How'd it go today?

[Fiddler]

Sweet looking vehicle!

 

[Mick!]

Thanks, off down south for a couple of days with the chip truck and chipper so it'll be parked up.

 

[Mick!]

Seriously deep, dark blue....beautiful truck.

Ford call it Canyon Blue, in an ideal world I'd have gone for red like my old hiluxs, but would have had to wait for months. I didn't want anodyne colours like silver, white etc.

 

[pantheraba]

Nah..that's a fine blue...good choice. Red is over rated.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Yep, nice looking color.

I would send you a nice little American Flag sticker to put in the back window if you still want some red on your pickup somewhere.

 

[Jed]

Sounds like a heck of a good day to me Mick. Good job, and REALLY nice truck, man.

Brushed out and topped an absolute Firpig today. 38"x 120'. Three main tops and two subordinates. Tight quarters, com lines, TWO house drops and power lines. Ten cubic yards of chips...

 

[treebilly]

Damn cables getting in the way to boot. Looks like it was a lot of tree.
Sorry is that a dynamic cabling system?

 

[Jed]

Yeah... Cobra. Can't imagine paying for all that mess.

 

[RegC]

Sounds like a heck of a good day to me Mick. Good job, and REALLY nice truck, man.

Brushed out and topped an absolute Firpig today. 38"x 120'. Three main tops and two subordinates. Tight quarters, com lines, TWO house drops and power lines. Ten cubic yards of chips...

Good work Jed

 

[Grendel]

Yikes! Crazy work man.

 

[rskybiz]

Nice one Jed!
Looks like rigging set up to take the next piece

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Nice work, Jed. Surprised you left the cobra in place. Multi-topped trees like that get to be a mess with stuff growing everywhere.


Sweet ride, Mick.

 

[sawman]

jed I don't know how you do it everyday.
If I didn't see the pics
I probably wouldn't believe you.
your a frekin bad ass!! respect

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hahahahaaa...

 

[pete mctree]

Great job Jed - looked like a real pig of a tree

 

[Jed]

You guys are way too overly-kind, but thank you very much all the same. There's obviously something in my pathetic ego that relishes an "attaboy" from you guys. My bosses certainly aren't supplying it. I've got to hunt them down and corner them like a wild animal before they would even countenance the idea of giving me a raise, but then, what else has changed in the last 500 years of tree work.

I'll confess, too that I'm possessed by a weird, "Pics, or it didn't happen," type of dread. I've heard August speak to this a little, and I suspect that it's what partly motivates Reg, and the other goPro guys. It's like a strange type of loneliness to be out there (even surrounded by friends perhaps, but friends who don't really care too much about tree work.) all day, seeing all of this really beautiful stuff, and to feel like all that comes of it is just some prosaic, bottom-dollar, financial profit.

Anyway... as "Jack" (hotsaws101) the NorCal, youtube timberfaller, of legendary, "soft-Dutchman," fame used to say... "Top of the mornin' to ya', and thanks for watchin'."
https://youtu.be/tbN1sKN7IlI

 

[candoarms]

Well folks, it's been a long time since I last visited this fine group, and I must say that I truly missed all of you while I was away working.

Since I was last here I was able to complete two major fencing projects for the city of Cando. I installed a new fence around the city lime pits....behind the water treatment plant. That fence was 1200 feet. The second fencing project took place at the city dump grounds, where I put up 3800 feet of fence.

The tree work is hard to keep up with. I've traveled over 3000 miles this past month taking down trees for customers who do not want a bucket truck in their fancy yards.

So what am doing with all of money? I'm buying tree gear....of course. I just purchased a used Brush Bandit 200+ disc chipper and a heavy duty 16' dump trailer. The work I have on the books is going to require some heavy equipment......so I'm gathering it all up.

While taking down a tree in Lidgerwood, ND, an older fella approached me with a rather large project. He's got a cabin with 16 dead trees surrounding it. I'll be visiting with him next week to discuss price and other issues....such as tree debris dumping, etc.

OK...back to work. I'll try to stop in once in a while. You folks be safe.

Joel

 

[MasterBlaster]

Welcome back, Joel! Don't be a stranger!!!

 

[stig]

I would gldly have trraded my day for yours, Jed.
Even as nasty as that fir looked.
We had to finish our log delivery in time, so had to log all day in rain.
I hate logging beech in rain, they get so slippery.
Sure appreciate caulks on a day like that, but even with those on, you can't help taking a fall occasionally.

We finished by 2.30 and went home for a hot shower and some dry clothes.

 

[Mick!]

Stuck in the Dordogne on a two day job, in a hotel waiting for the groundy to come down so we can eat in the restaurant.
More bloody Maritime pines. I miss my dog, and my wife.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Have some French toast! I bet they make it tasty over there!

 

[Raj]

A little more progress today, gotta figure out some adjustable handles.

 

[treebilly]

Have some French toast! I bet they make it tasty over there!

Don't they just call it toast over there?

 

[MasterBlaster]

I bet their toast is just toast.

 

[Mick!]

Foie gras followed by confit de canard and some sort of cake. Sorry Stig.