How'd it go today?

[Kaveman]

Whenever you need me David. I'm just three weeks out now, so there's that...

 

[davidwyby]

Whenever you need me David. I'm just three weeks out now, so there's that...

I keep thinking about that. It occurred to me that my tree work is after hours…so you’d either be doing the whole thing yourself or nothing while I was working. Most of my jobs pay little or nothing, labor trade etc. That being said, I’m bidding 10 beetle kill oaks in the mountains, a couple will require rigging. If I get that, I might take a week off from day job and knock it out. Man lift and Telehandler.

I also finally got the upside down squid big ole hairy codominant Euc job.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Testing! Testing!

 

[SeanKroll]

Good, dry day.

One set of customer: 2 apples pruned, Ben and I levered a small peach out at the roots.

Other customers: fell the hard leaning maple that the husband started beavering, who the wife convinced to wait., leaning cherry on a heavily sweeping butt, flop a maple without barberchairing it, and climbed to wreck another 80' maple stem.

Homeowner cleanup.


Looked at their neighbors/ existing customers 4' dbh fir for storm- damage management and eventual removal. It speared a 10-12" trunk through the second story roof, then floor to the slab.

 

[flushcut]

I had something similar happen. It was/is a dead silver maple that we set up on and found the tree needed a crane, way too rotten to rig anything and over the garage, two fences, and formal garden so cut and chuck was out. Bailed out, new price, new estimate, she didn’t get back to me and six years later the real rotten wood pecker condo high rise smashed the corner of the garage, not flattened but lots of broken 2bys and holes. I’m just in limbo on the crane operator, he had rotator cuff resurfacing or something like that, he said a few weeks.

 

[davidwyby]

Yesterday I took the ole 340,000mi dually dodge and towed the 9,000lb F350 flatbed over the mountains for repair. Picked up a 1500lb hay grinder (mulcher) rotor. Dropped off the Ford. Went up to the higher mountains, spent the night, and cut and loaded a few thousand lbs of beetle kill oaks on the trailer, also burnt up limbs. Me and the old derge are tired. Pics of unique trees n stuff.

Oh, fixed his light duty bucket rake too.

 

[pigwot]

It’s been busy - but with two snow days it was nice to be home and busy yesterday 🤣.
Refinished our breakfast table, finished rebuilding carbs on snowblower and generator, and a flat tire on the snowblower. Neighbor saw me out front of the garage working on both and thanked me - saying “You know if you get both running the storm will pass us by; like taking an umbrella ensures it won’t rain”.
Afraid Mother Nature is proving him wrong: 8 to 14 inches expected…

 

[davidwyby]

 

[flushcut]

Testing! Testing!

What'ca testing?

 

[Dave Shepard]

To see if I could post. There hadn't been any activity in about 12 hours.

 

[Kaveman]

I still can't get photos to upload. It's bugging me.

 

[flushcut]

Corn

 

[Burnham]

Really?

 

[Mick!]

Ok hère.

 

[flushcut]

Really?

It was a pic posting test. I needed the most random pic I had and well what’s more random than an ear of corn on a tree forum?

 

[Dave Shepard]

It did get up to 7.8 by the time I got the fuel filters changed on the skid steer so my mother could feed the cows. I may never feel some of my finger tips again.