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Sigh: The Season, She is Over
Spent the last few hours at the marina, unloading all the loose stuff
off of Yo Ho, and having her plopped onto her trailer for the long trip (:} to the dealer's for winterizing, washdown and shrinkwrapping. I was going to head out on the Bay today, and take advantage of the nice weather, but good sense prevailed. Well, maybe not. Still, I have a couple of friends with boats still in the water here, so there is hope for another outing before the snow starts falling. And Miami in February, hopefully. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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Sigh: The Season, She is Over
I just spent part of the afternoon trying to get a large snag branch down
from a big old ash tree on my front lawn. This was damage left over from hurricane Juan. What a struggle. It was hooked up well. Since I don't own a chainsaw anymore, I had to use my tree limber with it's foot long curved blade on the end of the pole. After cutting through a number of medium sized branches, the snag came crashing down, narrowly missing the wife and mini-van. D'oh! Harry Krause wrote in message ... Spent the last few hours at the marina, unloading all the loose stuff off of Yo Ho, and having her plopped onto her trailer for the long trip (:} to the dealer's for winterizing, washdown and shrinkwrapping. I was going to head out on the Bay today, and take advantage of the nice weather, but good sense prevailed. Well, maybe not. Still, I have a couple of friends with boats still in the water here, so there is hope for another outing before the snow starts falling. And Miami in February, hopefully. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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Sigh: The Season, She is Over
Don White wrote:
I just spent part of the afternoon trying to get a large snag branch down from a big old ash tree on my front lawn. This was damage left over from hurricane Juan. What a struggle. It was hooked up well. Since I don't own a chainsaw anymore, I had to use my tree limber with it's foot long curved blade on the end of the pole. After cutting through a number of medium sized branches, the snag came crashing down, narrowly missing the wife and mini-van. D'oh! I've not owned a chain saw for many years, but I'm considering the possibility. We lost some trees during the last big storm here; fortunately they fell where they do no harm. Plus I have some scraggly stuff at the edge of the woods I'd like to cut down. But I absolutely hate sharpening chain saw chains. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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Sigh: The Season, She is Over
There is an art to it.
I had owned two different devices that were supposed to make it easy and used them them with mixed results. When I tried to file down the little guides, in addition to the teeth, I usually ran into trouble. I do have a dealer within walking distance if I ever get the itch to own one again and would probably pay them to sharpen. Harry Krause wrote in message ... snip But I absolutely hate sharpening chain saw chains. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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Sigh: The Season, She is Over
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:42:52 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote: Don White wrote: I just spent part of the afternoon trying to get a large snag branch down from a big old ash tree on my front lawn. This was damage left over from hurricane Juan. What a struggle. It was hooked up well. Since I don't own a chainsaw anymore, I had to use my tree limber with it's foot long curved blade on the end of the pole. After cutting through a number of medium sized branches, the snag came crashing down, narrowly missing the wife and mini-van. D'oh! I've not owned a chain saw for many years, but I'm considering the possibility. We lost some trees during the last big storm here; fortunately they fell where they do no harm. Plus I have some scraggly stuff at the edge of the woods I'd like to cut down. If it's for occasional use near your house and you are only going to cut stuff less than around 8"-10" diameter, consider getting an electric chain saw. They're cheaper, much more convenient and very capable. But I absolutely hate sharpening chain saw chains. Again, if it's for occasional use, you can go years without sharpening the blades. Steve |
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Sigh: The Season, She is Over
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:02:46 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote: Spent the last few hours at the marina, unloading all the loose stuff off of Yo Ho, and having her plopped onto her trailer for the long trip (:} to the dealer's for winterizing, washdown and shrinkwrapping. Nice to say the season is not over hear on Tampa Bay. I went out for a few hours Saturday afternoon. No luck fishing, but it was sure nice to be out. The whistler bouy at the ship channel was loaded with baracuda. A couple more days of calm weather and the bait should move back inshore. I'm planning on taking my step dad on an across the bay trip in the morning just at sunrise. He'll get a big kick out of that. The guy's pushing 70 and he's still like a teenager. bb |
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Sigh: The Season, She is Over
Nice to say the season is not over hear on Tampa Bay. I went out for
a few hours Saturday afternoon. No luck fishing, but it was sure nice to be out. The whistler bouy at the ship channel was loaded with baracuda. A couple more days of calm weather and the bait should move back inshore. I'm planning on taking my step dad on an across the bay trip in the morning just at sunrise. He'll get a big kick out of that. The guy's pushing 70 and he's still like a teenager. As far as I'm concerned the season's never over on Tampa Bay. Once it starts to cool down it can get a little windy, but take along a warm jacket and you'll be fine. It's strange to me how so many people put their boats up for fall and winter when we have more good boating days in those months than some northern boaters have all year. I went camping with friends on the island off of Apollo Beach this weekend, beautiful weather the whole weekend and there were only 3 other small groups of campers. If you go there in the sweltering heat of the summer it's packed solid all weekend. I'll never understand the mentality of some of the boaters around here. |
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Sigh: The Season, She is Over
"Joe" wrote in message ... " I went camping with friends on the island off of Apollo Beach this weekend," Do you mean "Beer Can Island"? I think the official name is "Pine Key", but Beer Can Island seems to be pretty prevelent. I caught a small hammerhead shark there a few years ago, and the locals told me that hammerheads breed in the area. Probably just a story to drive off the Yankee invader Pretty good fishing right off the power plant at Big Bend, if you can keep the catfish off your bait. |
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