Time to take the Tree Down

[Rick]

How about using these guys. You can get them at Lowes or Home Depot.

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[COWBOYSURVIVAL]

I have sunk quite a few in ponds seeking to catch Black Crappie...That all ended when I caught the world record and put it on the wall.....any takers? It is still hangin' right here......18 1/2" measure yours......

[hunter63]

I have sunk quite a few in ponds seeking to catch Black Crappie...That all ended when I caught the world record and put it on the wall.....any takers? It is still hangin' right here......18 1/2" measure yours......

Lights?....Yeah thats the ticket, shock those babies......

[COWBOYSURVIVAL]

Lights?....Yeah thats the ticket, shock those babies......

No lights...just a medium minnow and a cork.

[crashdive123]

So ----- I guess the arduous task of taking down the tree took it's toll on you. Now you want to go fishing.

[COWBOYSURVIVAL]

I got the half of the tree that remained outside hauled off...then got side tracked grilling ribs and making a rocket stove....maybe tomorrow.

[Rick]

Why am I getting the feeling that the next episode of Ax Men is going to be filmed INSIDE CS's house?

[mouse111111]

CS you got me beat. I have a white crappie on the wall thats 16 inches.

[hunter63]

Yes, but mine sings.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WC6EbRQmJ0

[JPGreco]

I wouldn't go buy some crappy plastic hanger for lights. Buy fat dowel and just notch the end of it. Slip the cord by the plug in the notch and start wrapping.

[Winnie]

Speaking of putting away Christmas stuff, does anyone have a good way of storing Christmas lights? I hate how every year, I drag them out and they are a mess and snag on its own bulbs.

I wrap mine around a piece of stiff card. Keeps them knot free AND you can test them before they go on the tree, easier to find the offending dud.

[Winnie]

To answer the OP I have an Artificial tree these days. A very expensive trip to the vet for the removal of a Pine Needle from Bobcat tipped the balance.

[Rick]

(sniff) He called my plastic hanger crappy. (wipes tear)

[crashdive123]

Fear not Rick. He really meant crappie. He was thinking of the fish CS caught.

[Aurelius95]

I wrap the lights around a flattened cardboard box. I believe it was the box to my son's Christmas present a few years ago. I can get several strands around it, and it packs nicely.

[hunter63]

I just throw mine in a box, why spoil the fun?

Funny thing, after 30+ years of making wire rope, if there is one thing I do know how to do well, is untangle things....LOl, lights are childs play.......

[Rick]

Ah for the good old days when lights were wired in series. Nope, not that one. Not that one. Uh uh. Nope. Dang it! Which one of these are out? God help you if two were bad.

[Beans]

Spend Christmas with the kids. It's their problem.

How right your are! Did it again this year, again.

[hunter63]

Ah for the good old days when lights were wired in series. Nope, not that one. Not that one. Uh uh. Nope. Dang it! Which one of these are out? God help you if two were bad.

Here's one for ya......white plastic tree for the yard, light spiral around from bottom to top, inside a plastic hose.......one spot in the middle are about 12 lights out, lights lite above, and below.....just trying to pi$$ me off....nope not gonna bite, not gonna bite....gonna stay this way till DW says something then will disappear off the face of the earth.....

[Rick]

My wife brought some goofy thing home that was a "Christmas tree". Spiraled wire with lights that were supposed to follow the wire but did a much better job of following gravity.

"What the heck is that?"
"It's a Christmas tree."
"Really. Someone forgot to water it. All the needles fell off."
"You're not funny."

I stop when I get that response. I'm not as stupid as I look.