{"id":415,"date":"2004-11-02T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=415"},"modified":"2006-10-20T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T18:16:04","slug":"timber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/11\/02\/timber\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSiblings – Mark, Jon and Jan.
\nSaturday was the annual tree cutting day at Mark Queijo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. Adam and I drove out together and along with Al, Jan, Brett,Jon, John, Dwight, Kevin, Mark and Jan, we chain-sawed nine trees into splitable length logs. T\u00e2\u20ac\u2122was another long, hard day, with two notable events. First, Janice Elaine Queijo Carpenter, Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister, not to be confused with Janice Elaine Queijo, his wife, slipped and broke her wrist. Both bones. <\/p>\n

A few words about that. Nobody except the other Jan knew that Jan had fallen. No yelps, no nothing. She walked into the house and returned holding an ice pack on her wrist. Without a hint pain, she announced that she could no longer help clearing trees because she couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lift anything, and besides, she needed to go to the hospital. I asked her to move the ice pack so I could see her wrist. It was an ugly, swollen, bruised peach color with bony bumps in places that should have been smooth. I said, \u00c3\u00abIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s broken.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I thought, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so glad I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not married to you; I know nothing about dress sizes.<\/i><\/p>\n

Secondly, the tallest oak tree we cut down almost fell onto Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house. Had that happened, it would have crushed it. The Queijo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s live in a Deck House – I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if that is a regional-only company – but its primary function is to be open and allow in a maximum amount of light. It most closely resembles a timber frame house with glass – a mere play thing to the mighty oak. <\/p>\n

After Mark cut the customary pie shape from the side he wanted the tree to fall, he began cutting from the backside – the house side. Instead of falling away from the house it leaned into the saw, binding the blade. From where I stood, I could clearly see the future – two month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work for me – and I hollered, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s falling this way.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

What you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see is the house-saving, hefty, yellow, nylon rope tied about a third of the way up, and anchored on the other end by four men who are now desperately trying to pull the tree in their direction. Fortunately for Mark, for all of us, they succeeded.<\/p>\n

If you click on the Quicktime movie<\/a>, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see two things. The tree leaning towards the house and (look closely) Mark jump up and run. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not running away, per se, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s running to his garage to retrieve his maul and wedges. He reasoned, by pounding the wedge into the saw kerf he could tilt the ten ton tree away from his beloved house? Talk about stopping pterodactyls with a fly swatter, but in a panic, what would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Siblings – Mark, Jon and Jan. Saturday was the annual tree cutting day at Mark Queijo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. Adam and I drove out together and along with Al, Jan, Brett,Jon, John, Dwight, Kevin, Mark and Jan, we chain-sawed nine trees into splitable … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}