Easy day of removing a broken off, dead, crispy fir from a maple. Bid two jobs at the same place and neighbor's house for maple removals. One for a multiple times times topped, dying maple with tons of burl and music wood,if not rotten. Luckily, its over the well, electrical box for the well, and a light. Utilities can be taken down. Other maple is just pruning, hard, hard leaning maple over the house, growing out from under the neighbors 4' firs, over the house and new fence. GRCS will help on that job, and get its trial run for me.
I could possibly use a 60' genie-lift, but probably too short.
Been nice having my old employee back, while laid off from his $32/ hour iron-working rigging Union job. No FNG non-sense. He plans to go home every day in one piece, no near-misses. Good communication. Gears all turn at the same speed. Too many FNGs want to try to change gears, turn them at different speeds, not lube them, when told to turn the gears, they want to ask if its really what should happen, if its shouldn't be the way their couple months experience makes them figure it should be done.
He's happy to have the work. His wife stopped by to meet me while she was in town, and brought homemade BBQ sauce and Blue Dream.
