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tree MDS
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Yea and one more thing....................:msp_confused: 5 gallons of Hellman's Mayo

You really should try and come of with your own material man.

Well that estimate sucked. No big loss though. Got on the phone and lined up a nice job for tomorrow anyway. Poor old lady that was real freaked out by the storm, and real untrusting of contractors. I dropped the name of another lady in town we work for while I was doing the estimate. I guess she called to check on me and got rave reviews. Lol, "I'm such a nice young man!" Lmfao! Good news is she isn't gonna be home tomorrow, so that's always nice. Gonna try and get back to climbing after the knee thing finally... maybe bust out the geezer walker!
 
treeclimber101

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You really should try and come of with your own material man.

Well that estimate sucked. No big loss though. Got on the phone and lined up a nice job for tomorrow anyway. Poor old lady that was real freaked out by the storm, and real untrusting of contractors. I dropped the name of another lady in town we work for while I was doing the estimate. I guess she called to check on me and got rave reviews. Lol, "I'm such a nice young man!" Lmfao! Good news is she isn't gonna be home tomorrow, so that's always nice. Gonna try and get back to climbing after the knee thing finally... maybe bust out the geezer walker!

Hey look who it is the sheep ###### , whats up buddy ...:laugh:
 
treeclimber101

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Not much buddy... you have any luck with that hottie you were telling me about that collects the drain oil at the yet? LOL!!

Shes a damn beast , I mean the kinda girl you need to tranquilize 1st and then you wouldn't have to worry about getting kicked while you put her shoes on , I am sure you of all people know what I mean :msp_razz:
 
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I would say that punching her in the head would take a alittle fight outta her but that thing looks like I would just break my fingers :eek2:

That's funny. Reminds me of my backyard mechanic (ex groundman for years too) buddy. This dude ain't no prize for sure, but he's had some real beauty's over the years... I mean big azzed mechanic broads with grime under their fingernails. I mean I gotta give the guy some credit, its gotta take some serious balls to make the moves on something like that.. I mean I can only imagine the pillow talk that goes on between these silverback cuties and him.. must be priceless!! Lol.
 
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That's funny. Reminds me of my backyard mechanic (ex groundman for years too) buddy. This dude ain't no prize for sure, but he's had some real beauty's over the years... I mean big azzed mechanic broads with grime under their fingernails. I mean I gotta give the guy some credit, its gotta take some serious balls to make the moves on something like that.. I mean I can only imagine the pillow talk that goes on between these silverback cuties and him.. must be priceless!! Lol.
You sir have high standards and that may be why you'll be whining and dining no one this valentines day , don't reply just think about it :laugh:
 
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That actually wasn't to bad. At least he had the thought to cut that lateral off before he dropped it and use a back up on the trunk pull. I guess he now knows he ain't gonna hinge a big lateral piece of cherry without a tip tie... much less anything else. The old man put a pretty decent notch in it too. He is a go getter, there is no stopping him.

Thanks the Dan, that Cherry was a $1k drop. I did crush the fence though. The lateral was deader than I thought and Lee snapped it off with the Steiner. I bought a new top pipe for $11 and fixed it yesterday, along with cleanup. That neighbor got the wood and we stacked it nicely inside his fence except for the big rounds which we stacked behind the fence for him to split. He's quite happy about the way it turned out.

I might have missed the fence if I had left the lateral limb on, but it would have been close even with a perfect drop (which I did pull off). Problem was, I didn't know for sure the wood would be good at the cut. That's why I cut the notch so high, to find good wood, and I did. Also why I used two 3 ton winches for the pull.

Today we went back for two small Pine removals and trimming two Oaks to finish that customer up. Another $1k and the customer tipped all my men $50 each and brought out a cooler of beer when we were cleaning up. His neighbor hired us to trim two Oaks and another Cherry. We got two of those done today too and made it home just in time for the SuperBowl.

All in all today was a great day, and the clients were thrilled with our work. Tomorrow we go back to trim the neighbor's Cherry and we are out of there. I think I'll go with my wife and Lee tomorrow for half a day and no crew costs.
 
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Aerialist, I am gonna say this and shut up. I have no problem with you posting your stuff elsewhere on this forum but you are in a Vietnam Vet Marine's forum and you should show enough class to move on.

BTW, Next time do not notch the limb at all. Slow cut it and peel it slowly with the pull to give it plenty of hang time to clear obstacles. Proper rigging technique, balancing and hinging will come later, once you have learned basic hackery.
 
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Aerialist, I am gonna say this and shut up. I have no problem with you posting your stuff elsewhere on this forum but you are in a Vietnam Vet Marine's forum and you should show enough class to move on.

Actually no tree md, I'm in the commercial tree care and climbing forum. I could post my honorable discharge from the USMC again, but it really was just a side tangent some got off on here so I won't bother.

... Next time do not notch the limb at all. Slow cut it and peel it slowly with the pull to give it plenty of hang time to clear obstacles. Proper rigging technique, balancing and hinging will come later, once you have learned basic hackery.

Well that's probably good advice tree md, I thought if I left a good hinge there it would swing, but that limb was pretty dead and it snapped off on me. A calculated risk which cost $11 to fix. Still got an extra $200 (and beer!) from the customer for my men so it wasn't all that bad.
 
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Got a couple jobs going this week and then I'm pretty much caught up.

Gotta buy a new air compressor for the shop, as mine #### the bed a couple months ago. Then I'm considering attempting to paint my chipper. Not sure on that though, as I know its gonna be a major PITA to do it the way I want. We'll see... should really do something other than drink beer.
 
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nursing a bit of a hangover this morning. heading out to the shop soon to huff paint fumes, should have the big grinder done today. got the new axle in and put together the small grinder yesterday, and its getting a new paint job next
 
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nursing a bit of a hangover this morning. heading out to the shop soon to huff paint fumes, should have the big grinder done today. got the new axle in and put together the small grinder yesterday, and its getting a new paint job next

Nothing like the smell of fresh paint fumes, its right up there with WD 40 and brake cleaner! Lol.
 
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Haha, he did it, peeeeeerfect!

Heading outa town today, rural little farm town, 4 big prunes, 2 maples a locust and a ash, a big a s s ash! Its been a while since there was a tree service anywhere near this area, hoping to camp out for a bit!
 

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