Been having a blast the last 2 days. Yesterday we got the crane over to 1 job to finish up from last Tuesday when we got rained out. Took about 2 hrs from the time we pulled in until the time we pulled out to finish 1 norway maple, and get another black birch out for the original job. Went to the next site, backed the crane up the driveway, got leveled out, only took about half my cribbing trailer to do so, whacked out a couple good pieces and had lunch. Spoke with the operator after lunch... what do you want to do for getting home? He wanted to pull the crane apart when the front bumper was 5' off the ground and take it back to the yard. What a moron, pissed me off. They came to get him at 2:00 though because we only had another 6 trees to go, all with really good capacity and a nice area to set stuff down, plus the crane was already set up. Wake up this morning, and it's raining. Not sure where it came from, but it was raining. Crane company says either I work today, or they take the crane. Operator shows up, it's pouring. He broke the crane down alone and left. Normally I just hand the operator a blank check to bring back to the office and they call me with the amount... this time they can send me a bill. Figure it will take a solid 45 min to get the crane set up again when they decide to come back, time that I will be billed for. I'm gonna sit on their money this time... let them wait. They want to bill me for the time it took to break the machine down today. F that. For all I care they can sue me for the damn money.