tnttreeman
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business is slow for me now, so if you need some help husky let me know. i'm just north of cranberry twp. can't be too far from you if you're in the burgh.
Winter Months
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took 3 days off at christmas and new year. otherwise its out into the rain (of which it does a lot in scotland, you might of heard of that, like the innuit have many words for snow we have many for rain
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took 3 days off at christmas and new year. otherwise its out into the rain (of which it does a lot in scotland, you might of heard of that, like the innuit have many words for snow we have many for rain
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We used to call it "Liquid Sunshine" on the west coast! 
OutOnaLimb
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The only thing that sucks about plowing contracts is that you get called in at 01:00 in the morning to come in an start moving snow.
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NickfromWI said:
Hmmm, what would happen if the ice broke under the weight of the heavy truck, chipper and load of chips?
Koa Man
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I guess with the large hole in the ice you could go ice fishing.
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work over here winter or summer comes in fits and starts ,you can be flat out one minute and the next minute you can be twiddleing you'r thumbs waiting for work to come in ,for the last two years my most busy times have been the few weeks/month leading up to xmas..and the slack time has been spring ,work that out i cant
John Paul Sanborn
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rborist1 said:
You get several inches and it's not a problem for most vehicles. You see people parked by their ice shanties all the time.
There are allways the idiots who do it too early, or late, or get drunk on a laek they dont know and find the thin spots, hence the roads Craig refers to.
Had one not too long ago, where, with the thaw they had the bad ice cabled off and a some drunk snomobielrs lost their heads at 2 am. Literally.
MasterBlaster
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I wouldn't put my truck on frozen water! Know whey, dood! 
underwor
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The two biggest things I have seen cross the lake while ice fishing in ND were a D6 Cat and about a 25 ton 2 story house a couple years ago. For the house, they waited for about 3' of ice and then the local housemover hooked on and moved it, no fencelines or powerlines to worry about. Around here a good 12 inches of ice is when all the trucks and ice houses hit the lake. Should gain some ice tonight, we are at about 2' now, they are predicting about -35F for the low, about -10F for high tomorrow. Then it is to warm up. Have a couple of jobs we put off last summer that will be easier to finish when we drop the trees on the lake. We just pile them up and burn them usually. Did six spruce and an ash tree several years ago on the same pile and only melted down about 8", It beats loading and hauling.
Have fun, Bob
Have fun, Bob
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topnotchtree
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Did anybody see the special on the discovery channel about the ice truckers last year? That was a very interesting show to watch. A tanker hauling gasoline broke thru the ice when the driver went the wrong way. It stayed bouyant, but they had to wait till the ice around it was thicker to get equipment there to pull it out.Naturally the tanker was froze in, like the pic of the pick-up a few posts back. They actually used dynomite the break ice around the truck to free it. It was really somethin to watch!
I was visiting my grandparents in St. Paul, MN many years ago in the late winter. There was a TV news feature where the reporter was interviewing an obviously drunken ice-fisherman while a wrecker was winching a car out of the lake behind them. He'd been out all day and broke through the ice right by shore on his way off the lake. The reporter asked the man if he was upset that his car went through the ice and the guy replied "I don't give a d<b></b>amn, it's my wife's".John Paul Sanborn said:
Reckon he got lucky that night?
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Most of the time,here ,the tree companys are slack from late Nov.,to about April.Some of them do side jobs,such as hang drywall,lay carpet,do hauling jobs.With the recent ice storm,they will be busy for at least 3 to 4 months.
Local # 17 T.T.
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Winter sucks!!!!
I am in Michigan and it sucks here in the winter. Not only does the weather get crappy, but even if you wanted to do a side-job after work, it's pretty much dark by then.
You get use to having a bunch of extra cash in the warmer months and then you almost lose everything and starve all winter. Oh well, guess I should have went to college. Now quit your whining and get up that tree kid! Tax seasons a coming! Come on daddy needs a new Husky!
I am in Michigan and it sucks here in the winter. Not only does the weather get crappy, but even if you wanted to do a side-job after work, it's pretty much dark by then.
You get use to having a bunch of extra cash in the warmer months and then you almost lose everything and starve all winter. Oh well, guess I should have went to college. Now quit your whining and get up that tree kid! Tax seasons a coming! Come on daddy needs a new Husky!A friend of mine put his p/u thru the ice a couple years back. Had to hire a helicopter to get it out.(Early spring, no one else would touch it.) Cost him nearly as much as a new truck.And still had the EPA fines to deal with. Bet he don't try that again..
tnttreeman
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I live less than a mile from a lake that freezes over, but you wouldn't catch me ever driving on it. Right before Christmas a woman drove on it in her car and had the ice break under her. Trapped in the car, she drowned.
huskycandoit
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These stories must suck because why would you drive on ice and just have that chance of your vehicle going threw. I wouldn't even walk on it unless it was 10' think then I might have my brother go first because I like my life.LOL :angel: But thx for the stories and keep em coming.
Gopher
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What you are used to...
I'm a crazy fool who has never lived farther south than the middle of Wisconsin!
We just had a cold snap where the wind chill temperature never got above about 15 below (fahrenheit) for 4 days. Otherwise, it is a matter of getting the hands accustomed to it. Typically, I will go outside at home for a while before leaving for the job and do a number of odds and ends with no gloves or mitts on. I can then guage what the recovery time will be on my hands if up in the tree.
Yes, there are some days that are what you might call, "lost", but then I spend the morning at one of my sons class, take them to lunch, etc. Do not forget the time with the people that don't see you when you are very busy!
As Nick from WI (really CA now!) states, many jobs we have here along the lake need to be done in the winter. Our lake just finally completely froze over, and in a week, we will be able to use the four-wheelers and trailers to haul brush to the landings. I have a number of trees that I girdled this spring to prevent additional growth that were slat3ed to come down this winter. We will do a number of those in the next number of weeks.
Also, the wind is a factor, but what I do is manage the jobs in a way that when the wind and cold prevent ajob being done on the south shore, a job on the north (protected slope) can be done. Today, the wind switched to the sout at about 25mph, so the pruning I wanted to do on the north side could not be done. I went to son's pre-school class and helped 4-year olds!
I am fortunate in that I have evolved my consulting business as well. I have been involved with three court cases this fall/winter, and while the cash flow from these is erratic, it is very good when it arrives!
Gopher
I'm a crazy fool who has never lived farther south than the middle of Wisconsin!
We just had a cold snap where the wind chill temperature never got above about 15 below (fahrenheit) for 4 days. Otherwise, it is a matter of getting the hands accustomed to it. Typically, I will go outside at home for a while before leaving for the job and do a number of odds and ends with no gloves or mitts on. I can then guage what the recovery time will be on my hands if up in the tree.
Yes, there are some days that are what you might call, "lost", but then I spend the morning at one of my sons class, take them to lunch, etc. Do not forget the time with the people that don't see you when you are very busy!
As Nick from WI (really CA now!) states, many jobs we have here along the lake need to be done in the winter. Our lake just finally completely froze over, and in a week, we will be able to use the four-wheelers and trailers to haul brush to the landings. I have a number of trees that I girdled this spring to prevent additional growth that were slat3ed to come down this winter. We will do a number of those in the next number of weeks.
Also, the wind is a factor, but what I do is manage the jobs in a way that when the wind and cold prevent ajob being done on the south shore, a job on the north (protected slope) can be done. Today, the wind switched to the sout at about 25mph, so the pruning I wanted to do on the north side could not be done. I went to son's pre-school class and helped 4-year olds!
I am fortunate in that I have evolved my consulting business as well. I have been involved with three court cases this fall/winter, and while the cash flow from these is erratic, it is very good when it arrives!
Gopher
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