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

[NORMZILLA44]

Yes indeed, have not run me saws, in a couple months, That's not easy! Hope your cutting goes well today buddy.

 

[Eccentric]

Yes indeed, have not run me saws, in a couple months, That's not easy! Hope your cutting goes well today buddy.

Same here buddy. Need to go cutting. Also need to visit some of your "saw contacts" that we've talked about too. That one can wait a bit longer...........but we need to go cut soon. Do you think you'll be able to come out to the GTG in November?

 

[NHlocal]

THANKS!
cutting did go well today. Took down another Red Oak, another one that needed a bit of rope work. Here's a few pics.....

 

[carym2a]

Yes indeed, have not run me saws, in a couple months, That's not easy! Hope your cutting goes well today buddy.

Same here, after all the felling and cutting last spring and early summer firewood hauling we havent played around cookie cutting or anything. but they are clean sharp and ready to goooooooo

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Sounds good Aaron, lets cut indeed! What date is that GTG? Sure hope I can, between the 8th, and 14th Im tied up. Cary sounds good my friend, I still have to go through a couple. Randy nice buddy!

 

[Denis Gionet]

I tell ya, I'm going through withdrawal myself !!! I gotta cut something soon, going nuts. Mind you it's been cold and rainy, not the best weather for cutting. Next weekend I'm going to do some firewood cutting for next year. The campground is closed for the season.

I'm going to cut and stack rounds in the bush on pallets, and haul them out in the spring with the quad while the snow's melted but it's still frozen ground. I'll just have the splitting to do next spring. I've got 2 1/2 cords cut & split already, but I know I'll end up selling at least twice that amount to folks in the park. By season's end I had nothing left for my own use ! I'll keep for myself what's cut & split on my lot, and haul back for others as needed. It'll be out of sight where I pile it anyway.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

I hear ya Denis, almost makes me want to come across a down tree in the neighboorhood or something!

 

[Eccentric]

Sounds good Aaron, lets cut indeed! What date is that GTG? Sure hope I can, between the 8th, and 14th Im tied up. Cary sounds good my friend, I still have to go through a couple. Randy nice buddy!

The GTG is the first weekend in November. Should be the 3rd. We do need to go cutting. Jenn's church friends keep taking my firewood. That's good, as we can't burn here anyways. I do need to stock up again though, as they'll be back for more....

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Awesome Aaron, on the GTG. Im cutting in the am, westdsied where we went before. Was going to try for saturday, but want to run my dogs, and hunt. So think cut tommorow. Wish you were off.

 

[NHlocal]

Awesome Aaron, on the GTG. Im cutting in the am, westdsied where we went before. Was going to try for saturday, but want to run my dogs, and hunt. So think cut tommorow. Wish you were off.

Norm,
hope you were able to get out and cut today, if the weather allows I'll be cutting again on Saturday. :msp_w00t:
.....time to make coffee and get ready for work, have a safe weekend.....

 

[NORMZILLA44]

thanks buddy! We did, my friend Bob and I. All pole saw work, but cleared some spots on the ranch roads. Good to get out, took my dogs too.

 

[struggle]

Glad to see you guys are staying busy here. I did a job down the street from me with plenty of stumps as well. No picutres but it went well. Have five trees to drop tomorrow for a church and they will handle clean up. Then I will go back to do the stumps.

I bid a larger job a while back for another church with dropping trees and they handle clean up and then I go back for stumps and I got the job..........but they want me to have a million dollar liability insurance policy so I am in talks with my insurance company to raise it from the $600,000 mark I am currently at. Didn't see that coming:msp_sad: They need me to send them proof of insurance which I have no issue with. The guy that helped me get the job said just send them the info on the $600K policy and they most likely will accept it. Will know more on Monday.

I have spent the last couple fo days going through chains in the garage trying to see what fits what bars and saws. I have a mess of chains to go through. No sense in buying new stuff when I can sort through these other chains first.

Take care guys

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Good deal Shane good to see you. Maybe you could up the job cost too, let them know maybe your time, and expense to upgrade the policy. I agree on sorting chains and parts, and its amazing how stuff starts to pile up, and collect. Went out one day, and had a ton of chains, and bars, never realized it. Sorted em, and sold em off.

 

[NHlocal]

Good to hear you're staying busy Shane, I agree on sorting chains and keeping them separated. Makes it a lot easier to keep track of what you've got and what you need.
I've got maybe a half dozen or more I have hanging up that need to be sharpened and if I don't get to them soon I'm sure they will double the next time I look.

Norm, good to hear you finally went and did some cutting, are your shoulders sore from using the pole saw? :hmm3grin2orange:
I'll be cutting tomorrow afternoon, the weather should improve by then. Should be cutting next week also, got some more time off from work. :msp_w00t:
Still editing videos from two earlier days cutting, I "should" get 'em done soon. I've been really busy with all kinds of other stuff that needs to get done this time of year.
I'll try to put up some pics tomorrow when I get back from cutting. Have a great weekend!
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NHlocal]

Well, I made it through another afternoon of cutting and I'm "wiped out". Took down 2 more Red Oak, #8 and #9 of 20(+). Here's a few pics......
The colors up here right now are spectacular!
Just about time to get to sleep, up at 4am again tomorrow. :bringit:
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Randy, shoulders not too bad. But man I was outa pole saw shape, since not running one for, well months, that I could tell! Yeah man beautiful trees and colors over there for sure.

 

[NHlocal]

Randy, shoulders not too bad. But man I was outa pole saw shape, since not running one for, well months, that I could tell! Yeah man beautiful trees and colors over there for sure.

Thanks Norm, hope ya' heal up quick so you can get back at it.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Thanks me too! Hoping for more big wood soon, this winter. Say 4 foot!

 

[Denis Gionet]

I imagine it'd start getting easier with some maneuvering room now that some of the trees are gone ? Now you've got some room to play, felling trees into open spaces. Can you drop one full length now , or still need to limb & trim all the way down ?

 

[struggle]

Today was a tough one and a another lesson learned:msp_ohmy:

I got a call a couple of days ago and a guy said they were going to cut five pine trees down (church)that were dying. There is something going around in our area (not sure is same thing out in the black hills) that is killing our pine trees. Anyways after a short disscusion with the guy (they wanted the stumps ground out afterwards) I asked him if they wanted to have some help with just paying me to drop the trees and the church members go ahead as planned to remove all the trees and such with thier equipment.

They had a large cat articulating big boy of a loader and a straight truck with a dump bed. One guy is in the construction buisness.

I showed up this morning at 8 as planned and the largest saw they had only had a 20" bar. Three of the trees are close to 40" diameter. I alloted a dollar amount that I told him for three hours but they soon realized it was going to be much more than that in time and they all agreed to having me cut everything as they loaded and to charge accordingly. Everything went well except on the last big tree I notched and dropped where it and that went well but like a fool I stood behind the tree and watched it fall and the tree sprang back and nailed me in the shoulder in a ram rod effect. I wasn't hurt but this was the first time I have seen/experienced one spring back that far (and thankfully nobody saw me get hit) so lesson learned. I felt like get hitting by a truck

So Monday I will go and grind the stumps out. They are paying for just grinding only but my very good friend and neighbor goes to this church and actually many people I know in my town as well do. SO my neighbor will come down with his loader small utility tractor and will load the grindings with that into my trailer and I will dump the stuff for them of no charge. Since it is for a church and some many ties to it. They will have to source the dirt on there own though. One of the guys that was helping I dropped a large ash tree for him this spring so seeing these jobs tie together with previous customers is satisfying that I am getting called for more work.

As we were doing this work a truck pulls up and just sits there watching what was going on. I walked by and the kind started asking questions like what outfit are you from etc. Clearly fishing for info. Come to find out he is a trees service guy kind of in our area. I know his buisness name as I have seen him list flyers around but nothing beyond that. It kind of made me a little uncomfortable but everything was on the up and up with me so I will not fret it. I think he does a lot of firewood sales in our area. I have no interest in that. I enjoy heating my own home and told him that. It sjust seemed a little strange. He was nice and polite though to me.

Sorry long story to a kind of long day but it was all good in the end