So whadja do today?

[cannoneer]

heh

now, you can't go taking pictures of customers and posting them on the internet.

i can't even count how many ways that is unethical.

besides, beauty such as hers cannot be captured by the mere camera.

my guatemalan ground crew had post traumatic stress disorder after seeing her.

we used a bobcat, creative rigging on the bobcat grapple, and number of chainsaws to accomplish the feat of removing this large chunk of lumber without causing further damage.

one car was totalled, the other was badly bruised.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Today, I started my first job as an arborist since bushes are getting tight these days with all the regs and whatnot.
Here's a shot of me and my groundie.
John

 

[Tree Machine]

That's a fine lookin set of legs. Same goes to Mustang Sally.

John, do you know how to match your socks?

OK, everyone else, you can jump in and flame these two for gross underuse of PPE.

 

[Gypo Logger]

That's a fine lookin set of legs. Same goes to Mustang Sally.

John, do you know how to match your socks?

OK, everyone else, you can jump in and flame these two for gross underuse of PPE.

TM, I have another pair of sox just like them somewhere.
I'm still working on my tan though.
John

 

[Gypo Logger]

Oh ya, the nicknack thing. Actually I had to referee an argument with Robyns significant other. She has nicknacks everywhere, like antique sewing wheels and sleighs and cant hooks and peaveys all over the bleedin place. Even freakin muskrat traps all over as though she was trying to tell everybody she was from Newfoundland!
John

 

[priest]

Yes, Treeco, the rear-handle 200 is a bad mammajamma. I bought 2 yesterday ($1000 ouch!!) after killing the one the store gave me as a demo model. It hung in a limb after a mistake too stupid to brag about and hit the concrete patio still attached to the 200 lb limb. At first the saw seemed unharmed, so I continued to use it. It started losing power. As it turned out, the fall had put a hole in the air intake and the saw had been sucking dust for two weeks. Killed the engine. But I loved it so much I bought two more. They are awesome in the trees and on the ground, and way safer than the top-handle. The Stihl dealer tells me that their high quality can be attributed to the fact that they are still made in Germany. Sad. The one product we've moved overseas THIS direction and the quality suffers.

65 mph winds during a thunderstorm caused substantial wind damage. Most of the trees I've gotten called on failed due to included bark. Example: ash tree we removed today.

 

[teamtree]

Wednesday....Started to take down and big portion of a hickory tree that blew out and landed on another tree and customer's roof. Took most of the day to widdle away at it and keep from doing any damage to the landscaping below

Thursday....Came back to clean up the other tree and make finishing cuts and remove broken limbs. Clean up another Soft Maple

Friday....TD one Sugar Maple and move to the next job....TD 2 Tulip Poplars and a White Pine....Called it a day at 11am

 

[Jumper]

Drove up to Toronto yesterday to help my parents deal with the aftermath of the storm that ripped through here Friday afternoon. Should be a bonanza for the tree guys and restoration businesses. Five inches of rain in an hour....our basement flooded(first time in 33 years) through the drain in the floor with a mix of storm and sewage so you can imagine what this place smells like....oh yeah no power for 58 hours until it came on again last night. The restoration guys start tomorrow afternoon so we have to move everything tomorrow morning that is small. Estimated cost of repairs $40K!! What a mess!

 

[Tree Machine]

Holy Ganoley, Jumper!

 

[rbtree]

Second job today. Take down this 90 foot alder with a very dead top 45 feet. No haul...Started it at 4:30. Scott Chapple took down a samll dead cedar while I was getting a lifeline rigged.

It took 45 minutes to get a solid placement at 80 feet in the adjacent 120 foot fir,pull up a static line, tie it off at base, with lifeline run through a pulley then maybe 45 minutes to get the alder down and buck the bigger wood.
The alder had a bit of wood and canopy favor away from the house. I held some wood on the house side in an attempt to keep it clear of the evergreens. It was too dead to fall anywhere but where it was weighted, but still landed ok, only trashing a small volunteer maple, and missing the house by 15-20 feet!

A pretty easy $450....

 

[a_lopa]

cut n leaves are just the best

 

[Jumper]

Holy Ganoley, Jumper!

Finding a restoration company this week is a pretty difficult task, so we started this aft at 1200, and by 1630 I had 1200 lbs of wet sh*t infested carpet out of the basement and dropped at the transfer station via my truck ( Michigan gets all of Toronto's garbage believe it or not!!!!!), things can start to dry out until we get some contractor who is available in. All the floor boards and drywall up to about a foot need to go. I had another job interview this am, and was amazed at the damage to trees here in the north end of the city as I drove there.......though we had no tornados like happened 60 miles west of here in Fergus.

Anyone been through this before and have any helpful hints????

Dad's insurance company(Scottish and York) since he bought a '55 Chevy new 51 years ago is about to get the punt....at some point in then past four years they were sold to Avila, and the flood coverage was dropped. They claim they told him...read the fine print folks!! What pisses me off is that it took four days for them to confirm that there was no flood coverage...I would have had this crap outta here Sunday morning otherwise. Tomorrow all the floor boards and wall boards go to the dump, along with the stuff that got ruined.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

well, we felled i large ash over a house and being a sunny afternoon, we did a couple of cords of firewood for my house. very pleasant

 

[iain]

mmm admin, uuurrghh pricing ,boring

 

[bottlefed89]

huh???

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Today i'm having a maintenance day.....saws ,chipper ,stump grinder are all in the pit stop

 

[Jumper]

Last two days have worked with a local arborist. First day we removed two rotten poplars, a diseased maple, two pines and a spruce. Also had two fun hours unclogging the chipper that the other groundie gummed up. What a mess. Unseasonably hot here for early Oct. Yesterday a later start as the boss had to do a consulting job first, so I cleaned saws etc then we pruned a large Manitoba Maple(that really needs removal) and used a Good Rigging Control System for the first time. Off today as boss is in court as an expert witness, but back at it tomorrow. I am going to Trenton to attend a Memorial service for a Sergeant I knew who thundered in freefalling Monday-very sad.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

today we felled 3 sycamores, and topped some hawthorn. more logs this afternoon. weathers a bit grey, not so nice not so nice as yesterday.

 

[stehansen]

Trimmed a Cottonwood tree in Knights Ferry CA, before and after pictures are below.

 

[Jumper]

We tried to chip some trees that had been cut for an excavation, but the rain was too strong, the tail end of whatever hurricane "T" is moving up the eastern seaboard. New Gore Tex boots got a good workout! Yesterday did spend the aft with a friend and attended memorial to WO Charles Sheppard at DZ Hodgson in Mountainview, south of CFB Trenton. A beautiful 80F afternoon and a good service outdoors Airborne style.