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[tree MDS]

looks pretty open to me

Believe me, if I thought it was possible I would’ve had you guys there. We had two guys with two poles saws simultaneously holding up set after set of wires to get the bucket in and that’s 12’ 9” and short. It’s a nightmare in there. This job is like a good ass kicking, it just keeps coming. I hate this place. Lol… could always be worse though, I suppose.

 

[tree MDS]

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Bought this today to eventually become a second (larger) chip truck. Will get rid of the staked sides and have a steel chip body fabricated.

That said I'm considering finding a medium duty log loader to mount between the cab and dump bed. I could have a removable chip top like the MDS!

In my 5 minute search for log loaders on Google all I could find were full size log truck loaders that start at about 5000 pounds. What brands make a smaller style for an under cdl truck? This is an f650.

Nice truck!

It’s hard to try and put together that one truck that does everything. Then when you talk about under cdl, well it gets even more difficult… unless you wanna carry two logs.

You should get some more cdl’s in house. Amazingly we have two class A’s and a b again now. If my other guy ever gets out of jail we’ll really be moving in the right direction lol.

 

[epicklein22]

Some storm work from yesterday. Didn’t do much damage to the garage, pretty interesting the way it fell and wedged it’s self in the trunk.

It was a super tight fit to get the bucket truck between the house and the neighbors fence. Ended up breaking a rotten post when dismantling the fence. Pregnant neighbor came over a while later to see the action. She was very nice; happy to see the client getting the tree off her garage. Then her husband came over and freaked out when he saw the fence. Basically tell him we’re gonna fix it and to not worry. He belittles the client and yells at his prego wife. About an hour later he comes back over, apologizes for being a clown and offers to take all the wood. Some people are unreal.

 

[tree MDS]

These ****ing weeds. Took this first cut from the scraggler on the far left. MDS style, baby. Lol. Almost thought I was gonna have to put on the grcs and lift it when we lowered the butt, but we had about a good 6” off the roof still.

 

[tree MDS]

Nice little Friday tree killing high going anyway.

 

[tree MDS]

One more I forgot.

 

[tree MDS]

We get all the big nasties nobody else wants to do lmao.

 

[ZinTrees]

We get all the big nasties nobody else wants to do lmao.

no profit for 12 mexicans, 4 chippers and 2 cranes on the jobs we do

 

[tree MDS]

no profit for 12 mexicans, 4 chippers and 2 cranes on the jobs we do

Nope. But hopefully at least Pa can afford some new home spun cloth diapers for you. Lol,, extra petite.

 

[ZinTrees]

extra petite.

understatement of the f***ing year right here!

 

[bck]

HI-RANGER

 

[mikewhite85]

Nice truck!

It’s hard to try and put together that one truck that does everything. Then when you talk about under cdl, well it gets even more difficult… unless you wanna carry two logs.

You should get some more cdl’s in house. Amazingly we have two class A’s and a b again now. If my other guy ever gets out of jail we’ll really be moving in the right direction lol.

I'll get there eventually!

 

[tree MDS]

understatement of the f***ing year right here!

And you need to come back after you’ve had your first… er, “tree”.

 

[mikewhite85]

Couple big norway spruce. Nice when you have room to fell. Chipped and cleaned up by lunch thirty.

 

[ZinTrees]

crane company cancelled, we picked up (and did) another job on the way home, 5 removals, and 3 prunes, picked up 2 more after we left, for next week
all in all a good day

 

[Haplo]

Why did they cancel?

 

[ZinTrees]

poplar I posted had a shed, underground propane tank, and a septic tank under it, with a cavity at the bottom and no bucket truck access

 

[ZinTrees]

Why did they cancel

they have 2 operators that they allow to do tree work, operator A went out of town, operator B's dad had a heart attack and operator B had to make a flight out of state
pissed me off, we showed up at 7am, got the trees surrounding the driveway trimmed back so the crane would fit, half hour after the crane is scheduled to arrive I call and he is like "yeah we lost your phone number and I had to leave, sorry about that but yeah I wont show up"

 

[Helmstein]

Potty lift showed up Friday. While unloading, I raised the jib while the roll back truck had the lift at an angle causing the tracks to lock and not allowing me to unload. (I did the one thing you should not do while unloading-Pilot Error)This was due to the basket not remaining level while the jib was being raised with machine on a steep slope. 45 min with tech support and they were able to talk me through the process on manually resetting the basket to level. If I wasn't so stressed out, I would have been able to do this in a quarter of the time. Up equip definitely earned my respect that day!

Of course two units were being delivered to the same address and I was the first to unload. It held the semi truck up and the roll off truck up for an extra hour.

After all the shenanigans, I trailored it straight to the job site and banged out a 2 hour job. It took half the time compared to climbing the trees.

So far I'm impressed!

I'll try to get some pictures Monday at work.

 

[Helmstein]

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Some storm work from yesterday. Didn’t do much damage to the garage, pretty interesting the way it fell and wedged it’s self in the trunk.

It was a super tight fit to get the bucket truck between the house and the neighbors fence. Ended up breaking a rotten post when dismantling the fence. Pregnant neighbor came over a while later to see the action. She was very nice; happy to see the client getting the tree off her garage. Then her husband came over and freaked out when he saw the fence. Basically tell him we’re gonna fix it and to not worry. He belittles the client and yells at his prego wife. About an hour later he comes back over, apologizes for being a clown and offers to take all the wood. Some people are unreal.

Sounds like the husband was either having a really bad day or he's just an a** hole.

Looks like a technical job. Those are my favorite. Well done!