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Sometimes the cats get the job done.

I hate it when baby squirrels go in the chipper. Hollow maple log yesterday, started chipping then heard the tell-tale squeaks. Probably after a couple had already gone through. One was then clinging to the feed wheel so I reversed it & stopped it. Scooped it up with some bark peelings and took...

I was thinking the same -- shock them if they try to steal the battery! Wire it up to ziggle them good unless you push a hidden switch to access it.

Did he do a Reon Rounds wheelie on the country road?

Two places we go charge ($40 and $10/load of chips), another we don't go to charges by weight, and 30 cubic yards of chips tips the scales a bit heavy. The rest of the connections we have made are free dump spots, mostly farmers wanting them for agrarian use, community gardens, a Girl Scout camp...

That's always tempting, especially if you miss them closing by 10 minutes. I've seen evidence of people doing that, dumping into a creek outside the chip dump. I'm more tempted by the sight of other chip piles dumped in parking lots, driveways, at schools & community garden projects. Simply...

Last week was pretty hazy from all the field fires burning south of town out in the county. Burn ban or no, a farmer's gotta do what a farmer's gotta do.

Likewise, fire ban ongoing here across several counties. But somehow the burn pile caught here, too...

Our main climber used to work for a Denver treeco. Latino ground man he worked with was grinding a stump, everything marked out, gas was supposed to be avg. 4' down, or at minimum 2' depth. Guy hit the gas main! Tree roots had pushed it up to just 6-12" below grade. Guy freaked out, ran a block...

Kansas just started selling full strength beer in grocery & convenience stores on April 1st. (As far as ideas as to what you could go do instead of bird watching...)

Guess I'm stupid or just driven -- the inner determination makes me finish what I start, bulldoggedly. But maybe different if you haven't even left the starting gate!

Friday's job wasn't stump grinding this week -- it was being the "Back Out Boys" and going back to 2 properties to fix ruts. We had popped them up with pitchfork & shovel after the job, but then the succeeding rains caused them to collapse back in. So I went to the landscaping supply place and...

I don't know if anything wouldn't have left ruts in this loamy lake-area soil that was still mucky from water run off of the rains last week. But the chipper tends to make the worst ruts, since switching tires to 4000lb. thinner ones than the stock factory ones (hard to find replacements for...

Worked for a friend's mother today at a friendly day rate, by a private lake in an exclusive neighborhood. Rolled with the bucket truck & chip truck today. I did a canopy raising on a white oak, then removed six small hackberries along the property line along with briars and other saplings. We...

That's because you don't have Murphy's skid steer to pull it where you want it to go! :boogie:

Yesterday was just one job, trimming a pin oak in the front yard, a sycamore in the backyard. Rolled out with the bucket truck & chipper truck. Stacked out a plywood highway to prevent yard damage to the customer's side yard & neighbor's lawn leading up to the back yard. Took down a section of...

Owls are a hoot. (groan) I did see a neat-o barn owl nest in Florida, complete with dangling moss. I didn't see them out hunting when I went for a night walk, though. There's a nature center near us that takes on and rehabs owls, hawks, and eagles that get injured and need to be nursed back to...

"Big" job today called for all the iron -- chip truck, log grapple, bucket truck, and the pickup w/stump grinder. Light pruning of a Siberian over some lines and 2 cedars over the house roof. Then the bigger show was a medium Siberian elm removal -- pieced out with the bucket, then dropped it...

Thanks! And back on topic... "How'd it go today?": Today we finally got to do a pruning on 2 bur oaks up near the university. Early last fall we had taken care of a large 18" broken bur oak limb in it that no one else wanted to touch, requiring extensive rigging without good access in the back...

The 10 day Florida trip went off without a hitch last week. As expected, had a great time with my old friend. He picked me up at the Orlando airport and we had a nice ride back 3 hours to Ft. Myers, catching up on old times. He has a nice house in a quiet neighborhood, with a 2-story...