General Music Chat

It's been along week. Unfortunatley, I have to wait until next friday to play again. We have a gig at a mexican restaurant. Too bad we don't play any mariachi music! Guess we'll just have to hit them with some Muddy Waters 'Hoochie Coochie Hombre'. What do you have planned for the weekend?--Floyd

Doood! Play "Ring Of Fire," & ask the mariachi hornblowers to join in, if they're there. Perfect cross-over tune, that!

It has been a long week...no work then heavy as hell work. I'm worn to a frizzle, which is 3 degrees worse than a frazzle. Gonna babysit the less-than-2-yr-old tonight & tomorrow & have band practice on Sunday, myself. 4 new tunes & some rehash to burn a cpl better in our headbones.

Looking forward to it if I can move after today... Hurtiness is setting in quick-like.

But I ain't cookin'. I ordered pizzas in. Yay for me!

Have a nice weekend, folkses!

Been a long weeeeek all around it seems. Should be sunny and about 75 degrees here tomorrow. Got to get some sun on my bald head. Starting to feel like a duck.

What do you have planned for the weekend?--Floyd

Tonight my granddaughter stopped in after school for our weekly jam. She just started playing drums and already has a solid rock, swing. and (most importantly) shuffle beat. We recorded a live video of "The Terminator Theme", (drums & synthesizer) and it turned out awsome.

Tomorrow, I hope to take my chain saw mill in the woods and turn some fallen hemlock trees into slabs to make stair treads for my new house.

later...
HJ

Hemlock?
I though hemlock was a soft wooded evergreen tree. Akin to juniper.
Enlighten me on the propertys of said wood ol Howlin one.

Hemlock?
I though hemlock was a soft wooded evergreen tree. Akin to juniper.
Enlighten me on the propertys of said wood ol Howlin one.

George,
Pennsylvania's,s state tree is great timber. It's threatened by a pest called the woolly adelgid which are insects . The ones that I'm fixin' to harvest are blow downs. They grow to a point where the swampy soil can no longer resist wind and ice storms and they blow over. Hopefully the timber will still be uncontaminated by wood destroying fungi .(All three have been laying over with their roots sticking up for a couple of years). Hemlock is a highly workable wood and excellent for heavy timber frame applications.

I've used Norway spruce for siding on my shop, which is inferier to hemlock as construction lumber.

I have utilized a blown down pitch pine to mill four hexagonal columns.
Pitch pine is known for its natural preservative properties. It's getting to be a rare tree around here but Cin and I are fortunate to have several magnificent specimens. Pitch pine requires fire to seed, and ours are all over 70 years old.

I fell a few oaks and hickory trees when I was clearing our building lot, but they are to difficult to practically cut with my chainsaw mill . Hickory takes several years to cure and warps to badly to be of any practical use to me.

Back to the hemlocks, we once brewed tea out of the needles. It made me sweat like crazy.

I better go get some sleep or I won't get anything done tomorrow.
(were getting a break in the weather, gonna get up into the 40s )

Later...
John

Thanks John.
I used to work wood some. Small things really. Boise d' arc wood powder measure for flintlock rifle. Knife scales of the same as well as walnut. Scabards for bowie knives and Katana swords.
Pistol grips, a jewlery box for Jeanette. My Grandfather was a master carpenter as well as a market hunter.
Enjoy the warm front.

Yep...guys I work with call hemlock a "hard soft wood," cuz pines are considered a "soft wood," but hemlock is a heavy hardish one. Took 6 of us to carry my friend's mantle in when he installed it in his log house, but it was one solid 11 1/2 foot by 16 inch by 9 inch monstousity. I was impressed when we carried it in, held it in place & it turned out level the 1st time he bolted it through the wall.

Nuttin!


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George and Phil,
I wish I could teletransport you guys up to my place today. I could use a couple of hands that have a handle on the true meaning of work!
(would be great to be able to kick back after the days work's done and jam out and quaff a few with you guys, after all, it is gonna be Saturday night! and the only thing more honorable then honest work is fierce playin!)

Nuttin!

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Hey Hayden,
If "nuttin " is your thing, then you sure as hell don't want to cut down your hickories for timber! (let alone for firewood)

Hey! That reminds me. Were burnin' daylight!
Gotta' go to work!
get back with y'all tonight.

It's Saturday! so for all you brothers & sisters that are gonna' be out playin'
Have a great gig!
later...
Howlin'

For sure.

Hemlock?
I though hemlock was a soft wooded evergreen tree. Akin to juniper.
Enlighten me on the propertys of said wood ol Howlin one.

George,
Pennsylvania's,s state tree is great timber. It's threatened by a pest called the woolly adelgid which are insects . The ones that I'm fixin' to harvest are blow downs. They grow to a point where the swampy soil can no longer resist wind and ice storms and they blow over. Hopefully the timber will still be uncontaminated by wood destroying fungi .(All three have been laying over with their roots sticking up for a couple of years). Hemlock is a highly workable wood and excellent for heavy timber frame applications.

I've used Norway spruce for siding on my shop, which is inferier to hemlock as construction lumber.

I have utilized a blown down pitch pine to mill four hexagonal columns.
Pitch pine is known for its natural preservative properties. It's getting to be a rare tree around here but Cin and I are fortunate to have several magnificent specimens. Pitch pine requires fire to seed, and ours are all over 70 years old.

I fell a few oaks and hickory trees when I was clearing our building lot, but they are to difficult to practically cut with my chainsaw mill . Hickory takes several years to cure and warps to badly to be of any practical use to me.

Back to the hemlocks, we once brewed tea out of the needles. It made me sweat like crazy.

I better go get some sleep or I won't get anything done tomorrow.
(were getting a break in the weather, gonna get up into the 40s )

Later...
John

Damn!
The first blown down hemlock that I was planing to utilize for my stairs proved to be compromised by fungi . Goes to show ya, never let timber that you might want to use lay on the ground unprotected for any length of time.

There is some good news from yesterday, however.
I found a skunk cabbage spathe pokin' out of the ice in one of our frozen streams. A sure sign that spring is near!
I also made some progress on the five homemade bay windows in our new house. Besides that, this morning (Sunday) I made some design improvements to the masonry wood heater that (God willin') is going to be a prime source of warmth for my decrepit 'ol hide in seasons to come.

Been a pretty productive weekend so far, took a few photos that I may post, if anybody's interested.

Even played the 'ol piano for a bit last night, (keeps the fingers in shape, just in case I ever get a chance to get out and jam.)

Sun is getting pretty high, so (as Fisherman Bob says),

LATER......

HJ

Always interested in project pictures be they musical or not.

Wood with fungi inbedded can be sealed. IE spalded maple.
I dont know if that would apply to hemlock. But of course if the grain structure is compramised it would be useless in construction.

Looking forward to pictures!! Can't wait to see the stage you are in now.

If I remember right, you have a beautiful place started.

Nuttin!

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Hey Hayden,
If "nuttin " is your thing, then you sure as hell don't want to cut down your hickories for timber! (let alone for firewood)

I don't cut down any living thing unless absolutely necessary!