How'd it go today?

Thanks, mellow.

My wife does all the above except writing the bids, which I do.
 
Jim please quit lighting your hayfields on fire. That really sucks. I?ve seen to many fires happen doing that. They spread fast and are hard to control. What really sucks is there is nothing you can do about it. Just one tiny rock can f up the whole day when it?s that dry.
 
Consider Jobber. Free month trial. Cuts down on paperwork, especially if done by hand.

I understand you might not want a written record at times. Easy enough, don't schedule it or invoice it.



Looked at a dying grand fir removal amongst other trees. 42" x 140' lost it original top a time or 3.
Tomorrow, a snip and handsaw type of pruning job. A nice change after 11 removals in one project.
 
No camera today, forgot it after the weekend. Too bad, would've been some great pics -- working in a more rural town 30 minutes south. We had a storm damaged silver maple with a broken limb, leaning down on the gate & fence to the backyard. The rest of it was over the house roof, very little to tie into or rig from given how it was growing. The storm had some freakish wind, blowing down 5 sections of the 6' paneled fence, as well as a twisting break on a neighbor's tree, right onto their roof. We brought the grapple truck and used it as a crane, with choker slings to cut the limbs & leaders and feed them right into the chipper. We saved the bigger 2 leaders and the main trunk, which we also craned out directly onto the truck.

Through that experience, we arrived at the notion to replace all our hydraulic hose fittings with quick connects so we could totally disengage the grapple and leave it on the truck, then use the boom like a regular crane, with just a sling hook welded to it.

Then I stump ground the maple, 3' diameter stump cut (a bit tall, since the 372 was not so sharp and no ability to re-sharpen). Made for about a 2 hour grind, leaving a 6' diameter hole and a mountain o' stump grindings.

2nd job was a simple 5 small to medium maples trimming. Mostly deadwooding and light crown raising. Good day, done at 4 in the afternoon -- and with all the crane work in the morning, we didn't have to hump a lot of wood or brush in the 95 degree heat.
 
Removed a bee hive from a tree today. The job came from the bee guy I know. He needed access to the hive and the homeowner's tree guy was hesitant about removing the tree. So the bee guy brought me in, I bid the job and got it. Dead oak tree with a limb from a neighboring tree laying in a crotch about 35' up. Cavity formed in the tree and bees took up residence. We sucked about 10K bees out of it (two five gallon buckets) then used spray foam to fill in the cavity. I will go back to remove the tree on Thursday.
 
Pictures sure would have been good. Were you in a bee suit doing the work?

Why the foam? To keep the bees you missed from coming back between now and Thursday?
 
Yes, yes and yes. I really didn't expect the hive to be that large. And it was hot and I didn't have my drink cooler, either. I was expecting maybe an hour but it took 2.5 hours. We are assuming we got the queen as we were using a modified low powered shop vac to suck them up. We did get into the part of the comb with lots of eggs. The forager bees just kept coming and coming and coming, easy to suck them up as they entered the nest. I did use a saw to open up the cavity entrance so we could get better access.
 
labor and delivery rotation for me. Two new lives began today.......was cool to connect the dads to the event in such a female dominated realm. This was day two actually, and I was glad to see involved Dads versus the slugs the day before. Had to hide the TV remote on one of them.......News flash, cable is out, come over here and support mom!
 
No_Bivy said:
labor and delivery rotation for me. Two new lives began today.......was cool to connect the dads to the event in such a female dominated realm. This was day two actually, and I was glad to see involved Dads versus the slugs the day before. Had to hide the TV remote on one of them.......News flash, cable is out, come over here and support mom!
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I was born on the first day of New York state deer season. My dad, bless his heart, stayed with my mom but he really didn't want to. His infamous response was always, "I was there for the laying of the keel, I don't need to be there for the launching." A true Navy man.
 
Good day in the heat. Low 90s...Coolvest, duh.
World of difference.

Pruning job, partial water view, with one easy fell. Dump all the brush into the gully. Overgrown magnolia, like way overgrown, big japanese maple that I charged to my new guy to clean out, guiding him and working with him along the way, but making it his project. Snip, snip, snip. A little here and a little there, some camelias, dogwood, little structural pruning.

Going to do some more view pruning on the neighbors' trees for this customer. Then, I'll plan to do some more for other neighbors. Customer is very happy and will pass along the contact info.

Had my guy fill out the safety meeting sheet, with a framework to work within, I let him go with it. Trying to get him using the same terminology to get another new guy to follow suit, and we can all 'plan the work...work the plan', etc.


View from beneath Japanese maple before
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View from beneath, after



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Looks great from the outside. Won't be clogged up with leaves all winter. Couldn't believe how much junk was stuck in there.
 
Nice work Sean!

Nothing exciting here, 4 stumps, one was a poplar, 4ft, 2 hours, Mick is in my head, started to draw up a larger stump grinder..... 30" gates is the space I need to get into.
 
Ziplining at Mineral Mountain Ziplines in Fairmont Hotsprings B.C.
Gopro held in my hand due to poor planning on my part.




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