VAspeedgoat
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Big Fins techniques also work on diaper changing as well, eventually they will all say "just get out of the way I'll do it" if you make a big enough mess. Well stated Big Fin!
Handy Skills You Do and Don't Possess
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TimeOnTarget
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Alright wise guy
, Tell me how to learn my wife that I've forgotten all those domestic duties??? I've already showed that I can do most anything....How do I UN-show that?
Faking incompetence just to get out of it.............one of the best moments of Everybody Loves Raymond when Ray, Robert and Frank intentionally mess up the wedding invitations, and the "fake" one gets sent out instead.
http://youtu.be/c5DERppkIG0
Proceed with this strategy only if you are fully committed to it, or ready to be committed.
http://youtu.be/c5DERppkIG0
Proceed with this strategy only if you are fully committed to it, or ready to be committed.
What's a channel lock??
How's that for starters, Randy?
Unfortunately, my wife already knows that I can fix just about anything. I have to - I'm way too cheap to call someone else...My 'family time' suffers because of this.
I can also play several instruments, but don't have much time to anymore; between mowing, painting, fixing the vehicles, staining the deck...Wait, I'm starting to see your point here...
It's too late for me, save yourselves!!
Alright wise guy
Tell me how to learn my wife that I've forgotten all those domestic duties??? I've already showed that I can do most anything....How do I UN-show that?
You're screwed.
TimeOnTarget
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I'm not good at anything, but just barely adequate at everything. It's the worst of both worlds.
For example, I'm good enough at cutting down trees to tackle the job myself. I'm just poor enough at cutting down trees to make one fall on the north side of my house.
I'm just good enough at replacing shingles, soffit, fascia, windows, and siding to tackle a repair job myself, but just poor enough at it so that it drags out for two full weekends during prime ice fishing time. I think you can see the pattern here.....
For example, I'm good enough at cutting down trees to tackle the job myself. I'm just poor enough at cutting down trees to make one fall on the north side of my house.
I'm just good enough at replacing shingles, soffit, fascia, windows, and siding to tackle a repair job myself, but just poor enough at it so that it drags out for two full weekends during prime ice fishing time. I think you can see the pattern here.....
devon deer
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I disagree, i think Big Fin is a very unwise man, doesn't his wife read this forum?
BTW Big Fin, you missed off WD40 and and adjustable spanner.
Cheers
Richard
That's my predicament. I'm just cheap enough and just stubborn enough to try and tackle projects on my own. Most the time I'd have better off calling in backup from the get-go.
Easy to identify the problem right there. I'm no Dr. Phil, but why in the hell do you even own a saw? You a lumberjack wanna be? I grew up in a logging family. I spent too many days falling trees, bumping knots, and bucking up 100" on the landing as a youngster to realize that owning chainsaws and fishing just don't follow a parallel path.
I have an eight-stitch scar on my left thigh from a Jonsereds 621. I show it to my wife as proof of how dangerous these powered tools are. My house is far more safe with 35+ long guns and 5,000 rounds of live ammo, than to have a chain saw on the premises. Hopefully, before you got too far along in the relationship, you realized the value all your past scars and broken appendages could have when negotiating out of "honey-do's." I think I've convinced my wife that chainsaws spontaneously start and you never know when its going to happen. To make sure she keeps deathly fearful of them, I inform her when any re-runs of chainsaw horror movies are on TV.
Show me a man with a chain saw and I'll show you a guy who doesn't get to fish and hunt as much as he otherwise would. And when someone starts on that old line about firewood saving on the heat bill, blah, blah, blah, I doubt he is not really serious about his "family time." Usually, by the time his wife has converted him to such quasi-religion, he is beyond help. Time to move on and find a better hunting/fishing buddy and leave him to his broken down chainsaw and his firewood pile. On your way back from elk hunting, wave to him while he stands with the wife running the log splitter, knowing if had planned ahead, he could be doing something far better on a fine September Saturday.
My brother, still a logger and log home builder, sent me one of his spare chain saws. He was concerned I might need one some day. WTH? I hid it in my shop where my wife could never see it. When my brother was last here, I gave it back to him and told him to keep it ... for good. Not sure what he was thinking, other than he is one of those handyman types who built his own house, fixes his own machinery, and always worries that I lack necessary equipment to continue to foolish family legacy of being handy. As well-intended as he is, I find it no coincidence that he has never killed an elk.
Don't even get me started on lawn mowers. If it were illegal to own lawn mowers, the divorce rate in America would drop in half, boat sales would triple, and every child in the country could tie a Pale Morning Dunn by age five. Now that would be progress my friends.
For every powertool, chainsaw, mower, power washers, or other "manly device" you have, you can expect it will reduce your "family time" by at least two days per year, per powered device. Add in the time to change oil, winterize, etc, and you quickly realize such is a terrible investment.
I think one of our Podcasts is going to be how you become "unhandy" and how you stay "unhandy." Just from the sample audience here on Hunt Talk, it looks like fertile ground for missionary work.
That's good stuff right there, Randy! You are spot on about the chainsaw. It is nothing but trouble.
In fact, 3 weekends ago on a beautiful sunny Saturday, with weather perfect for almost any outdoor activity, I was stuck using the same offending chainsaw to cut 62 wood slices for centerpieces for my upcoming wedding, as requested by my lovely (in case she is reading this) fiancé. Of course, once the slices were cut they needed to have a finish brushed on both sides. Before I knew it the beautiful day was over with no fish caught or shots fired. It was depressing.
Please do dedicate a podcast to spreading this sort of wisdom to us folks who don't know what we are getting ourselves into. Make it quick, too! My time is limited before the big day! I'll have plenty of time to listen to it when I'm mowing the lawn and trimming with the new weed whip I just bought
In fact, 3 weekends ago on a beautiful sunny Saturday, with weather perfect for almost any outdoor activity, I was stuck using the same offending chainsaw to cut 62 wood slices for centerpieces for my upcoming wedding, as requested by my lovely (in case she is reading this) fiancé. Of course, once the slices were cut they needed to have a finish brushed on both sides. Before I knew it the beautiful day was over with no fish caught or shots fired. It was depressing.
Please do dedicate a podcast to spreading this sort of wisdom to us folks who don't know what we are getting ourselves into. Make it quick, too! My time is limited before the big day! I'll have plenty of time to listen to it when I'm mowing the lawn and trimming with the new weed whip I just bought
That's good stuff right there, Randy! You are spot on about the chainsaw. It is nothing but trouble.
In fact, 3 weekends ago on a beautiful sunny Saturday, with weather perfect for almost any outdoor activity, I was stuck using the same offending chainsaw to cut 62 wood slices for centerpieces for my upcoming wedding, as requested by my lovely (in case she is reading this) fiancé. Of course, once the slices were cut they needed to have a finish brushed on both sides. Before I knew it the beautiful day was over with no fish caught or shots fired. It was depressing.
Please do dedicate a podcast to spreading this sort of wisdom to us folks who don't know what we are getting ourselves into. Make it quick, too! My time is limited before the big day! I'll have plenty of time to listen to it when I'm mowing the lawn and trimming with the new weed whip I just bought
Oh gawd, take it back, give it away, do something to rid yourself of that scourge. Weed whackers, what anti-hunter invented that device?
I was in Home Depot buying some propane to boil a bear skull and I saw some guys looking over the new Weed Eaters being promoted. It took me fifteen minutes to educate them of the error in their thinking. The Home Depot clerks are often underemployable, so they did not pick up on how my gospel was not good for their weed whipper sales. The one young guy with the orange apron was convinced, and told the two fellas, "Hey, the guy has a hunting TV show, so he must know what he's talkin' about." They decided against partaking in such blasphemy, even with the instant rebate code. I felt really good about the missionary work of that day.
As we left, discussing many topics of marriage and wisdom born of experience, I pointed them over to the Sportsman's Warehouse across the street. Told them that all they need for good family time could be acquired right there. That a can of worms and some bobbers were a lot cheaper than a weed whacker. I handed them a set of DVDs and watched them smoke tires over to SW. I gave them Lawnboy's phone number in the event their wives still needed their grass manicured.
Weed whackers; a pestilence to human progress. God's way of reminding us to be good "family men" or on some fine June morning, while our buddies are thumping walleyes, we could be stuck on the business end of one of those whining contraptions.
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Randy, You sure hit the nail on the head. My father in law takes pride in being a handy do-it-yourselfer. Consequently he has a yard full of broken down cars in a state of disrepair, a couple three Chainsaws, a pile of firewood rounds and has not been Elk hunting or Fishing the entire time I've been married to his daughter. And he lives in the county with the largest percentage acreage of wilderness area in the State of Idaho.
Nameless Range
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There, I fixed it.
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I'm failing miserably at curtailing this vile habit.
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I revisited this website today after seeing a couple years ago. I really enjoyed the OYOH shows and checked out the website back then. I have to say, I LMAO at the BIG FIN replies on this thread and really began questioning my handyman accomplishments. WTH have a been doing, I did hire my lawn mowing out this spring so that's a good start, and that AZ elk tag I drew this year....well I'm going big time, and balls to the walls until the last hour of the hunt. I might even stay a few days after and scout for the next time I draw it- 20 years from now. Thanks BIG FIN I',m a BIG FAN!
I revisited this website today after seeing a couple years ago. I really enjoyed the OYOH shows and checked out the website back then. I have to say, I LMAO at the BIG FIN replies on this thread and really began questioning my handyman accomplishments. WTH have a been doing, I did hire my lawn mowing out this spring so that's a good start, and that AZ elk tag I drew this year....well I'm going big time, and balls to the walls until the last hour of the hunt. I might even stay a few days after and scout for the next time I draw it- 20 years from now. Thanks BIG FIN I',m a BIG FAN!
RobG
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In college I could pull the engine from my Nova on Friday and have it fixed and back in by Sunday. Today I need bandaids after changing spark plugs. I was brilliant to marry a women who is an entomologist and hunts and fishes. But after we got married I watch the kids when she hunts and fishes (to be fair she does the same for me). She also quickly forgot how to tie flies. Worse than being dumb enough to own a weedwhacker is being dumb enough to form your own company. Now I don't have time to hunt or fish and vacations cost thousands of dollars. Overall it is a good life though.
Nameless Range
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I think Fin is certainly on to something with power tools and lawn care. On those he is a visionary. But when it comes to chainsaws and cutting your own wood I feel he may be missing something.
In my house, wood cutting in September occurs on weeknights after work, and never on the weekend. Weekends are for hunting deer and elk. My wife has no idea how long it takes to cut and load a cord in the back of my truck. In reality, it is an hour and a half job.
Say I get off work at 4 and head straight for the hills. By 6 or 6:30 the work is done. But if one arrives home at 8:30 or 9:00, dirty and tired with a truck full of wood, the wife will approve and think nothing of it. Which leaves a couple hours every evening for grouse hunting. As a general rule, your chainsaw should never leave your home without its companion: your shotgun.
Or, if you really want to maximize your time. On Monday go and fell a dozen trees and buck 'em. Get enough for four or five truck loads and leave them in the woods. Then, every night for the rest of the week, you can have your truck loaded in 20 minutes, which leaves the rest of every evening for slaying grouse.
Most of the grouse I have killed have been killed on firewood evenings. I really don't know how else to hunt grouse, because when it comes to the weekends or big trips in September, I'm taking my bow over my shotgun every time.
In my house, wood cutting in September occurs on weeknights after work, and never on the weekend. Weekends are for hunting deer and elk. My wife has no idea how long it takes to cut and load a cord in the back of my truck. In reality, it is an hour and a half job.
Say I get off work at 4 and head straight for the hills. By 6 or 6:30 the work is done. But if one arrives home at 8:30 or 9:00, dirty and tired with a truck full of wood, the wife will approve and think nothing of it. Which leaves a couple hours every evening for grouse hunting. As a general rule, your chainsaw should never leave your home without its companion: your shotgun.
Or, if you really want to maximize your time. On Monday go and fell a dozen trees and buck 'em. Get enough for four or five truck loads and leave them in the woods. Then, every night for the rest of the week, you can have your truck loaded in 20 minutes, which leaves the rest of every evening for slaying grouse.
Most of the grouse I have killed have been killed on firewood evenings. I really don't know how else to hunt grouse, because when it comes to the weekends or big trips in September, I'm taking my bow over my shotgun every time.
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