How'd it go today?

Trapped!

It's been raining really heavy here since Sunday, day and night. Slept in this morning because I couldn't do anything, finally had to get up and found my bedroom door wouldn't open.:\:

Seems the house moved, no problem it's done it before but the door handle wouldn't turn and there was nothing in there to help.

I had to climb out the window and get my hidden back door key to get in to get my toolshed key, the back door was jammed as well but pushed enough and it opened luckily, because the front door is a different key and all my other keys were there.

Got in and couldn't open it from inside so had to climb back in the window, just a little lever and it opened. Sure had me thinking for a while until I remembered why I had to get up in the first place.:|:

It won't happen again, that's the only door I haven't worked on except for taking a bit off the top once.
 
There's a phone and computer in here so I could order a pizza or something but they'd have to climb a six foot fence at the easiest entry spot.

Maybe I'm a bit too secure sometimes, should keep more tools in here.:lol:
 
Filling out some "customer appreciation" cards from the scrap yard. Got 4 I found and filled out to win a 2011 Silverado. Might be able to find another 1 or 2 if I look in jacket pockets. Better odds that the lottery and free to enter. Probably 1 in a 1000 or 2000.
 
I guess you have had some flooding issues of late?. Sounds like you need a plan b to get out just incase the house shifts any more. All the best, stay safe/dry
easy-lift guy
 
Knocked out a large horse chestnut between buildings and chipped the branches.
Then spent the rest of the day getting the last stuff for our trip to Cali together.

We're having a hard time keeping our luggage within the weight limits of the airline.
Since we can't leave any climbing gear behind, we may have to leave our clothes behind instead.
Would be something to be the first to climb a Giant Sequoia naked!
 
Horse Chetnut can be some very nice wood to make things out of, at least in these parts. Very nice with an urushi finish. The tree here has a common tendency to pick up minerals or some silicate out of the soil that are very hard on tool edges, both machinery and hand tools. It is kind of a pita to work with. Sometimes only a couple passes with a plane and re-sharpening is necessary.
 
Day started out a little rough. My main man was doing a big azz stump at a really posh place and a piece of debris smashed a glass panel on the railing along the breakwater. Well I handled it all so professionally and promptly that they are asking me to look at a bunch of other real treework.

Mission accomplished. As soon as something hits the fan, I instantly change my focus from making money to making customers for life. Although rarely does anything go wrong, it's embarrassing but I think it's unprofessional to get all pissy and moany about it. The customer doesn't give a crap about that, they want their stuff fixed properly and fast.
 
Oh my aching head...spent nearly 5 hours on the phone with the off-site tech people trying to back up some important files on my virused laptop in prep for a full re-image job. Three trys failed, then the special shipped external hard drive with the backup program went gunny. Have to get a new one shipped, so still down until we try again Thursday. I am bummed...sure hope we can save those un-backed files from the last 3 months. Dumb me for being slack about keeping those backups current...learn a lesson from my foolishness, friends.
 
Had an office day. BORING.

At least we got to go to Madsen's Saw Shop in the morning to get some necessities, and didn't have to do treework in the heavy rain this morning.

Spent time with various people on the phone trying to get my online Sexual Harassment Prevention Training to work on our Arbor Shop computer, but the whole lock down prevented me from downloading a necessary Java update.

After "work" I did a 3 small cottonwood felling to the lean job in 5 minutes of cutting for a landscaping company. 30 minute travel time. Wish it was always that easy.
 
Long day here. I'm trying to get all of the pine sawed up before it starts to stain. Got a call at 1:45 that the trucking company was on the way to the logging job to start moving the long logs for us. Only problem was they decided that they weren't going to give anyone any notice, and they didn't coordinate with the crane, they just showed up with their loader, which there was no room for in the woods. 2.5 hours later, they had loaded three logs, and went home. Almost tipped their trailer truck over too.:roll: Yeah, thanks guys, you saved us $540 on the crane rental, and added another $2000 of your time frigging around, assuming you can get it done.:X
 
Finally saw some money on a couple of invoices and got a thank you note and a tip to boot for todays work :)
Kat and the kids came out to join us for lunch at the account that was not far from home. Was nice having them there and the HO is more or less a personal friend. She fixed us some chicken with caper sammiches and had fun with the kiddos.
She signed up for some tree work in the fall and some chipping. Always nice working in your own neighborhood. People always stopping and saying hey. Picked up a great walking stick for one of my clients. I pruned her sour orange a while back and had one of the trimmings carved into a walking stick. Came out pretty cool. She is gonna really love this thang. :) I should be doing some more work on the tree in the near future and the lady that makes the walking sticks would like some more orange wood. She was particularly impressed with the bark and hardness of the wood... never mind the thorns :lol:
 
Kicked azz today on a nasty box elder maple. Between two tight houses and mostly over a roof and deck. Even the grumpy old dude we were doing it for had to admit he was impressed.

And done early to boot. Sort of, gotta hit the shower here and get out and do some quotes.
 
Yesterday was a long one. 8 am to 1:30 am and then back to it again this morning. The Souris river is about to flood in Minot. We had to clean out our shop and move all the equipment to high ground. Also had to help move all the zoo. We have critters all over now. Ohio, Kansas, etc. The ladies at the zoo put in a 24 hour day getting everything moved and relocated. It is still in the dikes, but no one knows for how long. We have had about half our annual rainfall in the past few weeks, had record moisture throughout the basin in this winter's snow and went into the fall last year wet. The Missouri is causing fits also. That will add a lot more water to the lower Mississippi when it gets there. All the dams are full on the system and the melt in the rockies is just getting under way. Will be an interesting next month or two. I thought the great plains were dry.
 
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