Re: Flip over question

Posted by Duke Denning on February 18, 2005 at 17:30:44 from (69.54.222.112):

In Reply to: Re: Flip over question posted by Hugh MacKay on February 18, 2005 at 14:35:50:

Well Hugh, I gotta admit I have never seen elm trees like you describe, but I understand the situation as you did a very good job of explaining it.
It was sad to see the big pretty elms all die here, they along with sugar maples were the most popular roadside/fencerow/yard trees in this area. We cut many, many of the elms and where we dared to harvest the logs, sawed 'em up for lumber. The lumber had to be stacked with 1 inch slats between each layer and tightly bound with wire(baling wire was pretty common here then) to keep it from going every which way as it dried. We made fence and gate boards with it mainly, but it could be used in a pinch for just about anything rough lumber was applicable for. If it was dry, it tested your ability to drive spike sized(16-20d nails)in structural 2" planks. It made fair firewood and as the dead trees were cut the firewood was cheap and plentiful for a while. The County Road Department always had some piled somewhere which was sometimes there for the taking because fuel oil and electric heat was cheap then and most new homes or new heating systems used either of those for heat.
Sorry I sounded sort of trite about the tractor hitching thing. It's a sore subject with me to hear about all the accidents some people seem to have with their tractors and how the tractors are blamed for most of these disasters. We have a batch of former city dwellers here in this area....like everywhere else I guess....and they seem have all sorts of accidents causing injuries and sometimes death while using farm equipment especially tractors. Most of these accidents are the result of operator error, not poor design or dangerous features of the tractor. Just read carefully some of the situations described on this site and the results and I think you'll know what I mean. Some of these poor ignorant souls apparently think you are a competent tractor operator if you can start the tractor, shift the gears, and then go and stop it...that's all they apparently think it takes. Sadly, a few people who grew up here around tractors seem to feel the same way and they eventually suffer too.
Tractor pulling can bring out the worst in a lot of people when it comes to giving safety first priority even though most sanctioned pulls have pretty stict rules and requirements. The hitch points on a lot of altered pulling tractors are repositioned to get maximum weight transfer to the rear wheels and that ain't good from the safety standpoint and rearups and flips can occur, hence the need for wheelie bars and deadman switches(aptly named).
I didn't purposely infer the big elm trees as you described were a suitable monument of sorts for Canada either, I'm one American who values the friendship of my Canadian neighbors and have no desire to insult any of them by degrading anything about their homeland. To me any aged abnormally large tree is a sort of monument to the area where it exists and to God who made it.

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