whadja do today?

[treevet]

Thur. for first time in a while no tiptoeing on a golf course esque yard. Nice hood but yard was hard and it had WEEDS on it!!! So Dingo pulled over 2 decent size infested ash (using my porty trick). Dingo dragged LEADERS to the road from big front yard, sometimes 3 and 4 HUGE branches and gm and I fed em to the beast. Dingo grabbed huge trunks of wood and right into the 12' dumptrailer, some had to be bottom cut to lay down. Dingo stx stumper zoomed in and in no time both stumps were done and I set up to leave grindings which you have to make sound desirable to the ho...

One real good gm and the swiss army knife of treeman's tools the dingo and don't have to bother with another c list torture episode.

 

[tree MDS]

Wait.. what's a c list torture episode? Sounds like something the ninja would be laying down!!

 

[tree MDS]

Giving my poor old tractor the royal treatment this weekend. Spent $700 at john Deere. Got the shiny new hood its been needing for years and doing a full service (less hydraulic system, as that's been done recently). That's the bucket, chipper and tractor all done. Feels nice to look at clean, shiny equipment that's all ready to rock with no worries. Just gotta get up a little more money before I send the chip truck off to the dealer for some love.

 

[treevet]

I still forget the name of the guy works for me now after half dozen of "candidates" from last fall to now. 2 Scotts (one now), 2 Kyles, 1 John, 1 Richard, and I think a couple others in there.

 

[treevet]

Giving my poor old tractor the royal treatment this weekend. Spent $700 at john Deere. Got the shiny new hood its been needing for years and doing a full service (less hydraulic system, as that's been done recently). .

expecting a nice crop of corn this year I take it

 

[tree MDS]

I still forget the name of the guy works for me now after half dozen of "candidates" from last fall to now. 2 Scotts (one now), 2 Kyles, 1 John, 1 Richard, and I think a couple others in there.

I know the feeling. Gets to where you hear a new name and its like "good, don't think I've ever had a Jeff, this could be promising". Lol

 

[tree MDS]

expecting a nice crop of corn this year I take it

Oh please. While you and that little tinker toy are doinking around, the Deere would be already back on the trailer. A true, proven tree veteran that machine is.

 

[treevet]

Roger. We were off by a c-hair on s ome of these and didn't want to lean them to. The first section of jib theoretically would have been safe, but I wasn't about to test it out.

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I always try to consider this possibility...

 

[treevet]

I know the feeling. Gets to where you hear a new name and its like "good, don't think I've ever had a Jeff, this could be promising". Lol

 

[jefflovstrom]

My one day off and I have so much to do. Gonna be a heat wave here this week.
Jeff

 

[treevet]

in heaven,.....no waaaay!

 

[jefflovstrom]

in heaven,.....no waaaay!

Way!, Been moving into our new home and this is my last day here. Lot to do,,most is done, but always a lot to do.
Jeff

 

[ducaticorse]

Thur. for first time in a while no tiptoeing on a golf course esque yard. Nice hood but yard was hard and it had WEEDS on it!!! So Dingo pulled over 2 decent size infested ash (using my porty trick). Dingo dragged LEADERS to the road from big front yard, sometimes 3 and 4 HUGE branches and gm and I fed em to the beast. Dingo grabbed huge trunks of wood and right into the 12' dumptrailer, some had to be bottom cut to lay down. Dingo stx stumper zoomed in and in no time both stumps were done and I set up to leave grindings which you have to make sound desirable to the ho...

One real good gm and the swiss army knife of treeman's tools the dingo and don't have to bother with another c list torture episode.

What model dingo u have? There is a stumper attachment for sale local I'm interested, but don't think it will do a great job run off my tx425

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[treevet]

525 tx narrow dooks. don't buy it, they suck (if dingo atchmt). if an attachment go for the 38 special aftermarket. been out on the duck much this year yet?

 

[Affordabletree]

well I rode the ball yesterday for the first time and after the first two cuts it became a lot of fun. I only got one of the two trees done due to the back yard filling up and some other issues. pick totals were 1300lbs, 2500lbs, 2800lbs, 4100lbs and the last one was 6300lbs. My crane guy said that it was the heaviest silver maple he has done before. I had fun and it took 3 hours to get the first tree down to just a 52"x10' butt log. Crane guy said I didn't do bad just that I need to get a little more comfortable in the tree. he said whole tree should have been 2 hours tops. Pics will follow when I get them from my customer.

 

[ducaticorse]

What model dingo u have? There is a stumper attachment for sale local I'm interested, but don't think it will do a great job run off my tx425

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Vet, the duc was stolen two summers ago, and the insurance money bought us a Bobcat. I'm looking at this today for a new summer toy, but I'm on the fence because I want to paint all the trucks and chipper, especially the crane.

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[tree MDS]

I'd worry about the equipment first, Gilligan, but that's just me. That crane must really be making you a mint in order to afford you your rock and roll lifestyle. Lol. Just an observation.

 

[dbl612]

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good setup in picture #3 where your outrigger (even though placed close to foundation) is in line with front wall of the house. the wall offsets the forces applied to the sidewall. in general its iffy to set up even a small crane closer than 5-6' of a residential foundation. sometimes they are poured so poorly and there isn't consistent compaction. the pressure applied by the outrigger can easily crack the foundation.

 

[ducaticorse]

I'd worry about the equipment first, Gilligan, but that's just me. That crane must really be making you a mint in order to afford you your rock and roll lifestyle. Lol. Just an observation.

Buying a boat is cheap, keeping it running, that's a whole different story. This one belongs to the parents of a friend, it's in good shape, and is cheap (relatively). I'm not sold on it. And my CJ is coming back from the shop in a week or so that will keep me occupied too. I live right on a short river that dumps to the Atlantic and there are slips available right out my front door so it's pretty tempting.

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[ducaticorse]

good setup in picture #3 where your outrigger (even though placed close to foundation) is in line with front wall of the house. the wall offsets the forces applied to the sidewall. in general its iffy to set up even a small crane closer than 5-6' of a residential foundation. sometimes they are poured so poorly and there isn't consistent compaction. the pressure applied by the outrigger can easily crack the foundation.

Good information, thank you. You probably wouldn't have liked the set on the other side too much though knowing this now. Will keep the foundation bit in mind moving forward.

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