How'd it go today?

[Nutball]

Yous halfway churched up right there

 

[cory]

I would have guessed you stepped straight from the shower in that pic.

I used to stink to high heaven after a day of work. Lately, even in the heat, I skip a shower for a day or and no problem.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Clean living will do that.

Takes the stink away.

 

[Nutball]

Cool dry air helps

 

[FireFighterZero]

Wife bought a load of yearling ewes this morning.

350 of em.

 

[pantheraba]

In the cowboy movies cowmen and sheepmen were enemies....maybe sheep have an undeserved reputation for being the scourge of the earth (according to the old cowboy movies)

 

[stig]

Guess that is what you can expect, when you marry a Kiwi!

 

[Jonny]

I wanna try mutton sometime.

 

[T Collins]

I wanna try mutton sometime.

If you wanna try mutton the Montana way you have to get yourself some rubber boots first.

 

[T Collins]

350 ewes is like a harem in Montana., right?

 

[SkwerI]

Got an old square simplex nail through the bottom of my shoe this morning. It was digging in my heel and I kept thinking it was a stick. Finally took my shoe off and pulled the nail out of the bottom. Blood stain inside, I haven't taken my sock off yet to look. Maybe later.

 

[Jonny]

It ain’t the thousand mile walk that wears ya down, it’s the little pebble (or nail) in your shoe.

 

[Jonny]

Bought a chip truck today... now I need a chipper... And a bunch of other stuff to get this business rolling.
Not beautiful but solid for the rust belt area and not a total eyesore, I’m excited. F450 superduty, 460 gas, automatic, electric over hydraulic, 114k miles. I really like the box he built on the stake bed. Needs tires soon, and the rear gas tank don’t work. Other little stuff that comes with a 23 year old truck, but passed NYS inspection today

 

[lxskllr]

Not many miles for a 97. Good find!

 

[SkwerI]

Looks a lot like mine. I was able to dress mine up a little with a new chrome grill, headlights and chrome headlight trim for less than $200 off Amazon. Mine is a 1997 F450 diesel with manual trans.

 

[pigwot]

Nice!! Same setup as the one I had, with the two boxes under the bed.

 

[Sven]

Yeah buddy. Love that body style. Called the mechanic this AM and chipper won’t be done this week, getting real old. Got a 15” Vermeer for a week starting Friday and will pound out my larger volume/diameter jobs. $1300/wk sounded like a very fine price but all of my work was quoted assuming it wouldn’t have that extra expense. Oh well do what needs doing when it’s one’s own business.

 

[treebilly]

Some one who used to post here had a breakdown of what equipment cost per hour and mileage. Every piece of equipment had an hourly rate. Really helps out on bidding. $1300 a week might sound high but maybe that’s what you should be bidding for your chipper a week.

 

[lxskllr]

Fencing on the farm today. Not that fun, but still 1000% better than asbuilting stormwater management. At least when you're done fencing, you accomplished something that matters. A bunch of splicing on the strands I cut with the brushcutter. Boss was bitching about that. I told him it was his own dumbass fault for not keeping it maintained. I did 10 years of clearing on that pasture in a few hours. Hit it a couple times a year with a weed whip, and you won't need a human locomoted bushhog to take care of it. If anyone cares, a paracord 3 wrap prusik holds an insulated electric line nicely.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Going after an ugly tomorrow.

 

[lxskllr]

Don't trust it to climb?

 

[Tree09]

Clearly not, or there's enough there and enough targets where a lift makes sense. You can do things in a lift that you can't easily do climbing, i view them as an easy button on trees that would require lots of rigging as a climber, but can cut and chuck a bunch from a lift, greatly speeding up a job because you don't have to rig nearly as much.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Off to a chitty start though. Yeah, tree is falling apart behid a garage, no climby.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Cell service a little spotty. CHP officer let me use her phone. Looks like Montana with some trees though. Cell tower??
You can almost see Cain in bare feet....

 

[lxskllr]

Do they send someone to fix it for you with a rental, or is that your problem?