04-04-2012, 07:35
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Asset
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Prayers inbound
Bill,
So glad you and yours are safe. Sounds like all is OK save the milling machine. Maybe that cedar could be sold to the local mill to help recoup mill replacement costs a little?
Hope you are rebuilding soon.
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04-04-2012, 10:15
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Join Date: May 2006
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"Cedar tree is 4 ft. at base and section resting on shop weighs 10,000 lbs. according to the timber weights and scale book."
We're dodging twisters and trees down here in the South, but when I lived in Oregon trees did not attack in that manner. Usually, the worst calamities that we had to contend with from the trees were the people hugging them (and those spotted owls). I am glad that no one was injured and am certain that you will build bigger and better. Cedar makes for beautiful building materials. I hope that I can stop by the next time I am in the great Northwest.
All the best,
Dave
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04-04-2012, 10:28
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Wow. That's awful. Glad you're alright, Mr. Harsey. I sure hope you had the shop insured. 
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04-05-2012, 08:04
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
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Hope everyone in Texas made it.
Thanks for all the kind words.
Shop building is insured and company is trying to get out of paying.
Today we shore up front wall on outside to try and keep the damage to a minimum when the tree is lifted by crane off the shop.
Machine to do this weighs 80,000 lbs because of long reach needed and have to let the ground dry out a bit first so when the outriggers go down they don't sink out of sight. This is a real mess.
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04-05-2012, 08:15
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Bill, know your positive out look will overcome!
All insurance companies try to play the "Act of God" stuff to get out from under. Beat them up! 
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04-05-2012, 17:02
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
Winds came up more than they had been blowing and I decided to leave the shop, 10 minutes later the tree came down.
No injuries yet.
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Thank God. There is one thing that cannot be replaced and that is you. That said, I'm really sorry this happened to you and that you've lost your shop.
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04-05-2012, 19:36
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limited addition cedar handled harsey whittler coming soon? includes signed print...
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04-05-2012, 19:41
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Bill, sorry to hear about the shop damage, but glad you and your family are ok. Material things can be replaced.
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04-06-2012, 13:31
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
We had some wind here a few days ago and the ground had been saturated by unusual amount of rain even for here in Oregon.
This cedar tree is resting on my knifemaking shop.
The real mess is inside with all the splintered trusses and ceiling broken downward covering stuff. Most machines are fine so far, found my small German made milling machine yesterday and it's scrap metal.
Cedar tree is 4 ft. at base and section resting on shop weighs 10,000 lbs. according to the timber weights and scale book.
This structure is beyond repair.
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Glad you are okay, sounds like you have a lot of volunteers to build a new shop. Glad I'm not the only one who has a spare timber weights and scales book laying around.
You should incorporate the cedar into the new building.
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05-03-2012, 11:37
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Flying some tree off of the shop last week. Near 5 ton in that chunk alone.
Log was rigged so it picked up at same angle it was resting on my shop to keep it from breaking more stuff underneath.
Still have to figure out how to brace inside of front wall so it won't fall over when I jack open the front door to move stuff.
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05-03-2012, 13:51
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Sorry to hear about your shop Bill,but I'm sure you'll came back with a new and better one..... 
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05-03-2012, 15:16
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Five tons of cedar ... that's a lot of knife handles or display plaques.
Damn tree should be made to pay.
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05-03-2012, 15:31
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I'm with CSB...make that tree pay. Hang in there, Mr. H.
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05-03-2012, 16:37
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Damn tree should be made to pay. |
Now that is damn funny.
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05-03-2012, 22:24
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
Flying some tree off of the shop last week. Near 5 ton in that chunk alone.
Log was rigged so it picked up at same angle it was resting on my shop to keep it from breaking more stuff underneath.
Still have to figure out how to brace inside of front wall so it won't fall over when I jack open the front door to move stuff.
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Congratulations, Mr. H, nice progress! I see you are under rain....again. Hope you can get all your gear and machinery out of there soon before the raccoons move in and set up shop.
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