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John Paul Sanborn said:
Larry is makes a real good mess!
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LOL, yup. It sure was nice when you and your guys were in town to help out with the haul off John. It really helped with the crane work. Can't remember the guy driving the log truck's name but he seemed to enjoy it. Said he didn't get to see much crane work back home. Said the trees were already on the ground by the time he got to them. :)
 
tree md said:
Well my tree is done. Didn't get many pics because it was all hands on deck with the ropes. When it comes to my priorities keeping the limbs and chunks out of the lines takes precedence over taking pretty pictures. Anyway, trust me it was an ugly tree. I had to rope every piece of it over the house and keep it off of the phase three lines that was less then 10 feet from the tree. It had my sphincter drawn up a couple of times. I had to pull about a 3000 pound knotted chunk off of me today at 40' with a back lean. I told one of the guys to take some pics while I was working the spar but they didn't come out. I guess he didn't work the camera right or something. Here are some pics I got before and after dropping the spar. Tight drop zone. Maybe 15'.
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Great work...Would have loved seeing that stump milled. Just not practical sometimes, but it looks like it was a nice piece.
 
Nothing much. Just sort of "hung around". ba dum ching!

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Took a tear out through the farm country down River Road twisties with a bud. Smelled some manure, scoped some hotties and had a big time.

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tree md said:
LOL, yup. It sure was nice when you and your guys were in town to help out with the haul off John. It really helped with the crane work. Can't remember the guy driving the log truck's name but he seemed to enjoy it. Said he didn't get to see much crane work back home. Said the trees were already on the ground by the time he got to them. :)
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Yeah, they are from way up north, almost to Lake Superior. Their typical property is a lakefront summer home that it is hard to get a crane on to. The company does not chip much of anything, they pile roadside, the grapple tuck picks it up and then the migrant tub grinder comes through 2-3 times a year. Then they sell the mulch out of their garden center and landscape company.
 
Interview with CN "North America's Railroad" about becoming a conductor. If successful I start 3 May on a five week training course. Played hockey at noon in Sherwood Park, a suburb of Edmonton, looked for a place to live, bought two pairs of safety glasses and a pair of gloves to ride the bike with. Idle but a good day. Wish me luck re the job.
 
John Paul Sanborn said:
Yeah, they are from way up north, almost to Lake Superior. Their typical property is a lakefront summer home that it is hard to get a crane on to. The company does not chip much of anything, they pile roadside, the grapple tuck picks it up and then the migrant tub grinder comes through 2-3 times a year. Then they sell the mulch out of their garden center and landscape company.
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LOL, I think he got a kick out of me chewing out the crane operator. He was a young kid and had never done a tree before. I should have probably got a bigger crane but the setup was on a corner lot and was an easy job for the 13 ton. Only problem was when I bid the job and figured out the setup all the lines were down. In the week between the sale and the job they had put in a new weather head and restored electric service. No biggie, I just had to work around a house drop. I had to get creative with the first pick to get the leader over the service drop. It rocked the kids boat a little bit and he freaked. He wanted to move to another spot from where I had him setup. I came down and looked the situation over and told him we were in the best spot. He then said he thought we needed a bigger crane and though we might need to back up and punt. I told him that backing up and punting was not an option. I called the owner (who has seen my work and have a good working relationship with) and told him what the kid told me and that I had told him that backing out was not an option. His boss told me that the kid had called him and told him the same thing. He told me that he told him failure is not an option and to do what I told him to do. I learned on the same crane he was operating and worked it to death. I know the limits of that crane and have no problem at all in pushing it to the limit.

Anyway, Your guy that was driving the log truck thought it was funny as hell when I chewed the kid out. He got a good laugh out of it.
 
I took my little knucklboom crane/chipper truck to the organic material dump and saved my f-350 from a rollover situation!

I had loaded the F-350 with wood chips from our dump zone and he was on his second load for the day. The scissor lift broke on one side only, and the whole load shifted to the right side of the truck, partly held up by the bent lift frame.

When I showed up, the right set of springs were completely flattened, the axle was touching the truck frame on that side, and the dump bed was hanging far off the side of the truck at about a 45° angle. It looked bad!

About 45 minutes later, we had gingerly managed to dump the load and restore the dump bed to it's parking spot on the truck frame. Scissor lift is badly damaged, and the truck frame or dump bed might be a bit twisted.

The main pivot pin in the middle of the scissor lift sheared off on the right side, causing the cascade of problems. Was the truck or bed-lift overloaded? I don't think so, but it was certainly a full load of wood chips onto a 12' long bed with 50" sides. My crane didn't have any trouble picking up the load along with the truck bed, and it has a 12,000 limit at 5' off the side, so I think it was just a worn hoist component.

There was no evidence of driver error. It's a good thing the truck didn't roll over, because I would probably have presumed that the roll-over broke the hoist and then blamed the driver for doing something stupid. I try to be pretty balanced about this kind of thing, but it is almost always operator error when a machine rolls.

This is the same driver that I saved last year with our crane when he almost rolled a small tractor simply unloading it from a trailer.
 
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Started what should have been a nice, easy 2 day job. Showed up on time, myself and 1 guy, HO comes out, while you're here let's take down this shagbark hickory by the road. Man did that SUCK!
 
Weekend didn't heal the poison ivy as much as I would have liked...just blinked a bit more today.
Then we hacked, and snorted and snotted and wanted to vomit, but were not fortunate enough, as we dropped a sycamore...
Lots of nice furniture pieces, but barely worth the wonderful feelings associated with cutting it up...more of the same tomorrow, though less pollen (so says the boss) as there is no canopy left, but more vines and nasty ahead.
Spending the night thinking about the upcoming crane job at the homestead, and the slim-lined dynamics to the business that the boss is bringing about.
...all without a loan, refinancing or any government/private funding...Kudos...real businesses/men don't wage their futures on speculation or gov't bailouts. Good move.
Been fantasizing alot lately about getting to work in the shop...lots of backed up tree work though, and no relief in sight. This season is looking interesting...
 
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Finished up on this property then picked up 2 tons of sod with my one ton Silverado and drove it 40 miles and planted it in my own yard. Chevy tough.
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You right....Ford can be tough too....but Dog de ...now that is another story lol.

The smaller oak in the pict used to look like the big one until the hurricane hit. Found scale all over it and sprouts. That is the oldest house (left) in our town and the main structure prior to add ons dates to the late 1700's.

Hadn't worked on that property in years as the previous owner (there 6 years) insulted me and told me I would never work on this property again. My reply was "you better never move then". The IRS chased him into a smaller house rumor has it.

I waved to him as he drove by staring yesterday.:)
 
treevet said:
You right....Ford can be tough too....but Dog de ...now that is another story lol.

The smaller oak in the pict used to look like the big one until the hurricane hit. Found scale all over it and sprouts. That is the oldest house (left) in our town and the main structure prior to add ons dates to the late 1700's.

Hadn't worked on that property in years as the previous owner (there 6 years) insulted me and told me I would never work on this property again. My reply was "you better never move then". The IRS chased him into a smaller house rumor has it.

I waved to him as he drove by staring yesterday.:)
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Lol the ole snoot salute a wave and smile, they never know what your thinking lmfao:cheers:
 

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