How'd it go today?

[inztrees]

we bu out 250 gals of fert in the rain, cold rain

 

[MasterBlaster]

The dickins you say.

 

[GASoline71]

clear as mud?

Gary

 

[OTGBOSTON]

The dickins you say.

liquid fert

 

[inztrees]

BOOOST

 

[Stumper]

I was almost off to a great start this morning.... but the bucket truck's air brake system wouldn't charge. Messed with them for a while, pulled the control valve restarted the engine and charged the system and reinstalled the control valve-once there was some pressure it quit venting and worked. I got started an hour and twenty minutes late, the tree was bigger than it looked, I had to stop clean-up before I was done to take Cathy to a blood draw apptmt. The tree was burnt so I was black head to toe.... I have to finish so I'm off schedule for tomorrow. Blechy day.

 

[rumination]

Sounds downright blechy Justin. But imagine if you'd been climbing instead of flying the bucket...

 

[Paul B]

dug some holes, planted a bunch of stuff, made some phone calls, looks like we are busy for the next few days

 

[stehansen]

I was almost off to a great start this morning.... but the bucket truck's air brake system wouldn't charge. Messed with them for a while, pulled the control valve restarted the engine and charged the system and reinstalled the control valve-once there was some pressure it quit venting and worked. I got started an hour and twenty minutes late, the tree was bigger than it looked, I had to stop clean-up before I was done to take Cathy to a blood draw apptmt. The tree was burnt so I was black head to toe.... I have to finish so I'm off schedule for tomorrow. Blechy day.

I didn't finish my Monday job on Monday so I'm off schedule this week also.

 

[squisher]

Frig man getting off schedule can be a royal pita. Phone, phone, phone frigging phoning everyone and re-lining everything up sucks.

 

[sotc]

my guys are on a week long pruning job and are supposed to be able to get the truck and chipper close to most of the trees, moday the fence company started drilling holes in the ground and yesterday they strted cementing posts 6 feet apart blocking us out:grr: so i went and bought a trailer for the 4 wheeler, well see how that goes. fortunatly its time and materiels

 

[xtremetrees]

Spent my day at about 130 feet up. I'm whooped. It appears we've lost our lead climber, (been there longer), I hope not.
I am a odd sort of tree climber I have always been afraid of heights but I have learned to compartmentalize the fear. It takes some mental effort to not look down! Its been a while sence I've worked most the day at that height.

 

[Frans]

Looking down is not the hard part. It is looking up, where you can lose your balance

 

[Old Monkey]

I think of the parts of a tree that scare me as places not to linger. I try to do those parts early if I can. I have spent the last two days on a very large backyard silver maple over two yards. Coincidently we have had high wind advisories the last two days. I have been swaying too and fro for to days straight. Easy parts of the tree became difficult. Why didn't I reschedule? Because I am stupid and wanted to get this job done because I bid too low.

I bid the job from the front yard because they had dogs in the back and were not home. When I left my bid I noticed another tree service bid in the door. It was a friend of mine's. I gave him a call to talk about the tree and found out that he bid it high so as not to get it. I thought I was high but my bid was less than his by a factor of two. I call SOTC/Willie to see if it would be unethical to go back and change my bid on the front door. The other tree service didn't care if I did, they definitely did not want to do the job. Willie wouldn't let me off the the but suggested that I could just pull my bid. It was a moot point because when I returned to the house someone was home and all the bids had been collected. They of course called and were very "enthusiastic" about my bid. My wife said I bid it so I had to do it. So that's why I have been swaying in the breeze for two days. The tree is on the ground and tomorrow is wood haul and hopefully stump grinding but I am not counting on it.

 

[squisher]

Chipped that pile in a couple hours without even breaking a sweat, the mini rules!!!!! here's a couple pics of the sticks I've been topping out the last couple of days. Should have all the wood down and bucked by end of tomorrow and hoping to end up with maybe 40m's not quite a 7 axle logging truck load.

 

[Old Monkey]

I wish I was doing what you are doing. Looks like more fun.

 

[lumberjack]

Chipping brush I generally can't chip for more than 1.5 hours before my box runnith over. (14yards)

If the stuff is fairly close, under an hour, 30-45 minutes chipping logs.

 

[squisher]

Two loads for that in my truck.

Oh yah and it is a fun job!

 

[sotc]

wheres your skidder?!

 

[squisher]

No skidder, I'm gonna try and get a self-loader(logging truck)into the lot. I've been making do with the mini and my buckettruck skidder.

Here's a pic of the monsters I was hoping to fell straight into the lot but now they've been spared by the ditch/creek. Frig it anyways but everything happens for a reason.

 

[sotc]

carefull of the clutch bucket skidder ha!

 

[arborworks1]

This Guy filled up over half of the box by itself.

 

[squisher]

You skin that up and pull it over towards the driveway? Or did it have to be chunked down?

 

[arborworks1]

stripped it and threw some chucks. Got it down to about 30 feet and got the big saw out. Heathly tree not more than 45 years old. Except for the co dom. It did have a natural brace in it.

 

[arborworks1]

Made a 15 inch extension for the back door of the box. The co dom brace and some chunks