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Nice pics Randy, glad it went smooth for the most part. You and Norm try to take it easy, working when sick really sucks. I used to not slow down a bit when sick, and now I still dont take off work but when not at work I try to do nothing but sleep.
 
Nice pics Randy, glad it went smooth for the most part. You and Norm try to take it easy, working when sick really sucks. I used to not slow down a bit when sick, and now I still dont take off work but when not at work I try to do nothing but sleep.

Thanks Brian,
no, I didn't stay home today, not really an option for me right now. Mostly I've just got a sore throat, running nose, and cough. Still wears me down though..... :(
 
Hope everyone is having a good and safe work week. Planning on cutting friday if Im able, and not raining to much. Over due for sawing, they are getting restless!
 
Hope everyone is having a good and safe work week. Planning on cutting friday if Im able, and not raining to much. Over due for sawing, they are getting restless!

Sounds good Norm, good to hear you're feeling better.
We've got a storm coming Wednesday night and Thursday, might be some snow with it, might clear for the weekend though. I'll be cutting if it does. ;)
Hope you're able to get out and do some cutting yourself. :msp_thumbup: (don't forget to vote)
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:
 
Stay clear of that cold, do not want to see you get Phenomia. Yep voted via mail 2 weeks ago! I added another 288xp to the stable. I need to replace fly wheel but it rips! So the 44 is gone, and 372. But 372 is kind of on loan my friend is disabled, and can not handle the 288 anymore. I do not want him to get hurt. Not like I was anxious to give up the 372 but the 288 is my fav! It worked out, he want's a good 24in firewood saw even smaller, so I will get the 372 back. All is good! Feeling better today finally!
 
Stay clear of that cold, do not want to see you get Phenomia. Yep voted via mail 2 weeks ago! I added another 288xp to the stable. I need to replace fly wheel but it rips! So the 44 is gone, and 372. But 372 is kind of on loan my friend is disabled, and can not handle the 288 anymore. I do not want him to get hurt. Not like I was anxious to give up the 372 but the 288 is my fav! It worked out, he want's a good 24in firewood saw even smaller, so I will get the 372 back. All is good! Feeling better today finally!

Wow Norm,
sounds like you've got a lot goin' on. Never ran a 288 but I hear they like big wood. ;) Glad you're feeling better. :msp_thumbup:
Finished up that job I started on Saturday, my wife helped me out, she's a great help(couldn't have finished it tonight without her:D). Here's a couple cleanup pics from yesterday and today. Oh!, by the way, when I arrived to start the job on Saturday the home owner points out a Cherry tree about 50ft further down the tree line that wasn't too healthy and had quite a bit of lean over the lawn and asks(you guessed it!), could you cut that one too, and how much more will that cost? For what turned out to be maybe an additional 20 to 30 minutes work I got a nice little increase in pay! :msp_w00t: I love tree work! Anyway, the home owner said she has some friends looking to get some trees cut and she has no problem recommending me to them.....:bringit:


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Ah, yes the mighty 288 always loved the feel, and power. Hey can't go wrong with a 385 either my friend! Just saw one nice one here for sale, if I had the cash, you know the story LOL! Nice work and pictures! That cherry wood cut some here, if it's the same it was suprisingly hard wood? I tried to hand split a piece, that didn't happen:msp_biggrin:
 
Randy I hear that man, these colds are down right nasty. Nice work buddy as always!! It is getting cold here, snowing in Tahoe. Feels like it may here dam, chilly! The spoils of my summer saw glory, are heating our house and keeping me warm tonight!! My friend Bob, part of our work, and hunt group just got a polaris ranger 700 4x4. The working man will be riding in style, dump bed and all, and room for many saws and firewood, sweet machine!
 
Yep cold here as well, going to be in the teens by morning but wood heat is keeping it a toasty 78* in here, shorts and t shirts weather inside.
 
Randy I hear that man, these colds are down right nasty. Nice work buddy as always!! It is getting cold here, snowing in Tahoe. Feels like it may here dam, chilly! The spoils of my summer saw glory, are heating our house and keeping me warm tonight!! My friend Bob, part of our work, and hunt group just got a polaris ranger 700 4x4. The working man will be riding in style, dump bed and all, and room for many saws and firewood, sweet machine!

O.K., O.K., stop teasing. How about some pics, that sounds like a nice machine. :msp_thumbup:
Ayuh, still trying to shake this cold, won't be cutting today but, I am going to look at/bid on another possible take down this afternoon. ;)

Yep cold here as well, going to be in the teens by morning but wood heat is keeping it a toasty 78* in here, shorts and t shirts weather inside.

Ayuh, my wife likes that kind of heat too. Been burnin' wood in the stove for the last few weeks, nice and warm inside. :biggrinbounce2:
Time to make coffee and get ready for work.....
 
Brother Jim, always good to see ya! Randy was going to take pics, guy was supposed to be hear at 2:30 pm yesterday, he showed up with the ranger at 7:00 pm, long day, to dark for pics, but at least Bob got it. Man nice machine.
 
Brother Jim, always good to see ya! Randy was going to take pics, guy was supposed to be hear at 2:30 pm yesterday, he showed up with the ranger at 7:00 pm, long day, to dark for pics, but at least Bob got it. Man nice machine.

Norm,
it's always good to get a "piece of equipment" like that, post up some pics if and when you get 'em, I'd love to see what it looks like. :msp_drool:
Just got back from bidding on a take down for another co worker. He agreed on the spot. :msp_w00t: He's keeping all the wood(it's another Red Oak)including the limbs, so it's pure labor. All I have to do is get it down safely without damage to the other trees or lawn(or house:msp_ohmy:). Here's a few pics I snapped real quick before I left.....



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Randy, you might be doing something wrong......... I never hear any cursing in your videos??? :msp_razz:
LOL! I know our tree jobs have a choice word or two! Randy will do with pics, the thing is Kubota orange, with a black or grey bed I forget. I actually love the color. That red oak looks fairly straight foward, cool deal man. Got a little girth to it eh? second pic looked like it was 3 foot or so? When you going to do it?
 
Looks like you guys are staying busy. Here are the pictures of the church trees I did. It is all done now. I was paid contracted to cut the trees down and make them ready for haul away and then grind the stumps out and clean the site up. Dirt fill is on the property owners responsibilty to handle for the stumps etc.

Thankfully my neighbor that owns a machine shop a block from this site has a very nice Mustang skid loader so I used that to haul the chips from the stumps. I filled my dump trailer 6X12 five times to the point of stuff falling off all sides of it. The skid loader was a big help. I don't have an after shots beyond this. The site is clean and ready for the church to get dirt hauled in and grade it for seed. I have to send them a bill out on Monday:D

They have more work for at a cemetary but I am waiting on them to drop a fence to procced on that job as all those trees will be dropped into an adjoining farm field and they will then drag them to burn in a pile and I will have stumps to do there as well, but weather here has taken a turn for the worse so no telling if it will get done anytime soon:msp_sad:

There were nine trees in these pictures and then they also had me take down two small ash trees street side as well that had the tops blown out and they weren't very big but it was a nice added bonus in pay as though.

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LOL! I know our tree jobs have a choice word or two! Randy will do with pics, the thing is Kubota orange, with a black or grey bed I forget. I actually love the color. That red oak looks fairly straight foward, cool deal man. Got a little girth to it eh? second pic looked like it was 3 foot or so? When you going to do it?

Norm,
you know how in video or pictures the camera makes us look "bigger" than we are?.....:laugh: same here, it's a good size Oak but not that big, maybe two feet. I'll have pics and video even if I do the job "solo".

Looks like you guys are staying busy. Here are the pictures of the church trees I did. It is all done now. I was paid contracted to cut the trees down and make them ready for haul away and then grind the stumps out and clean the site up. Dirt fill is on the property owners responsibilty to handle for the stumps etc.

Thankfully my neighbor that owns a machine shop a block from this site has a very nice Mustang skid loader so I used that to haul the chips from the stumps. I filled my dump trailer 6X12 five times to the point of stuff falling off all sides of it. The skid loader was a big help. I don't have an after shots beyond this. The site is clean and ready for the church to get dirt hauled in and grade it for seed. I have to send them a bill out on Monday:D

They have more work for at a cemetary but I am waiting on them to drop a fence to procced on that job as all those trees will be dropped into an adjoining farm field and they will then drag them to burn in a pile and I will have stumps to do there as well, but weather here has taken a turn for the worse so no telling if it will get done anytime soon:msp_sad:

There were nine trees in these pictures and then they also had me take down two small ash trees street side as well that had the tops blown out and they weren't very big but it was a nice added bonus in pay as though.

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Wow Shane,
that was a big job! :msp_ohmy: How long did it take to get that "finished up"? Well done on that one.
Time to make coffee and get ready for work.....
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:
 

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