Thanks for the kudo. It is strangely satisfying to chainsaw dirt... isn't it... hahaha..
One of my side investments is in an urban sawmill operation that harvests damaged or storm damaged trees, many are exotic woods imported into the desert environment to landscape expensive homes and golf courses... The logs are cut into boards, carefully dried, then processed by local wood artist into furnitu*re and "other wood items". *So, I put my extra special saw sharpening skills to work for chain saws... which most seem to hold in awe. So, sawing dirt is the exact opposite of making fine cuts in exotic woods to preserve decades old urban growth [and in Arizona, carefully watered for it's entire life]. Sort of my personal version of "save the whales"... balanced by "sawing dirt" ... brought on by the salvage of the entire tree stump, which, when cleaned properly [remove all rocks and dirt before saw milling] produces some of the most exotic grain for table tops and other "wood art of interest". On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:36 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Just wanted to follow up for kudos to Grant - Here’s why: > > After I used Don’s epoxy approach on the line break successfully I was > able to pressurize the circuit. I knew I had at least one leak in the > circuit as I had nicked the line with a shovel a few days ago when putting > some new plantings in. As this leak was in an area close to another oak > tree with prodigious roots, I used Grant’s suggestion in a slightly > different way: > > I have one of those little chain saw limb attachments for my weed wacker. > I don’t really care what happens to the chain, as it’s cheap and easily > replaced. With Grant’s suggestion in mind, I used my chain saw/weed wacker > to carve out a section of earth around the affected line. It made getting > to the cracked section a piece of cake. > > I used a union and a coupling to patch the line, only to find out that > there was another crack just a couple feet away! So again, I’ve utilized > Grant’s chain saw excavation method to clear out the area around the newly > discovered leak so I can patch it tonight after work. > > Both of these areas are covered with roots going every direction ranging > from maybe 1/2” and smaller. The little chain saw goes through these like > butter, allowing me to quickly excavate the area and not have to fight the > roots. > > Thanks, Grant! > > -D > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
