MasterBlaster
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It's pretty hard to mess up fries. Did you mean they were stale? Not hot and fresh?
How'd it go today?
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treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
The statewide burn ban is kind of a joke here as well Al. We just keep on doing what we do.
Sounds like a good day Stig.
I planted 140 cloves of garlic and tilled the garden for a second time. We’re in between the rain storms at the moment. Next one is due to hit soon.
Sounds like a good day Stig.
I planted 140 cloves of garlic and tilled the garden for a second time. We’re in between the rain storms at the moment. Next one is due to hit soon.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Must be talking about freits or friets or something like that.
They are supposed to be the best fries you can eat. Double fried I think.
Apparently some of the best fries are cooked in duck fat too.
They are supposed to be the best fries you can eat. Double fried I think.
Apparently some of the best fries are cooked in duck fat too.
Yuck!
Nope, they were just the kind where you wonder if it is actual potato or not.
Not very tasty at all.
I agree, Butch. Hard to mess such a simple thing up, but they sure managed it.
Some Mexican hot sauce would have made a difference, but forget about that around here.
140 cloves of garlic sounds just about right
Nope, they were just the kind where you wonder if it is actual potato or not.
Not very tasty at all.
I agree, Butch. Hard to mess such a simple thing up, but they sure managed it.
Some Mexican hot sauce would have made a difference, but forget about that around here.
140 cloves of garlic sounds just about right
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Easier to mess anything up than do it right.
Bodean
Jungle Cutter
More work today... but stopped for some boating on the way home.
MasterBlaster
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Next time do some watering!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Bodean
Jungle Cutter
Nice Shot, Stephen!
It's truly a low tide kinda thing... sorta underwater at high tide.
I had to put a. Arbormd sticker on it.
It's truly a low tide kinda thing... sorta underwater at high tide.
I had to put a. Arbormd sticker on it.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Seems like We'll be cleaning up storm throws for a long time after all our winter storms hitting dead trees.
This black oak was on a slope over a road. Guyed it off for our safety and to keep it in place. Up righted the stump to keep it on the better part of the slope so the property owner can burn it in place if they want. Finishing up a large gray pine up there today.
This black oak was on a slope over a road. Guyed it off for our safety and to keep it in place. Up righted the stump to keep it on the better part of the slope so the property owner can burn it in place if they want. Finishing up a large gray pine up there today.
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MasterBlaster
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Stumpy!!!
Bodean
Jungle Cutter
What happens to stumpy?
Loaded and tossed off at the end of the culdesac?
Loaded and tossed off at the end of the culdesac?
flushcut
TreeHouser
That doesn't happen.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
It will burn baby!
Just not today
Just not today
Bodean
Jungle Cutter
Sounds like Wisco needs to level up on the dump and run...
Just kidding... in my bad days I dumped a load at the dump gate on a Sunday... I figured they could just push the load in with a loader in the am.
Just once.
Just kidding... in my bad days I dumped a load at the dump gate on a Sunday... I figured they could just push the load in with a loader in the am.
Just once.
Stumpshot
General Purpose
That's always tempting, especially if you miss them closing by 10 minutes. I've seen evidence of people doing that, dumping into a creek outside the chip dump. I'm more tempted by the sight of other chip piles dumped in parking lots, driveways, at schools & community garden projects. Simply giving them more of a good thing... But no need really, as farmers are taking them off our lot as quick as we can dump them. And I have at least 5 places that want all the chips I can bring. One place that will take Siberian elm logs, and another place that wants any type of log or stump for fill.
But no need really, as farmers are taking them off our lot as quick as we can dump them. And I have at least 5 places that want all the chips I can bring. One place that will take Siberian elm logs, and another place that wants any type of log or stump for fill.
flushcut
TreeHouser
No dumping and running here there are more than enough legit places to dump. Tho I have had a custy that I would love to dump and run, in a paper bag light on fire right on the assholes front porch.
Bodean
Jungle Cutter
Haha.
Yeah... now I just pay a lot to dump.
Yeah... now I just pay a lot to dump.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
It's goofy. Here we have a big co gen plant at the mill I work at and when I had my treeco we could dump chips there but stupid tree guys dumped contaminated chips, grease tube, garbage, what have you. So now they cut off all treecos from dumping there.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
We had free dumping, but Rockstar cans and Marlboro boxes ruined it. Dum tree guys.
Steve Mack
Life Member.
Same here, not free but cheap and stupid tree guys ruined it for everyone. Bricks, concrete whatever.
Even that new place I found last time in Sydney banned one guy for dumping a contaminated load and he came back the next day. The boss there told me about him and he won't be coming back.
Even that new place I found last time in Sydney banned one guy for dumping a contaminated load and he came back the next day. The boss there told me about him and he won't be coming back.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Starting a routine bigger birch with a bunch of decay and damage, two main stems with a lot of phototropic growth reaching over the street.
Rigged down, in front of the chipper feed tray, and zip-lined out into the open street, as there are 15' rhododendrons and japanese maples, and ..., on the Do Not Smash List everywhere beneath the main lead. The smaller leader has manicured lawn on the one side, so two pieces of plywood for the branch butts to hit, and the bulk of the branches, did it.
Was busy orchestrating it, and didn't have time for pics. Tomorrow.
My one groundman is done on Friday, going off to Wildland Firefighting. He's onward and upward, and welcome back after the fire season, if he wants.
My former employee, who has been out with family medical stuff, is making a move, got a connection into the carpenter's union, and will be testing about a month out. I told him he's welcome to come practice all the stuff for his apprentice test, at my shop. Measuring, cutting, banging nails, moving stacks of (5)-2x's, Hauling up buckets of nails.
He's needing a good 'out' from treework into a career path. Not sure he's climber material, and groundmen don't usually last into their 60s. He said that so much of the stuff that I beat the bible about safety and productivity at my show, are the things that he will be tested on for his spot.
Rigged down, in front of the chipper feed tray, and zip-lined out into the open street, as there are 15' rhododendrons and japanese maples, and ..., on the Do Not Smash List everywhere beneath the main lead. The smaller leader has manicured lawn on the one side, so two pieces of plywood for the branch butts to hit, and the bulk of the branches, did it.
Was busy orchestrating it, and didn't have time for pics. Tomorrow.
My one groundman is done on Friday, going off to Wildland Firefighting. He's onward and upward, and welcome back after the fire season, if he wants.
My former employee, who has been out with family medical stuff, is making a move, got a connection into the carpenter's union, and will be testing about a month out. I told him he's welcome to come practice all the stuff for his apprentice test, at my shop. Measuring, cutting, banging nails, moving stacks of (5)-2x's, Hauling up buckets of nails.
He's needing a good 'out' from treework into a career path. Not sure he's climber material, and groundmen don't usually last into their 60s. He said that so much of the stuff that I beat the bible about safety and productivity at my show, are the things that he will be tested on for his spot.
MasterBlaster
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Good luck!!!
Stumpshot
General Purpose
Two places we go charge ($40 and $10/load of chips), another we don't go to charges by weight, and 30 cubic yards of chips tips the scales a bit heavy. The rest of the connections we have made are free dump spots, mostly farmers wanting them for agrarian use, community gardens, a Girl Scout camp for trails, etc.
Sean, if your friend is testing to be a journeyman carpenter, I would advise your friend to come in at a 3rd year apprentice. Several reasons:
1. It is very important to the hall to keep apprentices working, so the likelihood of him staying busy goes up dramatically.
2. He will learn a bunch of stuff he doesn't know yet.
3. Probably the most important: He will be accepted as a full union member by fellow members. Everyone knows if a guy just bought his book, but after a couple years no one will remember that he came in halfway through his apprenticeship. I told this exact advice to 2 friends who did the same, and both were excellent carpenters, 1 has quit while the other is a superintendent. If you are a journeyman, absolutely no one will wait for you to learn, that's what the apprenticeship is for. Doesn't matter if you haven't built scaffold before but could build anything else, you are gone because they can't afford to pay you top scale to do non top scale work. Come in as an apprentice, work more, learn more and them earn a bunch more in a couple years. Please trust me, this will work out much better in the long run for him.
1. It is very important to the hall to keep apprentices working, so the likelihood of him staying busy goes up dramatically.
2. He will learn a bunch of stuff he doesn't know yet.
3. Probably the most important: He will be accepted as a full union member by fellow members. Everyone knows if a guy just bought his book, but after a couple years no one will remember that he came in halfway through his apprenticeship. I told this exact advice to 2 friends who did the same, and both were excellent carpenters, 1 has quit while the other is a superintendent. If you are a journeyman, absolutely no one will wait for you to learn, that's what the apprenticeship is for. Doesn't matter if you haven't built scaffold before but could build anything else, you are gone because they can't afford to pay you top scale to do non top scale work. Come in as an apprentice, work more, learn more and them earn a bunch more in a couple years. Please trust me, this will work out much better in the long run for him.
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