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Reminds me, gotta check with WesSpur and find out where our Cobra cable is. Ordered it over a month ago, must be back-ordered. It'll be our first cable installation in quite awhile, since very few customers in the area choose to go with a cabling & bracing solution.

Speaking of Big Wood "Small" cottonwood removal today (75' height, 44" DBH main trunk). Front & center on a fairly busy road (at least it had a bike/parking lane); lots of cones out and traffic control at times. Climbed & craned out. Full load of chips that I ran & dumped half way through the...

Aw c'mon -- I distilled 12 hard hours down to 4 succinct paragraphs!

Making Things Work It was quite the day yesterday, but we pressed on with indomitable spirit & fortitude. It started when I went to the woodlot to get the chipper truck -- and it didn't start. The coughing and lack of power I mentioned from the other day became full blown. It wouldn't turn over...

Rained out today, plus the chipper truck (International DT466) is having coughing fits lately, running rough with no power. So it's getting worked on. Just a bit more stump grinder maintenance today, as well as web site & SEO work. Back in the trees tomorrow!

My childhood injuries were pretty tame, all things considered: our chow dog bit me on the face (cheek & lip); someone turned off the light in the bathroom I was in and I walked into a porcelain sink, gashing open the forehead. Wasp & bee stings, bike crashes... My 4 year old was in a head-on...

Youngest got busted up today My youngest son (2 1/2) fell off his high chair this morning, busting open his lip and getting a nice goose egg on his temple. I spent the better part of the day consoling him, getting the bleeding to stop, then taking him to the emergency medical place for stitches...

Not yet. We'll probably get around to ordering in Nov or Dec (ha!). I am actually not at all sad about the sweat levels. I am liking it -- it's the quickest path to me realizing my goal of dropping 30 lbs. by the end of summer. Back to fighting weight!

That's why we are feeling like Frosty the Snowman!

I think this says it all...

Lost our ground man. He's off to Colorado for 1-2 months to help out some friends. He's off on good terms and hopes to come back afterward, but it's right as the busy season is cresting for us. I'll be doubling down and pulling more duties as a result, have to truly be the "Swiss army knife" of...

For our 30 cubic yard chip truck, it's $10/load in Topeka. $25/load in Kansas City. We avoid the other one that is by weight, but even full would be ~$60. Firewood logs and free mulch pile at our warehouse/wood lot also see a lot of action, so it's actually getting rarer to pay to dump. We also...

Stealthy, until the chipper fires up Man, that's loud! (Actually, we've found it pays to be loud. More neighbors and passersby notice us and seek us out, asking for quotes. We've garnered quite a bit of work just from having a high noise output and job site presence!)

If it says anything, that's a heck of a lot more than our total initial capital investment, of which the chip truck was only one part (1/3, perhaps). Doing the DIY method sure saves some ca$h. I always liked the smaller aluminum trucks from our Cape Cod branch:

B w/air brakes, interstate - all I need to drive the chipper truck and our (soon coming) bucket truck. I don't really care to drive our grapple log truck that requires Class A -- old Western Star beast is a rougher ride, to be sure (but it gets some jobs done!). For sure, if work ever dries up I...

Welcome to the CDL Brotherhood I finally went out for my CDL test today (just been permitted the last 3 months... before that just the pickup or a little around town action). I didn't sleep good last night and stomach is churning from the stress. I got selected to do the whole truck in the...

Remember this one? We were already out for storm cleanup on this one, now two weeks later the homeowner pulled the trigger: We wrecked out this tall silver maple in just under 3 hours. I ran the GRCS then sliced it up with the 395XP. So much rot that we didn't have to halve the cookies -- they...

4 Yesterday, or was it 5? 1). Back out to the two American Elms pruning for a quick one more limb over the driveway. Thankfully, we've finally gotten a new gear drive for our Stihl HT-133, so it was just a quick power pruner cut or three. 2). A neighbor a few doors down heard the chipper...

Just one big pin oak today We were supposed to do 2 jobs today. The first was pruning an 85' pin oak in a nearby town. We rolled out, climber set his tie in point way up, and began to make his way around the tree. The goal was deadwooding, safety pruning above the roofline, lightening the tips...

Friday's report: had to do some fill-in work after our two main climbers were down for 2 days with illness. We took down a declining American elm, then I dismantled a mature Red Bud (on the bigger size at 25', brushing the roofline of the house). Then off to a repeat customer to take down 4 dead...