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This was a pretty big bush,...about 8' tall and 8' in diameter. There must have been about 40 individual trunks,... each measuring 1.5" to 3" in diameter. I was pulling about 5 trunks at a time. A smaller chain would have done as well, but the 3/8" chain had no problem cinching up tightly enough. The root ball left a hole that required 3 healthy wheelbarrows of dirt to fill. The ruts my tractor dug in the back yard took a couple, also.
I was just thinking back over my 50+ yrs as a cattleman. I would love to have been at your tree with my JD 450C dozer. Maybe 5 min and it would have been over...  DF
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Campfire Ranger
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Last edited by KFWA; 08/11/18.
have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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Campfire Oracle
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I think I made that wheel.
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Campfire Outfitter
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I think I made that wheel. invent it?
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Campfire Oracle
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I think I made that wheel. invent it? No,....just fabricated the dies that stamped it out. It looks like a VC-C8P.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Small freakin world...…. I probably made the flair die cart that put the dies in the machine. Or...……. the stamping dies that punched tens of thousands of holes for the heat treat racks.
And...….. when we quit or retire, or get laid off, they no longer know us. Right?
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Campfire Oracle
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Small freakin world...…. I probably made the flair die cart that put the dies in the machine. Or...……. the stamping dies that punched tens of thousands of holes for the heat treat racks.
And...….. when we quit or retire, or get laid off, they no longer know us. Right? They didn't know me before I retired. If they had,...they would have vacated the building.
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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I guess the reason they didn't was because I was the most sane one there.
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Campfire Oracle
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May I have your attention in the Hall...
Bristoe has left the building!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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I started my party about 3pm today, & now they are calling me & texting my wife etc. that we need to be in Bourbon for the evening party, at a CMWA ex employees house. Small world for damn sure.
Thinking I would like to socialize her tonight, but personal interaction trumps air time. Besides, the wife is driving.
I can check in about midnight. or not
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I started my party about 3pm today, & now they are calling me & texting my wife etc. that we need to be in Bourbon for the evening party, at a CMWA ex employees house. Ain't nobody texted me! I ain't surprised.
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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Don't get me started,...
Oh hell,...I guess I've already started.
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I know a bunch of 'em, can't disagree.
Factories, If the uninitiated only new what went on.
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