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I am sort of doing the same thing. My ex-wife's brother always admired me, my morals, and my personal drive. His parents never really educated him much, and he fell into the wrong crowd on multiple occasions. Wound up getting hooked on cocaine, and ran out of money. So, another buddy of his...

We have a Stihl 076AV that we run for cutting trunks down low with a 36" bar. Chainsaw is bulletproof. Always starts easy and runs great, and the entire case is metal so no plastic to break. Sure, the saw weighs ~50lbs with a 36" bar, but that's why we only use it for truck cuts! ~Will...

I have had a lot of insignificant injuries (burns, bumps, bruises, cuts, etc...). I actually was climbing on Friday and hurt myself a little. Went to toss my flipline around a North American Pine and it flopped over a limb on the back side I didn't see. Rolled over my hand (which was ready to...

So, we were working the other day and had some problems with our 361. First off, it started giving us the issue of not idling. Once it started, it would run fine as long as the throttle was just above idle. Seemed like it was loading up. Anyway, an employee pulled the spark plug and cross...

Check out the Baileys. They sell a set of teeth called LoPro GreenTeeth that work amazing. Swapped out the teeth on my Vermeer 206 with them about a month ago, and haven't looked back. The teeth are actually replacable cups, which have 3 cutting edges per tooth. You can loosen them with a...

Wow, sounds like they were trying to run you through the ringer! Bought our stump grinder (Vermeer 206, 3-wheeled, self propelled, center/manual pivoting, with 20hp Kohler gas engine) back in January for $2900. It had only 27 hours on it, and honestly looked like new. Was owned by a...

My business partner has told me about this attachment, and it got me looking. We get jobs every once in a blue moon, and I figured this might be a decent option for us. After looking around online, I found that they are incredibly rare. Just don't see them here in the US. I did finally come...

I worked with my business partner on ideas, and just typed out an estimate form on the computer. It is pretty simple, with our contact information (including names/address/phone numbers), date, price, description of work to be completed, and a short checklist at the bottom to inform customer of...

Well, the little man is doing great and should be discharged from the labor and delivery ward today. Yesterday he tested borderline for Jaundis, so he was placed under a UV light yesterday afternoon up until about an hour ago. He was not a happy camper by any stretch of the imagination, which...

I have a T-Mobile Mytouch Slide 4g, and my partner runs a Mytouch Slide 3g (both very capable smart phones). We use them non-stop. We use the GPS feature to find jobs (since we live in an area with 7 different cities in close proximity, there are a lot of different street names and a lot of...

Here's a pic of my son, Joseph Allen Courtier! ~Will Courtier~

I worked from yesterday at 1500 until around 0900 this morning, helping my wife give birth to our first child (Joseph Allen Courtier). We did a natural birth (planned on not doing a spinal block, but were planning on doing a narcotic pain killer). Basically, the times weren't right to get in a...

We went through our local Nationwide agent. They subcontracted it out to Tapco. We were a start-up business, and got our insurance ($1,000,000/$2,000,000) for ~$780 per year. The agent told us that Nationwide refuses to touch anything related to tree work, but Tapco has no issues with it at...

I found a new toy on Craigslist here yesterday, and pulled the trigger today. Hate having spare cash laying around burning a hole in my pocket.... http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/195056.htm It's a pretty damned nice Stihl 076. Paint is near perfect, and fires off on first/second...

OK, you guys talked me into it... Even though I am dead tired, I am too excited to not play with it some. I had to bump up the idle a tiny bit, but it purrs like a kitten now. This thing is a torque monster... I don't know if our 066 is weak, or if this is just a good running 076 but it...

Well, I did wind up picking it up. I figured more than anything it will be a fun toy to play with. The saw has absolutely flawless paint, and a new 36" Stihl bar/chain. It fires off first/second pull every time, and everything works. Nothing is loose or sloppy at all. It looks like it has...

I just found a local 076 up for sale that caught my eye. Looks to be in near perfect cosmetic condition, with a new Stihl 36" bar and chain. The saw supposedly starts and runs perfectly, and is ready to run. I have looked around on eBay, and haven't been able to pinpoint a true value for...

I live about 1.5 hours away from Richmond, in Norfolk, VA. I will say that the winds have been pretty rough the last few days, but nothing unbearable. Gusts have been up around 45mph, with a mostly constant wind speed of 25-35mph. ~Will Courtier~

My business partner always tells a story of climbing a rotten, hollowed out Oak tree that he had to take down. He was mid-cut through the trunk, and suddenly blood and fur splattered all over. Turns out a family of raccoons had made home in the trunk, and were holding out hoping he would...

We finally managed to finish up the large job I talked about earlier this week. Got quite a few pics, and tossed them up on our Facebook page as a reference. That job was a nightmare... In the end, we wound up breaking every piece of equipment (aside from our climbing saws and one ground saw...