How'd it go today?

I see nothing wrong with occasionally treating the guys to lunch or a full days pay for 6 hours. I do it and I’m not the company owner. When my crew consistently goes above and beyond I reward them as best I can. I even can make the boss feel that way on occasion. If you do it to often though they grow to expect it. That’s no good. There is a fine balance.
 
pffft....took my roofing crew out to breakfast daily for 22 years.

We worked long days 6-7 days a week most of that time & i pushed them pretty hard.

Wouldn't have done it any other way.

Tree work was a different thing though...always stayed on the job.
 
I model bringing thermoses, water bottles, perishable and non perishable food. I tell them at the get go, they should have food and water left at the end of the day, and if not, bring more.

As much as I'd like them to follow my lead, they are who they are.
 
It's actually part of the contract for us if you work 12 you either leave a half hour early or they provide lunch (7 to 7). On pipeline they would supply lunch quite often if you have a good foreman, and even the gas company would treat the crews as well, all usually grilled on the job. A lot of guys have dedicated grills on their welding rigs.
 
Looked at a small 75 tree residential logging job with my retired neighbor who still had his log loader and skidder.

A lot of point and shoot trees, ezpz. One pull tree near the house. Light back lean on trunk, good amount of branches, again back-leaning, and a nice shot 15* off the house, maybe 20... But with a skidder, meh... Green Doug-fir... Goes where you point it.
 
Couple of days cleaning up a burned it property.
This snag was (Well, this is half of it) in the property owners view and had to go. We winches it up a steep slope from the edge of the creek below. Decorated my rope attachment points....lol
 

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Tree09 said:
It's actually part of the contract for us if you work 12 you either leave a half hour early or they provide lunch (7 to 7). On pipeline they would supply lunch quite often if you have a good foreman, and even the gas company would treat the crews as well, all usually grilled on the job. A lot of guys have dedicated grills on their welding rigs.
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I'd leave early for certain. Y'all are a lot more social than me. Lunch, breakfast, whatever kind of sit down affair just sounds like taking a day and making it longer to me. But, to each their own.
 
It's up to the contractor, but usually it's leave early. Most guys don't even know the actual wording, so it's just leave early. On shutdowns and the like is when you get free lunch usually. I've been on jobs where we are fed multiple meals because we are doing something that has to be done. And i am fairly social too :) we only have 15 min breaks and half hour lunches, so they don't interrupt the day that much at all. Welding you really kinda need them, so your eyes can relax and you can unwind a bit, it actually increases production.
 
Just longer at work I mean. I was never a fan of stretching the work day out.

My tree business always ran paid from gate to gate. No official breaks and a quick bite for lunch. The work day was 7-3 and a eight HR day was clocked. Get in, get done, get off.
 
Frosty out there. A day for grinding and a smallish doug-fir removal over total hardscape. I've got tall trees nearby.


My employee's family situation is stabilizing, which is great all around. His wife is still making bad decisions. He's got a tough row to hoe, but even still, we laugh a lot at work, and kick ass and take names.

Too often employees get butt-hurt from being told to quit making the same poor decisions that endanger everyone, like entering the dropzone unannounced, not being about to stick to a plan, do things intentionally and when possibly, a standard way (like all gear/ tools gets put in one 'staging area' or at the truck), don't put rakings in the chipper and destroy the blades with rocks, etc.

And he doesn't bitch about safety ever, like me making him wear chaps all the time for cutting, glasses, face screens, etc. When he worked for Evergreen Tree (mis)Care, they told him to drink some water and shake off the neck injury from getting clobbered by a leyland cypress hedge piece, because they had a poor safety plan and working procedures and the climber just plain dropped it on him, crazy combat marine, go go go go go.
 
Nice easy day sitting in a warm room doing a first aid and cpr refresher. A few new changes since the last one but no big deal. They added a narcan thing just in case I carry the quick fix for someone who is overdosing on heroine. Shouldn’t have been an issue but some dumbass I work with had to state his personal beliefs and press them to the RN’s that were in charge of the class. I had to take him outside and give him a good talking to. Why is it that the most uneducated people also have the strongest opinions on issues? Other than that it was a good day. Got a few more hours helping out the mechanic afterwards. Got the alternator changed on the excavator and tightened the tracks. Made a note for the operator that cleaning the tracks out makes it much easier to tighten them. Also helped one of the guys figure out why the heater sucks in his truck. I showed him what to take apart and walked him through the cleaning of a heater core. I guess I need to remember that not everyone knows this stuff.
 
treebilly said:
Why is it that the most uneducated people also have the strongest opinions on issues?

... Also helped one of the guys figure out why the heater sucks in his truck. I showed him what to take apart and walked him through the cleaning of a heater core.
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Ha, good observation about ignint folks.

What is the core dirty with, wood chips n chit or other heater-related stuff?
 
I just walked off a job that had signs on the porta pots warning the junkies not to throw their needles in’em and narcan in the office trailer. Not gonna work around them trashy bastards.
 
Rich, you just flushed the core with water?
I did my son's S10, just 2 hoses going into the firewall. A garden hose with a spray nozzle, flushed both directions, through the inlet to outlet and outlet to inlet. Lotta brown chunks came out and toasty now.
 
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