I found out I have a terminal disease....

[JJuday]

No! I am not dying, just dying to cut wood! I realized some time ago that I had a disease that was even worse than CAD. I have noticed for some time now that as I am driving anywhere I am always looking at trees and formulating the best way that I could fall any particular one and guessing about how many cords it would yield. The State crew took down a nice Sugar Maple yesterday and I made it a point to stop and ask today if I could get it. They were loading it into dump trucks when I arrived and a worker told me that it was being delivered to a place down the road from me! All at once my pulse raced, I got woosey, another missed mother load of good wood! I was ready to run back grab the 084 and just go get it anyway, spoken for or not, but self control got the best of me. Got the Supervisor's name and number and I hope I can get the next call! Ohhhh well, I got a ton to cut already, but I still can't help it.....I'm a sick sick man!!!!

Am I the only one with this horrible, life altering disease???!?!?!?

 

[kevlar]

No!

 

[blsnelling]

FATGUY, Andyshine77 and I were talking about this last night. I'll let FATGUY fill you in on his devious little ideas

 

[smokinj]

No!

+1

 

[boilerhouse47]

JJ trust me, it doesn't get better. You suffer and suffer ........

 

[FATGUY]

Well, we figured if you had a white hardhat and one of those orange and yellow safety vests, a pair of chaps, put a few orange cones out on the road nobody would bat an eye if you were doing a little extracurricular tree harvesting.

 

[blsnelling]

Well, we figured if you had a white hardhat and one of those orange and yellow safety vests, a pair of chaps, put a few orange cones out on the road nobody would bat an eye if you were doing a little extracurricular tree harvesting.

Kind of like a fake city worker. Might as well throw a strobing yellow light on the roof of the truck. You could also use a road sign that says "Slow men at work", lol

 

[FATGUY]

Kind of like a fake city worker. Might as well throw a strobing yellow light on the roof of the truck. You could also use a road sign that says "Slow men at work", lol

trick would be not to get too greedy, never do the same area twice, I like the yellow light, too bad my truck's green.......:monkey:

 

[smilin possum]

Well, we figured if you had a white hardhat and one of those orange and yellow safety vests, a pair of chaps, put a few orange cones out on the road nobody would bat an eye if you were doing a little extracurricular tree harvesting.

FATGUY you have an evil mind! Thanks for the idea. I think we all have this problem with tree searching. I do it to.

 

[Jacob J.]

It was Jerry Beranek that said (and quite accurately)- "Fallers look at a tree and plumb the lean and the best lay. Climbers look at a tree and start planning the best route and easiest access."

I would add that woodworkers look at a tree and see a table top, cabinet facing, or some other ingenious project.

 

[gr8scott72]

It was Jerry Beranek that said (and quite accurately)- "Fallers look at a tree and plumb the lean and the best lay. Climbers look at a tree and start planning the best route and easiest access."

I would add that woodworkers look at a tree and see a table top, cabinet facing, or some other ingenious project.

I am hooked up with another tree company here that doesn't have any equipment. I have a small skid steer, stump grinder, dump trailer, and 24' utility trailer.

When I go bid a job, I'm looking at how can I get to the tree, how many loads will it take, how far to where I have to dump it, if I can get my skid and grinder to it, what I'll have to take about to get the machines to it.

I try to take the other guy with me on the large ones. He looks at it from the climber's perspective. How long will it take to rope down, can it just be dropped, what is in the drop zone, etc.

It's just interesting to look at the same job with a different eye than he does. We then talk about the obstacles each will face and come up with a bid.

 

[SteveH]

I see trees every day along one highway or another and think about how I'd like to get them, not because I "need" them but they are dead and they are right near the road and no big hassle to load them up once cut.

On the other hand, I CANNOT afford a ticket and here-abouts the law enforcement folks will do it to you for something like that, even if there is zero danger to anyone or to powerlines or etc.

Met a guy in a restaurant last winter who got to talking about his 036 Pro and we talked a while since that's my saw, too, and he had just gotten caught...looked at this one Ponderosa pine for months, beetle kill along a side road, perfect. He never saw a cop, and finally just simply could not stand it and dropped the tree about 5 a.m. and had it almost completely loaded up and the slash all piled in a nearby gully, neatly, and yep, cop pulls up and he gets a big fine.

Be very careful.

 

[heimannm]

I honestly thought I might be sick, but now I find out a lot of you think the same way I do.

All of my chain saw work is recreational, just gathering firewood for my needs and since I always have too much, I sell a little if someone comes and asks. However, I am always looking at trees to decide if I could drop them or not.

I don't climb anymore, and never did with ropes, just up in the tree with a saw and hack away not unlike some of the videos you see, but I"ve gotten a bit smarter with age. On a rare occasion I will use a ladder to assist in taking down a limb or two if needed to make sure a tree will fall where it's supposed to, or to string a cable to help guide a tree where I want it to go.

From time to time someone comes to me with a tree that just can't be dropped, so I rent a trailer mounted boom to work it from the top down to where it is managable. They pay for the rental and I get the wood.

I hardly even look at girls anymore if there are trees around...

Mark

 

[dsell]

I honestly thought I might be sick, but now I find out a lot of you think the same way I do.

All of my chain saw work is recreational, just gathering firewood for my needs and since I always have too much, I sell a little if someone comes and asks. However, I am always looking at trees to decide if I could drop them or not.

I don't climb anymore, and never did with ropes, just up in the tree with a saw and hack away not unlike some of the videos you see, but I"ve gotten a bit smarter with age. On a rare occasion I will use a ladder to assist in taking down a limb or two if needed to make sure a tree will fall where it's supposed to, or to string a cable to help guide a tree where I want it to go.

From time to time someone comes to me with a tree that just can't be dropped, so I rent a trailer mounted boom to work it from the top down to where it is managable. They pay for the rental and I get the wood.

I hardly even look at girls anymore if there are trees around...

Mark

Off the subject, but curious what the going rate is for a trailer mounted boom in your area. $200 for our area.

 

[heimannm]

$209/day

 

[REJ2]

Around here,in Kansas, if you want to "fake" being part of a state crew, highway or otherwise, you need a minimum of one guy working and three guys watching, or you'll never get away with it! REJ2.

 

[woodbooga]

I hardly even look at girls anymore if there are trees around...

Mark

Reminded me of a thread I started last year about a motor vehicle violation targeting woodscroungers like me.

I've nearly caused accidents rubbernecking at comely ladies and trees.

http://arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=76309

 

[TreePointer]

Around here,in Kansas, if you want to "fake" being part of a state crew, highway or otherwise, you need a minimum of one guy working and three guys watching, or you'll never get away with it! REJ2.

Heehee! Now that's authentic.

Around here, there's always seems to be a worker sleeping in the cab of a big dumper.

 

[heimannm]

What's big, orange, and sleeps three?


D.O.T. truck of course

Woodbooga, I often think of you and your handle as I travel around and look at trees the potential for firewood. I'm not sure what the midwestern version of a woodbooga is, but I am one.

When a big storm swept through here a couple of weeks ago I thought I might have a nervous breakdown driving past all that available firewood. I think about 90% went straight to the Cedar Falls city brush dump site where they do not allow harvesting of firewood. I heard that Waterloo will allow it but alas, time and schedule did not permit me to investigate further. Not to mention I don't have room for much more on the pile at home anyway.

Mark

 

[67 Mustang]

Well, we figured if you had a white hardhat and one of those orange and yellow safety vests, a pair of chaps, put a few orange cones out on the road nobody would bat an eye if you were doing a little extracurricular tree harvesting.

Better not be working too hard. That will give you away for sure!

Around here I've got Justin (JT78) looking out for me. He called yesterday wanting to know if I wanted to help take a large oak down at one of his neighbors.