Actually, the Stache and Thinning Gray hair was because of the tremendous strain of leadership experienced by someone with my vast leadership experience and abilities. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Cough BS Cough

Break out the waders!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />.................. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Haha, waders probably wouldn't be enough. Better inflate the life rafts! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You tell 'em Randy. They only dare to pick on you when they gang up on you <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Sticks and stones... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Nice pics. Good to see that beast put to work.

Yeah I've always known it takes multiple Marines to take out ONE Chairman! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Randy, looks like a large portion of that limb is hung up on the front of your shirt. Be careful while chopping it.

HAHA, I never realized how well the shirt and limb blended together. Never Fear Marine, the only part of my body to touch the limb was the hand holding it as I chopped with the other.

I probably would have been a lot better off chopping back further on the branch where it was thicker. Would have been less chopping, but the ticks are already out IN FORCE and I didn't want to get out in the weeds any more than necessary.

How did you like it as a chopper Randy?

Gonna be a terrible tick year here too...useless little bloodsuckers. What in the world is their role in the eco-system??!!

At first I thought heck, it ain't THAT good a chopper. Then I considered I was chopping on a dead, springy limb. Once I got to a slightly larger part it chopped really nice.

The ticks roll, to give doctors something to claim is LYME disease and charge you or your insurance several thousand dollars to "Cure"! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

Least wise that is the only thing I can figure they are good for.

Chopping dead hard wood is not easy with anything. Last year I chopped up some of my long dead (and now extinct) red bay trees. I tried the ESEE Junglas, the Buck Hoodlum, and finally my fully convexed BWM. The BWM did much better than the others on that hard wood, but finally, I brought out the Stihl. It won that chop off. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I Know about chopping dead wood Vic, but I was so excited to finally find a limb blocking the road at Mingo that I didn't think about it until I had already chopped off one portion. The first swing into a maybe inch and a half thick branch of the limb resulted in a very good cut over half way through. But the wood being dead and pretty dried out PLUS being so springy it was just hard to cut.

I changed the way I have the chopping lanyard attached (it is now through the lanyard hole AND the last hollow pin and will draw up tight. Actually almost to tight but I figure in time it will stretch out some.