.......I hate when that happens

[treevet]

When two of you bust a noot to get a big honker in the truck and it rolls off when you don t see, man I hate when that happens

When you re on a job real far away and you made agreement to get paid on completion, and you are almost done and you see the wife and kids and dog in the station wagon heading out the driveway, man I hate when that happens.

When filing a chain and the file slips off the tooth and your hand goes right into a tooth and you try to stick the skin back together and make pretend it didn t happen but the damn blood oozes out anyway, I hate when that happens.

When your handsawing a limb and your elbow goes back into a stub with the funnybone and the meaty part of your hand glows, man I hate when that happens, and it ain t funny at all.

Anyone up for this? Just a sentence or two.

 

[ddhlakebound]

When you make a perfect notch, and a nice bore cut to cut off a codom without nicking the one to be left, and the bark tears out from the edge of the hinge. Man, I hate it when that happens. (I kno....make relief cuts on the sides of the hinge...)

When you're 55' up, at the very top of of a pin oak removing ice broken limbs, and hearing thunder in the distance, and watching a thunderstorm roll your way, all while knowing you don't have time to finish the tree before the storm gets to you, so you'll have to climb it again. Man, I hate it when that happens.....like today.

 

[clearance]

I don't use my handsaw unless my real saw gets pinched, and I wear gloves to sharpen. So that doesn't bother me. What does is when you have just put a killer edge on your saw and you cut through a nail some kid pounded into the tree years ago. But the thing that gets me the most is when you are doing utility work removing hazardous trees, and some people call you names, give you the finger as they drive past, or just give you a dirty look. That takes the cake, ungratefull mutts.

 

[beowulf343]

Drop your rope in dog poop and don't notice till it runs through your friction hitch-grinding it in and smearing it around.

Run out of gas in your saw when almost done with your backcut.

Groundie pulling the end of a rope through the block because you forgot to knot it.

Gaffing out.

 

[Ed*L]

When you throw an almost new chain off the saw at full rpm and the sprocket grinds 4 drivers into oblivion before it quits spinning.

Ed

 

[Timberhauler]

When you're just about done with a job and cutting a log up with only a couple of cuts left to make,and you hit something and dull the crap out of your chain.
Or when you're falling a top and run out of gas just as that sucker starts to tip over..
When your only helper calls in sick.
You get to a jobsite and discover your chipper or New Holland has a dead battery and won't start to save your life.

 

[Joshua]

When you've just spent two hours taking down a seriously scary and well caught up widowmaker without any incidents and you then get a
7mm (1/4 inch) splinter behind your nail just from rolling one of the logs.
F**ing hurt for days!

 

[begleytree]

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You get to a jobsite and discover your chipper or New Holland has a dead battery and won't start to save your life.

been there. now everything gets started before I leave the lot in the am.
-Ralph

might as well contribute to the thread.
...when a customer makes a check out to you and you swing by their bank on the way home to cash it and the teller blinks hard, smothers a short laugh and explains there's no funds to cover it in that account.

 

[talon1189]

When my brand new MS 361 saw with less than 10 hours on it gets pinched in a 15" tree and I try to free it with another saw......and the tree kicks back and down smashing the 361 into da dirt.........I hate when dat happens!

 

[Bermie]

You get asked to deadwood and thin a big tree for a landscaper....good
You check the tree, all is well....good

You turn up (today) walk around and find the $(*&^ contractors have excavated and poured a set of steps RIGHT through the root zone, 6' from the trunk...piled all the excavated material on the other side on the root zone and tipped their cement mixer washings on the top....now I have to write a report to CMA when this tree suffers over the next years otherwise they may think it was my pruning!...I hate when that happens

You climb the tree, all looked ok from the ground, get up there and find lots of tiny nasty little thorns hiding under the leaves, scratched to bits....I hate when that happens

 

[Recon Freak]

When you and the wife think you have a quiet moment and the kids knock on the door. :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Dadatwins]

When you drive across town for an appointment to look at a job for a potential customer that called you because you were highly recomended by the neighbor, and when you get there all that remains is some sawdust and debris where the tree used to be, and a homeowner that says the gardener came by and did the tree yesterday and she forgot to call you. :angry2:

 

[Blinky]

When I get hurried removing limbs from over a house and after tying a runner on to catch the piece... I cut on the wrong side of the runner, and watch the piece bomb into the roof... I hate it when that happens.

When a groundie fills the oil on my 200T and the oil saturates my rope because the dang filler cap wasn't seated right... man I hate that.

I hate it when the pine top I just cut hangs up horizontally without completely breaking the hinge.

I guess what I hate most though is when I'm lugging my freeking polesaw up an 80' Water Oak and before I even get to use it, the leash clip gets wedged open and it falls all the way from my TIP to terrafirma... of course while I'm working alone so there is no retrieving it... yep, I hate that.

OH, and I really, really hate when a customer in a gated community with a 10,000 square foot house pleads for a special price because he doesn't have much money to spend on his trees. I should just tell them I'll remove all Porche 911s, Mini Coopers and F350s for no charge but the tree is still gonna be $550.

 

[beelsr]

When filing a chain and the file slips off the tooth and your hand goes right into a tooth and you try to stick the skin back together and make pretend it didn t happen but the damn blood oozes out anyway, I hate when that happens.

Pinch together and dab on a bit of superglue. seriously.

 

[beelsr]

You're 60 feet up in the manlift and the diesel runs out. And you have 15 seconds of battery left to call for :censored: to come and release the valves so you can descend.

When you have the saw stuck and you didn't bring a spare saw but only an axe.

And you tap the brand :censored: new 28" bar and brand :censored: new chain with the axe. And you end up getting the front end loader and just push the :censored: tree over. I really hate it when that happens.

 

[Rftreeman]

when the groundie shuts the bucket truck off because he can't keep up leaving you stranded in the air for awhile.....hate when that happened but so did he when I got down.......

 

[nytreeman]

I hate it when...
When your trying to finish that big job 50 miles away

one guy calls in sick

another is there.......but sick

chipper is acting up and you gotta climb out of the :censored: tree to fix it

then it storms

trucks all loaded and heading for home and find out that odd noise is your
inside dual trying to leave the rim
and why dont I have a spare tire on this mother :censored: truck????

 

[ropensaddle]

Senior moment, when you are doing a job in sub div. all them houses
and nature is not being nice and you finally find one semi private spot
with no time and two small pieces of toilet paper !


When the new groundy can't read gas symbol on saw and fills
is back assward and sends up eighty foot on a 100 degree day!



When it is that time of the month and you find that bills total
much more than income!



When it has been a week with no calls or jobs and phone rings
you look a number and think alright about time only to hear a yellow
page salesman say its that time and is more than last year.

 

[nytreeman]

When you and the wife think you have a quiet moment and the kids knock on the door. :hmm3grin2orange:

BTW love my kids but I soooo hate that,lol

 

[treevet]

Senior moment, when you are doing a job in sub div. all them houses
and nature is not being nice and you finally find one semi private spot
with no time and two small pieces of toilet p

If that happened after having Taco Bell that could be a senor moment!

When you re out to dinner w the wife at a local restaurant and a recent client and his wife come up to your table to say hi and look at your wife to be introduced and you ve got food on a fork just entering your mouth.........and you ve got no clue what their name is................If at Taco Bell..........again ....a senor moment. hate when that happened!