Kliens-vs-Bandit

[newb]

The day started out real good. Large lot about 15 trees needed to come down. I had about 7 down when I heard a sound uglier than two cats fighting. A grounder had caught one of my spikes with a branch and ran it through the chipper. Called the day at 12:00 so I could start getting parts. An hour drive to the Vermeer dealer and $370.00 dollars later and I had a new set of spikes. Bandit is right down the road and $170.00 and I had a new set of knives. I already had the bolts and nuts so I don't remember what I paid for those. Cleaned everything out and put the new knives on and the disk turned real nice. Its 5:30 and I have a chip job down the road so I go to make a little money. Fire it up and engage the clutch, and WHAM! Must have been a chunk in there that I didn't see. The disk is jammed so tight I couldn't pound it loose. Tomorrow its an hour and a half drive to the Bandit dealer to drop it off. If I hear one more time "at least no one got hurt" I'm going to hurl. Pete

 

[Nailsbeats]

Well at least both spikes didn't get hurt. I had to say it.

Hey, where is your Vermeer dealer?

 

[TimberMcPherson]

HOLY SH!T!

Thats a bad day, but at least its a fixable day mate, have a beer.

 

[mckeetree]

You know there is just no sense in sh*t that stupid. I know, I know, start with that accidents happen crap, but really, that is stupid. And I would fire that guy I don't give a d a m n how long he had worked for me. That is what you call fatal error around here.

 

[reachtreeservi]

That's a bad one , fer sure.

 

[DDM]

Your climbing spikes?

 

[TreeBot]

Yep his kliens.

 

[TreeBot]

I was at a job once in the back yard and went around front to get the pole pruner. The big Corona 1 3/4" on a big wooden pole. Asked the day laborer groundies where it was.

guy: "Chipper done ate it up"
Me: "what?"
guy: "Chipper done ate it up"
me: "the pole?"
guy: "yes"
me: "wtf where is the head?"
guy: "the what?"
me: "the head, the big pruner head for cutting. The thing on the end of the pole"
guy: "Chipper done ate it up"

They were using it to push brush in the chipper and were using the pruner end of course. I don't know what the knives looked like after that but the Bandit 250XP finished out the day. It didn't even seem any duller than before, LOL.

 

[2dogs]

That sucks. The closest I've come to that is seeing my Leatherman laying on the infeed chute. No harm but dern close.

 

[Pete M]

That's not nice, but you should be grateful he let you take the spikes off before throwing them in the chipper.

 

[clearance]

That's not nice, but you should be grateful he let you take the spikes off before throwing them in the chipper.

Good one.

 

[alanarbor]

One good reason to have a tool/equipment zone well clear of the work zone.

That's as bad as the day we had a ground guy run a 200' 5/8' stablebraid into the chipper. Spooled right up around the shaft of the disk and stalled the chipper right out. What an f'n mess.

 

[tree MDS]

If it helps

So this morning I'm working with the new guy, simple plan: go drop tractor off at next job. I back the truck up the driveway, unload tractor, tell guy drop trailer and pull up so I can put it on the hitch of my tractor winch and back it out of the way on the lawn sinse the customer will let me leave it there. so I'm backing up the rig and way off is my truck driving down the driveway, I'm thinking why is the homeowner in my truck sinse my guy is with me? Then I realize my truck is rolling down the driveway because it has not been put in gear properly (e brake cable been broke), so it goes accross the road and smashes into a split rail fence and stops. F'd up one fender and a plow a little is all, but it was like 5' from a telephone pole and that would have been worse- or if a car had been coming? I played it fairly cool and that other property has a full time caretaker so I'll just let him fix and then reimburse him.

 

[clearance]

So this morning I'm working with the new guy, simple plan: go drop tractor off at next job. I back the truck up the driveway, unload tractor, tell guy drop trailer and pull up so I can put it on the hitch of my tractor winch and back it out of the way on the lawn sinse the customer will let me leave it there. so I'm backing up the rig and way off is my truck driving down the driveway, I'm thinking why is the homeowner in my truck sinse my guy is with me? Then I realize my truck is rolling down the driveway because it has not been put in gear properly (e brake cable been broke), so it goes accross the road and smashes into a split rail fence and stops. F'd up one fender and a plow a little is all, but it was like 5' from a telephone pole and that would have been worse- or if a car had been coming? I played it fairly cool and that other property has a full time caretaker so I'll just let him fix and then reimburse him.

I take is the e-brake is now fixed? The guy was new, did he even know it didn't work?

 

[tree MDS]

I take is the e-brake is now fixed? The guy was new, did he even know it didn't work?

Yeah he knew it did'nt work, and no not fixed yet was on the list. This just happened today. But FYI, the guy drives with his hand on the shifter and keeps knocking it out of third with the weight of his fat a$$ arm, its annoying as hell. Lol.

 

[Treetom]

That sucks newb

I used to have 'a lot' of shovels go through the old chuck and duck chipper. That's why I still use plastic snow shovels with wooden handles glued on instead of held on with screws. Even with reversing feed wheels someone still manages to lose a shovel every couple years through the new chipper. I have to bring this up: What if you were still in the tree and that was the end of someone's climbing line that went into the chipper instead? I had this happen recently. Luckily, the rope broke before I was yanked out of the tree.

 

[mckeetree]

My God man. I have never heard of such.

 

[juststumps]

You know there is just no sense in sh*t that stupid. I know, I know, start with that accidents happen crap, but really, that is stupid. And I would fire that guy I don't give a d a m n how long he had worked for me. That is what you call fatal error around here.

Why would you fire the groundie ????? Personally , I'd fire the guy that "DIDN"T PUT HIS TOOLS AWAY ! "" JMHO

 

[juststumps]

So this morning I'm working with the new guy, simple plan: go drop tractor off at next job. I back the truck up the driveway, unload tractor, tell guy drop trailer and pull up so I can put it on the hitch of my tractor winch and back it out of the way on the lawn sinse the customer will let me leave it there. so I'm backing up the rig and way off is my truck driving down the driveway, I'm thinking why is the homeowner in my truck sinse my guy is with me? Then I realize my truck is rolling down the driveway because it has not been put in gear properly (e brake cable been broke), so it goes accross the road and smashes into a split rail fence and stops. F'd up one fender and a plow a little is all, but it was like 5' from a telephone pole and that would have been worse- or if a car had been coming? I played it fairly cool and that other property has a full time caretaker so I'll just let him fix and then reimburse him.

I'd fire the guy that didn't fix the brake cable, also !!! JMHO

 

[DDM]

I guess its just a good thing your leg wasnt still in the klein.