I like tree vids, felling, dismantling, rigging etc. but without the clear up with a chipper and tipper truck it’s just making a mess.
I like some closure, the whole story, the narrative arc if you like.
Yeah, serious(ish)
I spent a few years loading and unloading brash by hand.
Feeding either of my chippers with sharp knives and anvils, watching forks get crushed and chip getting launched into the tipper truck doesn’t really get old for me.
Years ago I was home during the day cos I had no work or something.
So I was watching the discovery channel and it was a travelogue with some 6 ft something Californian touring Africa.
He was with some tribe or other who had a kind of wrestling week every year, and the champion, a coal black...
Things filling out a bit
S’funny, cos when you get into your 60s the die is cast to a certain extent, you’ve only got a few more years in serious business.
The debt load is minimal or nonexistent.
You now know you’re not going to take over the world, but you’ve stayed solvent for 3 decades...
Had the traînée up his biggest tree yet. Removing some big back weight branches off a dying oak so we can fell it.
He got tired and sloppy during the ringing down and smashed a concrète post.
We bodged it up and the client was ok.
Ruined an otherwise outstanding day.
Financially I’m about in line with last year, which wasnt a record breaker by any means.
The différence is I’m telling peeps I can do it next week (or even tomorrow!) Could be worse I suppose.
Scratching around a bit tbh.
Second week in september is when the retopping can begin, got some décent jobs in the diary.
Not fighting them off with a shitty stick thats for sure.
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