How'd it go today?

[Al Smith]

I've got a day of tomorrow.One of my two or three a month or so it seems of late .

Did manage to roll the lumps out of the yard .I've got a little asphault roller .The kind they use for driveways .Does a fine job just a little on the slow side .You can mash a mole tunnel flat as a pancake but you can't squash a mole with a roller .They must be made of rubber .

 

[jalegre0]

Truck belt broke Saturday on highway + didnt finish job till 8:00pm. Took us a few hours to get truck off highway got home at 1am.

Happy Easter. Fixed truck Had a Mcdonalds for dinner because if I dont cook we dont eat in. We had a #1,#11, and some kids meals.
There was a plus my whole family usually comes over so I didnt have entertain or clean mess up after dinner.
Most relaxin Easter yet
Hope everyone had a HAPPY EASTER

 

[squisher]

Brutal today. Full on rain, all day. Humped two sizeable trees out of a fenced in yard, no mini access. Willa and a cottonweed. I am beat up and down.

 

[Tucker943]

Rained today.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Rain? Stay home!!!

 

[squisher]

Taking down some big ass American elm for around here. Is the wood good for anything?

Seen my comps chip truck rolled on a fire access road this afternoon, I just happened to drive by and loon up the trail because I'd recently been there. It was a brushing type job I passed on, didn't make sense to me what the owners wanted to do.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I'm not familiar with American Elm, but all the other Elms I have used are certainly potentially good woods with a myriad of uses. Elm is strong, the way the grain knits itself.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I did a 'lil solo job today that I'd bid at $400. After knocking it out in 2.5 hours, I knocked a hunnert off the price. The lady couldn't believe I did that. I think of it as a $100 investment in future work.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nice going, MB. That is a cool gesture for sure.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm not out to gouge anyone, I just want fair pay for services rendered..

 

[MasterBlaster]

And actually it was a $500 job, but I gave my helper a hunnert. He was a happy groundie!

 

[Limbrat]

Very Nice Butch, sounds like a good investment to me.

 

[flushcut]

80 stumps 10 1/2 hours.

 

[woodworkingboy]

You deserve a break, Rajan.

 

[flushcut]

I got home an hour ago baby G is sleeping and I am soon to follow, but I have to catch up on the gossip first.

 

[cory]

Nice. What size/make of machine?

 

[flushcut]

Vermeer sc652 65hp. I only put 7 1/2 hours on the ticker the rest was driving around the golf course getting to all of them.

 

[FireFighterZero]

80 stumps 10 1/2 hours.

Gawd, that sounds brutal. I saw a picture of stump grinding once and it looked awful.

 

[flushcut]

It's not bad but boring.

 

[cory]

Stumping rocks. Um, I mean its fun, if there aint no rocks.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Maybe if you are super intelligent like that guy that got knocked in the head and now sees complex mathematical geometric patterns wherever he looks, grinding stumps wouldn't be boring.

 

[cory]

Uh, yeah thats me, I got beaned by a grapefruit sized boulder, now I even like the tree business in general.

 

[woodworkingboy]

One of the lucky ones!

 

[FireFighterZero]

I must have gotten hit by too small of a rock.

 

[squisher]

Yup. I hate grinding stumps.

Jay you're not familiar with American elm? What about the rest of you? I thought it was all over down there.