woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Not if you're Bill Gates or Richard Branson. Branson has an island somewhere and Gates has another home that I can drive to in about an hour and a half.
But I'm not dead yet ... Age and climbing
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Not if you're Bill Gates or Richard Branson. Branson has an island somewhere and Gates has another home that I can drive to in about an hour and a half.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Was that Jomo?
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I was making fun of how you feel the need to type you name at the end of every post. 
MasterBlaster
MasterBlaster
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Those bastards! They got me too!!!
MasterBlaster
MasterBlaster
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Well, if Gates wanted to do something disruptive to Microsoft operating systems he might just have control over the whole world.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Its an odd paradox, Jomo. Though it's illegal to grow GMO food crops in the country, Japan is a big importer of the stuff.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Speaking of age, it happened again today. Turned up again today with the crew, slip on the harness and the client says "I didn't réalise YOU climbed the trees!"
I might have to start dying my hair and shave the beard off.
I might have to start dying my hair and shave the beard off.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Don't do that. Have some dignity.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
You should have said, "Just the difficult ones".
Mick!
TreeHouser
No I won't Jim, quite right.
It's a good answer Jay, I don't really mind that much, it just shocks me a bit every time it happens.
It's a good answer Jay, I don't really mind that much, it just shocks me a bit every time it happens.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Old guys should take it easy.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Hell yea.
That's my plan.
That's my plan.
Mick!
TreeHouser
And mine.
Chris E
I'm Not Slash
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Hard to run a business from the top of a tree
I oughta know as that's how I did it for a long time.I'm rather lucky right now. I always have a small crew, myself and 2 others, one is normally highly skilled /paid and the other is more of a laborer/paid less. Long story short, now I have 2 highly paid/skilled guys. The daily gross seems to be working out fine and its nice to have all that ability on the crew. One guy is 50 y o and i don't think you could find anyone anywhere who works harder. He'd rather jab a knife in his eye than stand there doing nothing, always looking for something to do to complete the job. He's a solid climber, can climb anything but is 100% old school in his approach so sometimes it is a tad slower but it always gets done. He's strong as an ox at 5'5" 215lbs. The other guy is a millennial, been with me 9 years, he has immense natural talent. He can basically climb anything at all-trees, houses, wires, rocks, and he has insane strength and balance at 160lbs. He has excellent mechanical ability and can fix most things. He's awesome on the ropes cuz he 'gets it" and because he has hydraulic winches for arms, he can crane over rather large limbs and then run them down with no porta wrap. He does like to sit around a lot checking his phone, eating, drinking, pissing, shitting, but then when necessary he puts on a burst and blows away the task at hand.We call him the Ninja because that's how he rolls, and also because he is an amateur mma fighter.
Chris E
I'm Not Slash
Sounds like a solid crew Cory 
off to go bidding, laterz
off to go bidding, laterz
Limbrat
TreeHouser
Sounds like a rare jewel Cory. Guys like that seem to me to be getting scarcer all the time. If they are indeed, I wonder what could be done to reverse that trend?
The Eagles rock Chris, they were "my" group back in the '70s.
gf beranek
Old Schooler
The double whammy...
Chris E
I'm Not Slash
If you can combine that with reliability thats a jewel in the crown right there...
