How'd it go today?

I went and got my climber buddy, we wrecked 4 dead pines.....I mainly gophered since my hand is still jacked.
They made us homemade chili and cornbread....
Still, the homeowner gifted me a very clean 038 magnum electronic start, made in Brazil printed on the side.
said it ran years ago when he sat it in there. but doesn't run lately.
Stoked....and a hundred dollar bill tip. I even tried to give that back....

Ah yes.... Love it.. sometimes... most of the time............
 
Nice score on the magnum, Deva. I have one. Not so light but it will handle a 30 inch bar no problem. Pretty indestructible, I bet you can get it running. Al is particularly an expert on those if you need advice.
 
Get to go work on some residential trees today, for my own gig. Some sort of rig off some pruning from a maple that the HO is concerned will crush the neighbor's fence, and a 2 fir felling, pull over, drop and leave job. Some ducats to put in the business account, which is needed after a slow, stormless winter. Erik will be happy for more work. He's been busy enough after I got onto him to chase down follow-up pruning jobs for fruit trees. John, the new PT guy, is off to San Diego for a week or two of surfing.

Had 30+ MPH gusts last night after two days of decent to heavy rain. One tree went down on my friend's street, but from what I could tell, it fell from a vacant lot. The City pushed it out of the road right away with a loader, and the power company got the line up fast.
 
Day off with the kids and working on equipment,.....day care glitch, Rob is gonna go cut some grass off electric fences. I also will be trying out a new part time guy in case I need him this summer. Has his own gig, but has some down time. I think I might be able to pout him to good use.
 
I paid my vet bills for the rest of the year today.

I have a good friend who has a veterinarian clinic. He takes care of the doggies for free, then I help him out with stuff.

I spend a day each winter felling trees for firewood for him. After 4½ mths of solid logging, felling a bunch of trees on a saturday is no big deal, I'm in shape for it:D
 
Around thursday next week according to the TV weather nitwit.

Which is no good.

I need about 3 more weeks of frost to get the last of the big logs on the ground and skidded out and still have some trees to take down in the park, while the lawns are frozen.

But, but, but...........long range weater forecasts here are so unreliable, I think they read them by looking at the intestines of a dove, so there is still hope.
 
woodworkingboy said:
Al is particularly an expert on those if you need advice.
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Well I'm not an expert but I have wrenched a few and have one hot runner --for a work saw .The 038 Mag of any model of Stihl is my favorite .My enhanced one is a Brazilian model also .

They still make that thing under MS 380 and 381 but it's not for sale in North America .

Old story but I have in my shed one that spent over 20 hard years of service for a tree service company that I split the cases on at least 3 times .I raised that pup like it was my own and now it is .It'll get the treatment as soon as the weather warms up and I'm not working 6-7 days a week .
 
Amen Al, That sounds awesome, I'm looking forward to having the 1, 2 with the 044 and 038 side by side.
I'm sure I'll be asking for some advice on it...

Butch, I looped my motorbike doing a wheelie literally 50' out the gate at work headed home.....

Today, I brought another climbing buddy that was on my first crew, Ulises.
We wrecked a friends fattish pine for him, no clean-up, no bucking. Did it for the bro deal...except he tipped me 20%....
That offset the other guy I had to bring to account for my lame hand....and I was home unloaded by 1:30pm....
Brushed it out, sent a big top. Dumped a huge stick into the neighbor vacant lot....and there it sits.
My friend that came and helped for cheap, scored the chipping end by himself separate day just him and HO....so bonus day for him.
originally the HO was gonna ferry brush in toyota tundra 15 miles to green waste..... HAhaha... anyway.

Today was good.

I hope yours was to. :)
 
Found out this week that Cherry Laurel has low levels of arsenic in it...I've been puning a 40' hedge of it for a week...got a load of sawdust in my eyes and MAN did it irritate, had to take a day off.
Marzipan smell is the giveaway...
 
The marzipan smell is an indicator of Prussic acid aka. hydrogen cyanide ( HCN), not arsenic, Fiona.
 
Something that crossed by mind which might be of interest to owners of 038 Stihls .

The weak link is the rear upper antivib mount on the left hand side looking forward .These can tear the rubber mount on the lower side which is next to impossible to determine without removing it .If this happens it will alow enough movement to tear the boot on the under side which is also difficult to find unless it is removed .Cheap enough fix if you catch it in time .
 
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