Thread: whadja do today?

The last couple days we've been working next door to the same place as this other tree service. I had never met the owner before, our best guess is he's in his mid seventies.. and still climbs "if he has to". I think he does all his cutting personally. What an awesome guy.. I must have talked with him for an hour and a half today. Same old tree dog sense of humor! He said he started his business in 1961.

He was out there by himself today, filling a pickup dump insert with rakings. Says he's gonna probably get a crane to lift the tree in the back off the house. Sick old bastard!!

Originally Posted by tree MDS

The last couple days we've been working next door to the same place as this other tree service. I had never met the owner before, our best guess is he's in his mid seventies.. and still climbs "if he has to". I think he does all his cutting personally. What an awesome guy.. I must have talked with him for an hour and a half today. Same old tree dog sense of humor! He said he started his business in 1961.

He was out there by himself today, filling a pickup dump insert with rakings. Says he's gonna probably get a crane to lift the tree in the back off the house. Sick old bastard!!

Sound's like a rough life;
Jeff

I went fishing Friday night when we left it was like glass , an hour later we could barely get the boat back into the slip I mean nasty , when I got home I could tell that it had gotten nasty for a bit , I worked all day yesterday cleaning up and worked this morning so I can start on schedule tomorrow I am likin a quick 2500 when I would be just pulling my pud around the house anyway ..

Originally Posted by jefflovstrom

Sound's like a rough life;
Jeff

Actually, the guy seemed happy as could be, and was in some incedible shape!! Sharp old bastard too! Nothing about him seemed like he had had a particulary hard life. Of course, he did have to put down the booze, at some point, so I'm sure that helped considerably!

He has a sweet 1890. Me and a buddy were watching him work on it, looked like the drum got jammed, or something. After he finished crawing around in there freeing it up, and I was listening to him bumping the clutch on that big dog in, I was saying "wow, look at the old treedog, same as any of us, taking care of his babies". I just thought it was really cool, for whatever reason. Oh, and he was talking about doing all the hairy trees for the utility companies... back in the 50's!!

Originally Posted by tree MDS

Actually, the guy seemed happy as could be, and was in some incedible shape!! Sharp old bastard too! Nothing about him seemed like he had had a particulary hard life. Of course, he did have to put down the booze, at some point, so I'm sure that helped considerably!

He has a sweet 1890. Me and a buddy were watching him work on it, looked like the drum got jammed, or something. After he finished crawing around in there freeing it up, and I was listening to him bumping the clutch on that big dog in, I was saying "wow, look at the old treedog, same as any of us, taking care of his babies". I just thought it was really cool, for whatever reason. Oh, and he was talking about doing all the hairy trees for the utility companies... back in the 50's!!

Sound's like the kind of guy one would write a biography on. Why not you?
Jeff

Originally Posted by jefflovstrom

Sound's like the kind of guy one would write a biography on. Why not you?
Jeff

Don't be hatin' just cuz I found someone that's been climbing trees since you and vet were in diapers!! Hahaha.

Updates on the rope setting coon.

carefull Matt..

Family Guy - Racoon Wounds - YouTube

Coon got at my turkeys two nights in a row last week. Went from having 12 poults to 5. Bugger set off a couple of smal leg hold traps the other night trying to get at a can of tuna set out as a treat for him, but got away. It's now gotten very personal. War. Sleeping with the window open, and if I hear a squack I go running outside with the .22 and a flashlight, but this guy ain't no dummy. Obviously not his first rodeo.
Apparently the 8' fence is no deterrent at all. Neither is the beagle on the other side of the fence.
Ended up fencing in a roof over top, and now have to lock the birds up inside their max security prison in the evening, and release them to the yard in the morning. Sigh.

Originally Posted by superjunior

carefull Matt..

Family Guy - Racoon Wounds - YouTube

Lol thats some funny stuff. You are never to old to watch family guy.


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Originally Posted by Pelorus

Coon got at my turkeys two nights in a row last week. Went from having 12 poults to 5. Bugger set off a couple of smal leg hold traps the other night trying to get at a can of tuna set out as a treat for him, but got away. It's now gotten very personal. War. Sleeping with the window open, and if I hear a squack I go running outside with the .22 and a flashlight, but this guy ain't no dummy. Obviously not his first rodeo.
Apparently the 8' fence is no deterrent at all. Neither is the beagle on the other side of the fence.
Ended up fencing in a roof over top, and now have to lock the birds up inside their max security prison in the evening, and release them to the yard in the morning. Sigh.

Be careful with your dog a full size coon can sometimes get the upper hand. And it's not pretty they go for the eyes. They have been known to lure them to water and drowned them.


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Dog lives outside year round with a couple of pygmy goats - no kidding. Will post photo of them sometime. The coon (pretty sure it is a coon) yanked out most all the tail feathers on my big tom the night before I finished the roof, so he is one sad lookin' bird right now. The rabbits and my ducks (Indian Runners) haven't been attacked; just the turkeys. Am gonna fix that critter good if I catch him.

Originally Posted by Pelorus

Coon got at my turkeys two nights in a row last week. Went from having 12 poults to 5. Bugger set off a couple of smal leg hold traps the other night trying to get at a can of tuna set out as a treat for him, but got away. It's now gotten very personal. War. Sleeping with the window open, and if I hear a squack I go running outside with the .22 and a flashlight, but this guy ain't no dummy. Obviously not his first rodeo.
Apparently the 8' fence is no deterrent at all. Neither is the beagle on the other side of the fence.
Ended up fencing in a roof over top, and now have to lock the birds up inside their max security prison in the evening, and release them to the yard in the morning. Sigh.

try those havaheart box traps? they work pretty good for me

Originally Posted by ropensaddle

I get depressed many times seeing what ya'all in other states get for the bad ones. My highest bid was done for half of what I bid it for and was 6 foot diameter 120 tall dead pin oak with 20" leads traveling 30' over Victorian roof. I bid it to include crane and or manlift rental as; big limbs had already started failing. Evidently a hubby wife team did it and climbed everything. I don't know if damage or injury occurred but if he limb walked out to the ends of those limbs, he got very lucky. The tree i bid for 4500 was done for 2k and for the life of me I can't see how any money could be made even at my bid. I actually grinned when I heard it was done that cheap lol because i had done several cake jobs that week prolly making twice the profit

We have that here as well. I don't know if I will get it or not, and kinda hope I don't. Those big ones can be a real pain, lots of risk. I know that there is only a couple guys here that could get it down safely, with no damage to the targets. She was told it could only be done with a crane, which in turn told me that she only had novices bid it to that point. Gotta lot of guys who can only get the big ones with a crane, as they have no real under standing of advance rigging. I normally don't EVER do this, but I gave her the name of the other guy that I know could do it as well. Nick will most likely be more than me, but when dealing with a tree like this, if I dont get it, I would like to make sure she gets someone who can handle the job. Would rather see it go to him than a wannabee who will just tear everything up and give the local tree guy population another black eye. He has the top outfit here and his dad was the one who set the standard around here years ago.
I think that those that come in on stuff like this and bid it real low, they just dont realize what they are getting into.

Originally Posted by no tree to big

in situations like that sometimes we will lay out decent size logs just inside our cones only had one idiot hit the logs so far, dude was pissed about his car. then we asked well why did you ignore our cones? I didn't see them!!! I dont think he enjoyed the talking to from the cop either pretty sure he got a few tickets too.

my most memorable time some one went through our cones was just a few months ago we had to shut down basically the busiest road in town so we had a few cops out directing traffic in addition to the cones/signs. the cop had his car across the road blocking the lanes some moron went around him while he was flagging, around the COP CAR, and hit the cones and a sign the cop went nutz

LOL, we had one a long time ago where I had to shut down traffic. We had a cop out there with his lights going, barricades directing traffic, but yet people would just ignore him and the lights. He got sick of it and busted out the whistle, then went into the road and started doing it by hand, STILL people would ignore him, he had enough and went Tackleberry on them, IT WAS AWESOME! He would stop people who would do it and CHEW THEIR A SS! They would leave and he would just look at us and smile.

"EXCUSE ME, ARE YOU BLIND? DID YOU NOT SEE THE BIG BRIGHT LIGHTS ON THE POLICE CAR AND ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD?, DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME? ARE YOU ABOVE THE LAW? DO YOU READ? CAN YOU HEAR? THEN WHAT THE HELL IS THE PROBLEM"