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My helper spent ~15 minutes with a hose soaking around that stump. I wear a mask running the blower or if I can't get out of the way running the stump grinder.

I had eye and ear protection, no hardhat or face shield, obviously.

Cranial or facial PPE? Standing perpendicular to the wheel is fairly safe. I ground deeper than usual to reduce the chance of material being thrown forward by keeping the deflector low. It's definitely gas, a similarly powered diesel grinder would be around $200k. Practically the...

I’m a big fan of closing lanes/roads, either outright or with flaggers. I don’t negotiate with traffic😂.

Victory through overwhelming force. 19.5 minutes

Exciting stuff, 19" pine, ~90' tall, through the chipper in ~4:10 minutes. Hecka handy

Yesterday I somehow misread that as $5k a day. We’re an outlier for equipment/ efficiency I reckon, but we absolutely wouldn’t work as a crew for $2000-2500/day. I’d send one of our part time guys out solo with the little excavator and/or stump grinder for that. Even before the latest...

We’re still busy with enough work to get into October and ~35 bids to give (some are aged, which is still a problem; we’re working on a process to help with). Could use a full time laborer that has aspirations, but we doubled down again on equipment to keep our 2.5 man operation productive. We...

Yep, next Sunday is when the second payment is due, we've put ~150 hours on it. We need to figure out a storage spot for the 36" outrigger pads and an easier way to move cribbing with the variety of machines we could have on a given site. I misunderstood while we were setting up, we had more...

Funky tree, fairly tight setup. Normal tree, tighter setup. Two outriggers out 100%, two at 40% and 45%.

Driving there wasn't a big problem, we did use the blade on the excavator to knock some dirt into a depression to average out the slope a bit. The machine has ~7* of leveling each way side to side. We were approaching the limits of the tractive effort with the slope and sandy soil (higher...

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Readout said this piece was 4klb and change.

Not the best setup, but it got the job done.

Meh asphalt driveway we’ve worked on for over 20 years, sitting still, and only ~2-2.5klb pieces. Tire pressure is only going to be so much. I don’t have the lmi readout to calculate the weight on the front axle with that pick. Empty and retracted grapple is 24.5klb. 3 years and a week or...