whadja do today?

[beastmaster]

Did two oaks with a crane two day. Underneath them was a 250000.00 toy train set, own by a Dr.View attachment 290049 Words biggest sawView attachment 290050 .
It wasn't hard for but tight for the crane. The pick were almost straight up and down. The driveway was really steepView attachment 290054
Good payday for few hours work

 

[ropensaddle]

Did two oaks with a crane two day. Underneath them was a 250000.00 toy train set, own by a Dr.View attachment 290049 Words biggest sawView attachment 290050 .
It wasn't hard for but tight for the crane. The pick were almost straight up and down. The driveway was really steepView attachment 290054
Good payday for few hours work

I have a customer with train like that too lol it's fun soon as he is not paying attention yell ohhhh no lol

 

[deevo]

ice storm

We got a big ice storm across our area today, trees down all over. Got quite the soaker today, lot's of work lined up over the next week from it! Just want the sun to come out now!

 

[Zale]

Did two oaks with a crane two day. Underneath them was a 250000.00 toy train set, own by a Dr.View attachment 290049 Words biggest sawView attachment 290050 .
It wasn't hard for but tight for the crane. The pick were almost straight up and down. The driveway was really steepView attachment 290054
Good payday for few hours work

Those trees next to your saw don't look that big. Why use the crane?

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Those trees next to your saw don't look that big. Why use the crane?

That's because it is the worlds biggest saw! The crane was only there to move the saw.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Went and looked at this oak today that makes that popular look like a baby. Lady wants all the big branches that are over the house. I told her she needs to prune it back over a couple of years to get close to what she wants. She said what about all those heavy branches? I said I am not cutting all of them off and explained why and I told her that is she was dead set on doing it that she can find some hack to hacker er up. Its a shame that oak is close to 6' diameter

 

[cfield]

Went and looked at this oak today that makes that popular look like a baby. Lady wants all the big branches that are over the house. I told her she needs to prune it back over a couple of years to get close to what she wants. She said what about all those heavy branches? I said I am not cutting all of them off and explained why and I told her that is she was dead set on doing it that she can find some hack to hacker er up. Its a shame that oak is close to 6' diameter

Well maybe after the hack she gets to do it goes outta business she will call you back for the removal, haha. It is ashame, those big trees are getting so rare. Should be some law that only lets professionals work on those giants. Oh the f'n hacks!

 

[chief116]

Drove past this accident on the way to the job this morning, twice in fact.
Man killed on Route 128 crash in Danvers

Wasn't there when I drove by the first time, crane was having some electrical issues, so I turned aroun. 1 trooper there on the way past going north. Car was mangled, looked burned as well. 3 troopers, ambulance and a couple fire trucks, as well as 3 tow trucks blocking the highway going south with the second crane .

Took down a couple good sized pines and some scrub growth, finished early. Heading to do log pick ups for a buddy and then play poker. Have a good weekend guys, be safe out there.

 

[treemandan]

I was at the saw shop the other day buying my yearly pole saw blade. One a year, that's all the owner of this tree service will let me have. If I break it I have to use last year's blade til I save enough pennies to buy another one out of my own pocket. ####ers.
Anyway the dude at the shop hands me a card and told me to call the guy whose name was on it so I did. I went out today, it was beautiful, and took down an bunch of small easy trees with the guy whose name was on the card that the guy at the saw shop gave me.
It was a relief using my short ropes but small trees can be a pain in the ass especially ash. Trying to decide whether to climb them or Murph them is consternating. Sometimes it comes down to a toss of coin and whether or not the homeowner is home to watch.
Still haven't put my new pole saw blade on, I am afraid I'll break it and get hollered at.

 

[ducaticorse]

Started addressing the rust spots on my chip dump body. Was using rustoleum to finish them off with. #### wouldnt dry in theses temps we had today though...

 

[jefflovstrom]

Relaxing day. Guess I will have to remove a royal palm tomorrow morning. The head fell off and they want it removed before Monday morning. Gonna do it by myself and keep man hours off production. Heavy dang stuff, hope my Tundra can hold it. Hired a new climber and he start's Monday. I could use one more, but hard to find people that want to work. I am up to 8 climbers and 6 groundie's. Oh, I just got a new free dump site!
Jeff :biggrin:

 

[cheesncrakas]

misjudged the height of a spruce stick and broke a sidewalk

 

[treeman75]

We are leaving tomarrow to work an ice storm an hour or so north of us.

 

[luckydad]

We are leaving tomarrow to work an ice storm an hour or so north of us.

Sounds fun. Maybe some good money ??:msp_smile:

 

[deevo]

We are leaving tomarrow to work an ice storm an hour or so north of us.

Yeah we got hammered good here as well! $$$$

 

[treeman75]

Sounds fun. Maybe some good money ??:msp_smile:

Ya, I hope so.

 

[treemandan]

Relaxing day. Guess I will have to remove a royal palm tomorrow morning. The head fell off and they want it removed before Monday morning. Gonna do it by myself and keep man hours off production. Heavy dang stuff, hope my Tundra can hold it. Hired a new climber and he start's Monday. I could use one more, but hard to find people that want to work. I am up to 8 climbers and 6 groundie's. Oh, I just got a new free dump site!
Jeff :biggrin:

Oh this is going to be good. Don't fergit to post pics! And why don't you just grab a truck/chipper and do it? Yer going to look silly driving down the road with tree sticking out of the Toyota.

 

[ropensaddle]

Oh this is going to be good. Don't fergit to post pics! And why don't you just grab a truck/chipper and do it? Yer going to look silly driving down the road with tree sticking out of the Toyota.

I sincerely doubt it will be enough to fil the bed :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[jefflovstrom]

Oh this is going to be good. Don't fergit to post pics! And why don't you just grab a truck/chipper and do it? Yer going to look silly driving down the road with tree sticking out of the Toyota.

The head fell off, I needed to remove the trunk. If I used a chipper, it would be a dirty load and palm cost to dump. This way I just put it in the dumpster at the yard,
Jeff :msp_tongue:
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[MarquisTree]

its been a long week. We did do some really cool jobs with the new crane.
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placed a frightening order with liehberr on Friday, just normal PM stuff, set of filters and 10 gal of their special syn 37 weight hyd oil and 12 tubes of their grease for the auto greaser... we knew what we were buying from the start but even ready for it, $4000 for that order still hits you funny.

Saturday we were working on a great job, flying through it, would have been done by 130ish, until all the rotation bolts broke on the rotation motor on the chipper. its happened to all of them, we change them out with grade 9s and never have a problem again, woodsmen is aware of the issue and promised us they changed the design and it wouldnt happen again but they are too ####ing cheap to use 4 grade 9 bolts instead of 8s. shouldn't have been an issue except instead of using a nut and a bolt like they have in the past they threaded the holes in the motor mount it self so every bolt needs to be extracted... should have gone in today and fixed it but didn't have it in me
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oh well handfed chipper for one of the crane crews Monday. and a fun night of extracting hardened bolts Monday night