First Slab Inspection and Grapple Story

trying to figure out what a what is good slab thickness for a countertop would be so three not more than three i wouldn't think yeah i'd say like go to three and then like you know you can always take it down more if you want to yup now so when you were harvesting wood last year during that massive duratious storm you put your grapple through one of your guys hands so back in 2020 you know the year of crazy years yup um i really got hit by pretty much the land-based category 4 hurricane thunderstorm we had 120 140 mile an hour winds cedar rapids lost 65 of its free canopy so when we're going through and cleaning up wood for people um we were saving you know all the black walnuts history white oak any of those good hardwoods that we could um and in the process of doing so uh we were loading firewood into a grapple bucket and i was actually the one running the skid loader and um i thought his hands were out there so he went right through his hand yep looked like a log was rolling out of the grapple but his hand was in the grapple he was he was holding a log like this in the grapple and it came down on it um i saw what happened open it jumped off the skid loader put my hands around his hand and applied pressure we um to the hospital and it was actually my sister's boyfriend and he's still dating her so uh yeah i always joke with one guy if he gets too handsy he's always got a left hand still got one more you can clamp down on him what i learned off camera from nolan