whadja do today?

[treevet]

He's been relieved of duty not for that alone.

 

[teamtree]

Ah, too bad the towers were in the deal.
Jeff

Actually, we were the high bidder on the tree removal portion and the low bidder on the tower removal.....go figure. The low bid on the tree removal was at 7 and we were at 15.....lol

 

[Reg]

Couple pics from yesterday. Works patchy right now. Lotta desperate companies about fighting over scraps of work. I get the feeling too that a portion of homeowner wait until this time of year to get their trees done because they know they'll get a cheap job.

 

[capetrees]

That scene looks a little hairy. Loose logs on the ground about to be hit by a huge trunk with a guy close by inside the fall area of the tree being cut?

 

[treevet]

My day stressful , I hate this weather I hate the snow , and now the brakes went out on my dump ....... Tomorrow is all ****ed because I was supposed to take 2 trucks up to grab calcium , now I have to go there 2xs and then fix the truck and then pick up product because if we leave it on site all the ****ing scumbags on this planet are now helping themselves to it , so I figure that if I make it through til Friday I won't go postal I won't drive a load of calcium into a telephone pole and maybe just maybe I won't set fire to some poor bastards loaders

I drove for 2 weeks between Flemington NJ and Princeton during a heavy snow period with my one ton 4 by International dump using only the snow plow for brakes.

 

[capetrees]

I drove for 2 weeks between Flemington NJ and Princeton during a heavy snow period with my one ton 4 by International dump using only the snow plow for brakes.

You might be surprised at how many snow plows and sanders do just that, use the plow as brakes. How often do DOT cops inspect emergency vehicles in action? Almost never. I know around here if they did, the entire fleet woul be out for the storm and some for the season.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Got a new gm a month plus ago. Talked all kinds of experience. Slowly I have learned he has very little experience but maybe relatively he thinks he has alot. Yesterday after mentioning for the umpteenth time he doesn't have as much experience as he said he has while doing a td, he looks at my saw and in retaliation says "well at Nelson Tree we didn't ever put a bar on upside down". I just looked at him for a minute and went back to work.

And you kept him? OK, I had to let a groundie go today,,sux, nice guy but ,
Jeff

 

[Zale]

F the snow.

 

[NYTREECLIMBER]

F the snow.

I 2nd that ^


Character is who you are when no one is looking

 

[Pelorus]

Got a new gm a month plus ago. Talked all kinds of experience. Slowly I have learned he has very little experience but maybe relatively he thinks he has alot. Yesterday after mentioning for the umpteenth time he doesn't have as much experience as he said he has while doing a td, he looks at my saw and in retaliation says "well at Nelson Tree we didn't ever put a bar on upside down". I just looked at him for a minute and went back to work.[/quote

Best rid yourself of that headache before he becomes a migraine.

 

[Toddppm]

Well, ended up with 19". Going back out at 1:00 am. Two more packs of Marlboros, thermos black coffee and peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Haven't even started to salt yet. We'll probably go through 60 tons. I would rather be climbing.

About 15" here. Went out 3 different times. Had people cussing at me, others begging or demanding me to dig out their cars. People just don't get that when you push the snow it has to go somewhere along the edges and in front of their parked cars. They just stand there staring like it's the most baffling obstacle they've ever had to overcome in their lives and don't know what to do Most of them could have driven right over the berm if they tried but they'd rather ***** instead I helped push out a couple of the ones that just started digging instead of ********.

Are you doing all commercial/hoa's ? I can't imagine going through that much salt unless we were doing highway work.

Saw a guy on the side of the highway on top of a triaxle with shovel in hand trying to chip away at the frozen salt in his spreader. I was a little worried about him, that's pretty high up on 1 of those rigs if he fell!

 

[Toddppm]

Oh yeah, possibility of little more snow tonight!!! Yeeeeaaaah buddy.

Got a call for another tree removal and pruning approval today. Still have some others to do. Don't know what's going on, never had so much work this time of year but it'll be nice to just ease right into spring.

 

[Reg]

That scene looks a little hairy. Loose logs on the ground about to be hit by a huge trunk with a guy close by inside the fall area of the tree being cut?

Yep. Good job we move fast.

 

[treevet]

posed to quit at 8...no quitty...post to quit at 9 so I start plowing a large property at bout 9...snows like a mf for solid hour and covers up all I plowed...went home and still snowing like a mf (not like you easterners tho)

 

[sgreanbeans]

Got a new gm a month plus ago. Talked all kinds of experience. Slowly I have learned he has very little experience but maybe relatively he thinks he has alot. Yesterday after mentioning for the umpteenth time he doesn't have as much experience as he said he has while doing a td, he looks at my saw and in retaliation says "well at Nelson Tree we didn't ever put a bar on upside down". I just looked at him for a minute and went back to work.

LOL, awesome! One of the guys that I canned in SoCal, Jacob, great guy, very nice and polite, always had something positive to say. However, after 4 years of being a climber at the big show, I would have figured that he would know how to put a chain on and recognize that it was on backwards. But, I was wrong. I tried to train him, but he had more important things to do at night than learning what he should already know, he told me so. So, I gave him all the time he needed.

 

[treeclimber101]

I drove for 2 weeks between Flemington NJ and Princeton during a heavy snow period with my one ton 4 by International dump using only the snow plow for brakes.

Yea well when I slam I to a Mercedes because I can't brake .... I will just tell them this old head did it for 2 weeks and I thought I was as good ..... Sorry shoulda bought domestic parts are cheaper ! LOL

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Caught a snow pile with the dually last night while trying to plow my wife's paps icy driveway and crinkled the fender a bit.

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[treeclimber101]

F the snow.

I don't know you ...... And after meeting you for a few minutes in May feel differently .... But for now smoking 2 packs a day in the truck stationary then breathing it all back in over night is not at all healthy .... I limit mine to one every time I start working a new spot

this is what what of my spots are turning into barren waste lands of dangerously high piles in intersections and parking at a premium

my people were so happy to see us they wouldn't dare to complain until I was done !

 

[treeclimber101]

Caught a snow pile with the dually last night while trying to plow my wife's paps icy driveway and crinkled the fender a bit.View attachment 333726

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yea dude snow is tough on Dualies you Gita be real careful .... Your truck is too nice for my taste for snow

 

[treevet]

Yea well when I slam I to a Mercedes because I can't brake .... I will just tell them this old head did it for 2 weeks and I thought I was as good ..... Sorry shoulda bought domestic parts are cheaper ! LOL

You will be amazed to turn around one day and YOU will be an "old head". Time goes by faster year by year. I will be around and will be amused when that happens...just like seeing you give advice HOW to smoke your ciggs lol. You are a gem.