treemandan
Tree Freak
So I was looking for someone else to sub for and I found this guy Tony. I have been working with this guy for a few months and if you think I am nuts you gotta meet this guy.
We did a lot of talking beforehand and every job I had been on with this guy he has about killed himself or me. He talks it up if you know what I mean. I talk, a little, but then I do.
So Tony has a thousand dollar job to do, he sets it up with me and I am there with my pick up ( loaded with tools) and the Dingo. He original said he couldn'r afford the Dingo and only could pay me 150.00 to help him for half a day. Well you can't pay me enough to load logs by hand so I brought the Dingo anyway. Its no big deal, we drop the tree and load it no problem = 150 and I am happy to do it really.
So we set a rope and hook it to the Dingo. Its a Hickory and we just notch and drop it. We start chipping, he has an old chipper but it works and any one of you with half a brain could run it no problem. So I cut and he mans the chipper. We are working at a good pace til one limb is too big to get pulled it by the rollers. Tony keeps trying to get this piece to go through and I am standing behind him with my 26 waithing for him to let me cut it so it will go through. But he keeps trying to pick up this big limb and jam it through this old whupped up chipper. I can tell he is working to hard and its showing if you know what I mean.
He gives up and walks up to me and screams in my face about how the chipper don't like butts, I take step back and say OK. Its an old 12 incher the chipper is. I go up to the limb, cut it and put it through. The limd was just to long and heavy to be picked up by the feedwheels. By the time I did that he positioned himself on the other side of the hopper and when the piece went through it kicked sideways almost taking him down as he is waving and smiling at the HO.
After that I took a few steps back to see what he wants to do. All through out this I maintain good eye contact with the guy and he doesn't shut the chipper down or anything so I go back to limbing up this tree to chip it. I mean the chipper is running so that means stuff should be going through right?
The next limb I started to cut was above my head, I had allready cut the bottom limbs out of the felled tree and started on the high ones. I was going to jump cut this one 5 incher and let it go. So I do the bottom cut and I am reaching above my head here. I can do this, its just gotta go right. While I am doing the top cut he runs up behind me smacking me on the back and trying to start his 192 ( which is for suckers anyway, its Ok I was a sucker at one time too).
I turn my head in the middle of the cut and yell " YO! DOn't start no saw behind me like that!" But he don't stop. The limb I was cutting starts to fall and since I didn't finish the cut it didn't break off and drop so it flops around and hits me in the shoulder while Tony is bolcking my escape route with a half running saw.
CHIPPER MADNESS. Has anyone seen this before? I get it too but I don't let it bother me. No reason to, if it gets bad I shut it down pronto and catch my breath. No need to get all crazy bout some stupid limbs going through the chipper. Right Treeco? Right?
So he tells me to leave and I do. I load up the Dingo and roll.He stopped by my place to give me my 150.00 later on ( oh yeah, you better beleive it I want my cash) and gives me the routine how I didn't listened to him and yelled at him and all that BS. Yeah I yelled at him! He is right on my ass pulling on a saw!
I know I move a little to fast for some people to keep track of but this guy was killing himself trying to get this limb in the chipper which I just cut once and fed through no problem. I am really upset about him firing up that saw right behind me. He was going nuts with it too. I should have just turned round and let him have a taste of my 26 right in the throat and next time I just might.
Seriously, that chipper can make you mad. I have seen countless men loose their cool to it. I also have to say that this guy , Tony, is kinda nuts from the start. Me too I guess but if something like chipping the tree can bring you down...
All through this episode I kept good eye contact with the guy I was working with. I would cut a limb off the downed tree, hit the brake on the saw, put it down and lift the butt towards the chipper so hw could grab it and haul it out. I would make a point to stand where we could both see each faces from time to time and would keep the saw low and hit the brake. CHIPPER MADNESS. You can't let it get you.
The one limb that he had trouble with was about 6 inch dia. He kept beating himself to get it through. When he stepped away I cut it ,flipped it and tossed it in, it almost smacked him in the giblets and he had no idea.
I know this work is hard but I do a lot all by my little bitty self. There is no need to get all rampant in this kind of situation. And I have seen it time and again. They get all worked up, the chipper is screaming, people getting hot from the job and then they try to keep jamming the piece that won't go through into the feedwheels hoping for a miracle. That ain't me babe and God dam if I didn't get my buck fiddy...
So Tony Striedeck of Ornamental LandscaPAIN, I guess its you who put the mental in ornamental. Yeah, I told you I go to work.
But really, CHIPPER MADNESS. You all should know it, be able to identfy it and reconcile it. DOn't let it get you.
We did a lot of talking beforehand and every job I had been on with this guy he has about killed himself or me. He talks it up if you know what I mean. I talk, a little, but then I do.
So Tony has a thousand dollar job to do, he sets it up with me and I am there with my pick up ( loaded with tools) and the Dingo. He original said he couldn'r afford the Dingo and only could pay me 150.00 to help him for half a day. Well you can't pay me enough to load logs by hand so I brought the Dingo anyway. Its no big deal, we drop the tree and load it no problem = 150 and I am happy to do it really.
So we set a rope and hook it to the Dingo. Its a Hickory and we just notch and drop it. We start chipping, he has an old chipper but it works and any one of you with half a brain could run it no problem. So I cut and he mans the chipper. We are working at a good pace til one limb is too big to get pulled it by the rollers. Tony keeps trying to get this piece to go through and I am standing behind him with my 26 waithing for him to let me cut it so it will go through. But he keeps trying to pick up this big limb and jam it through this old whupped up chipper. I can tell he is working to hard and its showing if you know what I mean.
He gives up and walks up to me and screams in my face about how the chipper don't like butts, I take step back and say OK. Its an old 12 incher the chipper is. I go up to the limb, cut it and put it through. The limd was just to long and heavy to be picked up by the feedwheels. By the time I did that he positioned himself on the other side of the hopper and when the piece went through it kicked sideways almost taking him down as he is waving and smiling at the HO.
After that I took a few steps back to see what he wants to do. All through out this I maintain good eye contact with the guy and he doesn't shut the chipper down or anything so I go back to limbing up this tree to chip it. I mean the chipper is running so that means stuff should be going through right?
The next limb I started to cut was above my head, I had allready cut the bottom limbs out of the felled tree and started on the high ones. I was going to jump cut this one 5 incher and let it go. So I do the bottom cut and I am reaching above my head here. I can do this, its just gotta go right. While I am doing the top cut he runs up behind me smacking me on the back and trying to start his 192 ( which is for suckers anyway, its Ok I was a sucker at one time too).
I turn my head in the middle of the cut and yell " YO! DOn't start no saw behind me like that!" But he don't stop. The limb I was cutting starts to fall and since I didn't finish the cut it didn't break off and drop so it flops around and hits me in the shoulder while Tony is bolcking my escape route with a half running saw.
CHIPPER MADNESS. Has anyone seen this before? I get it too but I don't let it bother me. No reason to, if it gets bad I shut it down pronto and catch my breath. No need to get all crazy bout some stupid limbs going through the chipper. Right Treeco? Right?
So he tells me to leave and I do. I load up the Dingo and roll.He stopped by my place to give me my 150.00 later on ( oh yeah, you better beleive it I want my cash) and gives me the routine how I didn't listened to him and yelled at him and all that BS. Yeah I yelled at him! He is right on my ass pulling on a saw!
I know I move a little to fast for some people to keep track of but this guy was killing himself trying to get this limb in the chipper which I just cut once and fed through no problem. I am really upset about him firing up that saw right behind me. He was going nuts with it too. I should have just turned round and let him have a taste of my 26 right in the throat and next time I just might.
Seriously, that chipper can make you mad. I have seen countless men loose their cool to it. I also have to say that this guy , Tony, is kinda nuts from the start. Me too I guess but if something like chipping the tree can bring you down...
All through this episode I kept good eye contact with the guy I was working with. I would cut a limb off the downed tree, hit the brake on the saw, put it down and lift the butt towards the chipper so hw could grab it and haul it out. I would make a point to stand where we could both see each faces from time to time and would keep the saw low and hit the brake. CHIPPER MADNESS. You can't let it get you.
The one limb that he had trouble with was about 6 inch dia. He kept beating himself to get it through. When he stepped away I cut it ,flipped it and tossed it in, it almost smacked him in the giblets and he had no idea.
I know this work is hard but I do a lot all by my little bitty self. There is no need to get all rampant in this kind of situation. And I have seen it time and again. They get all worked up, the chipper is screaming, people getting hot from the job and then they try to keep jamming the piece that won't go through into the feedwheels hoping for a miracle. That ain't me babe and God dam if I didn't get my buck fiddy...
So Tony Striedeck of Ornamental LandscaPAIN, I guess its you who put the mental in ornamental. Yeah, I told you I go to work.
But really, CHIPPER MADNESS. You all should know it, be able to identfy it and reconcile it. DOn't let it get you.
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