Do those neighborhoods allow construction trucks in them?
whadja do today?
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treevet
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Went to my nursery to pickup a tree for one of my clients. Saw a mass of these Spring Grove Arborvitaes so I bought 35 for 2 clients for screening at $215. ea. and sold them planted for $800. ea. All 120 sold out in the first day. I got there first and got the pick of the crop.
Earth auger I got with bit for Dingo drills a hole the exact size of the container/ball. Have a tree ball grapple for it, grab plant, drive it over hole, drop it in, repeat. Big time cha-ching.
Earth auger I got with bit for Dingo drills a hole the exact size of the container/ball. Have a tree ball grapple for it, grab plant, drive it over hole, drop it in, repeat. Big time cha-ching.
treevet
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Damn thought it was road worthy.
treevet
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Wow, 1 tree related post in 11 years. Good on you.
treevet
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uh, ok Tom.
It only does like 25mph so in some cases drivable yes in others not so much
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harassment, stalking, I see a few felonies piling up
this is the last time I see this picture before I get the feds involved
treevet
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If you worked local you could probably get away with it. Hell they drive golf carts and bobcats in the streets here.
treevet
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What approx does that machine cost?
mckeetree
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To an extent. The main part of our service area is around two large lakes. Small water front lots with big houses on them. All have underground power going to house but some of the older neighborhoods still have above ground main power lines. Most areas are not in a city but have a strict POA or HOA. They keep up their own streets and go nuts about anything over 32,000 lbs going in. Some make concrete pump trucks put up a deposit for street damage. Most all the places we could use a crane the client is too broke to pay for it.
treevet
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Just curious...is this the 15 year old son or the father pretending to be the 15 year old son on the forum threatening me?
the 15 year old son
making it a class E felony for you to stalk and harass me
Well dave you asked for one, so you got it.
Rabid K9
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Been busy, progressively working on gaining more commercial & government jobs / clients over last eighteen months & now tricky to fit in all the private jobs. Not a bad thing, but trying to maintain the balance.
Dusty summer season is upon us, saws & gear been coping a bit of wear & tear, rushing always leads to breaking, but hard not to rush on some private jobs, where I feel the expectation of clients is generally for more to be done in day, because people are actually paying with their own dollars, rather than with taxpayers or commercial dollars. Also have recently found more good people available for work, but more staff means more moving parts. Italian arborist recently started with us, can climb, has skills, but his English is only moderately better than my Italian, which has led to some great things like turning off the chipper in gear, choking the beejeesus out of the lowering line when swinging big sections out & attempting to cut every stump at least 100mm below ground level....
Again the balance is tricky.
Quick private job yesterday for a classic older fellow, not huge on funds, but reminded me a lot of my late grandad, so we worked like animals to get everything finished in a day. Quite a bit of the job was clearing up some of the damage from the last operator who business name involved "Tree Lopping" & "Last Stop Before the Antarctic". Thankfully, the said operator has now hung up his saws. Metal on first cut of day in morning, horrid old radiata pine stump at end of day, was meant to be left as a sculpture, wife didn't like it so had to make it disappear. Dead, knotty, full of metal, backcutting around embedded star picket, couldn't get close to it with anything bigger than the Vermeer. Managed to get most of it done with one saw, before hit unknown object with the 661 at full noise, blew chain & sprocket apart, which meant had to go back this evening to finish moving base to burn pile, which then meant didn't get to scout local government job for tomorrow.
Old fella was stoked, tipped a few extra dollars, even got out & hammered his ancient steel wedges into the pine as I attached it with a new chain, more a hinderance than anything, but he was having fun.
Dusty summer season is upon us, saws & gear been coping a bit of wear & tear, rushing always leads to breaking, but hard not to rush on some private jobs, where I feel the expectation of clients is generally for more to be done in day, because people are actually paying with their own dollars, rather than with taxpayers or commercial dollars. Also have recently found more good people available for work, but more staff means more moving parts. Italian arborist recently started with us, can climb, has skills, but his English is only moderately better than my Italian, which has led to some great things like turning off the chipper in gear, choking the beejeesus out of the lowering line when swinging big sections out & attempting to cut every stump at least 100mm below ground level....
Again the balance is tricky.
Quick private job yesterday for a classic older fellow, not huge on funds, but reminded me a lot of my late grandad, so we worked like animals to get everything finished in a day. Quite a bit of the job was clearing up some of the damage from the last operator who business name involved "Tree Lopping" & "Last Stop Before the Antarctic". Thankfully, the said operator has now hung up his saws. Metal on first cut of day in morning, horrid old radiata pine stump at end of day, was meant to be left as a sculpture, wife didn't like it so had to make it disappear. Dead, knotty, full of metal, backcutting around embedded star picket, couldn't get close to it with anything bigger than the Vermeer. Managed to get most of it done with one saw, before hit unknown object with the 661 at full noise, blew chain & sprocket apart, which meant had to go back this evening to finish moving base to burn pile, which then meant didn't get to scout local government job for tomorrow.
Old fella was stoked, tipped a few extra dollars, even got out & hammered his ancient steel wedges into the pine as I attached it with a new chain, more a hinderance than anything, but he was having fun.
A few still photos from this month. Lol
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Nobody gives a **** man. Nobody. Especially the "Feds'. LMFAO
Bit the bullet and ordered the second set of Dica pads for the new lift last night. $400 a piece plus $200 shipping. Kinda sucks but a one time deal type thing.
Two of these things are gonna be able to eat up tree jobs!
Two of these things are gonna be able to eat up tree jobs!
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