treevet
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sold a ton of work yesterday and bidding 2 big (for winter) jobs today.
Have a great day. Out in the tundra....later.
Have a great day. Out in the tundra....later.
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treeslayer
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I'll be there tomorrow, then, Dave... 
sgreanbeans
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FREAKIN WEATHER!!!!
So we shut down early because the weatherman said we were gonna get slammed about 2, nothing! Could have knocked out another removal. It starts to spit about 8, wake up and I have about 4" on the trucks
City is slacking this year, roads have not even been touched, so that means bucket truck is not leaving the yard
And its not even winter!
So we shut down early because the weatherman said we were gonna get slammed about 2, nothing! Could have knocked out another removal. It starts to spit about 8, wake up and I have about 4" on the trucks
City is slacking this year, roads have not even been touched, so that means bucket truck is not leaving the yard
And its not even winter!
treevet
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We got more snow last night and it is still snowin. Got more plow and salt jobs this morning.
Way easier when you got mass clients starting plowing than if you just did it cold (pun intended).
Have a great day everyone.
And Dave.....would love to work with you man but just can't afford a third guy at the partay. Cheers.
Way easier when you got mass clients starting plowing than if you just did it cold (pun intended).
Have a great day everyone.
And Dave.....would love to work with you man but just can't afford a third guy at the partay. Cheers.
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
Hi 17 today and sunny, not bad. Snow finally outa here, we should have just stayed in the shop yesterday! Slushy messy, ropes get wet from the snow then freeze, makes for no fun! Gonna split it up today, bringing back in the kid, see if he can cool his jets this time, he better, I am grounding for him! Gonna send the other guy to do a small pruning. Hopefully I can make a little money today, well thats the plan!
"What going on in your neck of the woods"- Al Roker what is a wood neck?
"What going on in your neck of the woods"- Al Roker what is a wood neck?
treevet
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We plowed yesterday, and ....shoveled and snow blowered and salted and had enough of this schit....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3GbF9Bx6E
played an almost 2 hour top of the club racquetball match last night against a 30 year old former division 1 starting soccer player. Match is only supposed to last an hour but when you play somebody that gets to everything and never lets the ball bounce twice......well.....little sore this morning...hey, I am 62 at the end of Feb. Whupped his butt tho.
We gonna do some tree work today. No slush but trees got a good coat of snow.
Winter STARTS on Dec. 20th.....eeeeek thought it was just about over. :rant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3GbF9Bx6E
played an almost 2 hour top of the club racquetball match last night against a 30 year old former division 1 starting soccer player. Match is only supposed to last an hour but when you play somebody that gets to everything and never lets the ball bounce twice......well.....little sore this morning...hey, I am 62 at the end of Feb. Whupped his butt tho.
We gonna do some tree work today. No slush but trees got a good coat of snow.
Winter STARTS on Dec. 20th.....eeeeek thought it was just about over. :rant:
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
U got dat rite, keep thinking, March is just around the corner!
just around the corner
just around the corner
just around the corner
tree md
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Well I guess I have been missing the party. Been busy the past couple of months and hadn't been getting on much until things slowed down a week or so ago.
I'm up pretty much every morning at 5 anyway whether I am working or not... Just hardwired like that I guess. I got up to go hunting this morning but decided to stay home. Have to get a preferred client list together and mail out all these Christmas cards I bought before it's too late anyway.
I'm up pretty much every morning at 5 anyway whether I am working or not... Just hardwired like that I guess. I got up to go hunting this morning but decided to stay home. Have to get a preferred client list together and mail out all these Christmas cards I bought before it's too late anyway.
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
Wife did that yesterday, lots of stamps! Found this card that had a big frozen Oak on it, how fitting!
treevet
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I should get mine out today too.
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
2 degrees! Hi of 25, kuul!
Sent hippie climber over to deadwood an Oak, went their last night to collect, looked at tree, he only took the easy stuff, didn't go up too the top or on the side away from the house,over a ravine, still a BUNCH in there. Dude is scared to go way out. I will no longer need his services, cant afford to do a job twice.Had hippie on a removal, Had to pull him, put wild thing up there, no problem, BIG Maple, back yard, hard pull too chipper in the street, 6"snow, no equipment could be used, all hand carried, 6 hours, start to finish. Had hippie up there for 2 hours the day before, all he had out was enough brush to fill the back of my pick up! He was going over the house, using his hand saw to clear little 1-2" branches, instead of tossing them by hand down to us, he was afraid to sit back in the saddle and let go to free his hands, so he cuts them and lets them bomb the roof! I yell at him about it, he says he cant get any balance! Then hippie constantly criticizes everything anybody else does, has this mentality that he is a god! How is it, that someone who sucks, thinks that their good? Always making excuses of why he did what he did or apologizing for the speed "that a hard tree to climb" Tried teaching him faster ways, more practical ways to approach a removal, instead he cuts brush from the middle and wedges it into a crotch,we have to rip it out of the tree, instead of letting it run. He will not use any type of biner, loop runner or sling in rigging, "Doesn't trust them". He was gonna run my doublebraid thru a really tight crotch instead of using the block!Typical answer for a someone who has never worked for someone with the toys. I asked him why he thinks they are used so much every where else! Why there is a company called ArborMaster that teaches it all over the country. Asked him what that little metal thing clipping his saddle to his line is! I am not claiming to be a god in this, hell I am just a novice compared too many of you, but WTF? To beat all! He starts quoting ANSI standards! ALL WRONG!! It takes him 5 mins to tie something off, that I could have choked/girthed with a loop and biner in 5 seconds! I was embarrassed for him!, Would like to slap hippie in the face with the ANSI books, and tell him that he need to make sure he knows what he is talking about before he starts running his mouth. I thought he would be ok at first, has alot of good tree knowledge. He can climb, just nothing big! He can talk a good game just cant back it up. Talks about how fast he did this or that at other company's, I'm guessing the speed came from the other guys! Cant be fast when your knees are knocking and you dont trust the gear. I think what it ultimately boils down too, is his experience. I think he lies about it. I think he read the ISA study guide and all his knowledge is based out of that.
Sent hippie climber over to deadwood an Oak, went their last night to collect, looked at tree, he only took the easy stuff, didn't go up too the top or on the side away from the house,over a ravine, still a BUNCH in there. Dude is scared to go way out. I will no longer need his services, cant afford to do a job twice.Had hippie on a removal, Had to pull him, put wild thing up there, no problem, BIG Maple, back yard, hard pull too chipper in the street, 6"snow, no equipment could be used, all hand carried, 6 hours, start to finish. Had hippie up there for 2 hours the day before, all he had out was enough brush to fill the back of my pick up! He was going over the house, using his hand saw to clear little 1-2" branches, instead of tossing them by hand down to us, he was afraid to sit back in the saddle and let go to free his hands, so he cuts them and lets them bomb the roof! I yell at him about it, he says he cant get any balance! Then hippie constantly criticizes everything anybody else does, has this mentality that he is a god! How is it, that someone who sucks, thinks that their good? Always making excuses of why he did what he did or apologizing for the speed "that a hard tree to climb" Tried teaching him faster ways, more practical ways to approach a removal, instead he cuts brush from the middle and wedges it into a crotch,we have to rip it out of the tree, instead of letting it run. He will not use any type of biner, loop runner or sling in rigging, "Doesn't trust them". He was gonna run my doublebraid thru a really tight crotch instead of using the block!Typical answer for a someone who has never worked for someone with the toys. I asked him why he thinks they are used so much every where else! Why there is a company called ArborMaster that teaches it all over the country. Asked him what that little metal thing clipping his saddle to his line is! I am not claiming to be a god in this, hell I am just a novice compared too many of you, but WTF? To beat all! He starts quoting ANSI standards! ALL WRONG!! It takes him 5 mins to tie something off, that I could have choked/girthed with a loop and biner in 5 seconds! I was embarrassed for him!, Would like to slap hippie in the face with the ANSI books, and tell him that he need to make sure he knows what he is talking about before he starts running his mouth. I thought he would be ok at first, has alot of good tree knowledge. He can climb, just nothing big! He can talk a good game just cant back it up. Talks about how fast he did this or that at other company's, I'm guessing the speed came from the other guys! Cant be fast when your knees are knocking and you dont trust the gear. I think what it ultimately boils down too, is his experience. I think he lies about it. I think he read the ISA study guide and all his knowledge is based out of that.
Seems you are getting a run of guys not working out. Maybe when the weather is better you will have better luck. Rain here for the next few days.
Jeff
Jeff
treevet
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We're working today as a very old established client of mine passed away at the end of the week. They are having a service at his home way off main roads. He goes to Fla. all winter and we have to go plow and salt for a service there tomorrow. We have had a little over a foot of snow that has not been touched on his prop.
A tree fell over into another tree too and we gonna do that while there.
You gotta be there when they (wife in this case) need you. If you off golfing on vacation you may lose that chance.
A tree fell over into another tree too and we gonna do that while there.
You gotta be there when they (wife in this case) need you. If you off golfing on vacation you may lose that chance.
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
YES,Yes I am.
Gonna keep wild thing around, I called him back after a cool down period as TV suggested and talked with him about the issues I had. He agreed that he needs to settle down. Wants to learn real bad and is really good in the air. Just VERY HI STRUNG!He just needs to watch the temper. Acting like an arse on the job is not as bad as the hippies inexperience, but still not acceptable. I do not think it will happen again, as he was crushed when I let him go.
I can deal with a little attitude, bad work I cannot.
Guess we will see!
Gonna keep wild thing around, I called him back after a cool down period as TV suggested and talked with him about the issues I had. He agreed that he needs to settle down. Wants to learn real bad and is really good in the air. Just VERY HI STRUNG!He just needs to watch the temper. Acting like an arse on the job is not as bad as the hippies inexperience, but still not acceptable. I do not think it will happen again, as he was crushed when I let him go.
I can deal with a little attitude, bad work I cannot.
Guess we will see!
tree md
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That has been my experience with about 3/4 of the climbers I have hired... A good climber is hard to come by. If this dude still has sewing machine legs when he gets up there in the tree he has not been doing it long. Most loose that in the first month... That is if they are going to be able to hang. The ones who can't get over the fear usually give it up after a couple of weeks (if not the first day) and are filtered out.
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
I agree 100%, here is the thing, I know for a fact that he has been doing this for a while, I am the first legit company he has worked for since he was at Davey, about 5 years ago, he was let go for not getting along with the other guys, or so I was told. I think he has mastered the craft of disguise, only when he is around real tree guys, is the truth uncovered. To a hack, I would imagine he is considered a pro. He will go up high, as long as his TIP is pretty much directly above him, when he has to walk out, thats when it starts, which tells me he has not worked on big ones, plus he wont use a re-direct! Again, a clue to him not ever working, by himself in a big tree, easy to walk out a 10ft branch in a Pin Oak, not so much on a 30' in a Maple! Dude is a skilled imposter!
Toddppm
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Is the hippie guy the one that got in the argument with the wild thing? That could be the reason they were arguing.
The hippie sounds like a grand poseur, kinda like this Aerial Arborist that just burst onto the scene here.....:hmm3grin2orange:
The hippie sounds like a grand poseur, kinda like this Aerial Arborist that just burst onto the scene here.....:hmm3grin2orange:
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
No, they haven't worked together before.
That was a ground guy he got into it with. He was a good worker too, just lost his bearing that day, wouldn't mind having him back either, just don't think they could ever work together again, and WT way more valuable!
treevet
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sometimes it is better if they are not buddies. then they don't screw off together and plot against you and hate on you together.
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
Good point!sometimes it is better if they are not buddies. then they don't screw off together and plot against you and hate on you together.
Well! I just got off the phone with Hippie, debated all day on how to handle it, finally just got tired of thinking about it and called him, I wanted to go off, but kept thinking I should just be blunt, cool and calm, well that went out the window as soon as he opened his mouth. He now knows very well what I think. With that said, I have these for your viewing pleasure.
