H
Hobby Climber
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About a two months ago a friend & co-worker asked me to clear a building lot for him.
The lot is owned by his aunt who lives out of town & she's been told to removes some trees that hang over the neighbors property.
Ed, my buddy, didn't want to spend any more than he had to for the work.
I had to call in a bucket truck to T/D a dieing mulbery tree that was only being held up by the tree next to it. The tree would have been blown down long ago had it not been supported by this other tree!
(NOT a climb job)!
Part of that tree was also hanging over a house.
I cleared about 16 trees & all the underbrush at the back of the lot. I bucked all the wood and piled it by the road to pick up later. (wood was stollen before I returned the next day
)!!!
In the meantime, Ed's aunt decided to give this lot to him before she dies. So now that Ed's the owner, he was on the hook for the cost!
Its a small price to pay for a free lot I told him but he also had to take care of all the legals.
Now that the trees are down and wood gone (stolen), there were two huge piles of brush in the middle of the lot at my friends request.
He calls me last week and tells me he sold the lot. I say good for you but why should I care? He said its on the condition that the brush is gone before the closeing date this week! Great, :what:.
He then tells me it all hast to be removed but he dosen't want to spend no more that $200 max! There is no way anyone is going to remove or chip that much brush for that price!!!
I suggested we simply burn the brush and he got nervous. It was a huge pile after all.
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I called the local fire dept and got permission to burn. Then I called a friend who had a bob-cat to push the two big piles together and scrape all the grass away from the pile and make a burm around it. Didn't want any grass fires happening!
Filled my sprayer with chainsaw fule and got the pile burning.
From start to finish, it took about 4 1/2 hours. Then the bob-cat smoothed the burm and made everything level again.
Cost of the bob-cat...$150, My time to help out a friend..$0.00,
...The look on Ed's face, watching him whine & pout after he showed up late and not being there to watch the big fire as he intended, ...Priceless!
Enjoy the pics!
HC
The lot is owned by his aunt who lives out of town & she's been told to removes some trees that hang over the neighbors property.
Ed, my buddy, didn't want to spend any more than he had to for the work.
I had to call in a bucket truck to T/D a dieing mulbery tree that was only being held up by the tree next to it. The tree would have been blown down long ago had it not been supported by this other tree!
(NOT a climb job)!
Part of that tree was also hanging over a house.
I cleared about 16 trees & all the underbrush at the back of the lot. I bucked all the wood and piled it by the road to pick up later. (wood was stollen before I returned the next day
)!!!In the meantime, Ed's aunt decided to give this lot to him before she dies. So now that Ed's the owner, he was on the hook for the cost!
Its a small price to pay for a free lot I told him but he also had to take care of all the legals.
Now that the trees are down and wood gone (stolen), there were two huge piles of brush in the middle of the lot at my friends request.
He calls me last week and tells me he sold the lot. I say good for you but why should I care? He said its on the condition that the brush is gone before the closeing date this week! Great, :what:.
He then tells me it all hast to be removed but he dosen't want to spend no more that $200 max! There is no way anyone is going to remove or chip that much brush for that price!!!
I suggested we simply burn the brush and he got nervous. It was a huge pile after all.
*
I called the local fire dept and got permission to burn. Then I called a friend who had a bob-cat to push the two big piles together and scrape all the grass away from the pile and make a burm around it. Didn't want any grass fires happening!
Filled my sprayer with chainsaw fule and got the pile burning.
From start to finish, it took about 4 1/2 hours. Then the bob-cat smoothed the burm and made everything level again.
Cost of the bob-cat...$150, My time to help out a friend..$0.00,
...The look on Ed's face, watching him whine & pout after he showed up late and not being there to watch the big fire as he intended, ...Priceless!
Enjoy the pics!
HC
