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Clearance, Thank you for the nice reply to my previous post. Be careful out there performing your thankless tasks. 
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Clearance,
Glad to see that you were able to see where you were a bit off-base and then step up and admit it without excuses. I respect that! I like your analolgy between the framers and the finishing carpenters, which is good for another reason: The finish carpenter doen't get all critical of the hammer marks a framer leaves behind on the 2-by-4's because he knows it's not important, and the framer doen't laugh at a finisher when he sees him using a tiny nail-setting punch on the mantlepiece molding. It's just the way the job is done.
My previous employer sent me out to do a r.o.w. job. Just a roadside r.o.w. I'm not certified to work high-voltage, just beat the trees back from the side of the road, you know how it gets here on the coast, if you don't do trimming, soon you wouldn't have a road!
So out I go with the bucket truck, with instruction to use the hydraulic trim-saw stick as much as possible, much faster than my chain-saw. Fair enough. I get to work, and around lunch the boss calls me up on the radio-phone.
"How's the job going?"
"Well, I don't see getting in done in two days, it's a lot of small cuts."
"Now, listen up, here's how to use the trim-saw. Station your bucket. Swing the saw in a twelve-foot circle. Advance your bucket. Swing your saw in a twelve-foot circle. Repeat. Got it?"
"Uh, what about stubs, cutting to a lateral with one third the diameter of the..."
"Swing the saw in a twelve-foot circle. Get over it and move on."
"Twelve-foot circle. Check, got it, boss."
>click<
I got on with it, didn't like it, but I got on with it. I felt, I suppose, like a stone mason who had been asked to bust up a sidewalk with a pnuematic drill. Nothing wrong with either job, both are valuable, it was just not a good fit with my skills.
I have since moved on to a different employer whose expectations are a closer match to my skills. C'est la vie!
Glad to see that you were able to see where you were a bit off-base and then step up and admit it without excuses. I respect that! I like your analolgy between the framers and the finishing carpenters, which is good for another reason: The finish carpenter doen't get all critical of the hammer marks a framer leaves behind on the 2-by-4's because he knows it's not important, and the framer doen't laugh at a finisher when he sees him using a tiny nail-setting punch on the mantlepiece molding. It's just the way the job is done.
My previous employer sent me out to do a r.o.w. job. Just a roadside r.o.w. I'm not certified to work high-voltage, just beat the trees back from the side of the road, you know how it gets here on the coast, if you don't do trimming, soon you wouldn't have a road!
So out I go with the bucket truck, with instruction to use the hydraulic trim-saw stick as much as possible, much faster than my chain-saw. Fair enough. I get to work, and around lunch the boss calls me up on the radio-phone.
"How's the job going?"
"Well, I don't see getting in done in two days, it's a lot of small cuts."
"Now, listen up, here's how to use the trim-saw. Station your bucket. Swing the saw in a twelve-foot circle. Advance your bucket. Swing your saw in a twelve-foot circle. Repeat. Got it?"
"Uh, what about stubs, cutting to a lateral with one third the diameter of the..."
"Swing the saw in a twelve-foot circle. Get over it and move on."
"Twelve-foot circle. Check, got it, boss."
>click<
I got on with it, didn't like it, but I got on with it. I felt, I suppose, like a stone mason who had been asked to bust up a sidewalk with a pnuematic drill. Nothing wrong with either job, both are valuable, it was just not a good fit with my skills.
I have since moved on to a different employer whose expectations are a closer match to my skills. C'est la vie!
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Last week one of our crews came upon a magnolia tree in a back yard that needed just a few small pruner clips to clear the line. I don't know the exact species of the tree, but it is a smaller ornamental type tree that gives off beautiful flowers for about 2 weeks in the spring. Kinda common around here in Michigan. ( When we were sent to clean up after Isabelle a couple of years ago in Massachusets, we were told of another Magnolia that was much larger with thick green foilage and clusters of large, hard seedpods) Anyhow, the homeowner lady threw a fit because she didn't want her pretty tree butchered. The tree was trimmed making a few small pruner clips, harldy noticable at all. The trimmer even went around the tree and made a few very small clips to shape the tree a bit to the homeowners liking. The next day when the crew was working in the next yard, they noticed the lady had someone else trim her tree again. They POLLARDED the whole tree! Stubs everywhere! Looked very bad! Too bad it sounds like the poor old lady was taken.
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