The working man, and chainsaw thread!!!!!!!!!

[ausneil 1]

Listen mr stuart471,,,,
Get the hint and P#SS OFF.
Go and annoy some other forum please..

 

[Denis Gionet]

Around here, we've had the worst paper wasp season that I've seen in 30 years. I've gone through 10-12 cans of spray. The little bastards keep building nests under every overhang and in the 'nooks' of every parked vehicle.

So far I've been chased many times, but only stung once this season. When I was spraying a nest in the back of a truck, a wasp flew over the spray stream and stung the trigger finger of my hand that was holding the spray can...

Funny you should mention the 'nooks' ... I found one while running truck cap light wiring from one taillight to the other on a customer's new pickup ... found a baseball-sized nest below the L/H light on the bumper, I don't know how I didn't grab it instead of the wire.

Now THAT'S gotta be insulting, getting your trigger finger poked, while spraying the stuff .... insulting, but funny a bit at the same time .... lol ! Almost like they know just where to go to shut you down.

I go after yellow-jackets (ground wasps), with the same zeal around my woodpile. They don't like wasp spray or petroleum products...not much...just enough to discourage life...They are more aggressive and nastier than most.

The ground nest of yellow jackets near the lake at the camp didn't like the petrol I fed it. The week earlier the wife found the nest, so in the evening I promptly rammed a small round of firewood into the hole and drove it home with the axe, spraying every arriving wasp with poison afterwards. 3 days later they started digging just above the round... amazing. So once darkness set in I got in there with the 5' pry bar, bored 3 big holes in the top, filled them with waste motor oil, then some gas.... "WOOF !" It only really started to fry when I poked an air hole in the side of the mound, creating a draft for airflow, much like a stove. When digging it out a couple of days later I found the nest and about 200 corpses. No survivors. Even lately there's been the odd straggler coming by looking for home ....

I am going to derail this wasp topic.

Today I bought a new Stihl HT131 Will try it out tomorrow on two jobs.

I have been wanting one for sometime and am looking forward to using it.

Sorry to carry on about the bees Struggle, but dealing with them is a job on its own !!! Is that the pole saw you had mentioned earlier ? Hope it works out well. Must be a gas job ? Way up here we deal with the branches once the tree is on the ground.... brute force usually wins out over finesse.

Have a good one, this is my last sleep before going moose hunting for all of next week uttahere2:

 

[struggle]

The HT131 is brand new. I had worked on one for the REC and put it back in service. There have been several times I could have used a power pole saw just from the ground to save me from climbing around when not needed so this saw will be used on two of the jobs I mentioned earlier. One job is just to remove dead limbs from two ash trees. The other job is three small pine trees to be removed in a tight area and due to the need to get things compacted down on the trailer I will delimb the pines first before taking them down as it will help to load the trailer down more.

Most of the work I do is on the more small scale with some larger stuff in the mix and a lot of the areas I work in can be tight so hopefully this pole saw will be money well spent. I do worry about getting it pinched though and will still carry a manual pole saw along and what ever else may be needed to unstick it if I should manage that which I'm certain I will:msp_ohmy:

One day a chipper would be nice but for now it will be a dump trailer. Baby steps plus I really don't want to go that big anyways at this point.

 

[NHlocal]

Funny you should mention the 'nooks' ... I found one while running truck cap light wiring from one taillight to the other on a customer's new pickup ... found a baseball-sized nest below the L/H light on the bumper, I don't know how I didn't grab it instead of the wire.

Now THAT'S gotta be insulting, getting your trigger finger poked, while spraying the stuff .... insulting, but funny a bit at the same time .... lol ! Almost like they know just where to go to shut you down.

Sorry to carry on about the bees Struggle, but dealing with them is a job on its own !!! Is that the pole saw you had mentioned earlier ? Hope it works out well. Must be a gas job ? Way up here we deal with the branches once the tree is on the ground.... brute force usually wins out over finesse.

Have a good one, this is my last sleep before going moose hunting for all of next week uttahere2:

Ayuh, I can laugh about it now, those bees, wasps, hornets seem to know right where to "get ya". :hmm3grin2orange: Another one of those things about 'em that amazes me. :msp_ohmy: And yes, bees are just another one of those things that the "working man" has to deal with whether it's cutting wood, pruning bushes, wiring a truck, or whatever. It's always interesting to hear the "tales" told.....:msp_thumbsup:
Hope the moose hunt goes well for ya! :msp_w00t:

Shane,
congratulations on that new pole saw, do we get to see some pics of it in action? :msp_w00t:

I have a few "jobs" to follow up on, got a phone number from a co worker I cut for last year. He has a friend with a small piece of land he wants some trees cut/taken down, hope to go look at it tonight or tomorrow. :biggrinbounce2:

.....it's that time again, make some coffee and get ready for work.....

 

[RandyMac]

I always found Yellowjacket attacks oddly exhilarating.

 

[NHlocal]

I always found Yellowjacket attacks oddly exhilarating.

.....always gets my heart pumping a whole lot faster.....:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[struggle]

Here is some aftermath of the HT131. I have to say I am surprised how well it works. Used it on this job and one other one trim dead limbs out of two ash trees


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[struggle]

Not sure why this turns the pictures on me?

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[NHlocal]

Shane,
looks like you've got some cleanup work to do there, sounds like that HT131 will be a good addition to what you already have. :msp_thumbup: I've never used a pole saw myself but I know they can make some work a whole lot easier.

After I get out of work at 11am, I'm going to look at some trees I may be cutting for a friend of a co worker(I cut some trees for him last year), could be more Oak for the wood pile.....:msp_w00t:

.....it's that time again, gotta go make some coffee and get ready for work.....

Have a good weekend.
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Neil what happened with Stuart 471? I never saw a post?? Shane I we use my pole saw on every job, its been such a life saver. Denis have a great hunt, be safe my friend, let us know when you get back. As far as the stining bugs of any kind I like NON! Honey bees I leave alone, they are cool and good members of society. The rest man I try and avoid, but if I see a nest see ya it dissapears. Randy it is kind of a rush, a negative one, but at least the blood and adrenaline flow! Aaron I agree terrible year, for em. Ted good to see ya, been about a coons age, glad you are alive and well. Randy NH local, you are one busy bee my friend, thats good, and yep firewood always needed. Ron, and Bingo good to see you as well.

 

[Eccentric]

Neil what happened with Stuart 471? I never saw a post?? Shane I we use my pole saw on every job, its been such a life saver. Denis have a great hunt, be safe my friend, let us know when you get back. As far as the stining bugs of any kind I like NON! Honey bees I leave alone, they are cool and good members of society. The rest man I try and avoid, but if I see a nest see ya it dissapears. Randy it is kind of a rush, a negative one, but at least the blood and adrenaline flow! Aaron I agree terrible year, for em. Ted good to see ya, been about a coons age, glad you are alive and well. Randy NH local, you are one busy bee my friend, thats good, and yep firewood always needed. Ron, and Bingo good to see you as well.

Stuart 471 was just another profile created by the nightly spambots that visit our site. Your thread is now one of the many here that have bits of posts copied and reposted by these spambots, with spam links and images added (although the board filters kill most of those, and they just show up as little boxes with ?'s in them). We report the posts, and the mods delete the profiles and most of the posts. It's a nightly thing....


When are we going cutting again Norm?

 

[NHlocal]

Neil what happened with Stuart 471? I never saw a post?? Shane I we use my pole saw on every job, its been such a life saver. Denis have a great hunt, be safe my friend, let us know when you get back. As far as the stining bugs of any kind I like NON! Honey bees I leave alone, they are cool and good members of society. The rest man I try and avoid, but if I see a nest see ya it dissapears. Randy it is kind of a rush, a negative one, but at least the blood and adrenaline flow! Aaron I agree terrible year, for em. Ted good to see ya, been about a coons age, glad you are alive and well. Randy NH local, you are one busy bee my friend, thats good, and yep firewood always needed. Ron, and Bingo good to see you as well.

Norm,
good to hear from ya again! Hope you've been able to get some "saw time". Haven't really seen much "pole saw action", I don't know much about the advantages they have, but they sure do sound like a good piece of equipment to have in the "toolbox".
Ayuh, been a "busy" day for me, worked 6am to 11am, came home got cleaned up and went to look at the first "potential addition" to the wood pile. The home owner(friend of a co worker I cut some trees for last year)has several trees around his house he'd like to have cut, maybe 15-20, mostly Red Oak. :msp_w00t: From there I went to the co worker's Mother's house, maybe a mile down the road, and looked at some Pines that need to be pruned that are overhanging the house and driveway(branches have fallen and done damage to the house and vehicles in the past few years), bid on that. Came back home, made a phone call to another home owner who recently asked about having a tree taken down in his back yard, to make sure he was home, looked at what he wanted done, put in a bid and got the job! Doesn't want it done 'til spring, we'll see what happens.....ayuh, been a pretty full schedule for me today. I took my camera but, the memory card is giving me trouble, I took a walk around video and pics but memory card won't store them, or something.....:bang: Gonna try a different card in the camera and see if that's it??? Seems like this time of year people start thinking about cutting trees, whether they burn wood or not.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Thanks Aaron on the heads up, and lookout! You say my thread? You meant our thread! Would the place it is without you good friends. Was thinking of cutting this weekend, but did not work out. Very soon, as winter is coming fast, and we need some run time! Randy thanks great to see you, yeah pole saw is like the porta wrap, you live without it, and can do without it, but once you get it you never look back!

 

[Brian13]

Looks like everybody has been busy!! Shane the Ht 131 is an awesome pole saw!! My boss just got one, really like it a lot. Good to see you have some work to keep you busy Randy. Norm I have seen how busy you have been with the politics. Hope its starting to swing in your favor. Been pretty busy here, pretty much always working. Been getting better with the climbing, getting more comfortable and figuring out the tricks that make life easier. Just waiting ever so impatiently for it to cool off. Looking forward to working in the winter. Hope everybody is well!!

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Thanks Brian, I appreciate that. Great to see you!:msp_thumbup:

 

[NHlocal]

Thanks Aaron on the heads up, and lookout! You say my thread? You meant our thread! Would the place it is without you good friends. Was thinking of cutting this weekend, but did not work out. Very soon, as winter is coming fast, and we need some run time! Randy thanks great to see you, yeah pole saw is like the porta wrap, you live without it, and can do without it, but once you get it you never look back!

You're right Norm, it takes the interest and participation of everyone that makes the thread what it is but, there's always a few(at least)that "give it life". Yes, winter is coming fast, and there always seems to be more to do than the year before.....:hmm3grin2orange: I'll have to dig a little and see if I can find some good video on pole saws.

Looks like everybody has been busy!! Shane the Ht 131 is an awesome pole saw!! My boss just got one, really like it a lot. Good to see you have some work to keep you busy Randy. Norm I have seen how busy you have been with the politics. Hope its starting to swing in your favor. Been pretty busy here, pretty much always working. Been getting better with the climbing, getting more comfortable and figuring out the tricks that make life easier. Just waiting ever so impatiently for it to cool off. Looking forward to working in the winter. Hope everybody is well!!

Brian, good to hear from ya', glad to hear you've been busy and improving with you're climbing. :msp_thumbup: Every skill takes time to learn and get good at, just "be teachable". And yes, the "little tricks" that make it easier make a huge difference in how a job goes. Ayuh, been busy for sure, looks like I just got a whole lot "busier".....:hmm3grin2orange:
.....it's that time again, gotta make some coffee and get ready for work.....:bringit:

Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NORMZILLA44]

How we doing today all? Man the weekends fly by way too fast, and I did not even do much!

 

[Eccentric]

How we doing today all? Man the weekends fly by way too fast, and I did not even do much!

Yep. It's gone again.....

 

[Brian13]

Weekend, whats that? Was on shift yesterday, and today was back cutting in a swamp clearing pepper trees. Today we got to a section that was full of poison ivy:msp_scared:. Not sure if I am allergic or not, didnt take any chances though. Long sleeves and gloves and so far no itching lol. Have another full day tomorrow in that area.....YAY(add sarcasm)!

 

[Ronaldo]

Weekend, whats that? Was on shift yesterday, and today was back cutting in a swamp clearing pepper trees. Today we got to a section that was full of poison ivy:msp_scared:. Not sure if I am allergic or not, didnt take any chances though. Long sleeves and gloves and so far no itching lol. Have another full day tomorrow in that area.....YAY(add sarcasm)!

Hate that ivy, usually takes about two days for it to make itself known when I get into the stuff. Hope you can get away with working around it and not have it bother you.

Ron