Have you ever....?????

[stihlboy]

Have you ever been going down the street and saw a crew removing a tree and stopped and showed them a real saw and cut with them?? well i almost did that today but i didn't have my 066 on me at the time.. would you guys have stopped and sawed??

 

[epicklein22]

I worked for a tree co last summer, if you tried that, you would have been in the chipper.

 

[Lakeside53]

na.. They are getting paid...

 

[Bowtie]

No. They would probably tell me to get the hell out of there. Have I wanted to? Yep.Lot of tree services around here use cheaper saws like 290's and echos.

 

[Rookie1]

I dont want anybody telling me how to do my job. Ill be damned if Ill tell someone how to do theirs!:monkey:

 

[blackoak]

I worked for a tree co last summer, if you tried that, you would have been in the chipper.

+1 after shoving his 066 up his rectum.

 

[cpr]

I dont want anybody telling me how to do my job. Ill be damned if Ill tell someone how to do theirs!:monkey:

Exactly. Plus, I work for the family carpentry business. It'd be no different than you rolling up with a screw gun and offering to help hang board. You're not on the payroll and worse, if you get hurt it'll be a legal nightmare with the insurance companies. No offense, nothing personal, but I'd be the first to tell you to take a hike.

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

I dont want anybody telling me how to do my job. Ill be damned if Ill tell someone how to do theirs!:monkey:

:agree2:

 

[sawinredneck]

Oddly enough, they dropped a large Cottonweed across the road from me. They go to stumping it and the home owner was lauging at them. It was 36" on the ground and they were using a 361 with a 25" bar. I just happened to come home around that time. They asked why he was laughing and he pointed at my truck and said "thats why!!"
bowtie gets that joke!!!
Anyway, they came and talked to me, stared in awe (even had to call a few others, supervisors included to see it) my poster of Gerry Beranek in the garage.
Needless to say, they were happy to use my modded 046 with the 32" to make the final stump cut.

 

[blackoak]

Have you ever been going down the street and saw a crew removing a tree and stopped and showed them a real saw and cut with them?? well i almost did that today but i didn't have my 066 on me at the time.. would you guys have stopped and sawed??

Do you actually think you could hang with a tree crew for 10 hours a day busting a$$?? What saws were they running? I'm sure they knew what will get the job done. They are making a living doing it.

 

[BloodOnTheIce]

I dont want anybody telling me how to do my job. Ill be damned if Ill tell someone how to do theirs!:monkey:

It's bad enough that I get "hey young feller, you mind getting someone who knows something?"

"Isn't there someone in back who might be able to help me?"

Basically on a daily basis I have guys over 60 telling me that I'm too young to possibly know anything about their equipment.
And in addition to that, when I give them an answer they don't like, they say "nah there's gotta be another way to do that. go get the boss and he can help me."

 

[ropensaddle]

Have you ever been going down the street and saw a crew removing a tree and stopped and showed them a real saw and cut with them?? well i almost did that today but i didn't have my 066 on me at the time.. would you guys have stopped and sawed??

I would have spanked it with my 372 and left my big gun's
in the stirup sheesh

 

[RAYINTOMBALL]

Yep I have but only if I know the property owner. Right after hurricane Ike my neighbor had a damaged 24" oak to remove and he got a crew to fell it and clean it up. The crew had already fell it when I went by and I stopped to watch them buck it. Get this they had a ms210 with a 16" bar and a chain so dull it hurt me to watch them try to buck that thing. So I whip out my 361 (yes it had already cured a case of cancer that day) with my 20" es bar and a extremely sharp loop of RSC and commenced to buck about 30 feet of it into 17" rounds. Well the crew just stood there smiling with there mouths open:jawdrop: . My neighbor was so pissed at the poor equipment they showed up with he made them haul all the rounds to my house. So for a few minutes of fun work it wound up being a good score. Man after Ike there was some crews running around Houston that had no business doing tree work.

 

[Jacob J.]

Rarely does it ever do any good to try to tell someone while they're on the job how to do that job. Leave that to their bosses and/or company owners. Some tree crews are running crap saws because the owner is too cheap to buy them pro models.

There's a tree service here that actually owns a Husqvarna/Solo/Echo dealership and their groundies are running 455s/20" bars.

 

[GASoline71]

If you would have stopped to tell me about your "real" saw... I would have told you to get bent.

Plus a "real" work crew can't have you sawin' with them... their insurance doesn't cover you if you get your dumb a$$ hurt.

Notice Andy said he let them use his saw...

"Real" crews have "real" saws...

Gary

 

[sawinredneck]

If you would have stopped to tell me about your "real" saw... I would have told you to get bent.

Plus a "real" work crew can't have you sawin' with them... their insurance doesn't cover you if you get your dumb a$$ hurt.

Notice Andy said he let them use his saw...

"Real" crews have "real" saws...

Gary

Indeed, these guys had an 880 in the truck, but nobody wanted to run it!!!!!

 

[blackoak]

Rarely does it ever do any good to try to tell someone while they're on the job how to do that job. Leave that to their bosses and/or company owners. Some tree crews are running crap saws because the owner is too cheap to buy them pro models.

There's a tree service here that actually owns a Husqvarna/Solo/Echo dealership and their groundies are running 455s/20" bars.

Sounds like worthless groundies that don't know how to maintain their equipment. He probably got tired of replacing the 372's that they trashed that he furnished

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

This is 1 stupid question to even post with a bunch of loggers and arborist reading it. Someone may get offended!:deadhorse:

 

[Jacob J.]

Sounds like worthless groundies that don't know how to maintain their equipment. He probably got tired of replacing the 372's that they trashed that he furnished

Nah, the company owner is a cheap bastard. He did a tree job for my mom years ago when I was in high school. I remember watching him yell at a worker until he was purple in the face because the worker cut a limb into three sections instead of two before sending it into the chipper. Even then I realized that time is money, but the twenty minutes he spent screaming at the guy was lost productivity as well. My mom was witness to part of this also, and she stopped the job and paid for the work that had been done up to that point and sent them packing. She hired another tree service to finish the job.

 

[Andyshine77]

I'd never do that, you're just asking to get an a$$ kicking.

After the big windstorm here in OH, I was about to start buck up a large Black Cherry in my yard, when I noticed a tree crew working across the street from me. By the sound of things they were having really hard time cutting up a 20" downed Ash. I went ahead and fired up my ported (and very loud) 372, and buck the whole trunk of the tree up in about five minutes, maybe a little less. When I stopped and turned around I saw the whole crew just standing there in

awe,:jawdrop: watching me work. I just waved to them and went back to work.