Bad equipment day!

[tree md]

Man, what a bad day for equipment! First of all I rocked the chain on my 25" bar on my 044 with this:

Second job I did with this chain. Brand new RCS! The deal was to cut it to fence level. A half inch higher and I would have missed it! Unbelievably, the chain is still throwing good chunks rocked. A little work on a couple cutters and I'll be OK I think.

Also bent the new chain on my 200T! Saw got caught in the kerf and dropped on the lanyard holding the log I was cutting (small piece) but a chunk of wood got caught between the chain and the bar bending the chain to the point it won't roll on the bar. Thank God I had a spare with me.

Then I blew out a loop on my saddle and lost my rope ring and saw snap!

And people wonder why this work cost so much. I'd like to see them keep up with the equipment costs for awhile then get back to me on that one.

Oh yeah, I also lost the bottom screw for the dog on my 260. I had a spare one but it was still a pain in the arse.

Couple more pics: Nate "The Walkman" (groundman extraordinaire):

Tomorrow's tree. Brushed it out today but will drop the trunks tomorrow when I go back to load the logs:

 

[gr8scott72]

I feel your pain. I did a large stump job Saturday (8 hours of grinding) and broke 1 tooth, 1 other is smooth missing, went thru 21 gallons of diesel, and the metal piece that the air intake boot is c-clamped to broke into 2 pieces (not at a weld or seem, the metal just broke in two.)

I was going to put on a couple of teeth and went back to the trailer and realized I had just sent all my dull teeth to be sharpened and didn't have any spare shorts.

I did get a nice tan on my arms. (Just don't look under my sleeves. lol)

 

[John464]

sounds like a normal day to me and id even say it was a good day as long as you made money. a bad day is when a hydro line breaks and you have 5 gallons of oil sprayed all over your customer's nice yard, your boom is stuck in the air, you cant move the piece of equipment out of the way to get the tree finished. you have a whole crew staring out the machine trying to fix the machine. Its going to cost you more than the job was bid for time wasted, paying your help, fixing the yard, disposing of spill and replacing with clean soil/turf. power washing the once white new yellow vinyl fence. The customer is home and sees the whole catastrophe. Screaming and yelling. Trying to ease the customer's worries all while trying to figure out who to send to what store, who to send to another job so they can make you some money, and who to keep on the mess to help get the boom down. Then having to go back and try it all over again.

There can be some real bad days when in comes to equipment. If all that happened to you was a few ruined chains, consider your day decent, it could of been a lot worse.

 

[tree md]

sounds like a normal day to me and id even say it was a good day as long as you made money. a bad day is when a hydro line breaks and you have 5 gallons of oil sprayed all over your customer's nice yard, your boom is stuck in the air, you cant move the piece of equipment out of the way to get the tree finished. you have a whole crew staring out the machine trying to fix the machine. Its going to cost you more than the job was bid for time wasted, paying your help, fixing the yard, disposing of spill and replacing with clean soil/turf. power washing the once white new yellow vinyl fence. The customer is home and sees the whole catastrophe. Screaming and yelling. Trying to ease the customer's worries all while trying to figure out who to send to what store, who to send to another job so they can make you some money, and who to keep on the mess to help get the boom down. Then having to go back and try it all over again.

There can be some real bad days when in comes to equipment. If all that happened to you was a few ruined chains, consider your day decent, it could of been a lot worse.

I hear you there. A real bad day would be dropping one on the house...

Thank God I've not experienced that.

 

[TreEmergencyB]

sounds like a normal day to me and id even say it was a good day as long as you made money. a bad day is when a hydro line breaks and you have 5 gallons of oil sprayed all over your customer's nice yard, your boom is stuck in the air, you cant move the piece of equipment out of the way to get the tree finished. you have a whole crew staring out the machine trying to fix the machine. Its going to cost you more than the job was bid for time wasted, paying your help, fixing the yard, disposing of spill and replacing with clean soil/turf. power washing the once white new yellow vinyl fence. The customer is home and sees the whole catastrophe. Screaming and yelling. Trying to ease the customer's worries all while trying to figure out who to send to what store, who to send to another job so they can make you some money, and who to keep on the mess to help get the boom down. Then having to go back and try it all over again.

There can be some real bad days when in comes to equipment. If all that happened to you was a few ruined chains, consider your day decent, it could of been a lot worse.

amen

 

[ropensaddle]

sounds like a normal day to me and id even say it was a good day as long as you made money. a bad day is when a hydro line breaks and you have 5 gallons of oil sprayed all over your customer's nice yard, your boom is stuck in the air, you cant move the piece of equipment out of the way to get the tree finished. you have a whole crew staring out the machine trying to fix the machine. Its going to cost you more than the job was bid for time wasted, paying your help, fixing the yard, disposing of spill and replacing with clean soil/turf. power washing the once white new yellow vinyl fence. The customer is home and sees the whole catastrophe. Screaming and yelling. Trying to ease the customer's worries all while trying to figure out who to send to what store, who to send to another job so they can make you some money, and who to keep on the mess to help get the boom down. Then having to go back and try it all over again.

There can be some real bad days when in comes to equipment. If all that happened to you was a few ruined chains, consider your day decent, it could of been a lot worse.

Momma said there would be days like this and she weren't lying neither

 

[TimberMcPherson]

A really bad day is the one you or one of your crew dont walk away from. But yeah, breaking gear sucks.

 

[TDunk]

It seems like alot more people are having equipment problems this year

 

[TreeClimber57]

I hear you there. A real bad day would be dropping one on the house...

Thank God I've not experienced that.

Hopefully never will either !! That would not be a good day, week or month.. But yes equipment does break, and unfortunately cost money to fix. And everybody wonders why you can't work for $10 an hour.

 

[KD57]

Yep, bad day for sure, but it could always be worse.
I cut up a blowdown at my friends house Sat. Sad, because he is paralyzed, confined to a wheelchair, and the whole time he was sitting on the porch watching me. I know he wishes he was out there w/ a saw again helping. Sure was hard for me to work w/o thinking about him.

 

[TreeClimber57]

Sad, because he is paralyzed, confined to a wheelchair, and the whole time he was sitting on the porch watching me. I know he wishes he was out there w/ a saw again helping. Sure was hard for me to work w/o thinking about him.

Man that sucks.. Great thing you did though!! Congrats.. You mention with saw again helping, so I would assume he at one time did similar or same work (hopefully was not a work related accident).

 

[ozzy42]

Man, what a bad day for equipment! First of all I rocked the chain on my 25" bar on my 044 with this:

Second job I did with this chain. Brand new RCS! The deal was to cut it to fence level. A half inch higher and I would have missed it! Unbelievably, the chain is still throwing good chunks rocked. A little work on a couple cutters and I'll be OK I think.

Also bent the new chain on my 200T! Saw got caught in the kerf and dropped on the lanyard holding the log I was cutting (small piece) but a chunk of wood got caught between the chain and the bar bending the chain to the point it won't roll on the bar. Thank God I had a spare with me.

Then I blew out a loop on my saddle and lost my rope ring and saw snap!

And people wonder why this work cost so much. I'd like to see them keep up with the equipment costs for awhile then get back to me on that one.

Oh yeah, I also lost the bottom screw for the dog on my 260. I had a spare one but it was still a pain in the arse.

Couple more pics: Nate "The Walkman" (groundman extraordinaire):

Tomorrow's tree. Brushed it out today but will drop the trunks tomorrow when I go back to load the logs:

I feel your pain. I did a large stump job Saturday (8 hours of grinding) and broke 1 tooth, 1 other is smooth missing, went thru 21 gallons of diesel, and the metal piece that the air intake boot is c-clamped to broke into 2 pieces (not at a weld or seem, the metal just broke in two.)

I was going to put on a couple of teeth and went back to the trailer and realized I had just sent all my dull teeth to be sharpened and didn't have any spare shorts.

I did get a nice tan on my arms. (Just don't look under my sleeves. lol)

sounds like a normal day to me and id even say it was a good day as long as you made money. a bad day is when a hydro line breaks and you have 5 gallons of oil sprayed all over your customer's nice yard, your boom is stuck in the air, you cant move the piece of equipment out of the way to get the tree finished. you have a whole crew staring out the machine trying to fix the machine. Its going to cost you more than the job was bid for time wasted, paying your help, fixing the yard, disposing of spill and replacing with clean soil/turf. power washing the once white new yellow vinyl fence. The customer is home and sees the whole catastrophe. Screaming and yelling. Trying to ease the customer's worries all while trying to figure out who to send to what store, who to send to another job so they can make you some money, and who to keep on the mess to help get the boom down. Then having to go back and try it all over again.

We've all had em man,just have to go with the flow sometimes.
Hope tomorrow is better for everybody.

clickhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4SLSP5HaeM You;ll feel better.

Sorry for the bad link,it was working earlier when I postes it.
Should be good now.