnmower unstuck

[Nomad]

I hope no one stripped down to get that lawnmower unstuck

     If he did, PLEASE tell me there are no pics!!! :D

[WDH]

This could get even more ugly. 

[Bill Gaiche]

Oh man, the good,the bad and the ugly. bg

[backwoods sawyer]

see why we don't show pictures of our western satchsquawch any more  ;D

[POC]

The running joke among my friends is that a day in the woods isn't complete for me if I didn't get something stuck in the mud.  >:(

[backwoods sawyer]

you know there is a difference between being stuck and being temporarly immobolized  :P
Pack enough slabs to fill in all the deep holes that the big tires left wash them off when you get home and sell them as reclaimed  :D

[Magicman]

Heck, I had my hands full just reclaiming that stuck guy.   :D

[backwoods sawyer]

hope there is no pictures of that 

[John S]

Just saw this post.  What is the temperature down there?  Most of the snow has melted here, but temps currently below freezing, nobody running around in their skivvies!

[Magicman]

We were in the 70's that day.