Dang #%!@*&&^! Winds.

[beowulf343]

Yeah uh huh like to see you wading the swamp with gators
and cottonmouths all around at night to restore power
there wise guy!

You think i'm joking? I've climbed trees covered with an inch of ice while it's snowing so hard you can't see your groundies when you're 10 feet off the ground. And they are working in 3 feet of snow already! All to "restore power." Any row guy in wny can tell you the same exact thing. You can keep the wildlife-would much rather deal with the weather.

 

[tree md]

You think i'm joking? I've climbed trees covered with an inch of ice while it's snowing so hard you can't see your groundies when you're 10 feet off the ground. And they are working in 3 feet of snow already! All to "restore power." Any row guy in wny can tell you the same exact thing. You can keep the wildlife-would much rather deal with the weather.

I climbed 10 days straight in 106+ degrees this past Summer...

We have our extreme weather down here too...

 

[treejunkie13]

May be gusty at times...
Stayed out of the woods today. Good day for maintenance.

 

[ropensaddle]

You think i'm joking? I've climbed trees covered with an inch of ice while it's snowing so hard you can't see your groundies when you're 10 feet off the ground. And they are working in 3 feet of snow already! All to "restore power." Any row guy in wny can tell you the same exact thing. You can keep the wildlife-would much rather deal with the weather.

Look I have climbed in both the north and south worked
for Michigan p&l on the shoreline road I know about cold
don't hold a candle to freakin gators & poisonous snakes
you would go runnin home and your calling us pansies
All this started for me when you were 6 year old boy!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Lol-you guys are pansies. 20 degrees, 30 mph winds, driving snow all day-took a few minutes to get going but not a bad day for december around here. At least there is no more than 10 inches of snow on the ground so far. (Although with the way it's snowing right now, that will probably change by morning.) Just another day at work.

Sounds like Craig Jabs moved to Buffalo "I don't stop till the hydraulics wont work!"

I'm not a pansy, I'm a 42 y/o with arthritis, so be nice or I'll come up there and beat you with my cane you young whippersnapper!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Unless you take some type of land route I seriously doubt you'll get there with your saws JPS.

Fedex et al. will cost a bit, but it will get there in 3 days.

 

[beowulf343]

Ok guys, take it easy-we've all got something unpleasant that makes our job even harder. But seriously, i was surprised at the guys who pack it up when the temps are below 30. A few of the outfits around here go to snow plowing during the winter, but most of them work year around.

I know about cold
don't hold a candle to freakin gators & poisonous snakes
you would go runnin home and your calling us pansies

Lol, you are probably right. Man, do i HATE snakes (a fact that has given my groundies WAY too many ideas for practical jokes over the years-they seem to like hearing me scream like a little girl.):hmm3grin2orange:

Sounds like Craig Jabs moved to Buffalo "I don't stop till the hydraulics wont work!"

I'm not a pansy, I'm a 42 y/o with arthritis, so be nice or I'll come up there and beat you with my cane you young whippersnapper!

Simmer down gramps!! You know, that may be my problem-i'm still young and dumb, i don't know enough to get in out of the cold.
Man, i'm even dumber than i thought-when it's cold enough to keep the buckets home, i'm still out there climbing.

 

[lync]

Wind

Blowing up to about 35-40 gusts here. Spruce removal about 15 feet from 13k conducters and 20 feet above them. I said to myself as I limbed it up if the wind don't quit I'll come back to blow out the top tommorrow. 20 ft of top left, and the wind is in my face, will blow top away from conductors. deep face cut, taking no chances. Wind really picks up, will the rest of the wood I left be enough to hold top till I get block and rope set?? Or will the wind break the top off and land on truck and house drop? Pucker moment.
Back cut w/ 359 over it goes, groundie lets it runnnn smooth. Do it again tommorrow.

Corey

 

[oldirty]

hey beowolf post a picture of yourself big fella. i want to see what half man half amazing looks like. lol


you been sipn on them timmy's thinking of how jealous i am? lol


ok serious now.

i worked line clearance for a season flying a bucket for a company that i will not name. anyway, the test i took to be able to actually work for them and around the power i took in pencil (so my wrong answers could be corrected i was told.) with no training at all i was given a bucket and a groundguy and sent to the spans. i was gungho and tried but now as i look back on it knowing the little that i know, i am sure i did more harm than good. 8 ft i was told. so anything within 8-10 got hammered. and by hammered i mean hammered. at that time in my career i was green as hell when it came to knowing anything important. i just wanted the work.

anyway the reason my effort for them was so short was because i got touched by a line in the 3 phase. i was leaning way out making a cut with the hydro pole saw on a branch in such a manner that when it came off the tree a small upright on said branch slackened the line enough to have it touch me ever so gently. i felt it man.

i folded up the booms and got out the bucket hopped to the ground and pulled the riggers up. the cop doing the detail asks me what that "zapping" sound was. i told him that was the sound of me retiring from line clearance. i filled out his 8 hr detail slip (almost lunchtime) and told him he could hang out till 4 or go home cause i was leaving.

you boys that do that work on that side of our field have my respect and i think i have said that in the past. anyway thanks.


oldirty

oh and btw. JPS are you going to ignore me everytime i ask you a question?

 

[oldirty]

i think i might have meant to post this thing in the spikeless utility thread. oops.

 

[ropensaddle]

Ok guys, take it easy-we've all got something unpleasant that makes our job even harder. But seriously, i was surprised at the guys who pack it up when the temps are below 30. A few of the outfits around here go to snow plowing during the winter, but most of them work year around.



Lol, you are probably right. Man, do i HATE snakes (a fact that has given my groundies WAY too many ideas for practical jokes over the years-they seem to like hearing me scream like a little girl.):hmm3grin2orange:



Simmer down gramps!! You know, that may be my problem-i'm still young and dumb, i don't know enough to get in out of the cold.
Man, i'm even dumber than i thought-when it's cold enough to keep the buckets home, i'm still out there climbing.

Nothing wrong with working in it the coldest I have worked in was -40
we had to take turns trimming that day! I just would not get the idea
we are pansies I feel certain I can work along side you rain ,snow,sleet,
and hail and can guarantee you would not call me gramps after a day
with me I am on the hill not over it yet.

 

[windthrown]

Ice and chainsaws just do not work very well together for me. Bad enough with all the rain we have around here, and the mud. Cut in deep snow last year 'cause we had to. But that sucked big time. No more slipping on ice with a live chainsaw for me, thanks. I'll pass, and wait for it to warm up a bit next to a nice fire with the cat purring on my lap.

Y'all want weather, we have pleanty of that for everyone here in the PNW this week.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

oh and btw. JPS are you going to ignore me everytime i ask you a question?

It just may seem that way because I do not read everything, or I may have seen it as rhetorical. PM's work better.

What did you ask?

 

[beowulf343]

hey beowolf post a picture of yourself big fella. i want to see what half man half amazing looks like. lol

Come on now oldirty, you seen my picture. I'm tall, dark, and handsome, wear a blue suit with a red cape and a big S on my chest, can leap tall trees with a single bound, and when i'm not scoring with LL, i'm hanging out in my fortress of solitude.


And i've got to say, when i'm sitting in a timmy ho's sipping on my hot chocolate, it does give me a warm feeling knowing that you are stuck with DD sludge. lol Need me to send up a couple bags of TH coffee for christmas?