| Forum topic by Mark DeCou | posted 718 days ago | 12360 views | 3 times favorited | 532 replies | ![]() |
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718 days ago |
Hey folks, I was thinking. What if we came up with a listing of the little things and quirks about what makes all of us lumberjocks. For example: You know you’re a lumberjock if: you get the point. I’m sure you have many others that are better, so share them. thanks, -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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708 days ago |
No. 6: you find your self driving around the block on the way home, secretly looking for big trees you could cut down and build something with. No. 7: your kids ask you everywhere you go, “could you make that dad?” (kinda cool trait to have, huh!) -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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708 days ago |
No. 8: if when you bow your head at the table to pray for the meal with the family, when you open your eyes you find the saw dust that fell off the top of your head into your plate. No. 9: You love the smell of sawdust in the morning. -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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661 days ago |
No. 10: every time you get a new tool, you re-read through all your back issues of Wood, Fine Woodworking, etc… to check out all those projects you can do now. -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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654 days ago |
No. 11: your wife chides you for not wanting to throw any piece of wood away. |
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651 days ago |
No. 12: You carefully debate (with self) over which pieces of wood from the scrap bin are actually lowly enough to be used for a sacrificial backer board when driling, etc… No. 13: You remind wife/kids not to burn firewood from one particular half of the woodpile. -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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650 days ago |
No. 14: You go to bed at night and find your safety glasses still pearched on your forehead, your tape on your belt and the pencil you lost hiding behind your ear. |
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650 days ago |
No. 15: you reach into your pocket for keys and pull out a handfull of sawdust along with them. -- ~ www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~ |
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649 days ago |
Hey jocks, this is starting to get fun now, keep them coming: No.16: after a day working with power tools in the shop, you hear “crickets” nonstop at night when trying to sleep. No. 17: old friends call you to brag about the new power tool they just bought. AND: No. 18: You try to sound truly excited for your friend, but really, you just wish you had the tool they just got. But, you try to sound sincere. No. 19: You think about a project you could build just so you can use the little piece of purple heart you have on hand. No. 20: your spouse says to people, “he can just build anything with wood, but he is very electronically challenged.” She means it as a compliment. I think. No. 21: you quit a good paying, easy job, with a climate controlled environment, with vacation time, 401(K), sick pay, bereavement pay, and a company car, just so you can work hard for 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week, sweating in a 100 degree shop, smelling sawdust, with no vacations, no retirement, have to work even when you’re sick, make less than minimum wage at times….......just so you can spend more time working with wood. -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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649 days ago |
Nice one Dennis… that one made me laugh out loud! No. 22: You were temporarily excited…. then confused when you overheard co-workers (at the office) talk about picking up wireless routers at Best Buy or Circuit City. No. 23: It’s easier/faster to pick up a new speed square, tape measure, pencil, etc…. next time you go out, than to find yours amid the woodchips and clutter. Even though you “just had it.” -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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649 days ago |
No. 24: no matter how many compliments a projects brings, you can always list of the the “problems” that should be fixed, could have been done better, etc… -- ~ www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~ |
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643 days ago |
No. 25: the (soon to be) forthcoming onslaught of pre-holiday catalogs in the mail only serves to inspire projects you could make better and cheaper (or free) – even though our wives know (and know better than to remind us) that it usually is cheaper to buy them, than to spend the time it would take to really make them right. No: 26. Christmas time is time to make toys and gifts to give… hoping only to receive new tools (to make more gifts next year!) -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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642 days ago |
No.27 When you have measured and have the piece ready to mark for the cut but find the pencil is always at the other end of the room. -- doug, Hudson Florida, www. dougandjudy@tampabay.rr.com |
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629 days ago |
No. 28: You have a whole drawer dedicated for the storing of used orbital sanding paper sheets that are just not used up enough to throw away yet. I did just throw them all out yesterday! Yea for me! -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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619 days ago |
No. 29: The large carpenter square seems to disappear, only minutes after setting it down. No. 30: Your 24” level seems to have the same kind of characteristics as your square. -- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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619 days ago |
#31. when your husband sits in the car and never says a word while i go thu the dumpster at the door factory looking for doors for my woodburning. even tho i have a stack of them at home. you just never KNOW when you need that size you dont have. -- pat,ohio...http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/patshwigar/ |
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604 days ago |
No. 32: -- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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604 days ago |
Some mornings it’s just too hard to get out of bed… unless you hear a neighbor fire up the chainsaw. -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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590 days ago |
Can’t look at a piece of furniture with out crawling under it to see how its built. |
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583 days ago |
No. 35: When you read the term “nicely figured crotch…..” you ONLY think of wood you want to see. (I know, I can’t believe I thought of it either. I debated with myself for several days before adding it, and will probably regret it, and then ask Martin to remove it for me.) -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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583 days ago |
knotty…knotty |
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583 days ago |
knotty, but funny…. No. 37: Your vacation photos are just as likely to contain images of joinery and antique furniture, as beaches, sunsets and your family, -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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548 days ago |
No. 38: You save all the untreated wood chips to place around your roses or other plants -- "In dog years - I'm dead" |
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547 days ago |
No 39. You refuse to throw away your sawdust because you can use it to make your own filler (even though you have 4 barrels of assorted sawdust just in case) |
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547 days ago |
No 48. You insist on using wooden pencils, because the mechanial pencils are just “wrong” |
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547 days ago |
No 53. You can tell a sawdust by the taste of it in the air |
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547 days ago |
No. 54. You tear apart one project just so you can use the wood for another project that somebody has ordered, and you don’t have the time to go get the wood for it (or don’t have the money to buy more wood til you sell the project you make from the project you have to tear apart first) O.K. So im a freak |
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547 days ago |
No 58. You get insullted when someone buys anything without first asking you if you could make them one. |
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547 days ago |
No 60. There are no such things as scraps because you insist on making your own dowels |
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547 days ago |
O.K. so I lied … |
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546 days ago |
No 64. When your barn is full of wood and the sawmill owner asks if youd like to make a pulpit for his church, and he’d like to trade you wood for making it. And, you say yes! -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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546 days ago |
No 65. When you take a class on making a Shaker table out of white pine, any you ask the instructor if its OK if you bring your own Cherry lumber. -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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546 days ago |
No 66. When you take your son to the Shaker class so that he can try woodworking also, and one of the other students give him their wood so that he can actually make one. And then you replace the white pine offering with Cherry so that the first student can also make one. -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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542 days ago |
No 67. You know you’re a lumberjock, when the wood in your shop starts to talk to you. Or any wood starts to talk to you. Some people call that crazy, I call it Artistic Genius. |
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542 days ago |
You’re really on a roll Obi – 53 is one of my favorites of the bunch. No 68. You love the smell of fresh cut/sanded cedar, and unfortunately know that freshly cut/sanded pressure treated smells like licorice. – (Oh, the health ramifications!) -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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542 days ago |
No 69. When you go lake canoeing with your wife, you stop to explore an island in the middle of the lake. Ha, what comes next is you find a rotted out and hollow log which you see as a piece of art. Asking the wife for help you proceed to place the piece of wood catty-corner on the canoe, of course the timber is longer then the canoe, and then you both paddle out and across the lake. Did I fell to mention that all the while you feel as if you just found a ‘pot of gold’. —frank, NH, www.frank.wordpress.com -- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/ |
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542 days ago |
Whew! Frank: Mark -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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541 days ago |
No 70. You might be a lumber jock if your woodworking club has made between 1000-1200 toys for charities for Christmas. And they’ve done it for the last 11 years. -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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541 days ago |
Now, Mark, a lumberjock would never leave his wife while paddling a canoe carrying a log … Think, Man !!! One person has to hold onto the log … One person paddles the canoe. Sheeeesh! |
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541 days ago |
No 71. How about when you carry three knives with you in spite of the added weight increase to your pants. One is a lockback knife for debarking or spudding, one a three bladed smaller old timer for cleaning up the wood and then the all around leatherman for whatever comes next. And then there is the what do I do now when dressing up to go out for a social engagement and realizing some of those knives just don’t fit in your dress pants. Lockback too big, leatherman to bulky to fit under a jacket and so you won’t fill totally stripped you sneek the old timer into your pants pocket. Actually I’m doing better since I used to carry four knives. No 72. And then what about the ever present carpenter pencil which you cut in half and carry in your pants pocket also along with the added bits of ever present sandpaper which you carry for the, ‘well you just never know’. Actually the carpenter pencil justifies the need of the old timer since you will need to sharpen the pencil ever so often. And yes there is that sigh of relief when after forgetting the pencil behind your ear and searching your shop you remember that pencil in your pocket. No 73. You are delighted when going out for the evening with your wife to a friends house because you know that this friend has some woods out back and/or a woodpile. Knowing all this you proceed to put one of your chain saws in the back of your truck just in case. No 74. When going to a friends workshop, again you are delighted since you will have a chance to look through his scrap wood box. And then when he doesn’t understand how you could use anything as small as this piece of wood you proceed to inform him of all the many possibilities. The only thing wrong with this is that the next time you visit that friend he has none of that exotic wood in the scrap box since he has now taken your advice. No 75. And what about the always and ever present pieces of wood saved from the woodpile that are setting around, at least for as much time as you can squeak out before your wife starts complaining. Ha, I have set them on kitchen tables, pianos, window sills, cabinets, dressers and then there is the outside and I’m not even going there. Having these pieces close by inspires me and opens the door for conversation when others come around, at least this is one method of explaining marketing. No 76. I’m going to try and make this one my last for today, can I? When out driving especially in a new area, the thrill of excitement that comes from seeing an old barn on someone’s land. Since I’m into the old English Barns of New England, I can never just pass one by without stopping to inquire if I might just be able to ‘root around’ inside the barn. I’ve made sure that I always carry a pair of carhartt overalls in my truck for the once again ‘just in case’, plus the tie downs and bungees. My wife has long ago gotten use to these ‘root arounds’ and gets a since of pleasure from this also, while my truck has also learned to not complain. Much has been the treasure ‘in my eyes’ that I have saved and salvaged from old barns as they are an ever source of hardware and timber. -- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/ |
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522 days ago |
You Know your a LumberJock when .. while watching TV you pay more attention to the furniture / molding / cabinets than the show. Always thinking .. I can make that. |
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522 days ago |
Ooops that was No 77….. |
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519 days ago |
No 78 Tou might be a LumberJock if you buy a Haz-Mat suit to keep the sawdust out of your pockets and clothes. So that the other half of the family is happy. Even though you still get the wood chips in your hair. -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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518 days ago |
No. 79. Your “free-form” sessions at the lathe start to serve as a nice little Rorschach Test of your subconscious (for better or worse!) -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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517 days ago |
No. 80. You know your a Lumberjock when: You’re just about done assembling your project, and your short by about 2 screws, and all the stores are closed. Bummer !!! -- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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517 days ago |
NO. 81 You know you’re a Lumberjock if all the gloves you own are fingerless. Jockmike2 -- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com |
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517 days ago |
Mike is that even the rubber gloves? -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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517 days ago |
I’m still trying to figure out how Karson gets wood chips in his hair? |
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516 days ago |
I’m talking about the jersey gloves carpenters wear in winter. I’d wear out a pair a day. There just would’nt be any fingers in them, from grabbing nails and hauling wood, and that was way to much explaining to be a good lumberjock joke. If we had worn rubber gloves our hands would have been froze by the end of the day. mike -- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com |
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516 days ago |
Dennis: I could say that it’s the back of the sawblade kicking up chips. But it’s really the lathe when chips start flying. -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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515 days ago |
I think he’s referring to “What Hair?” |
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514 days ago |
No. 82 You just might be a Lumberjock when your colors are all Prefixed by a Brand Name, i.e. Dewalt Yellow, Hitachi Green, Milwaukee Red, Ryobi Blue |
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514 days ago |
Very Funny guys! -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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514 days ago |
No. 86. You pick your next project on the tool you’ll absolutely “have” to buy to do it. -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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512 days ago |
I hadn’t thought of that, thanks Scott. And just in time for Christmas. And Karson? God only made a limited amout of perfect heads, the rest he had to cover up with hair. |
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511 days ago |
No 87: You think it would be cool to have a “You might be a lumberjock if…..” printed on a T-shirt. Karson, I got the “no-hair” joke the first time, too bad it flew past you. We are laughing with you, not at you. Notice that my photo has the top of my head cut off. Not bad photography, just good editing. Love you all, keep them coming. -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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511 days ago |
No 88: When you’d rather turn a pen out of that stick than throw it to your faithful dog… -- The poorest of all men is not a man without a cent, it's a man without a dream. |
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511 days ago |
I had my tongue in cheek when I replied. No 89: When you see a newer (More functionality) tool than the one you own, and you wonder who you can see sell the current one to, so that you can upgrade. -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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511 days ago |
This is getting really long… Maybe we will have enough for the each day of year shirt series – not just each day of week ;) You’re very creative guys.. keep them coming. -- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com |
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510 days ago |
No. 90: No. 91: No. 92: No. 93: Goodnight folks, -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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510 days ago |
Oh, one more: No. 94: You are so proud of yourself because you finally found a justifiable use for the “purdy” board you bought in No. 85 Above (thanks Obi). now goodnight, -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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510 days ago |
No. 95: The list of projects you were definately going to make this Christmas is turned into next years list…. unfortunately I was also mostly a hold over from the previous year… -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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510 days ago |
5 more and we’re on 100. amazing -- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com |
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510 days ago |
No. 96 You just might be a lumberjock when you think it strange that your wife doesn’t want to buy the things you made. |
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510 days ago |
No. 97 You just might be a lumberjock if this is one of the first 3 sites you go to every morning, just to see if there are more “You just might be a lumber jock if/when” comments posted |
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510 days ago |
No. 98 You just might be a lumberjock if you sit around thinking up “you just might be a lumberjock if/when” comments so you can be the one to reach the “100” mark |
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510 days ago |
No. 99 You just might be a lumberjock if you giggle at the fact that you are going to be the 100th Comment No 100 You just might be a Lumberjock if you post the 100th comment just to see if you can get a free “You just might be a Lumberjock if” t-shirt |
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510 days ago |
No 100 You just might be a Lumberjock if you post the 100th comment just to see if you can get a free “You just might be a Lumberjock if” t-shirt |
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510 days ago |
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, THIS HAS BEEN A HOOT! IT’S NICE TO SEE THAT I’M NOT THE ONLY WOOD FREAK |
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506 days ago |
No. 101 You just might be a lumberjock, if you logged on to Lumberjocks.com on Christmas Day just to post a project or say hello to people you’ve never met. Again, Merry Christmas Y’aLL. |
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506 days ago |
ha. that 101 is cool, Obi! Merry Xmas to all Christmas LumberJocks. -- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com |
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506 days ago |
Where I live the city does a ‘hard rubbish’ collection twice a year. That’s when you can put almost anything out in front of your house for free disposal. So… No. 102 You know you’re a Lumberjock when you troll the neighborhood’s hard rubbish for discarded furniture to recycle in your shop. -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/ |
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501 days ago |
No. 103 You just might be a lumberjock if you buy the Top Tool Review Magazine of the Year just to see how many of them you actually own. ( I was going to buy it, but decided I’d rather buy a 3/8” chisel instead) And after I looked through it I’d found that I had the top biscuit joiner, the number 2 mitre saw, top impact driver (in it’s class). |
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501 days ago |
No. 104 (Continued from #17) old friends call you to brag about the new power tool they just bought. AND you try everything you can think of to borrow it and try it out to make sure it works properly… |
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501 days ago |
No. 105 You just might be a lumberjock if you go to Church with your tape measure on your belt. |
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500 days ago |
You know you’re a LumberJock when you stay up until 3:00am New Years Eve reading blogs from your LumberJock buddies. -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/ |
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500 days ago |
No 106: Continuted from 97 – when this is the first site you check in the morning and before bed (or anytime you come home/leave the house. Are we keeping ourselves out of the shop by seeking motivation and comraderie? I say no, not sure if my wife would agree. -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |
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500 days ago |
No, Scott. This is like we are the boss and the employee at the same time, and this is the LAW !!! You MUST have a break every two hours (or something like that) where you relax and sit down and talk to co-workers. And if you are the boss and decide that Company policy mandates a nap for better afternoon performance, or your employee needs some extra time on the computer (Kind of like a sick day, or a mental health day) Just like the big corporations do. |
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500 days ago |
I’m really looking forward to the Messenger thingy that Martin “The Man” is going to either make or bootleg from the old yahoo messenger archives or whatever.:)) |
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500 days ago |
No. 107: No. 108: -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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500 days ago |
MARK !!! PRAY… that you wife never stumbles onto this site and reads that last one. hahahahaha !!!! |
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500 days ago |
Why, she loves the Dog also. Have a great new year Obi. -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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500 days ago |
No 108: When you put out a roadside sign for everyone to see and be able to find you. -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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500 days ago |
Sorry that one was 109!!! -- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com |
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500 days ago |
110: Happy new Years everyone! -- ~ www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~ |
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500 days ago |
No. 111 You know you’re a lumberjock when your pastor calls you out at church and tells you, “Let me see your tape measure.” |
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499 days ago |
My “hardy-har-har” wife intercepted the flurry of emails notifying me of additions to the “you might be a lumberjock…” list this morning. She thinks it would be a good idea to start a second list called: “you might be married to a lumberjock if…...” so, consider whether you think this is a good idea before I start another list as a separate category. But, before you answer, carefully ponder the concept, as it might get personal, and maybe not always fun to read. ha, ha. Mark -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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499 days ago |
Of course, unless it is our wives that post the comments under “you might be married to a lumberjock if…...”, our perceptions might be all wrong. My wife is always accusing me of not understanding her perspective on things, and frankly, she is right, I don’t. But I think her bumper sticker sums it all up. ”PROUD AND BLOND OF IT” -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/ |
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499 days ago |
I am laughing hard here in Kansas Don. My expectation is that it will be our spouses that would be writing up the “new” list. I know my wife was the one that wanted to compile a list of all of the things she finds funny about her lumberjock, but I don’t see them as so funny. I guess that is the risk, if we turn the spouses loose on it, it might give us some more members to the forum, but it might have a harder time laughing at ourselves. I think I can take the jokes, I hear them anyway. thanks Don, my wife is Blond, and her comment is, “that was mean.” Then, I explained to her that the bumper sticker was on the blonde’s car. Then she got the joke. thanks, -- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan |
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499 days ago |
So, if our spouses start up the new list… and we don’t read it… it doesn’t matter if we find them funny or not… I think you pretty much summed it up for them with #5 anyhow. -- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative |

























