whadja do today?

[2treeornot2tree]

Glad your ok Danno, what was the height of that crane? Good job. I've been working so much with cranes lately, it's a weird feeling when we don't have one at a job site now!

The crane has 90' of stick, plus a jib, but he doesnt have it on the crane right now.

 

[treeclimber101]

Dude are you running a 352 or 372 grinder and what's the hp?

It's a 352 , 35 hp just replaced it last summer at the tune of 7500.00 !

 

[deevo]

Broke my left index finger yesterday doing storm cleanup on an oak. I was set up in the road but there was lots of Amish buggy traffic and we had to keep throttling the chipper back because it was scaring the horses. We decided to move into the yard to get the rest. Couldn't reach a couple 3 ft. stubs I'd left from the lift so I climbed out to whack them. Cut the top one with my hand on the lower one. Stupid. Pretty clean break I guess 'cause there's not a lot of pain. Just that bone grinding against bone feeling. Lots of work booked. This isn't going to be good.
Phil

Hope it heals fast for you Phil

 

[deevo]

The crane has 90' of stick, plus a jib, but he doesnt have it on the crane right now.

Cool, yeah never had to add the jib on any jobs we have done either.

 

[jefflovstrom]

It is very nice here today. 15 degree cool down.
Jeff :msp_biggrin:

 

[tree MDS]

It is very nice here today. 15 degree cool down.
Jeff :msp_biggrin:

Did you go out and ride your bicycle, Jeffrey??

 

[jefflovstrom]

Did you go out and ride your bicycle, Jeffrey??

Daddy took my training wheels off!!! Whoooooooooo
Jeff

 

[tree MDS]

Daddy took my training wheels off!!! Whoooooooooo
Jeff

Lol.. Good one!!

 

[treeclimber101]

I went out this morning on my way to see my buddies team play a game stopped and did a estimate got 3 good days outta one stop , I don't know what it is but something seems to have broken around here !

 

[treeclimber101]

this is mine Matt , notice the bent exhaust pipe that happened when I had that little roll over incident that almost gave me a dirt nap , that machine and I have had a love /hate relationship mostly hate on my end , but it's a tough little machine and runs like a beast now , I run full synthetics in this new engine after reading the manual that engine always called for 5w30 not to bad looking for a 7 year old machine I was thinking about painting it this winter ! Sike I am lying LOl

 

[mattfr12]

this is mine Matt , notice the bent exhaust pipe that happened when I had that little roll over incident that almost gave me a dirt nap , that machine and I have had a love /hate relationship mostly hate on my end , but it's a tough little machine and runs like a beast now , I run full synthetics in this new engine after reading the manual that engine always called for 5w30 not to bad looking for a 7 year old machine I was thinking about painting it this winter ! Sike I am lying LOl

I had one a few years ago when they wouldn't fix the motor mounts under warranty. So I opted to sell it but the stumps I did grind out with it the thing did good. Think the mounts started crapping out around 500 hours. I was just pissed because I still think it should have been covered, Not really a wear and year item.

How did you manage to roll it. I'm always afraid of this due to some of the crazy places we got to go. I would hate to see my insurance hike after totaling a grinder. Lost a chipper two years ago when a lady decided to t- bone it. Tore my class 5 hitch halfway off the truck. It went completely on its side.

 

[sgreanbeans]

One of my guys flipped one of those on its side. He had taken the extra tires off to get thru a gate, then didnt put them back on and tried to turn on a hill, kid was a good operator, brain farted that day, in a bad way. Luckily the HO was totally cool and helped us set the thing back up, we let it sit for a while, pulled the plugs, cleaned out the cylinders, put em back, started right up and we ground the stump! Just grateful it didn't flip onto him,

Had 1 and half showings of the equipment. First guy showed, wants it, going to bank today. Second guy called, didn't get finished at the bank? So he didn't come,I didn't get what he meant so I asked, he said "no, I will be coming up there WITH the check, I want everything, I'm serous, I want it" ......... we will see. Told them both, first with the money is first with the gear.
Would rather sell to the kid that didn't show, as he wants everything, all trucks too. Kid sound like I did 20 years ago, kinda laughed at the the thought of me wondering whether he could get the loan our not. "I got it, no problem,LOL, banker just wanted me to come look in person first, I don't need too, as long as everything works as you say, I don't want to drive all the way up there and not be able to pay for it right there and then"
Sounds good to me!
Guys that did show, seemed like good kids, farmer kids, wanting to get in, so I gave them the "Way of the Jedi" speech. Told them that I would help them whether they buy it or not. If they are Newbs, want them doing things right from the get go.

Worked all day on the stuff, why is it that when you get ready to sell something, THAT'S when you make it all purty and stuff!

 

[deevo]

Got the go ahead to remove the rest of the red oak from on top of the tractor from the insurance job we did last week. It's another company the neighbour was dealing with and gave us the job. It's looking like another good week! Lot's of big $ jobs lined up. Supposed to rain but who cares!

 

[treeclimber101]

When mine rolled I was walking it down a steep grade , it either blew a tire firdt or during , cause I had no warning it just fell towards me , I hit the key and shut it down ! It rolled 2 full times and lodged itself against a tree , we uprighjted it let it sit for almost an hour and it fired right back up. I was completely terrified cause the tree it wedged itself against almost pinned me in thjere with it . It would have crushed me for sure !

 

[mattfr12]

When mine rolled I was walking it down a steep grade , it either blew a tire firdt or during , cause I had no warning it just fell towards me , I hit the key and shut it down ! It rolled 2 full times and lodged itself against a tree , we uprighjted it let it sit for almost an hour and it fired right back up. I was completely terrified cause the tree it wedged itself against almost pinned me in thjere with it . It would have crushed me for sure !

thats pretty wild. dont even wanna think about it because we try and drive ours in some scary places. only thing ive ever did a few barell rolls in was a skid steer. It was a smaller case and was carring heavy wood. i couldnt back up the hill or it stood nose up so i had to drive up it and one of the effin versatech junk forks finally bent enough to fall off. so log comes off skid steer did a neat 2 rolls with me in it. i think i pee'd my pants. needed a few stitches in the old head but all was good. skid steer is still kicking and has probably been flipped a few more times by the people we sold it to. a really unbalanced machine compared to the bobcats we use now.

 

[treeclimber101]

thats pretty wild. dont even wanna think about it because we try and drive ours in some scary places. only thing ive ever did a few barell rolls in was a skid steer. It was a smaller case and was carring heavy wood. i couldnt back up the hill or it stood nose up so i had to drive up it and one of the effin versatech junk forks finally bent enough to fall off. so log comes off skid steer did a neat 2 rolls with me in it. i think i pee'd my pants. needed a few stitches in the old head but all was good. skid steer is still kicking and has probably been flipped a few more times by the people we sold it to. a really unbalanced machine compared to the bobcats we use now.

There was a guy about 10years ago that drowned In a bobcat , he was putting big boulders around a pond and the machine fell on its face in about 3 ft of water and he was trapped in it for a while , his wife went to look for him out back later In the day and found him , he was a older fellow , but what a awful way to go ! Guy couldn't get the door open because the arm was up and I guess he couldn't get the front or back window out either , scary , 2 years ago we were snow plowing and we rented a T 300 bobcat and half way through the night the turbo went the engine ran away and was puffing coal like a locomotive , the guy shut off the key and couldn't get the arms back down enough to open the door. And basically almost suffocated inside the machine when it filled up with heavy white smoke , we basically tore the door off the hinge to get him out !

 

[tree md]

Nearly rolled mine off the trailer today... Heading to the job this morning and a 77 year old lady ran a red light and tried to turn into the casino right in front of me.... No stopping an f250 with a 16' trailer and stump grinder. T-boned her. She was at fault. Thankfully she was insured. My truck will probably be totalled. Jackknifed my trailer trying to swerve and miss her. Bent my tongue and jack stand on my trailer. Jack is shot on the trailer. Oh well, her insurance company is paying for rental on a new 3/4 ton while I have mine either fixed or replaced... Needless to say, I didn't make it to the job today. Homeowner was cool about it. I'll get it in the morning.

 

[treeclimber101]

Nearly rolled mine off the trailer today... Heading to the job this morning and a 77 year old lady ran a red light and tried to turn into the casino right in front of me.... No stopping an f250 with a 16' trailer and stump grinder. T-boned her. She was at fault. Thankfully she was insured. My truck will probably be totalled. Jackknifed my trailer trying to swerve and miss her. Bent my tongue and jack stand on my trailer. Jack is shot on the trailer. Oh well, her insurance company is paying for rental on a new 3/4 ton while I have mine either fixed or replaced... Needless to say, I didn't make it to the job today. Homeowner was cool about it. I'll get it in the morning.

Wow man , as long as your ok , the truck can be replaced or fixed , believe me I have sent a few to the junkyard in epic fashion , sucks though was it the new one ya just bought ?

 

[tree md]

Yeah, it was my new truck. Really sucks! Had it taken to my mechanic's salvage yard. He's pretty good. I'm sure he'll be able to fix it for less than the book value. Kind of crazy, he called me right after the accident, while I was waiting on the cops, to talk to me about some storm damage at one of his rental homes. Told him my truck was on it's way into him.

Knocked the crap out of the lady's Mustang... Knocked her 100' down the road. She was still in the hospital as of an hour ago... And the accident happened around 9 am. She seemed OK when she left in the ambulance... A few small cuts and a little disoriented... Hope she is going to be OK...

 

[treeclimber101]

Yeah, it was my new truck. Really sucks! Had it taken to my mechanic's salvage yard. He's pretty good. I'm sure he'll be able to fix it for less than the book value. Kind of crazy, he called me right after the accident, while I was waiting on the cops, to talk to me about some storm damage at one of his rental homes. Told him my truck was on it's way into him.

Knocked the crap out of the lady's Mustang... Knocked her 100' down the road. She was still in the hospital as of an hour ago... And the accident happened around 9 am. She seemed OK when she left in the ambulance... A few small cuts and a little disoriented... Hope she is going to be OK...

Yea that was rude of me not to remember that there was another car involved , hope she is ok !