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Then in my neck they closed this one bridge. Its a little bridge, not very wide, yesterday I saw a big track hoe went off the side , they are widening the bridge. It was a pain in the ass.
Also , today, the one guy told me it appears Crazy Eddie smashed the living crap out off his crane. I am being polite when I say crane, more like 40 year old battleship anchor. I am glad to hear he is out of service, hope no one got hurt or killed, but he had no business with that crane.
The guy said he saw it being towed down the road, the boom was all twisted up and the cab crushed so I gather he had a pick on it and it went over. I really hope no one bit it.
 
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We slammed 8 trees today. 5 were no big deal but 3 were 100 to 120 foot stone dead Ash and tulip trees all 30" plus dbh in the woods, the house in the woods.. The first one was a notch and drop. We had to cut our way to the trunk. The second 2 we had to cut our way to an anchor point for the come a long. They were both less than ten feet from the house. The first of those had a little lean into the house and pulled over pretty easy after beaning it.

The last one, maybe 120 feet tall had a SIGNIFICANT lean over the roof on this half a mill. property. It took a lot of cranking and some feathering on the finishing cut to get the tree perpendicular to the ground. It was a pretty dramatic slammer. Broken rope or it falling off the notch sideways with ruptured holding wood would have had a couple hundred thousand dollars in damage easily and probably one dead old lady inside the ranch to account for.

We're back there tomorrow for a couple of big dead ones way out front by the road and wires, one a 90 footish dead elm without one shread of bark left on it. Beats yesterday where we worked on one of the top ten stinkiest properties of all time. Fenced in dog run, big can fed german shep with no clean up for years and years.... and hot humid nausiating stank.
 
treevet said:
We slammed 8 trees today. 5 were no big deal but 3 were 100 to 120 foot stone dead Ash and tulip trees all 30" plus dbh in the woods, the house in the woods.. The first one was a notch and drop. We had to cut our way to the trunk. The second 2 we had to cut our way to an anchor point for the come a long. They were both less than ten feet from the house. The first of those had a little lean into the house and pulled over pretty easy after beaning it.

The last one, maybe 120 feet tall had a SIGNIFICANT lean over the roof on this half a mill. property. It took a lot of cranking and some feathering on the finishing cut to get the tree perpendicular to the ground. It was a pretty dramatic slammer. Broken rope or it falling off the notch sideways with ruptured holding wood would have had a couple hundred thousand dollars in damage easily and probably one dead old lady inside the ranch to account for.

We're back there tomorrow for a couple of big dead ones way out front by the road and wires, one a 90 footish dead elm without one shread of bark left on it. Beats yesterday where we worked on one of the top ten stinkiest properties of all time. Fenced in dog run, big can fed german shep with no clean up for years and years.... and hot humid nausiating stank.
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Hehehe... I was on one like that today...Tree work is so glamorous...

I don't even want to talk about my day today. I got paid, that is about all that was on the positive side.
 
good tool for the Yankovitch.....lots of cable too

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treevet said:
We slammed 8 trees today. 5 were no big deal but 3 were 100 to 120 foot stone dead Ash and tulip trees all 30" plus dbh in the woods, the house in the woods.. The first one was a notch and drop. We had to cut our way to the trunk. The second 2 we had to cut our way to an anchor point for the come a long. They were both less than ten feet from the house. The first of those had a little lean into the house and pulled over pretty easy after beaning it.

The last one, maybe 120 feet tall had a SIGNIFICANT lean over the roof on this half a mill. property. It took a lot of cranking and some feathering on the finishing cut to get the tree perpendicular to the ground. It was a pretty dramatic slammer. Broken rope or it falling off the notch sideways with ruptured holding wood would have had a couple hundred thousand dollars in damage easily and probably one dead old lady inside the ranch to account for.

We're back there tomorrow for a couple of big dead ones way out front by the road and wires, one a 90 footish dead elm without one shread of bark left on it. Beats yesterday where we worked on one of the top ten stinkiest properties of all time. Fenced in dog run, big can fed german shep with no clean up for years and years.... and hot humid nausiating stank.
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Great vet sounds like a job for my winch lol. Anyway dog poo ain't got nothing on some of the crap I did in line clearance, trimming lines to hog farm,or chicken houses. Once; in a section I believe inbreeding occurs lmfao, I stepped in human feces and about through-up. I got near my truck, kicked off boots and left them where they lay drove home and called the super and told him I am buying a new pair on him lmfao:cheers: I told him I am taking the day off to recover too!
 
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jefflovstrom said:
No offense my freind, but you are weird! You ended your gripe with a "few minutes". yet, you say an HOUR or TWO.( Your words). Does your Boss know about your "regular scenario as listed above". (your words), and when do you get a pair instead of crying! Yeah, I am in a bad mood , I will be alright in about 5 minutes.
Jeff
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I'm glad you are feeling better now...
The boss knows all, just ask him, he'll confirm...and no, not crying or lacking a fine pair, just thought I would lend a bit of humor to an otherwise irritating subject.
Anyway, minutes, hours...time is relative, though not one of mine. The boss doesn't complain about things unless he's in need of a cookie to get his blood-sugar up.
 
TreeTarget said:
I'm glad you are feeling better now...
The boss knows all, just ask him, he'll confirm...and no, not crying or lacking a fine pair, just thought I would lend a bit of humor to an otherwise irritating subject.
Anyway, minutes, hours...time is relative, though not one of mine. The boss doesn't complain about things unless he's in need of a cookie to get his blood-sugar up.
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Then by all means buy some nutterbutters man lol.
 
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Great vet sounds like a job for my winch lol. Anyway dog poo ain't got nothing on some of the crap I did in line clearance, trimming lines to hog farm,or chicken houses. Once; in a section I believe inbreeding occurs lmfao, I stepped in human feces and about through-up. I got near my truck, kicked off boots and left them where they lay drove home and called the super and told him I am buying a new pair on him lmfao:cheers: I told him I am taking the day off to recover too!
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One of the climbers I worked under when I was starting out was from Louisiana and had started out working for big orange doing line clearance there. He was a neighbor and a fishing buddy/friend. He told me he would often have to start out in water at the base of the tree when he worked in the bayou. That sounded like some pretty rough climbing to me.
 
Stay dry buddy. I'm setting here listening to the story about the campers in AR that got swept away in a flash flood on the news. Terrible story. You know there had to be lots of kids there. :(
 
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Stay dry buddy. I'm setting here listening to the story about the campers in AR that got swept away in a flash flood on the news. Terrible story. You know there had to be lots of kids there. :(
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there will prob be some stories around here too. this is early on when I moved the trucks and still going strong.
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there will prob be some stories around here too. this is early on when I moved the trucks and still going strong.
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Lite rain here but pretty dry if you need a place to park them for a while... Just leave the keys Ill take good care of them.
 

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