whadja do today?

[treebilly]

I'm crying ******** on nature right now. Single digits Monday and in the 50's today. I got mud ******* deep to a seven foot tall Indian on my job right now. Ripped out the beaver damn and water has gone down by four feet in two days but it's still high and we got two inches of rain forecast for tomorrow. Looks to be a maintainence and training day in the shop.
I did eat my lunch outside so it was a beautiful day

 

[jefflovstrom]

What are you talking about? Isn't CA in one of the worst droughts in history?

Yeah, but these last 2 to 3 weeks have been able to put a lot of drops in the bucket.
Jeff

 

[DLEngele]

It was a nice axe but it was just an axe. I could go out anywhere and find a stray axe just like that. I didn't want to be rude and say that to him, he seemed quite enthralled.

Just my excitement. Thought I would share it. I have a bazillion things that are more important than an old axe. What a great distraction to me.

 

[jefflovstrom]

certified arborist it says,
are you an ISA Certified Arborist?
curious Jeff

 

[DLEngele]

certified arborist it says,
are you an ISA Certified Arborist?
curious Jeff

No I am not a ISA cert. This is my boss man's truck in my driveway. I sure could get it with my 12 or so years of climbing. I don't think it would matter for my situation. Thanks for asking.

 

[jefflovstrom]

No I am not a ISA cert. This is my boss man's truck in my driveway. I sure could get it with my 12 or so years of climbing. I don't think it would matter for my situation. Thanks for asking.

you are welcome,
but you did post that pic so you were promoting (yourself) or your company having a cert.arb,
seems deceptive,
btw, I climbed for 28 years, hang in there,,
Jeff

 

[jefflovstrom]

you are welcome,
but you did post that pic so you were promoting (yourself) or your company having a cert.arb,
seems deceptive,
btw, I climbed for 28 years, hang in there,,

Jeff

 

[DLEngele]

you are welcome,
but you did post that pic so you were promoting (yourself) or your company having a cert.arb,
seems deceptive,
btw, I climbed for 28 years, hang in there,,
Jeff

My boss is ISA cert sir. No deception here sir. 28yrs....Wow nice stretch Jeff!

 

[BC WetCoast]

Estimate is done by an ISA Cert Arb, no guarantee that the guy doing the work has a clue. Not a slight on you, you may get a better deal and leave for somewhere else tomorrow.

 

[DLEngele]

Estimate is done by an ISA Cert Arb, no guarantee that the guy doing the work has a clue. Not a slight on you, you may get a better deal and leave for somewhere else tomorrow.

You really don't know. Right. All is good I don't have to defend myself. I make a good living. I can sleep at night(because I do the right things), and get calls everyday.

 

[derwoodii]

well i had plans of shooting 300y @ my range at club my side of town but i ended up driving cross town to buy a bathroom cabinet and then welding a steel widget for a mate.... hmm not sure how that unfolded but it saved me $500 and him $50

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Convict : Hanging one on Boss!

Roadboss : Hang it on boy!



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[DR. P. Proteus]

Did a quick emergency thing this morning then ducked back into my warm hole. Family is in Tenn, kid's gymnastics, and I have been avoiding the farm like the plague although feeling guilty for at least not splitting wood.

Yesterday was really nice, I push my old Yota out and Gunked the motor and all the parts I have off. I have been using furniture stripper to get the one intake gasket off. I probably could have just used the old gasket. Drain cleaner is one of the things that is in stripper. Its taken many applications to loosen the gasket without making a mess or working to hard.

I cleaned and clipped my nails after that and...

Am Em Dm Em F G A
Hey woman, you got the blues

Am Em Dm Em F G A
Cos there ain't nobody else that you can use

Am Em Dm Em F G A
E-Evil woomaan

 

[treebilly]

I was told we had a machine that was just a little stuck, bit stopped before it got real bad. I'm guessing real bad means flipped completely over.

 

[JeffGu]

I'm guessing that "a little bit stuck" is like being "a little bit pregnant".... that thing looks good and stuck, to me. If you gotta call somebody, it's stuck. No "little bit" about it.

 

[treebilly]

Any time you get a 64,000 lb machine stuck to me it's real stuck. Ten hours, a dozen timber mats, and 150,000 lbs of iron later she was high and dry. A few hurt egos as well. A lot of guys offered what they thought would work. With a quarter million dollar machine ya better know what's gonna work.

 

[tree MDS]

Yikes. As Jeffery would say "hopefully you figured that into the job". Lol

Finally got all 50,000 sheets of plywood up and we're mostly out of this place. Just a little trimming from the driveway left. What a stressor it is being that far out , in the middle of a job, when it turns that soft and pours, etc. thank god it finally froze up again. I was worried the plywood would be welded to the earth, but it came up. Place looked pretty good too - considering.

 

[tree MDS]

Thank god I was able to get this thing in and out too!! Rammy holds a good bit of chips as well, but nothing like this truck. I don't understand why exactly, just looking at the difference between the measurements, but it just does.

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Its time to stay drunk and play with guns while watching A-Team re-runs til about May O'clock.

I tried to go to work yesterday, I pulled out of my house's drive with the loader on the trailer and it scraped worse than ever. I got down to the main road and found the trailer had a flat so I headed back, put a tire on it and went back to bed.

Now it really is a swamp out there and Mr T just growled at some old white lady cause she wasn't wearing a hardhat. It was only a ploy to get her out of the building so Face could bug it.

 

[Zale]

Contract climbing for my old company today. Taking down 9 ash trees due to EAB. Everything is rocking and rolling until a bearing in the chipper drum goes bad. What horrible noise. Metal and bolts flying everywhere. Fortunately nobody caught any shrapnel but the chipper is f*cked for now. Never a dull moment.