Well here,s how my day went,pics.Fire oh no!

[ForTheArborist]

Well this happened about 2.15 after a pretty good start to a day,about 26 tree deep into a 48 tree job.
Don,t know what started it,electrical investigator says.
Never seen people run so fast as when you shout fire,full tank of gas.
No one was hurt,luckily. Thank god for insurance and a backup truck.
sorry about picture quality cell cam.

Batdam! That's a lot of company up in smoke. I'd be so scorched about that BS.

 

[Tree Pig]

Batdam! That's a lot of company up in smoke. I'd be so scorched about that BS.

Maybe you can pick that bucket up cheap to do your palms

 

[ForTheArborist]

Maybe you can pick that bucket up cheap to do your palms

Yes, that's a 1,2,3 thing. The thing is that that's "big wheels" on a tree service that is still a "little frame." When I get my advertising all tightened up, a bucket is the necessary step to take.

By the way my business is ticking at this stage, I'd need to bring in this spring and summer's work from my new advertising plan first. Better paying customers pay for rigs. My current line of customers aren't the clientel to put me on the list of askers for OTM's bucket. Like shifting too high too soon in a truck n' just making the motor drown out there are steps in the sequence to take in operating a tree service before expanding into rigs and employees.

Just my watering mouth, how much would that bucket go for in that condition? That's a bunch of work to be done on it, but I bought my dump truck at a low price to do a bunch of work on it.

Oz, you'd loose money by fixing it before selling it. You'd spend your time and energy on it instead of at the trees, and wind up in the hole. It's best to sell it for what it was worth before the fire minus the total parts and shop cost to bring it back to snuff. Take some money for a "sinking boat," and put it back out there for someone else to pay to put it back into the action.

 

[ropensaddle]

Yes, that's a 1,2,3 thing. The thing is that that's "big wheels" on a tree service that is still a "little frame." When I get my advertising all tightened up, a bucket is the necessary step to take.

By the way my business is ticking at this stage, I'd need to bring in this spring and summer's work from my new advertising plan first. Better paying customers pay for rigs. My current line of customers aren't the clientel to put me on the list of askers for OTM's bucket. Like shifting too high too soon in a truck n' just making the motor drown out there are steps in the sequence to take in operating a tree service before expanding into rigs and employees.

Just my watering mouth, how much would that bucket go for in that condition? That's a bunch of work to be done on it, but I bought my dump truck at a low price to do a bunch of work on it.

Oz, you'd loose money by fixing it before selling it. You'd spend your time and energy on it instead of at the trees, and wind up in the hole. It's best to sell it for what it was worth before the fire minus the total parts and shop cost to bring it back to snuff. Take some money for a "sinking boat," and put it back out there for someone else to pay to put it back into the action.

My bet is that old ford will be scrapped and sent to china. It is not worth putting good dollars into jmo.

 

[ozarktreeman]

Yes, that's a 1,2,3 thing. The thing is that that's "big wheels" on a tree service that is still a "little frame." When I get my advertising all tightened up, a bucket is the necessary step to take.

By the way my business is ticking at this stage, I'd need to bring in this spring and summer's work from my new advertising plan first. Better paying customers pay for rigs. My current line of customers aren't the clientel to put me on the list of askers for OTM's bucket. Like shifting too high too soon in a truck n' just making the motor drown out there are steps in the sequence to take in operating a tree service before expanding into rigs and employees.

Just my watering mouth, how much would that bucket go for in that condition? That's a bunch of work to be done on it, but I bought my dump truck at a low price to do a bunch of work on it.

Oz, you'd loose money by fixing it before selling it. You'd spend your time and energy on it instead of at the trees, and wind up in the hole. It's best to sell it for what it was worth before the fire minus the total parts and shop cost to bring it back to snuff. Take some money for a "sinking boat," and put it back out there for someone else to pay to put it back into the action.

Insurance my friend,have not even been back to kick a tire.
As far as fixing not as hard as one might think.Remove bed and put on new chassis and cab. And yes it will be salvaged at what price I don't know.

 

[isaaccarlson]

I have have seen(and fixed) several electric forklifts that have started on fire.

Just a frame left. Oh and you get REALLY bright light when someone closes the lid on a batt cable!

 

[ForTheArborist]

OTM, I'm going to PM you about that. A lot of my folks have moved into the Ozark area lately (N. AR), and I might make a flight out there to stay with them, over see the bed/bucket swap onto something else, and if the motor is not shot out too,... Then I'd drive it back.