Dog Crap!

[TreeAce]

HaHa..I got 1 for ya'll. I have run into more doggie landmines this year than I care to think about. This last one really just takes it . When I first bid this job there was not a yard biscut in site,and I know cuz I tend to check. I have stepped in enough over the years to know better than to just go walkn through somebodies yard just lookn up..la de da de da..Anyway...We show up to bust this job out n man I am tell u there was butt nuggets all over the yard!! I mean big mean stinky piles of nasty, NASTY...But the thing is..I was getten a GOOD price for this job. I didnt want to leave. My guys had a look of utter disgust but we cleaned the area as best we could and went to work. It wasnt cool. Keep in mind that the time it took for everybody to stare at the yard then get a couple shovels out then tip toe around scoopn piles took about 30 minutes I bet. Should I have charged these people extra? Maybe not this job cuz like I said..it paid good. But what if it was one that I had bid when it was slow? I have more stories bout puppy piles but I will save em...some are just to awful to relive. But seriously...I am interested in what others have done . And I have a feeling this could be a funny thread.

 

[forestryworks]

Steppin' in the squishy is no fun. Especially when you slide.

 

[Nailsbeats]

I did one this summer that grew out of a fenced in dog run of a back yard. It was going good because the tree was at such an angle that we actually back up the chipper and lowered all the branches into the neighbors yard.

Long story short, we got to the trunkwood that I had to bomb and pile in the dog crap yard and it started to rain, I mean really rain, where the whole town clears out and goes to the diner type rain. Well, being the idiot that I am we take a soaking and finnish the job drenched in a wet pile of dog #### of a yard. The smartest thing I did that day was talk the lady out of raking her dog run cause it was a total mess any way, the small debris actually made the yard cleaner by putting a layer on top the crap.

Another one I can remember was the time we topped and flopped a couple big white pines onto an old dog run next to a house where the fence had been removed. Yard brats everywhere, but we had some snow so they were easy to spot.

 

[beowulf343]

Lol, spent a couple years climbing row in inner city backyards. Seems like every yard had a rottweiler or pitbull and the yards looked like they'd never been picked up. Couldn't go two hours without stepping in crap. Good times.

 

[puzzledmonkey]

I'm a feckin magnet to the stuff!i could be working in a 5 acre feild with one pile of poop in it and guaranteed my boot will find it.

Worst still is when I owned a cat, hot wet cat poop inbetween the toes, sure to wake you up in the morning

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Carry the old, reliable poop scoop. The ones with two long handles that scissor two half jaws together works great and picks up a whole yard in a few minutes if there's not a ton of crap around. Just drop it all in a far corner and don't drop your branches over there.

 

[treeslayer]

Man, I don't care about the boots, or the brush/ GM gloves...........

It's the many hundreds of $$ of rope I might have laid out.....
and My hands......

 

[lone wolf]

worst part is when it gets on your ropes!

 

[WesternSaw]

Dog Crap

I'm just sick of the stuff in the neighborhood.Lot's of dog owners pick up while walking their dogs but a lot take them out at night and crap all over in the cover of darkness.I'd like to rub the owners bloody noses in the stuff.
Lawrence

 

[gorman]

I got it real good on my red wings unknowingly one day and then foot locked up up an oak. set my friction hitch. descended. got it all, over, my bare hands. shock and awe. shock and awe.

 

[Rftreeman]

when I bid a job and there is evidence of the mess I make note that all dog mess is to be removed before we arrive and if I have to clean it up myself I charge extra for that and most of the time the yards are clean when we get there......

I'm just sick of the stuff in the neighborhood.Lot's of dog owners pick up while walking their dogs but a lot take them out at night and crap all over in the cover of darkness.I'd like to rub the owners bloody noses in the stuff.
Lawrence

on this, just follow them home one night without them knowing and then save all the crap and drop it off with a note that says "you left this behind so I brought it to you".....

 

[TreeAce]

ya the rope is the worst. I had some sneak up on me , I think a groundie stepped on rope and poo at same time, maybe even on purpose, and next thing I know I got it allup under my blakes and on my hands . OOMG it was messed up. that knot is like right close to your nose. ...I feel like gagn just thinkn bout it.

 

[ronnyb]

when I bid a job and there is evidense of the mess I make note that all dog mess is to be removed before we arrive and if I have to clean it up myself I charge extra for that and most of the time the yards are clean when we get there......

on this, just follow them home one night without them knowing and then save all the crap and drop it off with a note that says "you left this behind so I brought it to you".....

I do the same thing. I've only had to charge twice for canine fecal removal service, which is an additional 75 bucks.

 

[TimberJack_7]

lol at some of these post holy crap......


Me, I just look for the piles of dog #### and step in it and get it over with. I know that I am going to be stepping in it anyways so I get it out of the way.......ok, not really but that is what I feel like doing sometimes.

Used to work with a guy at Davey many years ago and he would find it everytime. I would somehow miss it but he would plant those big, deep treaded boots into a fresh pile everytime....all I could do was laugh at him.

 

[trimmerman151]

I never got it on my ropes but I do some resdential mowing in the summer you should try hitting a pile with a weedeater its like a bomb. thats why you always keep your mouth shut when you trim a yard, trust me!

 

[Rftreeman]

I never got it on my ropes but I do some resdential mowing in the summer you should try hitting a pile with a weedeater its like a bomb. thats why you always keep your mouth shut when you trim a yard, trust me!

lol....reminds me of a day we were doing a yard for a walk up client and my trimmer guy came stomping out from behind the house cussing that he had dog #### all over him and even in his mouth....

 

[trimmerman151]

Im glad im not mowing anymore at least the piles freeze this time of year

 

[TreeAce]

One of the things that gets me is when the HO knows darn well there yard is full of dog crap and they act like nothins up..or should i say ..down. But ya know they KNEW we was comn and just dont care i guess. just lazy?? I will start putting a dog poop charge note on some bids. I bet that will help. I must say that I have seen HOs run out in the yard when we pull up and start cleaning it up and looking the yard over for any. Sometimes even looking embarrassed that there was even a few days worth of piles to clean. Not enough HO like that though.

 

[trimmerman151]

I like it when they let there dogs run loose in the yard when your dropping limbs. I had a dog grab my throw bag and took off, 200 ft of throw line drug around the house.

 

[sgreanbeans]

2 THINGS

1. Between the toes is the WORST! A Marine buddy gave me a papered English Bulldog, had a receipt for $5000.00, Pedigree 12, Micro chipped Brendal, Marine mascot, cool, cool,cool dog. Dude had to get rid of him because his baby boy was born with that fragile bone disease, I had him about a month, woke one morning for PT, ran down stair's to hit the coffee pot, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STAIRS, WET RUNNY DIARRHEA, SLIPPED IN IT, ALL DOWN MY SIDE!!!!
gave dog away!

2. since we are on the brown subject, got some very good advice for everyone

DON'T TAKE A SLEEPING PILL AND A LAXATIVE AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!