CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
True that is has a short new lease on life
I'm cutting new pipelines through mtn turf. It's so high pressure at this exact moment its not even funny. We have a short distance to knock out by Monday morning and should get it. Then, Williams pipeline sprung on us 2 silver maples over a road like rainbows where a pipeline crosses there. Gotta go. No if and or butts. HAVE to be down by dark on Monday. They reach over the road to the wires on the other side. Not a huge deal. Get up on top of them and rig the ends back and chunk out the rest. Log truck will be there tossing the material up onto a bank. A few hour task. But enough to entirely screw that whole line until later in the year when cutting can resume. It's not even a line we are on. There's an inbred crew of cutters a few miles from us that are banging out the ends of their lines. None of them can climb.......or fall trees like grow ups. Anyways the chief inspector got on me on Friday that I HAD to go whack those two trees on Monday. I told him lets get the paperwork started for billing purposes. He asked how much. I said $3500 just to wreck them. Well he nearly fainted and assured me it wouldn't get approved. I politely assured him I didn't really care if they got taken down. I firmed up with him a bit and explained that I wasn't one of the supervisors that failed to address those two trees earlier on. I also explained I'm going in blind and regardless of the challenges, I will turn those trees into stumps by the deadline. I also explained that on a 12 million dollar pipeline clearing and grubbing job, I wasn't going to entertain putting myself under the gun to make it happen unless I was compensated rather heavily. He cursed and screamed through the phone to the supervisor that neglected to handle this sooner but got off the phone and shrugged and said "$3500 it is then. Men in high positions will lose jobs if two trees stall the 2015 completion of this rather extensive and necessary lane.Damn, Treebilly, rough stretch you are in but keep fighting the good fight!
Are you and Tucker working on the same project, just in different areas? Or 2 unrelated projects, but both involving bat trees.
I frigging love it!!!
Can't wait to see it in ten years!
That thing is so ugly it's beautiful!
I'm not bending one inch for the gas industry.
Good work on the phone, making good money is not just about cutting fast or rigging big.
I think I will recommend some light strings next visit
I am shocked you didn't sell the HO on it when you were there!