It's been an interesting couple of days for me.
I only do 1 mulch job each year, it takes roughly 10 yards of sweet peat and I don't get paid for it. I went there yesterday morning, edged the beds and dropped off 4 yards of mulch for DF who showed up at 12:00 (after his classes) got him settled and took off for a demo. Got to check out one of those screw type log / stump splitters. So I get back from that, and the dope has his car radio blasting so that he has something to listen to. Dropped him another 4 yards of mulch and left to go help get set-up for the following day. That turned into a long drawn out ordeal, and the next thing I know it's 7:15. DF sends me a text saying that he was trying to leave to go home, and for some unexplainable reason his car won't start. :rolleyes2: By the time I got back there with jumper cables, he had already left. The homeowner was kind enough to help him out... we got a darn good laugh out of that though.
This morning I went to pick up a stump grinder so that I could blast out 5 stumps at 2 houses. Get to the first job, go to unload the grinder... sure enough the freaking thing came off the ramps and wound up sideways against one of the fenders. Called a friend who lives up the street, luckily he was home, and came over with his backhoe to right the machine. Brought the machine back to the yard to be inspected and what not... then went back to mulching.
At some point during the course of the day I made a phone call to the neighbor of a client of mine... I need to use his driveway to park my truck and chipper for next week's job. Luckily I was able to get him on the phone, and shockingly he agreed to it. He basically said it's easier to ask for permission than to ask for forgiveness, and because I was thoughtful enough to ask for permission he would allow me the use of the driveway. Only crappy part is I will have to plywood / tarp the driveway just to make sure I don't make any kind of mess or problems.
