Ever quote low because the job looked fun

[treemandan]

I will do jobs I want to nail for less but not so low that illegals bid higher! I sometimes want a particular job due to getting into the hood I want. Exposure jobs I will cut my price some for the free exposure and schedual for a weekend.

Are you saying there is actually a " hood" in Arkansas?

Anyway, I do sub out for 3 a day and I have to tell you I am game for anything. I will go the distance however far, my goal is to get it done ( and crush the non- beleivers) and I have to admit while its not always monetarily practical it sure is fun.

 

[ropensaddle]

Are you saying there is actually a " hood" in Arkansas?

Anyway, I do sub out for 3 a day and I have to tell you I am game for anything. I will go the distance however far, my goal is to get it done ( and crush the non- beleivers) and I have to admit while its not always monetarily practical it sure is fun.

Yup several hoods lol PS: better put a three day minimum if your traveling far bro. Or at least have several gigs in the trip!

 

[treemandan]

Yup several hoods lol PS: better put a three day minimum if your traveling far bro. Or at least have several gigs in the trip!

I'm proud to say there is a murder ( one at least a night) where I come from.

 

[ropensaddle]

I'm proud to say there is a murder ( one at least a night) where I come from.

Lol don't know if that would make me proud. Little Rock used to be terrible still pretty bad for its size. I don't care for ignorant crime myself but I guess it helps control population some.

 

[treemandan]

Lol don't know if that would make me proud. Little Rock used to be terrible still pretty bad for its size. I don't care for ignorant crime myself but I guess it helps control population some.

OK, I am not exactly proud. But I hear people from New York are a little afraid of Philly guys. It don't really matter to me, I am stayin away from both. I'll take the family to a museum during the day, we pack our lunch and are out by 4 pm at the latest ,and it would have to be way more than one a night to control that crap.

 

[ropensaddle]

OK, I am not exactly proud. But I hear people from New York are a little afraid of Philly guys.

Yeah I saw a gang episode about that area forget their name but pretty bad dudes. I wish they could channel that energy toward a good purpose but hell I am just a country boy that don't get needless killing. Anyway some like the city some prefer laid back country livin and I am the latter.

 

[treemandan]

Yeah I saw a gang episode about that area forget their name but pretty bad dudes. I wish they could channel that energy toward a good purpose but hell I am just a country boy that don't get needless killing. Anyway some like the city some prefer laid back country livin and I am the latter.

Dude, you know. They kill thier brothers for sneakers. I hate to see it. I know people who go in there every day and try to make a difference and that has got to be tough so climbing a few sticks all by my witlle self really ain't all that much.
Everybody has energy to do good, to do right. Its not as easy as it sounds as nothing ever is.

 

[treevet]

Lol don't know if that would make me proud. Little Rock used to be terrible still pretty bad for its size. I don't care for ignorant crime myself but I guess it helps control population some.

I member goin thru Little Rock years ago after they had a documentary on the idiot box about it. They were right....a zillion bars where you can see the stains on the sidewalk from them coming out the front door and yakking their guts out and going back in to get even more fahked up. Delightful.

May have a little to do with the crime rate....and

Never met a boy from NYC (me for one) that would say they were even a thread skeered of a philly boy. ooooooooooooooooooooooo:jawdrop:

 

[tree md]

I used to stop in Little Rock on my way to Atlanta when I used to travel back and forth a lot. I met a girl there and would stop and spend a day or two every time I traveled. I actually lived in Memphis when I was a kid so I have been through there many, many times. It is a party town but I never had any trouble there. But I never went down in the hood looking for it either.

When I was in Atlanta my first gig as a crew leader was for the guy I started out with. When I got good enough to send out on my own he would send me out on the calls down in the hood while he worked the suburbs. I was working projects onetime where the whole place was surrounded by a 12' fence. The place looked like a prison. While I was getting set up to go up the tree someone snagged a backpack blower off the truck and took off with it. I knew this because I saw the security guard who was posted at the gate go chasing the guy through the project. He lost the guy but we found the blower in the walk in basement type area of one of the burnt out housing units. The security guard knew right where to look for it.

Another time I was doing a large removal for an elderly black lady who's house was across the street from another project housing development. The kids came out and stood on the sidewalk and started yelling hey Spyda man, you gonna fall Spyda man. When the big kids came out they started yelling someone gonna shoot you outa dat tree spyda man. Pretty eerie experience. I mean where you gonna go in the tree if someone does start shooting at you.

 

[ropensaddle]

I used to stop in Little Rock on my way to Atlanta when I used to travel back and forth a lot. I met a girl there and would stop and spend a day or two every time I traveled. I actually lived in Memphis when I was a kid so I have been through there many, many times. It is a party town but I never had any trouble there. But I never went down in the hood looking for it either.

When I was in Atlanta my first gig as a crew leader was for the guy I started out with. When I got good enough to send out on my own he would send me out on the calls down in the hood while he worked the suburbs. I was working projects onetime where the whole place was surrounded by a 12' fence. The place looked like a prison. While I was getting set up to go up the tree someone snagged a backpack blower off the truck and took off with it. I knew this because I saw the security guard who was posted at the gate go chasing the guy through the project. He lost the guy but we found the blower in the walk in basement type area of one of the burnt out housing units. The security guard knew right where to look for it.

Another time I was doing a large removal for an elderly black lady who's house was across the street from another project housing development. The kids came out and stood on the sidewalk and started yelling hey Spyda man, you gonna fall Spyda man. When the big kids came out they started yelling someone gonna shoot you outa dat tree spyda man. Pretty eerie experience. I mean where you gonna go in the tree if someone does start shooting at you.

I was down in Little Rock doing a job and heard gun fire a street over I looked down at the home owner and said they shooting at my white ass or what? He laughed and so did I but it would not be funny if it was happening at all. The hood there reminded me of Oak Cliff in the big D!

 

[tree md]

Man, that project where the guy snagged our blower was crazy. We were there for a couple of weeks removing dead trees in there and they wanted us to spray the kudzu on the back fence and try to kill it. Anyway, you could buy anything you wanted in that place. The people in there got to where they loved us because we were cleaning the place up. They would come up and ask me if we were going to do the trees in front of their unit and whatnot. Really some pretty good folks in there, just poor. Of course you had all kinds in there. There was an older woman in there and her son that was the neighborhood market. They had ice cold pop and candy they sold out of their place to the kids. The son, who was prolly 40, would be grilling chicken and ribs in front of their unit and would sell it. They also sold ice cold beer and shots of liquor. Lol, I was young and might have bought a beer or two from them when my work was done. I got to know them folks and they were just as nice as they could be to me. One of the craziest jobs I ever did.

 

[ropensaddle]

Man, that project where the guy snagged our blower was crazy. We were there for a couple of weeks removing dead trees in there and they wanted us to spray the kudzu on the back fence and try to kill it. Anyway, you could buy anything you wanted in that place. The people in there got to where they loved us because we were cleaning the place up. They would come up and ask me if we were going to do the trees in front of their unit and whatnot. Really some pretty good folks in there, just poor. Of course you had all kinds in there. There was an older woman in there and her son that was the neighborhood market. They had ice cold pop and candy they sold out of their place to the kids. The son, who was prolly 40, would be grilling chicken and ribs in front of their unit and would sell it. They also sold ice cold beer and shots of liquor. Lol, I was young and might have bought a beer or two from them when my work was done. I got to know them folks and they were just as nice as they could be to me. One of the craziest jobs I ever did.

I had a job remodeling government housing many moons ago it was an experience. I was in a travel trailer onsite and heard a ruckus looked outside to see my neighbor holding his guts together his wife sliced him in half. Gunfire was heard quite often I had my old double barrel locked and loaded and a 380 auto my boss left with me too.

 

[tree md]

Yeah, I hear ya.That place was pretty tame in the daylight... Don't know if I would want to be around once the sun set. This place was completely enclosed with a 12' fence and there was one way in and one way out with a security guard posted checking everyone who came in so that prolly helped to keep some of the riffraff out.

 

[mckeetree]

The hood there reminded me of Oak Cliff in the big D!

Oak Cliff. The year before I went in business for myself the company I worked for took over a contract from some other tree service on a community improvement job funded by the city. The boss sent me and three other guys over there to start clearing out around some abandoned properties. I didn't want to go in the first place but had no idea it was that bad.

 

[ropensaddle]

Oak Cliff. The year before I went in business for myself the company I worked for took over a contract from some other tree service on a community improvement job funded by the city. The boss sent me and three other guys over there to start clearing out around some abandoned properties. I didn't want to go in the first place but had no idea it was that bad.

Lol I lived there years ago for a few years in the gingerbread part near sunset school. I always kept a gun loaded never needed one but just in case I suppose it is way worse now as that was in like 85 !

 

[mckeetree]

Lol I lived there years ago for a few years in the gingerbread part near sunset school. I always kept a gun loaded never needed one but just in case I suppose it is way worse now as that was in like 85 !

Well that was South Oak Cliff but that was in 85.

 

[treevet]

Yeah, I hear ya.That place was pretty tame in the daylight... Don't know if I would want to be around once the sun set. This place was completely enclosed with a 12' fence and there was one way in and one way out with a security guard posted checking everyone who came in so that prolly helped to keep some of the riffraff out.

When I got back from the service in 71 I did some tree work took some college courses and worked inner city as a security guard at night. You could get some studying done sometimes but patrolling was sometimes scarier than being in the war. They gave me a riot gun and I kept it locked and loaded. Newark....the arm pit of New Jersey.

 

[treemandan]

When I got back from the service in 71 I did some tree work took some college courses and worked inner city as a security guard at night. You could get some studying done sometimes but patrolling was sometimes scarier than being in the war. They gave me a riot gun and I kept it locked and loaded. Newark....the arm pit of New Jersey.

Coming outta there unscathed, well, that's something.

 

[tree md]

Ha, I worked a Summer as a security guard in Louisville, KY and in Southern IN as well. It was the Summer before I started doing tree work and I stayed a Summer there with my cousin. My aunt and uncle were both cops and they got me that job. I worked a few different posts but nothing exciting ever happened to me. I had one armed post that I worked where they gave me an ancient 38 service revolver. LOL, I was like Barny Fife with that thing. I carried my 12 gauge shotgun in my truck with me on one post where I had to guard model homes in a new development. Mostly I was bored to death, sitting around wishing something would happen. Hey, I was 20 years old. Most of my posts were sweetheart jobs. I worked the Executive Inn in Louisville during the KY State Fair. Got to watch the Stones from the roof of that place. It was pretty cool.

Hey TV, Happy Memorial Day. I got mucho respect for your service.

 

[treevet]

thanks md and happy memorial day to everyone. we all deserve a day off to charge the batteries....then get back and kick some serious ass.