whadja do today?

[Bigus Termitius]

Good stuff, you should PM me her name, see if I remember her from 98.9, its a religious channel now. I have several buds in the business. See if she remembers Dwyer and Micheals, or Bill Stage. Stager was next door for 5 years. I need to get on there as well, just need to site down and do it. Ya got me motivated to do it, need to call them and get it going. I want to run TV commercials as well, had that all set up, but then the motors blew and that stopped all that I had planned this year. Had hoped to get JPS down here to edumacate us, all they money I had sacked away for such a thing was eatin up by dealerships, gonna try again next year, ya should roll down and join us. I has biga ayard, wit lots a big arse trees that we can screw around in. Gonna get Pat Miletich to be the voice for me on the commercials! "HIRE SCOTT, OR ILL KICK YOUR......."

LOL...small world isn't it. About three years or so ago, my wife talked with Dwyer and Micheals, they wanted her to move back up and do afternoons. Bill and she were like best friends in college, but she never finished when the option to do a morning show in the champaign market came calling. She used to use on air names alot to give her some security. She went by Joni Mitchell, like the canadian folk music singer, while at 98.9, we heard that it switched formats a couple of years ago.

All sounds like good times, we'll have to do that one of these days.

 

[treemandan]

Oh Jeez! He was balanced on his ballsack in the last video.

I have to say " good for anybody who gets up there" though. Ya know, that " doing what you want to do... no freaking matter what... I mean NO FREAKING MATTER WHAT" mentality we all seem to have. To see that old buzzert up there, well, Hell, I dunno, it sure is something to think about.


BTW. Who is The Beaner anyway?


Reg, where is your family? And MAN ! you got to be in shape. How many trees a day? Sure looked neat and well stacked. TGFA200

 

[treemandan]

http://www.arboristsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=165007&d=1266620885 THERE IS ONE FROM LAST WINTER AFTER THE SNOW http://www.arboristsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=165056&d=1267393594 tHIS ONE WAS TAKEN 13 YEARS AGO ... ON A ROAD WIDENING JOB AND http://www.arboristsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=165055&d=1267393054IN THIS ONE YOU CAN SEE THE ### OF THE 1800 IT WAS BRAND NEW THEN , THATS THE SAME TREE 5 HOURS LATER ... SO THERE DAVE NOW WHAT ?

Can we get this guy a V ?:msp_unsure:

 

[treemandan]

Who is in The D I C K Clique?

 

[ropensaddle]

http://www.arboristsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=165007&d=1266620885 THERE IS ONE FROM LAST WINTER AFTER THE SNOW http://www.arboristsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=165056&d=1267393594 tHIS ONE WAS TAKEN 13 YEARS AGO ... ON A ROAD WIDENING JOB AND http://www.arboristsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=165055&d=1267393054IN THIS ONE YOU CAN SEE THE ### OF THE 1800 IT WAS BRAND NEW THEN , THATS THE SAME TREE 5 HOURS LATER ... SO THERE DAVE NOW WHAT ?

When did Asplundh start doing stumps

 

[treeclimber101]

When did Asplundh start doing stumps

Really they are cutting stumps all the time around here .. Must be a Jersey thing ..

 

[tree MDS]

Did a quick ash takedown this am. A competitor wanted $900 for the job, said he was planning to set his bucket up in the yard like 25' from the tree. I don't know what kind of truck this guy has, but I doubt he would have had a prayer, even with an 80' rear mount elevator truck. guy has been at it a long time too. Strange, unless maybe the custy meant crane, not bucket (didn't think they had one). I did it for $600 and was done climbing in a going easy hour and 15 mins, two hours total. not bad. winter's coming, it all adds up.

I was remembering the days when I started, and I used to bust my ass all day by the hour for $600.

 

[tree MDS]

Who is in The D I C K Clique?

AA and FTA?

 

[tree MDS]

You got buddy enough said , lets just focus on work ...

Yeah, good idea.. that was a girl fight anyway! lol. pass the tissues.. hahaha.

 

[superjunior]

got rained out today. had the guys do an oil change and change the knives on the chipper, check the fluids on the trucks, that sort of thing. had a little safety meeting then I went out and did a few estimates. gotta make the most out of a rain day

 

[treevet]

Yeah, good idea.. that was a girl fight anyway! lol. pass the tissues.. hahaha.

least there wasn't any of that "geeze I am sowwy Mr. Sanborn....I was so dwunk I just have no idea what I was sayin, pweeze fowgives me" :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[tree MDS]

least there wasn't any of that "geeze I am sowwy Mr. Sanborn....I was so dwunk I just have no idea what I was sayin, pweeze fowgives me" :hmm3grin2orange:

That's awesome dave..

It really wasn't all that heartfelt though, trust me! lol..

 

[tree MDS]

least there wasn't any of that "geeze I am sowwy Mr. Sanborn....I was so dwunk I just have no idea what I was sayin, pweeze fowgives me" :hmm3grin2orange:

Was a lot more hetero than you and 101 GAYING up on each other back there! :laugh

Seemed like you two were courting each other more than fighting! lol!!!

 

[treeclimber101]

Was a lot more hetero than you and 101 GAYING up on each other back there! :laugh

Seemed like you two were courting each other more than fighting! lol!!!

Really your gonna bash me for gaying the place up , you have bashed and apologized too just about everyone here at least once ... So just stop ..... If ya can't drink and type than just drink ... wait til you can see what your typing then return ..... Long pauses and misspelled words are GAY ...

 

[Mike Cantolina]

I rented a 50 ft tow behind lift for the first time. It wasn't much for reach but it got the job done. A broken up boxelder over house, lines & road.

 

[flushcut]

I rented a 50 ft tow behind lift for the first time. It wasn't much for reach but it got the job done. A broken up boxelder over house, lines & road.

Yeah those tow behinds are "ok" and just ok, but you really need to pay attention to you placement to get the most out of them.

 

[mr. holden wood]

Dave I’m not looking for a medal, or even a bj....just that when you pass comment on my stuff you at least take on board the various considerations as I explained to you thereafter.

Same as the wraptor, for the third time....would love to have one but not on a job like this. Its setting the line where lies the difficulty, not the tool itself i.e. by the time and if you even managed to get your rope secured to an appropriate high-point I would’ve already had the tree half skinned by that point....and that’s just the douglas firs. All the WRcedars, even some of the grands here take a decurrant form....take my word for it, or I’d otherwise be using srt access. Absolutely no place for Cranes, buckets or wraptors....its back to basics boy....skill, aptitude and stamina is king. Cheers

I'd be halfway up the tree by the time TV got the wraptor fueled up. Shooting lines is a major pita in excurrent trees. Western reds and some firs have downward sloping branches and are so thick you have no idea what your tip is. Half the time you get so tired of shooting lines you just head up only to find out you got lucky it held ya. No point in risking that on a removal.
First job today was a crane removal in the rain. The Co wanted everything set with double chockers even though it was all balance point, dont know if thats standard op but was annoying at times.
Got back to the shop and gave my two week notice, it was tougher then dumping a chick. Boss said that's to bad he had planed on giving me 5k for a christmas bonus. On my drive home he called me back and said if I stay or move on he would give it to me regardless, I got nothing but respect for the guy.

 

[BlackOakTreeServ]

Did a cedar removal today and boy was it a leaner!

Trimmed big sycamore and fruitless mulberry.

Fun day, everything went soo smooth and cooler weather...me like

 

[deevo]

I'd be halfway up the tree by the time TV got the wraptor fueled up. Shooting lines is a major pita in excurrent trees. Western reds and some firs have downward sloping branches and are so thick you have no idea what your tip is. Half the time you get so tired of shooting lines you just head up only to find out you got lucky it held ya. No point in risking that on a removal.
First job today was a crane removal in the rain. The Co wanted everything set with double chockers even though it was all balance point, dont know if thats standard op but was annoying at times.
Got back to the shop and gave my two week notice, it was tougher then dumping a chick. Boss said that's to bad he had planed on giving me 5k for a christmas bonus. On my drive home he called me back and said if I stay or move on he would give it to me regardless, I got nothing but respect for the guy.

Where ya going?

 

[Reg]

Lol I remember a time, lets see, yeah mid thirties oh heck in the pnw temps I could still fly

I do have a question though on those tops are you using anything to guaranty they go planned direction besides looking at foliage? The reason I ask is a large top way back in my early days almost retired me and I learned to either pull them all or at bare minimum use my wedges and hand sledge. A gust of wind hit and the top went backwards and twisted 360 I barely had time to get out of the way and still took a good scrape on one leg!

I just push like hell.

I have a bunch of small wedges like yourself. So much noise and activity on those site's that trying to get someones attention is a challenge in itself....so I'd ask for a pull-line only if it was really necessary. Thanks for the word of caution though.

Danno, the majority are in Ireland....then England, and some others spread out in the US and Austrailia....the closest two are obviously here with me. I wasn't really keeping count on the numbers but no let-up till the the finish you know.