Recent content by Rangerbait

You're right...live and learn!

Hello Tree Housers, As I mentioned in my subbing out thread, I have parted ways with my sub (on good terms, at least), and am now in the market for a 12-15? chipper and either a mini skid or a mini loader with a grapple. I?d like to stick with a dealer so I at least have a little assurance that...

Well, this thread is now moot...turns out my sub and I have incompatible visions for my company, and so we have parted ways. I am now in the market for some new equipment, so I will start a dedicated thread to that end. Fortunately, this finally gives me a reason to hire a new guy that I?ve been...

Stump grinding only.

Surprisingly, he agreed to 60/40 on the grinding.

Price per load would be tricky in this market due to the number of customers who want to keep the wood, and my debris estimation skills are not great. I definitely agree about how the complexity/risk of the job would leave me paying him far more than I should for certain jobs. I wonder if...

I already have a percentage in mind, but want to hear what my esteemed Tree House brethren think. My stump sub has recently acquired a 15? Morbark, and is about to invest in an articulating mini loader with a grapple. He has approached my with a proposition to handle all of the chipping and...

Also: F Facebook Messenger for transferring money...I sent $100 to another user for something on one of the FB marketplace pages, and the dude?s profile defaulted to a closed account. The money left my bank immediately, but was never able to be sent to the recipient. Good luck getting any...

Almost looks like you could just pick that thing out of there whole.

I don?t have a lot of fancy rigging gear, so I only rig small pieces...portawrap, couple of blocks, a double beast/whoopi sling, and a couple of bull ropes. Skill level? Decent, I guess...I?m slow, but safe, and pretty methodical in my approach. I?m too old to be reckless haha. That stump was...

Thanks! Super quick and easy...I set the frames at .5 second, and just found a 120 beats per minute song on HookSounds, royalty free.

There were too many shrubs and ornamental trees in the way to fell most of the major leads...took me about 8 hours total, but that was with a lot of training timeouts for my groundie

Did the removal this past weekend: https://youtu.be/wWdFvIqXXpY

Lesson learned I reckon...sounds like my last two stump guys were the exception to the rule.

Dammit...my new stump guy pulled a fast one on me. I let him know yesterday that we were a go for this job, and he called back asking what I was planning to do with the stump debris. Every other stump guy I?ve subbed out to has included that in the bid...so now I get to follow up after the guy...