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  1. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    got a call last eve from a buyer, i won the bid on a 120 acre plot of walnuts and white oaks! woo hoo! 75 cents a BF on an estimated 115,000 BF scheduled for harvest begining the week after thanksgiving. looking to be a very good year, already set up for 180,000 BF between three other jobs, not...
  2. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    had a 96 international straight truck, did the same thing. turned out to be the ignition module in the computer. but the international dealer was chasing it down for over a week. said it could have been about 5 different things, one of the things i can remember that they said was is the wireing...
  3. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    i guess i should put for the reccord, i didn't take it out of his pay, i did threaten it a bunch, i was PO'ed and still am. loosing his job was payment enough. i guess my whole point in it was to make him realize the severity of what happened... since last year he has been after me to give him...
  4. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    gee ya caught me there.... i only have an LLC, carry insurance, hold an account with the occupational health clinic down the road, train my employee's and pay for them to have qualified and certified training and have two first responders on the payroll for my own amusement.... furthermore...
  5. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    sounds like you talk from experiance!?.... i take it you run AA's Cali operation? do they regulate your lawn mower emmisions out there? have you switched to electric chainsaws yet?:popcorn::msp_rolleyes:
  6. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    that is the last thing i want or need, but at the same time neglagence needs to be delt with. If there is a legal way to take it from his last two checks, believe me, i will. And thanks for the heads up!
  7. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    talked to my morons this morning, the guy that cut the maple didnt like the fact he was getting a week off and paying for the damages and tried to ague with me about it that was the iceing on the cake, i grabbed him up by the collar and showed him the door to the shop for the last time. Kinda...
  8. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    pics of the boys screw up on the maple last week..... look at the stumpage pic, its pathetic
  9. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    well.... That may be do to the fact that i have commenced to drinking heavily and that my insurance adjuster wont be there till tomorrow to let me know how much im getting sqeezed for. I have went almost two years without one single insurance claim and the company reccord is flawless. Maybe im...
  10. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    from what i was told he wasnt really paying attention and half arsing it, didnt have any wedges in the tree and cut thru the hinge, tree pinched the bar and it was all over with. The top ran into some pines and sofend the blow but the boat may have some structural damage. The barn roof is dented...
  11. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    sent two of the guys out on a farely easy job to take down two maples my amish buyer had bought. Got a call about an hour in to it from them that they dropped one of them on the HO's barn and lake michigan boat..... After my blood pressure came down from stroke stage i went over and took a look...
  12. stihl.logger

    ethical question of sorts...

    i was approached by one of my log buyers today stating that he resigned from his job do to personal conflicts with his boss (wich i knew about and am ok with ) and wanted a job working for me on the falling crew here are my concerns: he is 58 years old (im not doging him or anyone else...
  13. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    ahh, epa is non exsistant around here,and if they ever gave me a ticket i'd put it in the stacks and smoke it! lol. i'll try and get some more pics thats just a lil puff compared to when i'm draggin it.
  14. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    dropped the biggest poplar tree i've ever seen today, 42" in dia. at the base.... to bad it looked like the keebler elves set up shop in it. only ended up bucking four logs outa the whole tree..... the last pic is of my truck, i finally got some one to take a pic of me puffin a lil smoke...
  15. stihl.logger

    Cutting a Tree That Will Lodge

    in hindsight to all this arguing, i should have just told the guy to hook a chain from the tree to his 1/2 ton 2wd chevy, have his buddy drive and when he cuts it 3/4 of the way thru yell at his buddy to give r hell..... just a thought....
  16. stihl.logger

    Cutting a Tree That Will Lodge

    easy there kid, i'm a midwestern boy and i am not so cocky! i'm not condoning anyones tactics but there is more than one way to skin a cat (or fall a tree) i would tend to agree that i wouldnt choose a sloping back cut. regardless i'm not cocky...... did i say i'm not...
  17. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    i went out this wekend and passed up 3 does and a lil basket 8. havent been out at all this week tho, been slammed with firewood calls. hopefully when i get back from salmon fishing. talked to my neighbor tonight and he said he saw "my" 160 class buck out in his back yard again pickin apples off...
  18. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    ha! true, but if it were me i'd have to for some break up, the one twig between my legs just aint gonna cut it!:yoyo:
  19. stihl.logger

    whadja do today?

    better getcha some realtree boxers from Cabella's Rope!
  20. stihl.logger

    Cutting a Tree That Will Lodge

    aside from the umpteen different cuts you can put on a tree.... we all have had hangers but i'm sure if we were to look back on it there was a way around it. read the tree, be the tree. plus if your not planning on taking out any other trees, no sense in damaging them or makin a widowmaker 80...
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