How'd it go today?

[cory]

Got home for 2pm, so tea, biscuits and catching up on Game of Thrones, it's easy this tree stuff!

Deja vu all over again

 

[Mick!]

We got "cable" for my birthday in December, I'm catching up on the last 10 years tv.

 

[pantheraba]

I understand the Game of Thrones now...worth catching up on.

 

[pete mctree]

I finished cleaning up the 200t I was given after work. Took a while & I might need some new bushes on the Dremel soon!

Next step is to port the pot & clean up the piston

 

[August Hunicke]

Industrious ^^^

 

[August Hunicke]

One of my bids today.
http://youtu.be/EVzw6Qbtncc

 

[treebilly]

Looked fun and nasty both Mick.
Yours looks to be tricky August. Only thing I know about man drone is its heavy

 

[cory]

August, when you look at a job like that does it cause any tension? Not from it being a tricky job but because there are no shortcuts available, its going to be a pita, and the question is what price to put on it such that you can get the job without selling yourself short. Assuming you want that particular job, otherwise the price is the price and you don't care if you get the job or not.

This isn't a profound question, I know. We come up against this most every day. I guess what I'm getting at is wouldn't it be nice if you could do a tricky job like that by the hour.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Getting back to town from a pulse crop growers meeting. Not sorry I went but now I have more questions than when I started. Picked up a couple of hogs we had butchered too. Free range, sustainable, organic, rainbow shitting, ect.

Actually I have no bloody idea how they were raised. But I do have pork chops now!

 

[Jed]

Peter: Make it SING, brother.

Mick: I'm liking where you live the more I see of the place. Funny how your English Ivy looks EXACTLY like ours.

August: Better you than me, in more ways than one. I can see the look on the lady's face now who owns/owned the greenhouse.

Small apartment complex removals all day. All you guys know how this goes... "Sir, we were just wondering if you might be able to move your car for us."

"Why wasn't I notified? !!

"Uhhh... kwee just notify you right now? "...

 

[cory]

Not sorry I went but now I have more questions than when I started. !

I think that is one sign that you are onto something good. Its a journey

Rainbow shitting?? That is going to be some good eating!!

Btw, how do they kill em where you took them, do you know?

 

[FireFighterZero]

Every small butcher shop I have been in or done business with uses a .22 magnum to kill the hogs first.

Cant say for certain.

 

[cory]

Sound quick and effective.

 

[August Hunicke]

a couple of hogs we had butchered too. Free range, sustainable, organic, rainbow shitting, ect.

Actually I have no bloody idea how they were raised. But I do have pork chops now!

Hahahaha

 

[August Hunicke]

English ivy looks like that here too… I wonder if it looks like that in England.
The Germans gave us Volkswagens and the English gave us Ivy.

Jed: "kwee jus notify you now."
WORD!!!! Ha

 

[August Hunicke]

August, when you look at a job like that does it cause any tension? Not from it being a tricky job but because there are no shortcuts available, its going to be a pita, and the question is what price to put on it such that you can get the job without selling yourself short. Assuming you want that particular job, otherwise the price is the price and you don't care if you get the job or not.

This isn't a profound question, I know. We come up against this most every day. I guess what I'm getting at is wouldn't it be nice if you could do a tricky job like that by the hour.

$2500, if I leave the wood on the bank and he puts plywood on his plastic roof. Additional money if I have to remove the wood.
No tension, once it reaches a certain PITA level I stop caring what they do with my bid.
I will burn the brush right there on the hillside so that I don't have to go over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house with it.

My life of endlessly questing for money by the sweat of my brow seems to be a series of challenging-but-decently-paying projects with simple things in between to distract me from total burnout. In the past couple years I have begun to price things better and have more fun.

 

[cory]

Will you burn up the brush right then and there, like, when the tree and cutting and raking is done, the brush will be all burned up, job done? I've never burned brush on a tree job, hardly burned any brush ever

 

[August Hunicke]

Depends on which way the wind is blowing. I hate getting smoked out when I'm trapped in a tree.
But yes, my intention would be going home with job done at the end of the day. There is a lot of other work there though so I might not burn simultaneous to climbing on that.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nope. No fun tied to a tree with smoke following beauty or age.
In fact, we almost had a Stephen Kabob the other day

 

[cory]

Wow.

 

[woodslinger]

I gotta find a source for those rainbow shitting hogs, they sound even better than our current yearly half hog.

 

[Grendel]

Snowmobile. Rotax 600. Water caused detonation. Crazy that it burned through on the side of the piston instead of the top. . .

 

[Burnham]

Ouch.

 

[pete mctree]

Nasty - much more damage?
Nearly finished the Frankenstein saw - mammoth clean up, then port & reassemble. It's made up of 5 different 200t/020t's & will be a happy man if it runs half as well as I hope. Fingers crossed

 

[Peter]

Must be serious if the mole grips are out.