You guys up there are really steeped in some tree work. So you got your thing, your brother has his and you both use other climbers and groundies?
You know all these people here like you cause you are such a bad ass but in some of the pictures you posted you appeared to be quite a hack. No joke and I am not trying to demean you. I just find it interesting that you know so much but know so little.
I asked you before about who taught you but I guess I wasn't satisfied with the answer. You did tell me your dad taught you a lot but I don't get it. Did you ever work at another company, school, etc?
Really, you mess around with some serious stuff there kiddo.Ever see anyone else do it? What was it that made the seed sprout? Are you now a full time tree guy?
I am only asking because I find it interesting, not bad, not good just interesting. You know by now if I thought you were a spade I would call you one so if you want ramble on, I am listening.
My definition of a hack is someone who routinley hacks and thinks its good.,like MDS. ( a hearty guffaw)
T-man I will try my best to address this, seems you got lost in many inerpretations here and lack much critical information.
First, me and my brother both work for my dad doing treework partime. We also own a fabrication business which us 3 and another partner built from the ground up. We do that 40-48 hrs. a week and then hit the trees, weekends and nights. We also do some logging jobs, have a portable sawmill, and some excavating. I am the foreman/engineer/quality control at my day job, hiring/firing, training, encouraging, disciplining and working on the floor with the men.
My dad taught me and my bro from day 1. He used to run a crew fulltime for Asplund when he was in his mid 20's then he went into the Laborers Union paving roads. Soon he was in Operaters Union (20 yrs), overseeing, moving and running a portable concrete batch plant for the biggest paving outfit in Wisconsin. I always went to work with him as a boy. He let us do things at a very young age.
I have a picture of me at 15 taking the weight off the house side of a big softmaple with a 2071 J-red. That wasn't my first job either, just my first good pictures, before digital cameras. I was taking down trees in peoples yards since age 12, for the record I am 27 and my bro is 23. A lot of my new techniques come from studying AS. I now show my dad some things, but he developed the grit in us to get any and all jobs done, no excuses.
I never worked for another tree company, but have worked as a lineman and union laborer on the concrete paving crew. When younger, worked on many farms, poured basements, welded, did landscaping, etc. I have a technical diploma in Electrical Power Distribution with a 4.0 gpa, top kid in the program and paid for by my own sweat. I bought my home and property at 23, got married at 25 and now have my second kid on the way.
As far as the Hack thing, I don't buy into the notion, I believe it is a marketing term intended to demean others work in order to get work for oneself. Unfortunately homeowners don't have a clue, so treeguys just end up throwing it at each other. You can't stop honest, quality, hard work, done at a fair price, based on solid customer relations, nomatter what label you try to put on it.
It may appear that I know little sometimes, but it is about humility like Rope said. Think you know it all and the critical details will get by you while your head is in the clouds.
Now T-man, I hope this completes your profile on me.
