Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
This is an ongoing custom sawing customer. Most of the stuff lately is for the porch on his house. He is a woodworker and uses locust in some of his projects.
How'd it go today?
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Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Last two years longer than stone!
Mick!
TreeHouser
Yesterday..
Went to price a job in the late afternoon. Client was an elderly (80ish) widow. The job was at her second house a few miles up the road. So I had no choice but to put her in the pickup and drive her there.
We arrive after 5 minutes, she gets out and falls on the ground, the pickup is relatively high and she misjudged it.
Cut her head open, insists it’s nothing etc, but I had to take her to the doctors and wait for a while.
I checked later, she’s ok.
Job was a load of bollocks, shrubs and pampas grass.
Went to price a job in the late afternoon. Client was an elderly (80ish) widow. The job was at her second house a few miles up the road. So I had no choice but to put her in the pickup and drive her there.
We arrive after 5 minutes, she gets out and falls on the ground, the pickup is relatively high and she misjudged it.
Cut her head open, insists it’s nothing etc, but I had to take her to the doctors and wait for a while.
I checked later, she’s ok.
Job was a load of bollocks, shrubs and pampas grass.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Man, but I hope nothing negative comes of that. Good on you for taking her to the docs and for waiting around. Double good on you for checking back later. The world needs more folk that behave like that.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Should be ok, but I know what you mean.
Just yesterday I was working for a married couple- she's 87 and spry, he's 89 and holding on barely. After we arrived and were working, they had an appt somewhere so she goes thru the process of getting their car out of garage and driving it close to house where he slowly and unsteadily hobbles over to it using a cane. I hadn't been paying attention but looked up to see him struggling to balance trying to open the car door. It was below freezing out and he was all bundled up including an Elmer Fudd hat on top. I was 20' away and started to move toward him asking do you need a hand but then I held my ground because I got the feeling that if I interceded unexpectedly , he might face plant in the process of accepting my assistance.
'Suddenly, nothing happened', and he successfully got into the passenger seat but Mick's story reminded me of the potential dangers of being around old folk.
Reminds me of another job years ago, it was a freezing winter AM following rain the previous night so any water that hadn't dried up was frozen. The customer (old guy) came out of his house and walked down the sloping driveway to see how things were going with our treework in his front yard. I was up in the bucket and saw him approaching a patch of ice, I tried to signal him but he kept walking and when his foot hit that ice he went down like a ton of bricks with the back of his head bouncing of the pavement. It was hard to watch and I thought he might be wasted. My guys went over to help him slowly got back to his feet and he went back inside, luckily no serious injury.
#dontgetold
'Suddenly, nothing happened', and he successfully got into the passenger seat but Mick's story reminded me of the potential dangers of being around old folk.
Reminds me of another job years ago, it was a freezing winter AM following rain the previous night so any water that hadn't dried up was frozen. The customer (old guy) came out of his house and walked down the sloping driveway to see how things were going with our treework in his front yard. I was up in the bucket and saw him approaching a patch of ice, I tried to signal him but he kept walking and when his foot hit that ice he went down like a ton of bricks with the back of his head bouncing of the pavement. It was hard to watch and I thought he might be wasted. My guys went over to help him slowly got back to his feet and he went back inside, luckily no serious injury.
#dontgetold
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
You Nor Cal types okay? Heard there was an earthquake.
Mrs.B
Treehouser
Fine here in Ft Bragg. we felt it, it was a doozy, a 7.0 and lasted about 20 seconds. We are a couple hundred miles south of the epicenter
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
I was probably driving and did not feel a quiver.
Mrs.B
Treehouser
An interesting bit of information regarding the quake. Right after it happened I had a dentist appt and as I walked in the receptionist was on the phone with her daughter, who is an arborist in Humboldt County (where the quake happened). She was 100 ft up a redwood doing some limbing when the quake hit and she said it was quite a ride! She said it took her a few seconds to realize what was happening. That's a potentially scary scenario.
Mrs.B
Treehouser
Jerry is great. He's been clearing brush and trees in our yard, which keeps an old guy busy. He tells me he is just taking a break from the forums. He'll be back eventually. Thanks for asking, Cory.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Glad you guys are alright.
You folks sure do pay a high price to live there.
You folks sure do pay a high price to live there.
flushcut
TreeHouser
Imagine taking a top and a quake hit!!! That’s a hard variable to account for.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
While in the back cut
flushcut
TreeHouser
Is this over kill for a tree work crane?
Manitowoc MLC300 it has 200 tons of counter weight. Set up with a six part block that is about the size of a Smart Car. I don’t think there are many trees that can’t pull out whole, roots and all in my area.
Manitowoc MLC300 it has 200 tons of counter weight. Set up with a six part block that is about the size of a Smart Car. I don’t think there are many trees that can’t pull out whole, roots and all in my area.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
That's why I am a farmer.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Imagine the rats nest of wire rope from the dynamic loading/unloading of pulling a tree.
flushcut
TreeHouser
At 386ton capacity I'd imagine it would be just a slow steady pull while the tree looses its grip on earth. 1000' of spaghetti lol
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Probably. That block is probably heavy enough to keep tension on the lines.
stikine
Treehouser
Have you gone necromancer on us Rajan? Hanging out in graveyards and all. 😋
A 4 or 5 story apartment building is being built by my yard, they've been setting the first story steel for the past couple weeks with a 60t Grove rough terrain crane. Setting steel appears to be downright boring compared to treework with a crane- all the weights are known, all picks are from the ground, all picks are balanced, most picks appear to be far lighter than typical tree picks, and just move the crane as needed to get closer.
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Been collecting donations for school fundraiser yard sale this weekend after work all week.
Pray for me…taking this barn find I’ve been fighting paperwork on for like two or three years to DMV hopefully for the last time tomorrow…and hopefully the dooly too, had a bunch of repairs to get it smogged and operational.
Pray for me…taking this barn find I’ve been fighting paperwork on for like two or three years to DMV hopefully for the last time tomorrow…and hopefully the dooly too, had a bunch of repairs to get it smogged and operational.
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