What I Learned This Week

[juststumps]

What I learned this week,,,

1: If you close your eyes,, it still hurts !!!!

2: You should get your teeth fixed,, while you still have Dental Insurance !!

3: Bald Faced Hornets wake up at 8:30 AM in my part of town !!!!
( They really don't care,, if you didn't see their nest )

4: Bald Faced Hornets , fly faster than a bucket truck moves in a maple tree !!! ( I closed my eyes !!!!)

5: You can flip a Vemmer 352 over !!!

6: It takes 2 guys , and 2 floor jacks,,, to upright it !!!

7: It is not good, when oil comes out the air filter !!!

8: Oil shoots out of the glow plug holes really far,, when your trying to clear the engine !!!!

9: taking the hood off of the grinder , to get to the glow plugs,,, sucks !!!!!
putting it back together sucks worse !!!!

10: having the customer stay inside the whole time,, then finally getting the job done,, and getting paid ( PRICE LESS )

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

That's a heck of a lot to learn in one week!

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[sawinredneck]

Had a typical week I see:yoyo:

 

[treesquirrel]

I learned the following this week...........

1. When a passenger car slams into your trailer towing a bobcat and attachments behind your dump truck you hear a crash, see a car spinning in the intersection, but feel nothing.

2. Even a mighty MS 880 will not cut through a steel spike buried within a tree.

3. Yellow jackets are small but hurt like he!!.

3. It's hot at noon in august in Georgia.

4. Its no fun when 1 million carpenter ants are crawling all over your arms and clothes after you have cut right through their nest in a large hollow branch.

5. Gaff kick outs suck big time.

6. Never take an out of state check.

7. You do not find out that an out of state check is bad for almost a week after the deposit is made.

8. It is hard to cut hanging upside down, but I had no choice as I was literally at the end of my rope.

9. Wet grass is worse than grease for a two wheel drive dump truck.

10. When your 7500 pound chipper rolls over a sprinkler system main valve you get to see a neat geyser shoot up from the ground.

 

[tree md]

I learned the following this week...........

1. When a passenger car slams into your trailer towing a bobcat and attachments behind your dump truck you hear a crash, see a car spinning in the intersection, but feel nothing.

2. Even a mighty MS 880 will not cut through a steel spike buried within a tree.

3. Yellow jackets are small but hurt like he!!.

3. It's hot at noon in august in Georgia.

4. Its no fun when 1 million carpenter ants are crawling all over your arms and clothes after you have cut right through their nest in a large hollow branch.

5. Gaff kick outs suck big time.

6. Never take an out of state check.

7. You do not find out that an out of state check is bad for almost a week after the deposit is made.

8. It is hard to cut hanging upside down, but I had no choice as I was literally at the end of my rope.

9. Wet grass is worse than grease for a two wheel drive dump truck.

10. When your 7500 pound chipper rolls over a sprinkler system main valve you get to see a neat geyser shoot up from the ground.

LOL, Now that's funny! treesquirrel, I used to work ATL... Huge market there...

I guess that I learned that I can sell 20 K in a week this week....

Now I just have to putum on the ground and cleanum up...:rockn:

 

[mysawmyrules]

It's lessons learned by others that help us appreciate that our day might not have been that bad:biggrinbounce2:

However I'll put it up against some runs of lessons I've had in the past:chainsawguy:

Got any pics

 

[pbtree]

Wowsers! That was a crazy day...:jawdrop:

 

[beowulf343]

Lol-not making light of you guys, just have had a rough couple weeks and nice to know others are in the same boat. Things learned over the last couple weeks.

1. Groundies from other crews are never as good as the ones that have been with you for 7 years.

2. If you are working in the city and leave your saw for just a minute on the chipper while you are going to look at a tree in a backyard, the saw will get stolen. (Fortunately, i could run faster than that punk.)

3. Women seem to dislike working in the rain.

4. Women get pissed when you fire them for not working in the rain even though everyone else is. And even more pissed when you won't let them take the company truck back to the yard after they were fired, because you still need it on the jobsite.

5. Ears are amazingly not attached to the human body very well.

6. If you blow a tire on the thruway, you cannot get out and fix it without getting a ticket. Then instead of getting it fixed and back on the road in 15 minutes, you have to wait an hour and a half for the thruway wrecker to show up. Then after getting a tow to the nearest exit, you are presented with a bill for several hundred dollars.

7. And lastly, never finish a $2000 job in an hour-pisses the homeowner off like you wouldn't believe. (I have no idea what the rep was thinking when he bid that job for that much, or what the homeowner was thinking for accepting that bid. Oh well, guess it was all my fault for making it look too easy.)

 

[oldirty]

ok beowulf

i liked #4.

#'s 6 and 7 are a karma thing. checks and balances.

but i think i want to hear more about that #5.

lol




oldirty

 

[joesawer]

When I was in the Army I met a guy whose ear was very firmly attached. I did my best to pull it off. Twisted it up like a dishrag and tried to tear it off, but it would not come off. It did swell up really big the next day and kind of cauliflower after that.

 

[Climb020]

Sure hope that wasn't your 352 JD. Good to hear things are going an usual.

 

[juststumps]

Sure hope that wasn't your 352 JD. Good to hear things are going an usual.

YUP !!! mine,,,,"rookie mistake",,,,

was so stressed,,, had to go down to the boat,, and fish for two days!!!! LOL

nothing hurt,, now i know what bottom of the thing looks like.....first thing i did after killing the engine,,, was to run out to the curb,,, and take my stump grinding signs down,, and throw them in the bushes!!!!!!!! LOL

had to go thru a gate,, had the outboard tires off....done it a hundred times before....hard to believe that they are optional....

thinking about having the company name painted on the bottom for next time!!! LOL

 

[mysawmyrules]

Bringing back an old topic and not tree related but here is some knowledge I just acquired and am sitting down resting my wounds.

1- A 1500 lb Charolais cow CAN jump a 6' high steel panel.

2- A 1500 lb Charolais cow CAN NOT clear a 6' high steel panel.

3- 6 30'/6' panels chained together with a 1500 lb Charolais cow hanging from the top will fall like a deck of cards and you want to make sure you are not standing near said panels.

4- Bruises on your legs from blunt force trauma will for in less than 5 minutes.

5- Unrelated to the the cow but a 71' auger at full extension that hits a bump will find the ground in less than 5 sec. and will not have 4' aiming in the same direction.

 

[Grace Tree]

Here's some stuff I learned last Saturday morning.

1. You can have a heart attack even if you're in pretty good shape.

2. If it feels like someone parked the chip truck on your chest you're probably having a heart attack.

3. You don't have to take a shower before you go to the hospital. They don't care and they're just going to mess you up anyway.

4. Don't drive yourself to the hospital. Even if you make it there without incident every medical professional and every member of your family will tell you what a stupid thing it was to do.

5. If you do drive yourself to the hospital don't worry about finding a "good" parking space. You won't be needing your car for a while.

6. Lastly, and this was a hard lesson for me; even if you don't care if you live or die, others do and you have to look into worried faces as they haul you away.

As an addendum;

All meat tastes better WITHOUT the fat trimmed off and there is almost no food on the face of the earth that doesn't taste better with salt on it.
Phil

 

[sawinredneck]

I think that qualifies as a BAD DAY!!!!!!! Hope you are doing well, and this gives you a better perspective on how many people you really do effect!