Spring is over. Going to be 90 tomorrow.
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Killed some white pines. people really tend to hate those.
Question for the bad back guys. Any luck with chiropractors? Been having some pains lately, wife insists I see a chiro. It helps her, but she's a dental assistant so success for her doesn't necessarily translate to this job.
Question for the bad back guys. Any luck with chiropractors? Been having some pains lately, wife insists I see a chiro. It helps her, but she's a dental assistant so success for her doesn't necessarily translate to this job.
treeman75
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The weather here is going crazy right now. Its 34 out with lightning and thunder and freezing rain and in a ice storm warning. Tomarrow they are saying 3-6" of snow. Yesterday it was 70.
Have you been to a massage therapist? My ex was a licensed massage therapist, and a lot of times all she had to do was a good deep tissue massage and everything would just kind of relax back in place. Unless it's a slipped disc or something it's a little less drastic step. Sometimes it seems like once guys start going to chiropractors they can't stop or the pain gets worse. Just a thought.
ducaticorse
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Did three bids, 2 took immediately, one is a yes or no by Friday. Three more tomorrow, and one this weekend. Took off the old stickers from the new bcket. Cleaned off the adhesive with aircraft stripper. I was a bit nervous using it on the paint, but I figured I could just shoot it white again if it was an issue. Well, it wasn't but it took that stubborn glue off like wiping down the kitchen counters. I actually used a little on my pick up doors to clean the residue off from some old stickers that I couldn't get of with gas. Worked zee ballz.
That's why I asked! probably have to do a couples massage so she doesn't think i'm going to a rub and tug tho.
ducaticorse
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I had herniated disks from the accident that put me out of business. The chairo I was going to all but refused to order an MRI because she didnt think it was necessary. I basically forced her too and low and behold, we figured out why my pain was not going away. My personal belief is that chairo's are a total crap shoot.
No BS, I would try acupuncture before I tried anything else. I am not a believer of spiritual hocus pocus, but that was by far and above the better of all treatments massage chair and acupuncture.....
Grace Tree
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They're the masters of the "up sell". Used to be an old chiro around here. I'd go in when I was crippled up from truck driving and he straighten me out. Charged 10 or 15 although I'd have gladly given him more. He retired and his son took over. Fees went through the roof and everyone had to come back as many times as the insurance would allow. Did urine samples and pushed vitamins. He was soon out of business but it seems like they all go to the same, "how to maximize profits" seminars. Inversion table works for me but if thought there were real problems I'd want some diagnostics.
Phil
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Well, it was a beautiful day,,,,despite the monkey wrench thrown in the mix.
Had a crew in Carlsbad and a crew in El Cajon and a crew in Poway.
A big developer we work with calls at 9am and says he has 3 big sycamores that need to be removed today.
The job was in Oceanside, so the Carlsbad crew went and knocked it out without overtime!
Nice weather today,,Jeff
Had a crew in Carlsbad and a crew in El Cajon and a crew in Poway.
A big developer we work with calls at 9am and says he has 3 big sycamores that need to be removed today.
The job was in Oceanside, so the Carlsbad crew went and knocked it out without overtime!
Nice weather today,,Jeff
mr. holden wood
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RView attachment 289562reduced this tulip tree, done by two easy peasy.
awesome hat rack
treemandan
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Just got the go ahead on this beauty. Hope to sell the logs and make some good $
I woke up at 4:15 and got on the road to Lancaster by 5:30, I guess it was close to nine when we got to this monster of a tulip and I didn't want to be friends with Jared anymore. But he talked me into it by saying he was gonna buy me a candy bar if I went up there and hucked it down to where to could get at it with his 88 and the bucket truck cause lawd nose eyes waznt gonna be up there blocking down no 4 foot wide trunk.
This may not be the biggest tulip I have taken down but it was the biggest one in the tightest of quarters. I am a little tired from hauling that huge ass rope around that tree. We got it topped out with pulleys to where the crane could barely reach it; it was no fun watching the crane op max out his lift while still needing more. It was close and thank God it was a tulip cause anything else would have weighed to much.
Maybe Jared has some pics from today because those pics do not do this tree any justice. It did come down nice enough; I used about 1 tank of gas in my 20, two cuts with the 26, maybe 5 with the 44 and flushed the stump without gasing the 88 back up after 5 or 6 trunk picks with it.
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ropensaddle
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Well I ground 65 stumps today on my birthday lol. My 65 decided to throw a tantrum first one in over two years. I knew immediately it was the fuel filter so unscrewed it cleaned it out best I could and bingo back in buiness. I seen time for new fuel line may put new pump on too!
treemandan
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Only 65!!?? I do that kinda stuff while eating my morning oatmeal on the sunporch. Happy Birthday.:msp_thumbsup:
ropensaddle
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beastmaster
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65 stumps! That is a whole bunch of stump grinding. Hope the payday made a good birthday present. Happy b-day.
We have tulip trees out here, but nothing like that one. That was one big straight tall trunk.
We have tulip trees out here, but nothing like that one. That was one big straight tall trunk.
beastmaster
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I did a hazardous job to day for a Warn OD for my jeep. This Oak split and the only thing keeping it out of the HV lines was it got stuck in a big spruce. The other half was over the house. I dug around the base and I could bury my pocket knife to the hilt anywhere in the below ground area. Removing the snag was a bear, but climbing the other half, even after stabilizing it with three ropes was really stressful. I finished limbing the last 20 feet that went leaning out over the phone and 220 with a silky pole saw. Groundmen was talking smack telling me,"it'll hold up just climb up there and cut it", I told him you come up here then.
I like to think I'm fearless, but I'm not ashamed to admit that tree had me spooked a little. Someone must of raised the grade maybe 15, 20 years ago the roots were like soggy cardboard.
It all went well though, didn't have to pick nothing up. Loaded up a rebuilt warn OD, transfer case and tranny I'v been needing for my 66, V6 CJ5.
I removed a big pine up there 2 years ago. The guy had me leave a big stump because he wanted to carve a bear. I guess his wife said no bear, but pretty cool what he ended up doing with it.View attachment 289598View attachment 289599
I like to think I'm fearless, but I'm not ashamed to admit that tree had me spooked a little. Someone must of raised the grade maybe 15, 20 years ago the roots were like soggy cardboard.
It all went well though, didn't have to pick nothing up. Loaded up a rebuilt warn OD, transfer case and tranny I'v been needing for my 66, V6 CJ5.
I removed a big pine up there 2 years ago. The guy had me leave a big stump because he wanted to carve a bear. I guess his wife said no bear, but pretty cool what he ended up doing with it.View attachment 289598View attachment 289599
ropensaddle
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PhilMcWoody
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Hell yes, that's pretty dadgum jealousy-making.
PhilMcWoody
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When my neck was farged it was one of my last resorts.
after a year of rehab, electro accupuncture and whatnot,
It took about 10 chiro treatments but I did get some relief. I'm leery a bit as neck snaps are no laughing matter. I'd go back if I had to.
Not all adjustments worked -- some were trial and error, but others helped.
I later saw this specialist one-on-one physio while on vacation visiting my folks in the UK — best freaking physio I ever came across, and I've been treated by about 8 or so by now. That's to say, some are better than others, ... and just cos one doesn't work for you, another might.
She takes a multi-discipline approach that might have saved me surgery, cos after two visits with her, I was 50% better than when I walked in.
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