I think its a money thing. He kept telling me he ordered culvert. I got a deposit for him. Said to just give it to him at the job. I had asked if he needed it to go pick up the culverts. Also offered to get a deposit for rock. He tried to blame the customer for a slow deposit check. He waited too long, then lost a delivery date. Chose to go pick it up instead of waiting because he has another project pending.
When I showed him like an almost 3 week time line that he was given the go to order, check in the mail, he kind of eluded that money was not readily available on his end.
He kept doing stuff like that.
Today, after I left, he said my guys kept getting in the way, slowing him down. I explicitly told them to keep out the way.
Yesterday, he cut trees down we were supposed to do. Said we were holding him up. We had more down andd all that and more cleaned up out of the driveway before he even crossed the culvert. Still compacting.
After I left, he offered help to my guys to pull trees out of the creek he put there. So they could process them. And turned that around saying he "had to" do that for them.i had asked why he did that in the first place. Just lay the damn things out along side. Has an excavator with a thumb. Laughed and said he was helping make more work for me. Told my guys today, if he is still working in that area, we would just come back later and winch out.
Then he said they were in his way of moving on to the next culvert, so he did some dirt work on a bank he needed to fix..
Rob moved out of his way from moving logs so he could get by. Then dude veered off. I pointed out that fact, and also that he was going to have to do that work anyway. Never mind the upper culvert. He never did get all the new fill for either one till I went back there tonight.
Then he pointed at a spot the driveway got narrow. We had pruned bushes back for clearance for his equipment. Ohhhh no. They were supposed to be gone. I did not know he wanted them gone, and no matter, live oak regrowth out of stumps. Meaning the stumps were going to be in his way of grading and providing a drain off at below that. He has a gdamn excavator. Told him to call the client and add a job add on and charge him for it. Problem solved. I cant make the stumps go away.
Just dumb shit. Then blame us. Not having it. He is his own worst time consuming enemy. He could have just left the trees he cut, planned better and be making bank.
Each trip to pick stuff up in his trucks is 2 hours.
He needed 4 loads of clean fill, two culverts (he got one at a time), and now two transfers worth of rock. Wayyyyy more than two of his truck loads.
Not to mention, he was worried about transport and I offered to takenon some of the burden with my truck and trailer.
So today, after being out there twice, having to go back a third after dealing with this nonsense since Monday. I'm done. And verbally blaming my crew? Well!! Anyone that has ever worked with us know better. We rarely break for lunch. Just grab and go. 5 hours hard. Sometimes 6.
