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treeslayer said:
Of course, John, somebody has to run it while I'm in VA or............

Whats the name of the Milwaukee paper? :hmm3grin2orange:
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The journal/sentinel, JSonline- you'd be one of many there....

There is a crew from Watertown that is doing removals for around +$40/mhr, if they are a 2 man crew. We bid on a medium hickory that was no more then 3 hours on site; chip brush, cut firewood, no stump for $240 We woulda had a 3 man bucket-crew in the area so we thought a lowball of 360 was cheap :laugh:

Right now there is no money in clean jobs from YP or papers./:dunno:
 
treeslayer said:
oh it will, my big ad is coming back out next week here in Illinois, and a big ad in Northern VA, and job possibilities in philly and Mississippi................ gonna get a lot of frequent flier miles this year.

I also need a west coast gig. And another TX run, dang I liked TX.:cheers:
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Don't leave Philly without hollaring at Treeclimber , were neighbors to the city of brotherly love:ices_rofl:
 
John Paul Sanborn said:
Can I take you up on that during your winter :laugh: I'd need you to cover the airfare.
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Brawhahahahah thats funny jps I would like to work up there in summer pard but thats my busy season here:cry: Anyway Sept and August have me something to do ok:monkey: I really would love to split this scene those two months seriously it is way too hot here then.
 
treeslayer said:
Should I use these guys when I set up in Northern VA next week?

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/sks/1591401469.html

God, I LOVE craigslist....... :cheers:
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I missed the post but can you blame em for trying? Whatever he was trying that is.

I tell you though I would most likely be on CL advertising to come and chop down trees for wood if I had some other full time job that did not entail doing just that.
I would do something along those lines but I am in it for more than wood. I think for a lot of guys who work in other feilds ( not just blue collar either) the idea of wrangling a tree is just to tempting not to try.
I started looking for my own jobs in this with 6 mos experiance. That may be right or wrong, it is what is. I did always try to maintain a certain ethic... while I was short dumping under the Surekill Expressway.


Disclaimer: I never dumped anything under that highway, I drove under it to get to the place to short dump.

I was just thinking this morning about the time I knocked on this ladies door who lived around where I did. East Fall, right outside the city. There was this female ginko that was starting to die. I had watched the top peter out over a couple years and saw now that is what in fact dead but the lower trunk was alive.
She ragged me out good. First she said is wasn't dying just slow to break budd ( this was July) and then yelled at me for bothering her. I just hopped back into my truck and layed a little rubber for her.
to look back it wasn't a hard tree. I knew I could handle it , chop it down and take it under the Surekill no problem. I wasn't looking to charge a whole lot and she got Mcfarland to do it. I would have went to work for Mcfarland but I didn't understand Spanish.
 
treemandan said:
I missed the post but can you blame em for trying? Whatever he was trying that is.

I tell you though I would most likely be on CL advertising to come and chop down trees for wood if I had some other full time job that did not entail doing just that.
I would do something along those lines but I am in it for more than wood. I think for a lot of guys who work in other feilds ( not just blue collar either) the idea of wrangling a tree is just to tempting not to try.
I started looking for my own jobs in this with 6 mos experiance. That may be right or wrong, it is what is. I did always try to maintain a certain ethic... while I was short dumping under the Surekill Expressway.


Disclaimer: I never dumped anything under that highway, I drove under it to get to the place to short dump.

I was just thinking this morning about the time I knocked on this ladies door who lived around where I did. East Fall, right outside the city. There was this female ginko that was starting to die. I had watched the top peter out over a couple years and saw now that is what in fact dead but the lower trunk was alive.
She ragged me out good. First she said is wasn't dying just slow to break budd ( this was July) and then yelled at me for bothering her. I just hopped back into my truck and layed a little rubber for her.
to look back it wasn't a hard tree. I knew I could handle it , chop it down and take it under the Surekill no problem. I wasn't looking to charge a whole lot and she got Mcfarland to do it. I would have went to work for Mcfarland but I didn't understand Spanish.
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Back in the beginning of my tree exploits (not far from you in Hunterdon County NJ) I had it down pat after a while. All me and my fellow worker/party er would do was lay a rope over our 8 foot bed (all we had) and then put a couple full size limbs on the bottom, then more but they got hashed down with the chainsaw.....then

after the job filled up the truck, tie a running bolen on the load....back up to a tree somewhere, hitch the pile to a tree....and drive away at a high rate of speed. I am sure I am out of the statute of limitations. Feels good to get rid of that (lol) from my conscience. We were much too fast to get caught. We had piles all over the place.

One day a family goes by and sees us and I can see the husband and wife all upset about it. What are we gonna do? Well we went to get something to eat and, surprise, there in the restaurant is the couple nearby looking right at us and very nervous. No cellaphones then and they decided not to make the call I guess.
 
well, I locked in an ad for Northern VA starting this Friday. be nice to get to some nicer weather and see my kids, and get busy again, work here is trickling in, so back and forth will keep me working............................

might need some help there, PM me. I also bought a CL ad for a driver/laborer, to help move my climber and cleanup crew around.
 
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Could be more damage this time, supposed to get some winds in the 30-40 mph range tomm. and Friday. Ground is saturated like crazy too.
 

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