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[tree MDS]

I'm not posting anymore

Yeah, right. And speed-balling it in the neck junkies get better, really, they do!!

 

[mckeetree]

wow, just was checking email. Bid a removal job, 3 trees, bid $5300, lost to a $1000 bid. Amazing. Other dude, whoever he is, get's them into thinking I was gouging them.......... I bid it cheap as far as I was concerned. At least 3 days, with a bucket. This I gotta see. I foresee massive damage from going big and hoping it clears.

That's the kind of F'ed up ******** I deal with all the time around here. I bid a little municipal job the other day for $2,800 and found out last Fri. they have this clown in there doing it for $1,200. They had to look at ALL our insurance and check it out. I know this guy doesn't have a lick of insurance so I am thinking I might try to stir some #### up on that deal.

 

[sgreanbeans]

That's the kind of F'ed up ******** I deal with all the time around here. I bid a little municipal job the other day for $2,800 and found out last Fri. they have this clown in there doing it for $1,200. They had to look at ALL our insurance and check it out. I know this guy doesn't have a lick of insurance so I am thinking I might try to stir some #### up on that deal.

Yeah, same here. I hate it when people compare apples to lemons. Expect you to drop down, when you know damn well they (bubba hack) are not going to do nice job, just slam that chit down as fast as possible, hope the damage is easy to hide or at least get the check before anyone notices. When ya say no, they act like you are trying to rip them off. "How is it that you are so more" Well A hole, if I do drop sumtin thru ur roof, it will get fixed, but we dont have to worry bout dat do we, cause I aint eva doing no chit like dat. Getting beat don't bug me when its someone legit. So be it. But when ya loose to someone you know has no clue (even tho I dont know who this was, at a G, they suck) it just pisses ya off. Not to be hateful, but ya almost want something to go wrong. Don't want anyone to get hurt, never that, but it would be satisfying to here they jacked it all up and the HO wishes they hired the guy that was to expensive.
Just got in from the gunners house. Man I hate chipping pin oak. Tree is in the downward spiral. Way more dead wood than I could see from the ground. He pays me a 150 more than I told him, I told him no need, then he gives me the look, LOL. So I listened, said Yes Sir and put it in my pocket. Then he gives us one dos leaf vacuum jobbies that roll on four wheels, the ones with the big plastic nozzle on the front. Didn't need one, but didn't want to tell him no. So, we took it. Who knows, maybe it'll work well enough to vacuum the yards this summer for saw dust? Anyone got anything on dat? Had a billy goat one years ago, along with a bigger truck style one. Sold them as they don't like sticks. Never tried it for saw dust. Guess I shoulda.

 

[mckeetree]

1. But when ya loose to someone you know has no clue (even tho I dont know who this was, at a G, they suck) it just pisses ya off.

Yeah, it pisses me off alright. And I know exactly who this clown is...but the main thing on this deal is if we have to have liability and comp to bid then everybody else has to regardless of their quote. That is discrimination of some sort. The guy they hired has one thing in his toolbox, he is cheap. Believe me, cheap is the only thing that SOB ever had going for him.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Got the truck back and I think it's finally fixxed right. Got 2 nice jobs to do later this week.

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[NYTREECLIMBER]

Got the truck back and I think it's finally fixxed right. Got 2 nice jobs to do later this week.

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I hope they got it right for you,good luck

 

[2treeornot2tree]

I hope they got it right for you,good luck

Time will tell but it is definitely better then before

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[beastmaster]

Quote :Anyone got anything on dat? Had a billy goat one years ago, along with a bigger truck style one. Sold them as they don't like sticks. Never tried it for saw dust.

I had one I used for vacuuming up parking lots after trimming palms. It made quick work of those dates that would scatter all over like marbles. Work good on hard surfaces, not so good on grass.

 

[beastmaster]

Quote :Anyone got anything on dat? Had a billy goat one years ago, along with a bigger truck style one. Sold them as they don't like sticks. Never tried it for saw dust.

I had one I used for vacuuming up parking lots after trimming palms. It made quick work of those dates that would scatter all over like marbles. Work good on hard surfaces, not so good on grass.

 

[OLD OAK]

Quote :Anyone got anything on dat? Had a billy goat one years ago, along with a bigger truck style one. Sold them as they don't like sticks. Never tried it for saw dust.

I had one I used for vacuuming up parking lots after trimming palms. It made quick work of those dates that would scatter all over like marbles. Work good on hard surfaces, not so good on grass.

I had the Billy goat push around one someone gave me, it worked good for picking up things on a parking lot but that is about it. I gave it away. For saw dust i will take a shovel if it is a pile of it, but most likely it will get spread around the yard with a Br600 to even it out.

 

[PassionForTrees]

Got a three day job done last week, Wed, Thurs and Friday while the weather was NICE!! high 30's low 40's, Ill work with that all day everyday! But that is over as we have the teens coming again this week, man Hydraulics just dont seem to want to cooperate in that cold. Everything has anti-gel conditioner in it ready for it!!

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

It is 9 o'clock at nite. I can't believe I am still up. We are working 6 days a week for foreseeable future,,great for the guy's that get overtime,
I just shaved some to get ready for our managers meeting Wednesday,
Today, I just went to the office for about 2 hours to get ready for the week,,
Went to Jiffy Lube,
Went to the yard just for the hell of it,,found a pole pruner and extension in the back of a chip truck,
Yeah, Someone is gonna get a write up.. the guy that say's he can not find his pole pruner! Because it is in the bed of my truck, yup,
ther than that, this is a crazy Hot winter,,damn 90 degrees,,
Tree's are trippin'
Jeff

You are really stark ravin now bubba. I bet they really can't stand you now that you quit smoking. But put the write up on them hard boy! Yeah, I guess if you drive around like a dimwit with the pintle pin hanging on its chain you deserve what you get.

Anyway:

I tried to get out of work today and hang out with my kid as its MLK day but my wife went and picked up grandma to babysit soes I had to get to it. I went back to Pottstown to help one of my contractor bubba's take down what he refered to as an easy tree and I got my money's worth out of my hardhat today. He went up in a tow-behind lift while I bounced limbs off of its boom from the porty while we both hollered at his poor 16 year old son who really shouldn't have even been there in the first place and I told him that and that I would call somebody in to help but he was to busy with his head up his ass underbidding this dead oak tree.

We pretty much filled a regular sized truck with my 9 inch chipper but it was also spread out over houses and yards in town. We were able to get in through the back alley after taking some fence down. There was a point where I asked him if he wanted another pulley, he declined and it was then the boom took its hardest hit of the day and we actually bent something on it. I was just trying not to kill the guy and recommended he not tip tie big wood unless he wanted to look like those dill-does on TV.

I tend not to tip tie big squirrelly hunks of wood unless we are using a GRCS or something and I sure as hell don't go notching it soes it comes off like a bat out Hell. That's just not good practice.

It wasn't a bad day but I had a couple of moments - like when the lady came out and stood under the crispy hunk we were swinging over the roof. Hey man, I am sure Jeff would have written me up but in my world ( where I reside) I can holler at the clients if I want.

I felt bad hollering this 16 year old kid around, he face so precious and innocent getting beaten and thrashed by oak limbs. Towards the end I told him and his father that if I knew the mother I would call her and put an end to this nonsense. Parents are divorced and I am sure if she knew the extent of what this kid was involved in she would pull him out. I mean its OK to bring him on some stuff but this was some BBW ( big bad wood) today and its not like the kid is into it. Nah, poor SOB would rather not. And did he even have a helmet? No, why should he? Mine was only getting hammered every once in a while anyway.

Last week me and this guy went up to do the job, it was the first time I saw it, he said it was easy. I looked at the tree for 2 minutes and left. I was all set to call NCtree soes he could come run his ass ragged as I figured with the three of us we had a chance. It would have been a tough climb to get this on the ground.

Now sure, bring the kid out to help drag some pruning brush, let him learn, let him work to know the hardships of survival as I am sure that in some countries kids have it tough but here in America its illegal to let your kid get pulled through a chipper. He did damn good wrestling the limbs and wood to the ground but watching him around that machine had me going. I didn't actually let him chip by himself and I think his father teaches him to hold stuff that needs sawed. Really, I would stand there holding the saw while the kid untied the limb and the kid would just stand there like I was going reach in by his leg and start cutting, like it would be normal to do so. Hell, I see somebody coming with a saw I RUN!

I dunno, I guess I am going to have to put down an ultimatum. Working with this guy is fine but when he brings his kid its just not right. One time he sent him up a little spruce to set a rope and was barking at him and I was like " this is where the kid gets flustered and falls." My take is that the guy needs to rely on his untrained son in order to make his banknote. Quite a gray and murky area I think. I mean, this isn't ice cream we are peddling here, if it was it would be a different story.

Maybe I should cut my ties with this guy but he is really no worse than anybody else including me, its just sometimes his thinking is a little more desperate than I find appealing.

But it was good running the porty today. I had the **** flying and flying good. Yeah, the boom was taking hits but that was because Dumbo really don't have any call to be up there aiming at the the only thing holding him up. I kept the stuff from smacking him personally and there wasn't much other room. My mindset would have called for two days proper climbing instead of running Kamikaze missions on yourself in an old rented Nifty Fifty. Really, I ran and got another pulley, he didn't want it, you should have seen that piece fly, flip, and flounce then smack the living crap out of the boom. Dented it like a ************.

We are supposed to go back and drop the trunk in the morning but I think some snow might put the kibosh on that.

 

[PassionForTrees]

had an add in the paper for 10 days and it says MUST have experience working in the TREES, just about everyone responded with NO experience at all over 90 responses, some people couldnt even talk right on their message?? Tried this guy out and he worked out pretty well, big fella 6'5 260lbs plus and I was wondering how he would manage, this guy was thanking me for an opportunity and on the ground did pretty well. but still, looking for that right guy due to my last guy never showing up to plow, never called or answered any messages still nothing? guess he quits and I move on! same ol same ol !! I can rely on three of us ME MYSELF AND I!!! UP the IRONS!!

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

I had the Billy goat push around one someone gave me, it worked good for picking up things on a parking lot but that is about it. I gave it away. For saw dust i will take a shovel if it is a pile of it, but most likely it will get spread around the yard with a Br600 to even it out.

Me to. Someone gave me one, I cleaned the carb and got it running, made a couple passes, it worked as it was supposed to so I took it to the scrap yard and heaved it into the abyss.

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

had an add in the paper for 10 days and it says MUST have experience working in the TREES, just about everyone responded with NO experience at all over 90 responses, some people couldnt even talk right on their message?? Tried this guy out and he worked out pretty well, big fella 6'5 260lbs plus and I was wondering how he would manage, this guy was thanking me for an opportunity and on the ground did pretty well. but still, looking for that right guy due to my last guy never showing up to plow, never called or answered any messages still nothing? guess he quits and I move on! same ol same ol !! I can rely on three of us ME MYSELF AND I!!! UP the IRONS!!

Me to. I really should get a shotgun rider for ten bucks an hour to shovel and spread the salt cause my ass is hurting but even as I say that and it sounds good I know I would have more work to do and things would get ****** up if I hired someone.

Really, I am going to hire someone to help and after I go pick him up, take him to wawa and make sure he has the right clothes on every time I try to look out the passenger side view mirror the only thing I will be able to see is his head bent over his cell phone. I just might reach over and punch him.

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Yeah, it pisses me off alright. And I know exactly who this clown is...but the main thing on this deal is if we have to have liability and comp to bid then everybody else has to regardless of their quote. That is discrimination of some sort. The guy they hired has one thing in his toolbox, he is cheap. Believe me, cheap is the only thing that SOB ever had going for him.

Well if they checked your insurance then they must have checked his... but who knows? And the think tank that is the municipality should know all the ins and outs... right?

Hell, right now my township is looking for someone to road plow for 50 bucks and hour. They have to know... right?

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

I watched some dipshit weld a shock absorber to his anti- sway bar then hit the wall at 120 mph in his souped up Datsun 260.

Now I don't think I ever owned a truck that I didn't have to weld the frame back together.

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Is this what you see welded on to excavator buckets and dozer blades sometimes in a criss cross pattern?

Maybe, sometimes its just a regular bead. When I first saw it I was impressed by the ingenuity.

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Got the truck back and I think it's finally fixxed right. Got 2 nice jobs to do later this week.

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Oh thank God and I really hope it is fixed cause I can't take anymore from this truck. I pretty much am speaking for everybody when I say it has been quite a burden for us all.

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

And speaking of welding:

Man, you should have seen all the repair work done to this Nifty-Fifty we rented today. It kinda freaked me out. The guy I was working with asked me to go up in it and finish, I was like, " I ain't going up in that POS and have you swing branches at it." He was a little disheartened.