Really enjoying the photos of your work mad dog, my memories of WA are mostly limited to long flat dusty expanses of not much and the inside of shearing sheds, wish I'd spent a bit more time having a look around now!Speaking of ponds.
Third overwater deck working on in 'spare' time. Landscape built from scratch (bare wind blasted paddock) starting in 2015, heavy earthworks did the dam, took over from there. No tree planted on dam wall, but plenty on natural profile side of dam.
Dam full of marron & silver perch, natural filtration systems working a treat, nice clean water to swim in all summer long. FSL sits half way up jarrah bearers in picture. Nice to see the 'ecosystem' develop.
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another hard day working in the rice fields, here is me taking a lunch break
lets not get dave riled up
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2 losers doing a crane job together with high interest rate financed equipment. Birds of a feather....
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You must not like him very much, sending him up with damn Husky?
That truck is also very blinging!!
legend has it, he has the pride flag painted on that husky
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Tom came over with his crane, Paul was already there with his hardware store Husqvarnas....and they both had an erection. The crane had one too.
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ps...that's how they roll.
While I would agree that most often folks are indeed making racial slurs when referring to BLM rioters as monkeys, I wouldn't quite be so confident that was definitely someone's intention. I have often been known to refer to my own crews misconduct as acting like a bunch of monkeys, as monkeys do indeed act badly, especially in angry groups. No matter what the human situation, a parallel action can be found in chimpanzee society, as well as most other primates. It's just a matter of extremes.
We are the rudest and most violent, the most destructive, and we hold grudges longer than all other primates. For the most part, such comparisons are just insults to the monkeys.
Back to trees now...
What am I doing today? Fixing my stump grinder. A newbie rolled it. No discernible damage, but it was upside down and lost fluids. Fortunately, it was in a sloped landscape that is being renovated.
That's why I don't often view this thread anymore.
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You weren't there. The reference was to black people in general and hurtful to a close (black) friend of mine. Spouting off in another group may have not been quite so rude. Sounds like you need to be more selective in hiring.
I think a good brush cutter should be part of nearly every tree crew's available equipment. They take up a lot of space on the truck, but they can't be beat for clearing scrub brush underneath the trees. It all depends on how much you need to clear. A little bit: use a chainsaw. A couple hundred square feet: Bring the brush cutter!
Hint: put a manual feed string head on beneath your steel brush blade. Load it with .155 heavy duty string. Hack away! They are blazes faster than a chainsaw, and you don't have to crawl around to take out the brush. You don't have to worry about getting your chain dull, either.
Weeds, vines, 1" saplings... They all go down with a single swing. I've cut down 8" trees with them, but that's a bit of a stretch.
Use this style for brush & small trees:
NEVER waste your money on these unless you are trimming the bushes:
GREAT for heavy weeds and thick grass, not so good for heavy underbrush:
Just don't buy these at all:
All they do is get dull immediately, and they can't be sharpened except with a hand file. And they don't cut worth a crap even when sharp.
I definitely need to be more selective in hiring. Problem is, I can't even get anybody to walk in the door and apply for work these days. I kinda suck at managing them once hired too. When your labor pool is as thin as mine, it's hard to fire somebody for being a bad actor. That just sets up a downward spiral of poor behavior and diminishing returns out of your employees.
I fired a guy two days ago. He broke a rake, wandered about for two minutes, and then went and sat down in the truck. He never said a word to me about what to do next. I was 50' away and had docked him the day before for sitting on the job and doing nothing. My mechanic thinks he only took the job so he could case our shop out for future thefts.
I should have fired him after the first 15 minutes on the first day he worked for me.
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I hear ya. I lucked into a real good one for about 3 years now. I only need one and set it up that way. I could tell stories for hours. One of the last ones died of a heroin overdose after (and luckily after) I fired him for doing heroin on a job...at a Temple property. Son of another Cinci. tree company. Great kid otherwise...real sad.
dave your assuming things again..a serious case of jealousy.i think you cant handle the fact that paul has what he has at age 47 compared to what you had at 47. hell, ive got a customer at 33 years old that would smoke just about everyone on here, and he doesnt say a thing about what he has, and neither do i.
i would of liked to be there but that machine is assigned to one of the operators. nice try on the insult dave.
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Your boy said you were coming to do a tree with him a few days ago. Seemed to make sense you were gonna have an erection together.
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I am not jealous of numb nuts, I just don't like him. Not jealous of you or your quiet 33 year old "smokin hot pal". I could easily finance anything you have or he has. Seems you think very highly of yourself like Casedei does. Like I said...birds of a feather. Go find yourself a crane forum....you are NOT a treeman son.
the way you act, you prove you are. look carefully, you will find i have never posted anything about my work or equipment.
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