How'd it go today?

Speaking of nests, I back-hauled Mike's grapple trailer back to his place today before we did some tree massacre... and I noticed some birds have started building a nest in front of the control cluster. Boy are they gonna be pizzed when they see their house got nicked! :lol:
 
My neighbor John brought me over a picture he took of me lifting the Jeep body the other day. He's old fashioned and still gets prints even though he uses a digital camera. So my redneck method of 'converting' the photo was to take a picture of it with my digital camera, which explains the poor image quality. But you get the idea. ;)
 
My best planting day was 9 50" white spruce. You have to get creative with the pallet forks when you are trying to straighten a tree by yourself.;)


ETA: that's 50" rootball, they were 12'- 14' tall.
 
Nine hours, it was a lot of work, but I had a system. Two sheets of plywood for the soil, and there's no muddy cleanup.;) Trees look like they were put there in the night by aliens.:D
 
My best planting day was 9 50" white spruce. You have to get creative with the pallet forks when you are trying to straighten a tree by yourself.;)


ETA: that's 50" rootball, they were 12'- 14' tall.

We did 12 one day with the 60" Vermeer. But the tree's were 2 miles away.;)
 
I don't know how many we did with the TS60s in a day. We had two on 4x4 IH 4800s. Send the first one to dig the hole, and the other team to dig a tree. Play swap and plug all day. Now he's only got one TS60, but a passel of 90s and a 100.:O Also, several skid spades.
 
Went on my "road trip", it went better, and worse than it could have!
He took a solid wood door down. "If we need to trim it some to make it fit, so be it!"
I don't care what you do, a 36" door does not fit well into a 32" opening when it's got a huge window in it!
We checked the back room, neithe of us remebers where it came from, but low and behold there is a solid (and metal) 32" door back there:?
It went on fine and we got it trimmed out fine.
Went to replace some trim on a big plate window. I thin it's 118" wide by 82" high, there about at least. Pulled off the trim and found a termite nest! JOY! We chose to just cover it for now and see about a new window later. Every time I swung that hammer I was cringing in fear of that window just going through the wall and crashing on the floor!! Got it caulked and primed fine.
Went back to the door. Well he got ignorant!! He was concerned about water getting in behind the top the door. He wouldn't let it go. It's an old limestone covered with plaster/concrete and it's falling off on the outside.
FIVE, yes FIVE tubes of caulk later it was UGLY sealed!!
Then I went to talk to AT&T/Cingular about a new phone and left there even more unhappy:X
 
knocked out a $1600 job with some freebies thrown in and sold my old chip truck. Sad to see it leaving for the last time, the uglyolddependablepieceofjunk.
 
Was a productive day. Just killed some grass and came home to a couple calls. Everyone I have informed of our price increase has signed on for next year so far :) Felt like I was just in the groove today and that feels good.
 
Quoted a couple of removals today.

This one should net some good coin.

Bonus points if you can tell the species.
 

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Sycamore- no; the bark should give that away.

Willie... is on the right track.

FWIW, it's the first one I've ever seen here.
 
Can't tell from the crappy pic. And the bark looks a lot like the Sycamores around these parts, that would have been my guess as well. But I can't really see it anyway.
 
Pretty fuzzy on the detail there Erik but I'm guessing silver maple with amore central leader conformation than "normal".
 
I 'spose it might help if I throw this in there, huh?
 

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There's a few around Brian; mostly inside the 495 loop. Not native, by any means. Nope.

Willie, nope.
 
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