Yea blows money right into my pockets
whadja do today?
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treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
Ha ... That it does
Loves me some standing dead oak removed cut split and burned today
nice quickie job on the way home from doing that biggun
Yup, it was a totally beautiful day!
Kinda sux that you guys are mostly 3 hours ahead of me and I hope you are sleeping!
Jeff @ 8:07pm and 72 degrees,,
Jeff
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
LOL, nope.
Found them in the Tree Care Trader mag while sitting at my desk in SoCal. Called them, dude I talked to told me he was a Marine, so....well.....he wasn't. The reason I know he was not, I called and talked to the owner about the POS truck they lied to me about and he ask's me who I talked too. I told him the Marine dude. "We don't have any Marines here" I quickly looked at my notes, gave the guys name and the owner laughed at the thought "He's NO MARINE". That's when he said he couldn't help me.
I think they changed their name.
@jared, didnt get a hold of the attorney, but I don't care. Going to give a timeline of events and how it all went down.
Ultimately it is my fault. I trusted and I got burnt. Broke my own rule of inspecting what I expect. I was so ready to get home and get going and get the fck away from that company I was working for, that I made some novice mistakes. I had client's in Iowa calling like mad, pissed at me for leaving and pissed at who I recommended to call in my absence.
It has hurt me, as nothing really has gone as planned this year. Dana, Truck, my body, etc. Just need to get through this winter and re-attack. The one thing that has gone my way is the clients. I had a explosion of calls. Sucked that I couldn't accommodate everyone. Between hospital stays with her and that pos truck, it was very hard to keep up.........not that I did. Lost some clients that didnt care about my problems, gained some who did.
Big thing here, is making sure as many people know about them as possible. Someone is going to get killed if they keep it up. They do not care either, I have looked up other reviews of them and this is not the first time they have lied about their truck's in a serious manner. Seems to be their MO. You can probably count on some BS from all of these type of operations, but I don't think to this level. I have dealt with Schmidtys a couple times and I was not real happy with them either, however, I never had a issue like this and I believe that they would not intentionally hid something so serious. I am dealing with I-80 now, they are close to the house and have had several people say nothing but good things. Their trucks are not beyond reproach, but from what I understand, from those who have dealt with them, they will try and make anything right. I have seen their refurb process first hand and they really go through those trucks. That also reflects in their price. They are being real good right now trying to get me straight. They are going to contact Altec on my behalf to see about a recall. As I said before, they have them on most makes and models out there, kinda weird they don't for mine, so they are looking into it. They are not sugar coating anything. They told me that this would be painful, that is not something they will weld, has to be replaced complete and that will not be cheap. Praying to the tree gods that Altec saves me.
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
It was freakin cold yesterday. Some said -10 with windchill. Way to get acclimated by fire. But we went out anyway, had a nice ground work job. Pruned 4 small trees for mowing and sidewalk clearance and then murdered 2 huge rows of burning bushes with 80 million mulberry's growing up through them.
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
When I bought my knuckleboom truck, I made the 13 hr round trip down to timberland trucks to check out there operating on a Sunday so I could see first hand what they make and sell.
Mmm. Beautiful day. Gotta dump and stack my last cord of wood at the house. My buddy helped fix the furnace that's been out at the shop and swap out the ceiling fan that died yesterday. Gonna bring him a load of wood as payment. Putting another check in the bank today. Not great, but as ready as for the hell as I'm gonna be. Wanting another fresh stab at it next year already.
You poor bastard!! Lol. I'd move.
Pelorus
Uva uvam vivendo varia fit
The snows are gonna get you too. Ice Ages are relentless.
Yep. Time to plug in the Christmas lights again.
treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
Oh god what a awful picture , I'd seriously move
gorman
Addicted to ArboristSite
Went to put my brand new gehl loader on the trailer to send it to a dealer for warranty work and now the boom won't work. So, I have little idea of how to get this thing on the trailer since the boom is stuck in the lowest position.
Lol. Ouch.
If I was closer I'd try and lift it up for you with my 14 year old tractor. Just saying.
Lol... sorry.
Lol... sorry.
treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
Ummmmm ! Ha yea , maybe you can just horse it up there , or take the first payment on that thing and hire a tow truckIf I was closer I'd try and lift it up for you with my 14 year old tractor. Just saying.
Lol... sorry.
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