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is one was just for practice now we will drop one we are standing at the aiming spot for a black oak snag and this spot was chosen because there is no side lean from this vantage point and there is a relatively clear spot for this tree to fall into a quick measurement and pacing in showed this tree to be 50 tall viewing the snag from 90 degrees around we see that this tree has quite a bit of back lean check the lines added to show where the top is and you can see that we had about 5 of back lean to overcome we checked our segment size next from the back of the hinge to the wedging point we had 9 nine goes into 600 67 times so we have a tree that is close to 70 segments raising the bottom segment 1 will move the top of the tree between 5 and 6 feet so this looks do able but you also need to know some practical limits to guide you before you start cutting the numbers you should remember are these for a 50 segment tree you may be able to handle up to 10 of back lean if the wood is strong you have built the hinge right and you feel like pounding parallel wedges until you are blue in the face 60 segments 8 seventy segments 6 80 segments 4 as trees are taller and thinner you can handle less back lean as they are shorter and stouter you can handle more back lean these numbers are not absolutes and it is not much fun pounding wedges on trees that are at the limit so don t push your luck the largedistributed being much stronger on the outside of the hinge this means that the limits on side lean are somewhat less than 1 2 of the limits for back lean practice the evaluation process several times before you put it into use until it becomes second nature to you and never push your luck around high value targets we have raised the back of the tree not quite an inch and the hinge is handling the stress just fine the stem is nearly vertical at this point in the process the problem you will find frequently with small trees is the lack of space in the stump to work the wedges have run into the back of the hinge so we had to stack two wedges to bring the tree over cross your wedges when you stack them and they will not jump out when you pound on them all done practice your measurements and practice your cuts on trees that don t have any big problems or risks if you want to test your limits on trees do it on ones that can t fall on anything of value and that includes you posted by david aka true blue sam at 7 19 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels chainsaws tree felling wedging segments thursday november 6 2025 united states marine corps 250th anniversary monday november 10 2025 the marine corp will be 250 years old fifty years ago in 1975 the marines planted trees with school kids around the country to commemorate their bi centennial i was involved with their project at pikeville kentucky you can see that tree project on google earth today there are white pines on the point behind pikeville elementary school visible in the aerial photo and the drive by on google earth i would love to go up there and see how those trees are doing click on the pictures to enlarge them posted by david aka true blue sam at 8 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 5 2025 wednesday windage sight seeing i nearly gave up on iron sights for a while cataracts made using irons nearly impossible and driving was difficult and dangerous at night with bright lights causing trouble i tried several red dot sights and traditional scopes on pistols and found that bill llewellyn s bullseye ghost ring sight blades worked well on my ruger pistols i had my lens implants done in 2016 and can shoot with irons again but i had a minor panic attack lately when i realized that billll s idle mind blog no longer listed billll s bullseye sights i got in touch with him and he still had some so i bought four they are pretty darn useful in pistol shooting but you do need to change your technique a bit to get the most benefit these are some of the pistols i provided for a recent carry class at the carmi rifle club l to r single ten 137 rear sight notch mk iii target bushnell red dot mk iv target 118 rear sight notch mk iii hunter billll s bullseye sight 205 aperture mk iii target billll s bullseye sight 205 aperture with top half of ring removed stock ruger target sight billll s bullseye and billll s bullseye abbreviated i was hesitant about putting a peep ghost ring out for a carry class but i am glad i did the fellow i was coaching did ok at the beginning of live shooting with a red dot sight but when i switched him to irons he began putting all his shots above his target i stopped him to point out how he was missing and he told me i don t like revolvers i responded that the revolver isn t the problem i don t think you can see your sights he then said well i have cataracts so i switched him to the pistol with the ghost ring i told him to look at the target through the window of the rear sight move the front sight onto the target and shoot the important thing with these sights is to focus on the target and not fuss about the sights he immediately was putting his shots into the black on his target he was amazed and i was too it is such a simple solution to use a rear sight that lets you see the target instead of covering it up and using a tiny notch we had him go back to the red dot when we shot qualification targets and he was a happy camper rearranging guns for the class for qualifications i had to take a red dot gun away from the lady on the left for my man with cataracts i handed her the mk iii target with the cut down ghost ring she had not shot that gun at all during class and i gave her the quick rundown on focusing on the target through the window of the rear sight illinois law has us shoot ten rounds from 15 21 and 30 feet standing for a total of 30 shots here s an even bigger surprise shooting that cut down ghost ring she put all thirty rounds into the ten ring with only four falling outside the x ring she was rightfully pleased the lady on the right also shot a 300 with only three out of the x ring she was shooting a mk iii target with a red dot sight i have tried the ghost ring on steel while practicing at the rifle club and it lets me shoot faster than i can with the traditional narrow notch rear sight the more i use it the better i like it i must contact bill and see if he has any more of his sights on hand they work a trick posted by david aka true blue sam at 6 19 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels shooting thursday october 23 2025 al jolson may 26 1886 october 23 1950 al jolson passed away 75 years ago he was known as the world s greatest entertainer for his music broadway shows silent movies and being in the first talkie he was performing before microphones and his voice could fill a hall reaching all the way to the back rows his most well known songs came from the acoustic recording era and his career waned quickly when microphones came on the scene crooners took over the popular music scene but he made a comeback in the forties with electrical recordings his final gig was in 1950 when he went to korea to entertain troops he died of a heart attack shortly after returning to the states posted by david aka true blue sam at 9 43 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels entertainment music sunday october 5 2025 fall activities beware of red waspers as fall progresses be on the lookout for red wasp nests hidden around your domicile these colonies produce a bunch of queens who will overwinter and start new colonies in the spring they are looking for cozy homes for winter and will even try to go into your pants pockets they are hungry and ill tempered right before frost so deal with them forcefully or leave them alone they will try to get into your house so act accordingly we are busy getting ready for winter we pulled tomato cages today and have many posts to pull out of the garden then cutting cleaning up cardboard and burning i noted that there was a lot of bird spatter on the pepper plants susan said it is from hummingbirds feeding on the pepper flowers that is a good reason to keep your pepper plants going until a killing frost back to the old grind posted by david aka true blue sam at 7 28 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 3 2025 weekend steam 6 horsepower advance engines these are new engines built with stutzman boilers in ohio they are serialed with numbers following the original advance serial numbers the neatest thing about having an engine like this is that you don t need a semi to move it a heavy duty trailer and pickup truck will handle one of these just fine they have some improvements from the originals so they produce more than the advertised 6 horses posted by david aka true blue sam at 9 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels steam and gas shows our fall favorite when the goldenrod is blooming irving kaufman vocal the goldenrod is beginning to fade now and frost will be here in a couple weeks i always hate to see the last of the flowers end in early fall the wood stoves will keep our spirits up through the winter the old brunswick still works brat is long gone sure do miss the old boy posted by david aka true blue sam at 7 40 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels music seasons friday august 15 2025 cherrybark oaks grow like weeds this photo of susan and a cherrybark oak in the front yard was taken in 2000 we planted this tree as a twelve inch seedling in 1991 or 1992 look at it now cherrybark oak prefers 109 raccoon soil here in southern illinois raccoon is a bottomland soil but is not as tight as bonnie and other bottomland soils it functions like a transitional soil between slopes and the flattest bottoms cherrybark will grow well on bonnie and also on many upland sites so we used cherrybark seedlings in tree planting projects whenever they were available i always think of mel gerardo when i see a planting project mel gerado was the first district forester at fairfield il in the 1950s and later ran the state nursery at anna il he did a marvelous job of cranking out a huge variety and number of seedlings for the big conservation reserve planting years mel was a marine and fought at the chosin reservoir the thousands of acres of successful tree plantings in illinois are a testament to his professionalism if your third grader in illinois brought home a seedling for arbor day you may have a reminder of mel at your house too posted by david aka true blue sam at 7 29 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 7 2025 a new rose for alabama vanilla and three more dogs moved in as fosters in july and today august 7 vanilla now luna heads for her new home the adopting family will be here bright and early and will be taking her to the sunny south lucky dog lucky family and luna has started her journey home posted by david aka true blue sam at 7 17 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pets schipperke rescue schipperkes thursday march 6 2025 slippery johnson gun cleaner lube make your own slippery johnson gun cleaner lube and start saving money when you clean and lube your guns i ve tried many of the gun oils on the market and when you study them you will figure out that there is no magical spout in the refinery that spits out gun oil gun cleaners and gun oils are basically solvents and oils in varying combinations and if you know what you want you can come up with a good combo yourself ballistol one of the favorite old time gun cleaner oils will mix with water for cleaning black powder residue and will clean your action while leaving a coat of oil that s easy to figure out it will clean black powder fouling and mix with water because of alcohol in the mix and it has hydrocarbon solvents too to clean and to thin the oil here s all you need to make your own version of that gun cleaner oil sea foam is a mix of alcohol smells like isopropyl naphtha coleman fuel and kerosene marvel mystery oil is a light oil with oil of wintergreen added which eats corrosion and is a degreaser it has paraffin which provides a protective coating to metal and it smells good too mix these together and you have a darn good gun cleaner oil i add about half an ounce of chainsaw bar lube to the mix because it clings to metal really well i keep a pump oil can in my cleaning kit for shooting this mix down the barrel and it makes the bore shine you can also put it on your barrel cleaning snake for a quick pull through instead of paying 16 a pint for a name brand cleaner you will have about 6 or 8 in a quart you can use any oil you prefer some folks like 5w 30 synthetic some like atf rather than buying seafoam you can substitute mineral spirits and isopropyl alcohol you can get pure isopropyl in iso heet gas line antifreeze from the car care section of popular stores or at an auto parts store keep your mix in an airtight bottle because the solvents will evaporate if given the chance don t use any gun cleaning product or solvent around an ignition source and don t smoke while cleaning your guns beware of oily cloths from cleaning posted by david aka true blue sam at 9 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels firearms friday january 31 2025 time to wake up now mackinlay kantor this video reminded me of an essay written by mackinlay kantor in which he tells about one of the bombing missions he was on over germany and of the aftermath of a v 2 strike on london that s what happened if you were within a certain radius of the spot where a v 2 came down you died quickly and explosively but it was only air which killed you blast air if a building fell on you you would be squashed flat but this blast air came just as hard as a building falling on you it crushed your chest and still it didn t leave a mark so you stood beside her and you said wake up dear please wake up you said it very softly so as not to awaken her too abruptly but she didn t stir and you had to keep whispering it and whispering it with your lips and in your mind here is mackinlay kantor s entire essay time to wake up now 1945 that chilly march afternoon we got back from germany around four o clock and promptly i went to my barracks and packed up for paris i was leaving the 344 th group of medium bombers based at that time in a windy valley stretching from cormeilles to genicourt the 344 th especially the 495 th squadron with which i had been flying boasted a swell bunch of boys and i was sorry to leave them editorial note by author 1967 funny every squadron i ever flew with in two wars seemed...