Rain days?

[treeman82]

What do you guys do on rain days? Some people I know will not work on days when there is a steady rain falling. Others just grin and bear it and do what can be done. What do you guys do on days when its raining outside? Not the misty stuff, but a steady rain.

 

[TREETX]

What again is this "rain" you speak of?? Friggin 108 AGAIN today.

Sometimes I suffer through, others it is my excuse to reschedule a week and a half.

I like the rain. Lightning sucks

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Landscape design plans.

Estimates for installation.

Some pruning.

Bookkeeping.

I read a marketing article once that indicated the profit of operating 2 categories of business. So that economic situations would not have as severe an impact.

We found out that it helps to do 2 types of business because of the weather too.

In fact, this year I added stump grinding also.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

i think that climbing, running saws, movin'logs are dangerous enough on clear, dry days.....

i hate being bluffed out by lightning, then everyone else doesn't want to return, or even just unpack; like a horse that has seen the barn....

 

[Stumper]

Read. Tie flys.

 

[NeTree]

Go ATV-ing. Cuz hell, if you come home clean, you didn't have fun!

 

[rbtree]

Out here during the PNWet's rainy season, it is business as usual. But then, we rarely have downpours.

Speaking of rain, someone please send some our way. It is always dry in summer here, but this whole year has been dry. Many plants and trees are showing major drought stress, some already dead....


...and then there's the forest fires. The North Thompson River area of BC, including Clearwater, where Dennis resides, is currently burning up, with the worst fires ever, major evacuations , and at least one town burned to the ground.

 

[DDM]

I started Manufacturing a product since it seems to rain here TOO Much anymore
http://www.tractortotes.com/
Just another headache i guess

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

i figured it was time for you to wander back in! Dang squirrel looks like he escaped from another thread! Pretty slick use of down time!

We gets lots of that lightning around lightning capital; i think the Indian word for lightning is said to be 'Tampa'!

US Doppler Maps & 2 Week Forecast is pretty good dopplers, that you can keep clicking, to square down to your region through successive enlargements.

 

[Striker]

Our main business is planting grass seed. The bos decided to get in the tree business so as to have work in the winter time and on rainy days. Sooooooooooooooooooo, unless it is storming we work.

 

[Treeman14]

Safety meetings.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Hey Nate, it was 58 when I got up this morning!

Kenny, try this NOAA site for weather without the annoying adds http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecasts/WIZ066.php?warncounty=WIC079&city=Milwaukee

Just enter your own zipcode on the top of the page. Milwaukee weather wont help you too much.

I'm of the "depends how much rain" crowd. if it is storming, run leads, do house work, long lunch with the guys...maybe even equipment maintinance. Not that I have much to maintain these days.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Rain sucks. Back in my line clearing days it would shut us down completely. And when you did go out, it was only because things were really bad, and that sucked.

One guy I work with allmost never lets rain stop him. He won't stop until I stop. I don't mind a little rain if I'm wearing spurs. Trimmings another story.

Another guy I climb for uses cranes a lot and can't get in his dump when its wet. Rain messes with him bad.

I try to work seven days a week (when I can) so the downtime from rain ain't so bad.

Rainy days are ketchup days!

 

[Rob Murphy]

Hang out in hallway

Last wet Day (friday) my back was sore and my wife was away so I drilled a hole in the door frame and just hung out a bit.....

 

[Rob Murphy]

Sorry

 

[Rob Murphy]

My son too!

My boy couldnt resist as well.....