So whadja do today?

[texasnative]

Not catalpa worms.

 

[texasnative]

Thanks for the link geofore. I didn't realize that there was much of a market for catalpa worms. $10.00 a dozen? A bargain at any price.

 

[Tree Machine]

What do you think this is? Looks synthetic, manmade. I am absolutely clueless.

 

[RedlineIt]

Tree Machine,

Tree appears to be dispensing Accu-fit highviz <32db earplugs for your crew.


kf,

Awesome moonlight removal pic! I have rec-climbed under a starry sky, but that "moonlighting" must have been special!



Had some smallish removals today, birch and hawthorn complicated by service drops. Nothing special.

But when the chainsaws were put away and the chipper shut down and the rakes were out, a little old lady approached from across the street. Not the customer, mind you, just a neighbour who had watched our operation.

She had a plastic bag in hand and she walked up with a big smile. "You boys really know what you're doing, great work, great job." And she handed me the plastic bag. I peeked inside, six-pack of cold beers for the three of us!

"Now you take this", she said, "And remember, you boys shouldn't work so hard."

She wouldn't take thanks, just toddled off across the street leaving me to think that some days, well some days the sun shines just so, and I must remember to take a moment to bask.

Good vibes!

RedlineIt

 

[Tree Machine]

Liquid compliments, backed by verbal support. I think of that as hard cash for the ego.

 

[Ekka]

Hey Kftree, why did you have to do that removal at night?

Hey R Schra, what was those green pellets inside the tree?

Gee, keep the eye off for a few days and feel left behind.

 

[Tree Machine]

It's not been the same without you Ekka. There's been confusion, disarray, a lack of hope, poor attention, flatulence. We've got tree men climbing at night, weird UFO pellets showing up in trees.... Thank GOODNESS you're back!

 

[R Schra]

Hey R Schra, what was those green pellets inside the tree?

If i know i would tell you..... I didnt recover a sample as i haddent any rubber gloves on me (gloves yeah right Those trunks were grinded the same afternoon. heck, today its lawn again. but back to those pellets. i got me the beard from the log and in that is also a part of a drilhole with some residue. I will ask (i cant find out what poison it might be) our chemical suplier if he knows. At last if needed i can bring it to a labratory. (not that i have to know

 

[Jumper]

Hey Jumper something you need to keep in mind is that the Emerald Ash Borer can be spread around by moving firewood.

Dan

To my knowledge, the ash borer problem is localized in SW Ontario...Chatham/Windsor corridor, and not yet up here, 100 miles east of Toronto. In any event the furthest I have transported any of this wood is one mile, so if it is infested with something, it likely is also at my aunt's and uncle's too. These trees were not cut down because they were sick, but because they were interfering with the hydro wires.

As an aside, I had a third phone interview with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines at 1000 am this morning regarding a position afloat as an Inventory Manager. Sounds like an interesting job, 4 mths on,2 off. Hopefully I make it past the next interview, and will be off to Miami for a face to face.

 

[kf_tree]

we did not do the removal at nite silly boy's.......the camera was pointed at the sun when the pic was taken.......so it came out real dark and just "looked" like full moon.

 

[Tree Machine]

I met rb in VA (Roger from Virginia) He was here in Indianapolis with his church group doing volunteer work.

Elizabeth and I were on our twice monthly run, delivering food to homeless shelters. We were in the area where he said they'd be headquartered, near downtown, so I called. It ended up at that moment he was up about two minutes from my house!

Eliz and I pulled up and they were tearing three layers of shingles off a house and it was about 92 degrees. "So this is what a treeguy does on vacation," I mused. I was joking around, but it was actually the stone cold truth.

Roger is a great guy. That brings the number of Arboristsite members I've met personally up to 5. Let's get a good crowd of us at the TCIA Expo in early November? 5 people in 4 years is pretty bad. http://arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=23848

 

[Marky Mark]

All I did was install anti virus and called it a day.

 

[geofore]

worms/trees

Thanks for the link geofore. I didn't realize that there was much of a market for catalpa worms. $10.00 a dozen? A bargain at any price.

The guy with the trees lives about three miles from Lake Arthur and has a place up at Treasure Lake, he'll be out fishing tomorrow. He's going to take a mess of them to show the guy at the bait shop to see if he wants some. Beer money tree . Another site to look at, www.brotherhood-of-catfishermen.com

 

[Ekka]

If i know i would tell you..... I didnt recover a sample as i haddent any rubber gloves on me (gloves yeah right Those trunks were grinded the same afternoon. heck, today its lawn again. but back to those pellets. i got me the beard from the log and in that is also a part of a drilhole with some residue. I will ask (i cant find out what poison it might be) our chemical suplier if he knows. At last if needed i can bring it to a labratory. (not that i have to know

It might have been drugs man! Who'd think of looking in there?

And what sort of stupid poison is a pellet in a ???? tree, it's not like the tree has teeth to chew them, you'd think if you went to all the trouble of drilling the tree you'd use a liquid ... hmm wierd alright, I would've called the coppers and media and got some TV exposure ... heck, couldv'e made a good video

 

[stehansen]

I pulled over 2 fruitless mulberry trees that were leaning over a house. The homeowner had cut off everything going away from the house and got scared when he started in over the house. There was not room for the truck and the tree in the direction it needed to go so I put a redirect pulley on a euc that was in the right spot. Had to pull really hard as the tree had no wood on one side and had limbs going all the way over the roof to the other side of the house. I used an 3/4 arborplex and a tenex loope with the pulley and used the port a wrap to attach the rope to the truck which is a 1989 GMC 7000 bucket/chip truck. It was about 101 degrees and the sweat was rolling off my face as I always am nervous when falling trees.

 

[cannoneer]

2 cars

A few days ago:


Pulled an big fat codominate oak leader that got struck by lightning off of two cars, for the most beautiful girl I've ever had the pleasure to do tree work for.

It's days like that, that make me love my job.

See photos.

Ouch!

Mac

 

[Mr_Brushcutter]

Cut back a Flowering Cherry which had died a long time ago. Left it as a standing stem since it was in a wildlife area. Also cut a lot of dead wood out of a very intresting shaped Elm. had grown along the floor then up.

 

[Buzzlightyear]

What no pics of the client ;o)

 

[stehansen]

No pics of the girl, what a tease.

 

[Stumper]

Gotta love living at the base of the Rockies-This morning I removed a small plum felled by Br'er Bear in his quest for fruit. On Thursday I deflowered a Naked Lady while removing a Siberian Elm. Fortunately the owner wasn't upset.