How mad would this make you?

[fishercat]

look around for used equipment.

we found a 2002 Bandit 250 XP with 1500 hours for $9,000.

it ran rough until i changed the fuel filter. after taht i tightened the belts and adjusted the bed knife.been running like a dream for more that a year.

you can get those Vermeer 625s cheap right now.a lot of guys bash them but if you keep everything adjusted and maintained,they actually do a good job. ask Stihl-O-Matic.

they are light and two guys can move it around fairly easy. no pintle hitch either.i pull it with my 85 Toyota pick up.that's also what i picked it up with in Syracuse NY.

 

[John464]

Right on man. Ever see the guy on Discovery who logs with mules? He's either a genius or an idiot and I guarantee he's no idiot. He's making money with almost no overhead.

now see thats a company that has his mules, in this case equipment. and has help there to steer the mules. he doesn't do a job without his mules or employees. im sure he doesn't show up to a job without his mules or take on work his mules cant get through efficiently in order to turn a nice profit.

so what will it be next a chipper or a mule? LOL!

im sorry if I came across as harsh but I see too many weekend warriors underbidding jobs, with no equipment, not doing the job correctly the first time, and then making no profit. everybody loses.

 

[lxt]

now see thats a company that has his mules, in this case equipment. and has help there to steer the mules. he doesn't do a job without his mules or employees. im sure he doesn't show up to a job without his mules or take on work his mules cant get through efficiently in order to turn a nice profit.

so what will it be next a chipper or a mule? LOL!

im sorry if I came across as harsh but I see too many weekend warriors underbidding jobs, with no equipment, not doing the job correctly the first time, and then making no profit. everybody loses.

:agree2:, sound familiar uhh?


good post John!

LXT............

 

[ROOTSXROCKS]

Problem is when you hire Mules and they get pretty good at their job they can turn into Jackasses, Me thinks this is a common trait amongst the personality that makes for a good climber.

 

[Garden Of Eden]

I did a job this summer where someone was "borrowing" my truck. So I show up all my climbing gear in a pontiac sunfire. lol You should see the Property Owner's face. I drop 4 black walnuts, a Douglas Fir, and a Large Maple. All before lunch. Come back 20 min later with another guy and the 3 of us limb and buck all of it, then start stacking. Got done stacking into the guy buying the wood's trailer the next morning. The rest of the brush, I called the City, and told the we had a huge pile, and they needed a grapple truck. Sure enough they came, and grabbed all the brush, and disposed of it, free. By noon the next day, no truck, I had all the trees gone.

Point I guess is, equipment isn't everything all the time. Sure there are tools for jobs. However, there's more than one way to skin a deer. Besides, in Flint, it's so bad, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who "cuts trees" for a living. I just refuse to go into debt for a business, or anything else for that matter. I'd much rather be a little creative.

Thanks for listening, God bless,

Jeff

 

[arbor pro]

That guy wouldn't even need to return to my jobsite. Gone for 5 hours... if he wasn't laying half-dead in some emergency room, he'd be fired. Period.

Second, I can't help but ask, didn't you at least have a second vehicle with a 2" ball hitch along??? Those chippers have enough hitch weight that you can hitch a pintel up to just the ball and SLOWLY move it around. I say this because I move chippers and stump grinders (with pintel hitches) around on a 2" ball around my lot all the time. sure, every now and then, the pintel pops off but, if you have the jack down and are going slow, no worries.

Also, that's what the second helper is for - to stand on the hitch to give it more weight...

I do feel for ya and would fire that SOB in no time at all but I also agree that you set yourself up for that one. Should have been better prepared and seen that one coming.

 

[treemandan]

Once me and 2 other guys were setting up a tree with top rope and we were just going to cut it at the bottom and lower it. I had set 2 ropes for which to support the tree and direct it. I had been telling these bozos the plan and they seemed to be in agrrement so I fire up the saw and look to the one guy for confirmation, he nods and says " go ahead" so I look to the other guy and there is the end off the rope but there is nobody around.
We looked all over, I checked under the seat in the man cab TWICE! We keep looking and calling and finally called the boss to say the guy was just gone from the face of the earth. I mean he was right there up to about 2 seconds before I was about to make the cut... then GONE.
He comes walking down the sidewalk about an hour later with a sno cone. He had walked about a half mile to the Wawa and another half mile back.