DR. P. Proteus
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2 days of rain sure to put a kink in my plans.
It seems now that the tractor is OUT, Mt 55 IN.
I suppose I am kicking my self for selling my Dingo a few years ago. I knew I would.
I am just hoping to get something rolling and get back to work without to much more jerking off.
Got kinda screwed with this dead oak:
Actually climbed up to about the very top to set a rigging but saw it was decayed, the only thing I can do is blow that entire leader out and its going to hit the wire which the client WILL NOT take down.
So I explained it again while I pulled my ropes, put the fence halfway back up and left his stubborn ass on the phone to the power company which is where I told him to start days ago.
This guy don't seem it but he is a old time player. Plays the "nice card" while he stands back and watches to see how far a guy will go. I was like, " Yeah, what is it to you if I bring the wire down? You know you can turn yer back and still get the tree down like that but you will be the one getting paid."
I had played his game at first, and it was hard to do, but I kept my wit. I even charged more than " his guy" was going to. I could have taken down the tree no problem, just work it down. The client didn't really know that. But when I saw the decay up top there was no way I was taking any chances. The client didn't really know that either.
He had a good idea that the wire would be broke and I would pay for it. That was one of his strategies. He is selling the house, just needs the tree out CHEAP!
I am not upset about it, glad to be a player myself! Maybe the guy will get me a referral.
Not sure I would want it though. The whole area is filled with big exspensive trees and people just like this guy. These people bought these houses on a tract right next to the turnpike. Its could be am awesome place, the plots are huge, the houses are too, but the type of person to buy all that while trying to save a few pennies by buying it right next to the turnpike, well, I gotta say they do go mad listening to the drone, but they also have an innate, uh, um, quality (?) about them.
Everytime I work that stretch there is some guy that rolls up real quick to try to drag me to look at his tree right away like we have been great buddies all the time. Yer standing there soaking with sweat holding a chainsaw and these guys are trying to lure you into their beat-up Marcedes Benz and HELL, they might even have candy!
I did a job a few doors down from this oak, woman drove a white Rover, looked like a Kardashian, just big fat painted monster probably younger than me!
I think she might have tried to play me by saying we took the wrong tree down.
Well, ain't no deal to me, but there is another company in there now.
It seems now that the tractor is OUT, Mt 55 IN.
I suppose I am kicking my self for selling my Dingo a few years ago. I knew I would.
I am just hoping to get something rolling and get back to work without to much more jerking off.
Got kinda screwed with this dead oak:
Actually climbed up to about the very top to set a rigging but saw it was decayed, the only thing I can do is blow that entire leader out and its going to hit the wire which the client WILL NOT take down.
So I explained it again while I pulled my ropes, put the fence halfway back up and left his stubborn ass on the phone to the power company which is where I told him to start days ago.
This guy don't seem it but he is a old time player. Plays the "nice card" while he stands back and watches to see how far a guy will go. I was like, " Yeah, what is it to you if I bring the wire down? You know you can turn yer back and still get the tree down like that but you will be the one getting paid."
I had played his game at first, and it was hard to do, but I kept my wit. I even charged more than " his guy" was going to. I could have taken down the tree no problem, just work it down. The client didn't really know that. But when I saw the decay up top there was no way I was taking any chances. The client didn't really know that either.
He had a good idea that the wire would be broke and I would pay for it. That was one of his strategies. He is selling the house, just needs the tree out CHEAP!
I am not upset about it, glad to be a player myself! Maybe the guy will get me a referral.
Not sure I would want it though. The whole area is filled with big exspensive trees and people just like this guy. These people bought these houses on a tract right next to the turnpike. Its could be am awesome place, the plots are huge, the houses are too, but the type of person to buy all that while trying to save a few pennies by buying it right next to the turnpike, well, I gotta say they do go mad listening to the drone, but they also have an innate, uh, um, quality (?) about them.
Everytime I work that stretch there is some guy that rolls up real quick to try to drag me to look at his tree right away like we have been great buddies all the time. Yer standing there soaking with sweat holding a chainsaw and these guys are trying to lure you into their beat-up Marcedes Benz and HELL, they might even have candy!
I did a job a few doors down from this oak, woman drove a white Rover, looked like a Kardashian, just big fat painted monster probably younger than me!
I think she might have tried to play me by saying we took the wrong tree down.
Well, ain't no deal to me, but there is another company in there now.
