Thursday, February 6, 2020
2020 Valentine Festival: Waltz Across Texas, Ernest Tubb
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13. Clear your work area and your escape path of brush, vines, and other hazards that can trip you or catch your saw.
14. Escape from the bullseye when the tree tips. 90% of accidents happen within 12 feet of the stump. Go more than 15 feet, and stay out of the bullseye until things stop falling.
15. Keep spectators away more than twice the height of the tree in the direction it will fall.
16. Don't cut alone.
17. Keep your body and the swamper's out of the line of the bar in case of a kickback.
18. Set the brake when taking over two steps or when moving through tripping hazards. Keep your trigger finger off of the throttle when you are moving.
19. DO NOT operate a chainsaw from a ladder! Operating with your feet off the ground requires special training.
20. Do not cut above your shoulders.
21. Springpoles must be shaved on the inside of the apex between the ascending and descending sides. If the apex is higher than you shoulders, stand under the springpole and cut it low on the descending side. It will release upward, away from you.Leaning and heavily loaded poles that are too small to bore cut for a hinge should be shaved on the compressed side until they fold.
22. Do not cut a tree that is holding up a lodged tree. Do not work under a lodged tree. Think about a mouse trying to steal the cheese out of a trap.
23. Instruct your swampers and helpers to NEVER approach you from behind or the sides to within the reach of your saw when you are cutting. If you pull out of a cut with the chain running, or have a severe kickback, the swamper can be killed if he is coming up behind you!
24!! Quit When You Are Tired!
2 comments:
What a great string of quality music. Thank you, thank you. Tommy Edwards, Roy Orbison, Hoagy Carmichael, Ernest Tubb. All great and too long gone. I grew up in the Oklahoma oilfields in the late 40s and early 50s. My parents worked long hours at hard jobs, but every Friday night, there was a dance somewhere. And they had to go. Western swing, waltzes, boogie woogie, schadishes. They were usually held in schools, roller rinks, meeting halls. Everyone with kids would pull their cars right up to the outside wall. All the windows in the place would be open so the parents could dance by, look down from the window and check on the kids asleep in the front seat. I have loved the old style music ever since. So very thankful for the magic of recording music.
I have long been delighted by the music of Earnest Tubbs. I remember that for a week I had been sick while in college. When I got back a Geology professor asked where I had been. Kidding I said I had watched a bunch of western movies (true) one of which featured a geologist pursuing a comely lass across Texas. Professor said that's not how you learn geology. I said you should have seen the lass. The music of Tubbs was featured in that movie.
Rick
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