How'd it go today?

from a few days ago, headed up to get rigging set

we've had some changes of plans, decided that despite the blitz week thing going on, the show must resume, weather was terrible Monday and Tuesday, clear today but that yard is a sloppy mess to the point I had the loader sideways more often than not, and got stuck once, but the customer needs the work done this week and doesn't care about what gets broken in the meantime besides their ornamentals and house



yes, I cut the stubs off after the pics from in the tree, just didn't have my 500i up there with me yet and I was dropping what I could while wiggling my way up to the top to set ropes, rain and lightning has slowed us down even more, spent half of Monday sitting in the trucks waiting on breaks in the storms, this job has sucked so far but we're getting it done, at least the customer doesn't care about the grass, and the tree is tall enough to where the rigging line can't touch the ground with both ends, so no mud in it!

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Burnham said:
I fell victim to a self-inflicted issue once. Though I wasn't the self who did the inflicting, just the victim :/:.

I had to borrow a 4x4 pickup from a co-worker for a couple of days as mine was in the shop for some moderate-high regular scheduled maintenance. At one point in my day's work, I needed to use 4x4 to negotiate a steep and muddy grade to a logging landing. This was a late 1990's Dodge 3/4 ton. Not known for their strong 4x4 performance...the slip diffs gutted their abilities significantly anyway, so when I engaged the shifter to 4 by and started up the slope, I was not totally surprised when I immediately slid sideways and off the shoulder on the rear right corner.

After a little messing about though, it became obvious that there was no drive from the front wheels at all. But with some further messing about, I got the rig back on the road, RWD only :).

Later I did some asking (read "interrogation"), and it turned out that the usual operator of this truck had tried to shift into 4x4 from normal 2x4 at far too high a speed (this was a rig with automatic front wheel drive engagement, known as "shift on the fly" in some quarters), breaking "something". Too embarrassed to take it to our mechanics' shop. Been driving it that way for months.

No accounting for foolishness, sometimes.

I did not return it to him, as I'd told him he should now expect :)...just traded it in to the shop when I picked up my own truck. Told them the general story, got the expected rolling eyes, but that rig got fixed right, and the usual driver got taught a lesson from both me and the mechanics.
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I was heavily involved in the maintenance side of things and it was very hard to get guys to own up and fill out a ticket. We can't fix them if we don't know they are broken. There were some good screw ups, and the guys that owned up just got teased about. NBD. Screw ups are part of the game.
 
Nutball said:
Forgot the plywood?
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I think it floated away in the rain, or I forgot I have any since its been well over a year since I've needed it

customer knew the damage was going to happen, the mats do help a lot but when we get this much rain, plywood or not the weight of the machine usually pushes mud through the grass, generally the yards never get even close to this bad, but of course this customer has to get the work done on one of the rainiest weeks of the year 🤦‍♂️
 
flushcut said:
Jaysus! Turf damage like that would get me kicked off of the property.
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literally any other customer and it would get me kicked off as well, we almost never get to wreck a yard but this customer is in cali and couldn't care less what we do as long as we don't smash the house, we gave the dude 52 weeks he could pick for the schedule and he picked this week of all weeks, no idea why it had to be this week but it did

I suppose he doesn't care because he doesn't live here, typical rental/cheap landlord situation
 
I know the mud squishes up, but plywood or mats limit that greatly allowing for much faster recovery.
Just because the customer is ok with it doesn't mean you shouldn't try to not look sloppy. The neighbors are watching. Just something to keep in mind next time now that you know how bad it can get. Even I didn't know that wheeled machine would muddy it up that bad. I know the tracked mini will easily.
 
Nutball said:
I know the mud squishes up, but plywood or mats limit that greatly allowing for much faster recovery.
Just because the customer is ok with it doesn't mean you shouldn't try to not look sloppy. The neighbors are watching. Just something to keep in mind next time now that you know how bad it can get. Even I didn't know that wheeled machine would muddy it up that bad. I know the tracked mini will easily.
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we all knew exactly how bad it would get before we even unloaded equipment, I asked the guy I'm helping if he was OK with it, and he was, I have zero say in the matter regardless

honestly, my tracked mini would have done similar I think, but its been a long time since I ran one on a lawn

the remote idea is actually one I had earlier funny enough!
 
flushcut said:
Wrapped up a two day gig. First day was a nice tall skinny oak leaning over a Frank Loyd Wright built house. So there was a little stress trying not to damage a house that would surly bankrupt me should things go sideways. The tree went surprisingly well but clean up took forever due to long access just under 100 yards one way. Today was two walnut prunes, three locust removals and a mulberry removal. Then the neighbor comes over and needed some roof line clearance on his garage, just a little extra frosting on a cake job.
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All that and no pictures... Slacker. Lol
 
depends on the price, but I think the 8.1 is supposed to be super reliable, I don't care for the truck its in, but the engine itself would be worth a fair bit I think, maybe 3K? assuming minimal mechanical issues
 
WoodCutr said:
we all knew exactly how bad it would get before we even unloaded equipment, I asked the guy I'm helping if he was OK with it, and he was, I have zero say in the matter regardless

honestly, my tracked mini would have done similar I think, but its been a long time since I ran one on a lawn

the remote idea is actually one I had earlier funny enough!
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The tracked mini would have been much worse.
 
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