Nothings ever easy.

beastmaster · Mar 3, 2011

Didn't have nothing going on today so when a landscape company called and ask if I could do a removal for them I jumped on it. The owner said it'd probably be about a a 3 1/2 hour job. I saw the tree, a silk floss, and figured it would take me about 45 min. and made a cash deal.
Had it down in a half hour. I started bucking it up and thats when things went sour. Every cut it seemed I hit metal. In the middle of the trunk I'd hit nails. I sharpened that 038, 20 times and went though 3 new files.
I just recently bought that chain, and it's now almost used up.
I still made money, but barely. I had to stump it with my 14in. top handle echo. The stump was maybe 22 in. Took me 3 1/2 hours to finish up. Nothing ever easy. Beastmaster

treemandan · Mar 3, 2011

beastmaster said:
Didn't have nothing going on today so when a landscape company called and ask if I could do a removal for them I jumped on it. The owner said it'd probably be about a a 3 1/2 hour job. I saw the tree, a silk floss, and figured it would take me about 45 min. and made a cash deal.
Had it down in a half hour. I started bucking it up and thats when things went sour. Every cut it seemed I hit metal. In the middle of the trunk I'd hit nails. I sharpened that 038, 20 times and went though 3 new files.
I just recently bought that chain, and it's now almost used up.
I still made money, but barely. I had to stump it with my 14in. top handle echo. The stump was maybe 22 in. Took me 3 1/2 hours to finish up. Nothing ever easy. Beastmaster

What did you expect would happened after you got the new chain? I dunno bout you but if I had got a new chain and then a landscraper called me for a job i would have immediatley dove under the desk and waited a few more weeks.

But really? 3 files? I would have quit when my two 44's were dull and I really doubt I would try to file them on the job ( just not my style... usually... I hope).

How small did you have to cut the logs? I mean with all that sharpening there had to be a time where you realized there had to be a better way to deal with the logs. No?

Usually we all take the hit when it comes to cutting logs with metal and don't go asking for more money but this situation seems a little to much technical difficulty.

lxt · Mar 3, 2011

Had similar happen to me last year, large norway removal.....down in 3- hrs, cutting up the base (thank god wood was to remain) as agreed upon! took the rest of that day & the next.............2 chains later I finished!!

I dont usually do it but within my contract there is a foreign debris clause.....I envoked the charge on that job!!! then the home owners say I thought you might have problems cause we been hanging ornaments & beating nails into that tree for years!!!!

thanks fer telling me ahead of time!!!!!

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

ducaticorse · Mar 3, 2011

lxt said:
Had similar happen to me last year, large norway removal.....down in 3- hrs, cutting up the base (thank god wood was to remain) as agreed upon! took the rest of that day & the next.............2 chains later I finished!!

I dont usually do it but within my contract there is a foreign debris clause.....I envoked the charge on that job!!! then the home owners say I thought you might have problems cause we been hanging ornaments & beating nails into that tree for years!!!!

thanks fer telling me ahead of time!!!!!

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

As did I. i took down a cherry with a HUGE short trunk. Started working on dropping it, and soon found out it was riddled with steel, like woah. It even had a chicken wire fence post inside of it. Total nightmare....

beastmaster · Mar 3, 2011

Yeah, three files is obsessive,(from home Depoe)but I had to finish. Lucking for me I am a pretty fast chain sharpener. I often times sharpen a whole crews saws out in the field.
To make matters worse I didn't have a rakers file, and after going through 3/4 of the tooth, I desperately needed one.
Silk floss trees are bigger in the middle then the bottom and they were full of water and heavy so I had to cut them into small biscuits so their crew could load them.
Someone must of pounded it full of nails when it was 2 in. round for all those nail to be in the middle of the tree.
If they had been on the outside I'd of barked it with an axe first. This was worse then the horse shoe I hit once in the middle of a big pine out in the middle of nowhere once.