whadja do today?

[treebilly]

I’ve been doing my thing. Go to work, make the boss his money, and go home. Still doing my share of removals but for some reason the estimator has been selling crown reductions a lot. Problem is he doesn’t understand the time it takes to properly do it and I’m stuck because out of 24 employees there is one that can actually do it. Two full days of reduction pruning and two days of easy removals. Guess what brought in the money. I’m much happier since I cut my own hours but now he wants all 24 employees down t0 40-45 hours. Not a big deal to me but some of the younger guys really relied on the 60 hour paychecks. I’m gonna help one of my crew out by paying him to help me around the property till I get caught up and hopefully be able to help him learn some other aspects of tree work.

 

[gorman]

View attachment 657128 View attachment 657129 View attachment 657132 View attachment 657127 Just some more tornado pics. Been jumping around this neighborhood for the last few weeks. Fixing to finish up tomorrow and go back home to my regular work. Had enough,, I think...

Me one one guy took that that oak down off the mountain, chipped it, and forwarded the logs down to the street yesterday. Plywood up and all (see it on the left). Was a good day.

I never heard about a tornado in litchfield.

 

[Jed1124]

I never heard about a tornado in litchfield.

We had 4 tornadoes touch down in the area. Where they hit, the guys from the local electrical company ( eversource) said they haven't seen any thing like it, including Sandy. We took a tree out of a ladies kitchen a few weeks back, cut it up on her granite counter and hauled it out the rear slider.
It's the real deal...

 

[Griff93]

Monday's crane job. I actually carried my phone with me while hooked into the crane for once so I snapped a picture looking down.


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This was a relatively small dead maple tree but as you can see it's surrounded by brick work that the home owner didn't want damaged.


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Crane was parked out front but the tree was in the back yard. Had to set pieces down in the street.


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[tree MDS]

Haha. A miniature crane job. Cool. I thought that was a bradford at first.

Like someone said “work smarter, not harder”.

 

[Griff93]

You can do things like this when you own the crane. It only took us two hours to do the job and let us move on to the next one. No one climber wise wanted to do it because of the brick.

We had a full sized crane job the other day. For scale, the crane is at 104' right here.

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This piece never even touched the ground. From the tree to the truck.
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The pick weighs 3800 pounds.
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[gorman]

A new HEUI pump and all new injectors in my intl. thing runs like a beast now.

 

[tree MDS]

Climbing, logging, whole tree chipping, 4 wheeling,, arboristing. Yeah, life beyond craning bradfords.

 

[Griff93]

I climbed a Bradford today. Does that count?

 

[gorman]

View attachment 658140 View attachment 658141 View attachment 658142 View attachment 658143 Climbing, logging, whole tree chipping, 4 wheeling,, arboristing. Yeah, life beyond craning bradfords.

At first I thought all those chips spread out were plywood

 

[tree MDS]

At first I thought all those chips spread out were plywood

Lol. Nah, been trying to moderate my plywood usage. We’ve been dragging along the same 20 sheets for weeks now. Oddly enough they seem to be just the right amount.

 

[JeffGu]

That's what you get for buying all that equipment! See, I just go to the farm store and buy a pair of irrigation boots for $20 for those wet days!

 

[gorman]

Been cranking out the work since I got my trucks on the road. Had a neighbor cancel work while we were working next door at the last mjnute. Kinda screwed us. Blew a hose on the grinder yesterday and found out the napa near my house makes hoses on the cheap.

I saw a video of some guy getting smoked in the head with a felled post. He’s wearing a hard hat but I’m dubious as to whether he survived or not. I’m sure you guys know the video. Two dumb ***** not paying attention and the bigger dumb ass is dropping a log straight on a paved driveway and not keeping a safe drop zone.

Anyway, here some pics.

 

[tree MDS]

Nice pics! Love the dog!

What’s up with all those little twigs all over the ground, though?

 

[jefflovstrom]

Been cranking out the work since I got my trucks on the road. Had a neighbor cancel work while we were working next door at the last mjnute. Kinda screwed us. Blew a hose on the grinder yesterday and found out the napa near my house makes hoses on the cheap.

I saw a video of some guy getting smoked in the head with a felled post. He’s wearing a hard hat but I’m dubious as to whether he survived or not. I’m sure you guys know the video. Two dumb ***** not paying attention and the bigger dumb ass is dropping a log straight on a paved driveway and not keeping a safe drop zone.

Anyway, here some pics.

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Been cranking out the work since I got my trucks on the road. Had a neighbor cancel work while we were working next door at the last mjnute. Kinda screwed us. Blew a hose on the grinder yesterday and found out the napa near my house makes hoses on the cheap.

I saw a video of some guy getting smoked in the head with a felled post. He’s wearing a hard hat but I’m dubious as to whether he survived or not. I’m sure you guys know the video. Two dumb ***** not paying attention and the bigger dumb ass is dropping a log straight on a paved driveway and not keeping a safe drop zone.

Anyway, here some pics.

Yeah, I saw it,
so stupid of a move , but I wonder how often it can happen?,, poor guy,,
Jeff

 

[JeffGu]

Sometimes... you get to just flop them into the middle of the street...

 

[tree MDS]

Big Daddy chipper.

 

[Zale]

You need a bigger chip box now that you have the new chipper. It never ends.

 

[tree MDS]

You need a bigger chip box now that you have the new chipper. It never ends.

That would be pretty sweet, now that you mention it! Lol.

 

[tree MDS]

This was my kind of tree job.