How'd it go today?

[Sgriff]

To the rescue! Good on you Jim👍

 

[squisher]

Well the relentless winter continues here. I am loving it but the plow customers are not.

Just a reminder to everyone Valentines Day tomorrow. Don't forget!

 

[FireFighterZero]

 

[cory]

Lol, as I looked at that pic I thought, "jim better change his sig". Well, you did tell us and it sure is there.

 

[squisher]

Oh no. I knew it wasn't good that Jim hadn't been posting.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

It was that spot without the fence posts, wasn't it? Not laughing at you Jim.

I was informed about a bent trailer axle today (well AFTER we left the shop with the mini IN the trailer) while at the fuel station. Just came to their minds I guess......

 

[stig]

Falling large beech trees in nice weather.

We work near Copenhagen, so occasionally we get accosted by people who feel that felling the trees is wrong or evil.
Gets a bit old after a while.
Today as I was packing up to go home, this old ( 80es, maybe 90) man came walking along the forest road.
When he came up to me, I could tell, he had something to say.
I was thinking, not again , when the guy said: " Really nice trees, these. You guys must be making out pretty well ".

Not what I expected at all.
Turned out he had been a tree faller, after WW2, in the days of axes and whipsaws.

I got home late, because I stayed for about an hour and talked with him about logging then and now.

 

[squisher]

Cool to have an encounter like that with a old timer.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Got the patrol out in the afternoon.

Finished the road. The county even came through and rolled it back some.

Another foot of snow last night...road all f ed up again.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Paper said we have had about 6 feet of snow so far this winter.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just think of all the good practice you're acquiring!!!

 

[squisher]

Six feet total snowfalls is a crap ton of snow. jeezus Jim. That's gotta make for a tough winter.

 

[Tree09]

That had to be a cool conversation Stig

 

[FireFighterZero]

It's been a lot of snow.

It's been so cold though that the snow has been lightweight.

 

[FireFighterZero]

We Conrads attack snow no matter where we are and no matter who owns the snow.

 

[Dave Shepard]

 

[squisher]

Nice! The hut and nothing but! I plow our local one.

 

[Tree09]

Lol that's cool Jim. Has his own shovel and everything!

 

[treebilly]

Winter is trying to make up for your summer drought I see

 

[pantheraba]

 

[SeanKroll]

I pruned a topped magnolia to start the day.

Then pollarded a catalpa, originally just topped, but then maintained by the old guy year after year with a ladder and some free climbing, until last year.

Oh, then pruned some off a large topped cherry.

Yesterday, pruned two, repeatedly rounded-over maples, and two hard topped flowering plums.

Love cleaning up after people's low-quality work.

 

[squisher]

I used to find it frustrating working on previously hacked trees. Good on yah for giving them some care Sean.

We are in for yet another big snowfall. 6 to 12" is supposed to roll in starting early tomorrow morning. So once again no rest for the wicked.....or me either!

 

[cory]

Is it getting difficult to find places to push all this snow?

 

[squisher]

Very much so in some cases. On some contracts the snow piles get hauled. I sub that work out to a neighbour/excavation company. The bills get big fast on haulaways.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just leave it out in the sun, let it melt! Sheesh!!!