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Yes, it does suck you got under cut by the illegals like that, I went to Houston but had a bit more luck than you I got cut too but I also got a bunch of good jobs and you are right these houses were enormous. We were about to leave on the second day when we got lost trying to find the interstate to leave when we pulled up to a four way stop and a lady rolled her window down and asked if we were looking for some work. She then told us to follow her, the whole time we were following her I was thinking ok so we have one job. She pulls us in to a neighborhood on a private road blocked by a security guard she stops points at a yard and tells us to start cleaning it up. About five minutes into getting it picked up she comes back top me with six other home owners with jobs before prices. I thought I was going to have to pay her. But if it wasnt for her I would have lost my butt too.
 
From Ohio?
Just a real great guy?

I try to treat everyone the same till they screw me over. There has been numerous people over the years who have told me I was an angel for stopping on the road during the dead of night to fix something or help out if I could. My grandfather raised me that way. I will say when someone screws me over things will get real interesting in the future. There is a certain Mac Tools dealer in Mineral Ridge, Ohio who knows it's coming one day. He screwed me over royally and I will get my vengeance even if it takes twenty years.
 
the success derived is from the energy applied. and the experience level from which one operates. move there, be there, and cultivate 24/7.

roll the dice, and be ready to own the results. learn from your experience, and apply it next time, and you might hit it.

anybody can type, this is my job tomorrow.

and for the locals who support, and house us, god bless.
and my man Tiny (brimmstone) could probably whup JPS. at least at the buffet. :)
 
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lets play guess the yield!
supposedly they pay by the ton here? anybody here wanna advise, please call, will share.

I will post measurements tomorrow.

dave
beaumont tx
757 784 4574 cell
 
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the success derived is from the energy applied. and the experience level from which one operates. move there, be there, and cultivate 24/7.

roll the dice, and be ready to own the results. learn from your experience, and apply it next time, and you might hit it.

anybody can type, this is my job tomorrow.

and for the locals who support, and house us, god bless.
and my man Tiny (brimmstone) could probably whup JPS. at least at the buffet. :)

What? A tree on a chicken house. Or an out house. I can't tell. But by all the barn tin I know it is not anything good.
 
i'm guessing you are taking 16 6 logs out. Weight wise i'll say they will be around 3600 to 4000 a piece. Off the top of my head, I can get out the log chart, give me some measurements.
 
lets play guess the yield!
supposedly they pay by the ton here? anybody here wanna advise, please call, will share.

I will post measurements tomorrow.

dave
beaumont tx
757 784 4574 cell


Here, again (thanks big fella Johnny) the woodweb calc site for log weights, Dave
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl

What kind of pine is that? woodweb says a 60 foot loblolly pine log 36 inch small end, 72 inch big end weighs 54000 lb, but an eastern white only 39000....

at $20 a ton, that's $540 for the loblolly. But that same log, if cut to 12 foot lengths, assuming an average taper, and inside the bark measurements, would contain about 8000 board feet. Even at $250mbf, that's a lot more than if paid by the ton, even if the rate were $50 a ton, which is higher than I've heard of....

So, find a mill that pays by scale, and lose the crackhead strippers in favor of a high class call gal.......
 
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off topic, yo John. I just returned from our PNW training conference and TCC. Besides old monkey (Darin) who I stayed with, who is about 240 lb, there was a utility arborist who looked like Sasquatch and said he was the "mascot" for a festival of that sort, who was heavily bearded and upwards of 270 lb...and a really funny and nice fella....and Vernon of Buena Vista Tree Care who tips the scale admirably as well. He is currently employing Richard Kenyon, a visiting Aussie, who came second in the MC, and 10th in St Louis......
 
off topic, yo John. I just returned from our PNW training conference and TCC. Besides old monkey (Darin) who I stayed with,

Yeah, the sasquatch is probably a malaprop when used with me. While not follicularly challenged, I will never be called hirsute. The reason i have the beard I do is that it is the only full patch of fur can grow on my face.
 

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