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Rope you work solo not even a regular groundie.
can tree work be learned??
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ropensaddle
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I have the wife on the tricky ones:monkey:
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Nice!
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Flush it really many times seems easier to do the **** myself, than to get ticked at the now a day worker! If they get it great but I have yet to see a groundie carry his weight accept, if it was a contract climber doing my ground help. I have had some of our members help and it was nice but unfortunately the workload won't sustain them or myself full time.
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I hear ya , I have yet to find a groundie that can keep up. I have got one guy that is a horse but his hours are sporadic and he has no clue about running the rigging. I have been doing a few things with some members on here and it's nice when they know a thing or two.
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I hired some extra help once and told the wife she was ground boss. She said never do it again lol she really outworked two boys and that is fact. When I got down, I overheard the two arguing about which one would drag the brush and which would chip. I came in on them and said I will make it easy, neither you'll both go home. I asked the wife how long they worked and overpaid them for two hours because she did more than they did
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Do you ever wonder what happened? When I was in high school we all had jobs doing trees, landscaping, and farm chores. When did people get so frigging lazy?
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Round bales screwed the pooch. I hauled square bales from 13 to 17 and some after. It was what a boy did and you got paid by the bale so you learned to produce or were broke
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Round bales screwed the pooch. I hauled square bales from 13 to 17 and some after. It was what a boy did and you got paid by the bale so you learned to produce or were broke
My personal best was 1,700 bales of fresh cut alfalfa stacked 12'. Me and baling twine go way back.
ropensaddle
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Thats a good day we had a big loader driving platform and a bit more than that but it was a team and equipped!
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Exactly, and why pay someone else to do the job if you can handle the workload?
When I started this industry I learned and worked with my teachers, and consumed as much info as possible on off days and evenings to where I could actually share new things with them. When I ran a crew I taught while I worked, and now I'm investing my teaching and learning into my own family for the future. Why teach what might be your future competition if you don't have to?
Therefore, IMHO, doers make the best teachers and students. I haven't learned much from those that do not do, and neither have I taught much to those that do not do.
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It was a very very long day I couldn't feel my arms for a few days after.
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Btw I am not itchin my butt off thinking about alfapha:rant:
So true!
ropensaddle
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Lol yup and when you did you were scratchin lol. I have been asked my hours of operation and if the works there I have answered daylight till dark and many can't wrap their mind around that lol
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Round bales screwed the pooch. I hauled square bales from 13 to 17 and some after. It was what a boy did and you got paid by the bale so you learned to produce or were broke
LOL, thats a good one. Theres alot of truth in it. dang round bales . It goes much deeper than round bales but thats a good example of where n how things are changing.
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My parents did not enable me to sit on my ass. I thank them now even though I still hate gardening every since lol. I did my chores and ate the profits, as did they and if I wanted gas to run aroud and service my honey's I went to work for it lol.
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Lol yup and when you did you were scratchin lol. I have been asked my hours of operation and if the works there I have answered daylight till dark and many can't wrap their mind around that lol
I like saying 23 1/2 hours a day eight days a week. When asked why not 24 hours a day I say you gotta have some time to eat, sleep, and poop
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No accident that farming would be brought up...so many real tree guys I know have an ag background. In fact, the vast similarities are no doubt what partially draws me to arboriculture, though it has many of its own qualities.
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