..maybe the biggest I've ever dealt with. I posted this on a ski forum, now off to bed for more big work days ahead, maybe less time fielding phone calls.....and more working.
<<Yep, the storm was tragic for many.....up to a million out of power at peak. but for me, the only tragedy is no skiing. I must have fielded 90 calls today, which ate into the amount of work I was able to get done. Maybe billed out $5000 total...had two other tree guys and a landscape crew helping out. But I heard one company with maybe 5 guys billed out $22,000...and that was all without crane assistance. (sounds like he is gouging the insurance companies to me....anything over double time is not cool unless the work is highly dangerous or technical...)I think I'll be doing a bunch of crane work the nest few days. One of the largest insurance claims construction company sends me as much of their work as I can handle...for which I prolly could field 6 crews. Sounds like they had as many as 400 calls mostly trees on houses.
Bummer, may be working for a month straight, missing all this primo pow...but if and when it ever slows down, I could afford 10 straight heli ski days...or buy my own crane!!
Another bud had two chippers and 5 guys at work in Medina on one pin oak all day today...tomorrow they crane the rest off the house.....wow, that sounds like a biggie!!
I removed a 150 foot fir fallen across an East Mercer Way private drive..it was blocking 10 homes....it also broke a power pole and was laying across East Mercer, along with all the wires...with no juice in them of course. It demolished a large snappgy old maple as it fell...
No pictures, too danged busy.
One of my arbo buds who helped out today as always, lives at Alpental with a pro troller...he's bumming too about the missed skiing, but he needs money too....me too, as I loaned him $1500 to buy a truck last summer and he's only paid $100 so far...till now.
His new truck was stranded behind the Middle Fork Snoqualmie road wash out early November, across from Goldmeyer. He backpacked out with a 90 pound pack, carrying an 046 and 064 Stihl, and his dog, through the deep water parts of the washed out road..and at least a 5 mile hike out. We weren't sure of his status for about 18 hours, and were ready to rent a chopper to do a a food drop....but this is another story...later he hiked in to get more stuff including his 30 pound 084 Stihl....then finally they fixed the road and he got his truck.. a 2004 Ford 4wd.. after about 3 weeks. He'd been up at the Crystal mine across from Goldmeyer, doing tree work for the mine folks, There was a lot more to the story.. including technical river crossings on a cable to help out the over wintering hot springs couple who live up there all winter, never leaving....and getting down off the mine which required some rapelling....
<<Yep, the storm was tragic for many.....up to a million out of power at peak. but for me, the only tragedy is no skiing. I must have fielded 90 calls today, which ate into the amount of work I was able to get done. Maybe billed out $5000 total...had two other tree guys and a landscape crew helping out. But I heard one company with maybe 5 guys billed out $22,000...and that was all without crane assistance. (sounds like he is gouging the insurance companies to me....anything over double time is not cool unless the work is highly dangerous or technical...)I think I'll be doing a bunch of crane work the nest few days. One of the largest insurance claims construction company sends me as much of their work as I can handle...for which I prolly could field 6 crews. Sounds like they had as many as 400 calls mostly trees on houses.
Bummer, may be working for a month straight, missing all this primo pow...but if and when it ever slows down, I could afford 10 straight heli ski days...or buy my own crane!!
Another bud had two chippers and 5 guys at work in Medina on one pin oak all day today...tomorrow they crane the rest off the house.....wow, that sounds like a biggie!!
I removed a 150 foot fir fallen across an East Mercer Way private drive..it was blocking 10 homes....it also broke a power pole and was laying across East Mercer, along with all the wires...with no juice in them of course. It demolished a large snappgy old maple as it fell...
No pictures, too danged busy.
One of my arbo buds who helped out today as always, lives at Alpental with a pro troller...he's bumming too about the missed skiing, but he needs money too....me too, as I loaned him $1500 to buy a truck last summer and he's only paid $100 so far...till now.
His new truck was stranded behind the Middle Fork Snoqualmie road wash out early November, across from Goldmeyer. He backpacked out with a 90 pound pack, carrying an 046 and 064 Stihl, and his dog, through the deep water parts of the washed out road..and at least a 5 mile hike out. We weren't sure of his status for about 18 hours, and were ready to rent a chopper to do a a food drop....but this is another story...later he hiked in to get more stuff including his 30 pound 084 Stihl....then finally they fixed the road and he got his truck.. a 2004 Ford 4wd.. after about 3 weeks. He'd been up at the Crystal mine across from Goldmeyer, doing tree work for the mine folks, There was a lot more to the story.. including technical river crossings on a cable to help out the over wintering hot springs couple who live up there all winter, never leaving....and getting down off the mine which required some rapelling....
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all we can get is the occasional text message.
