How'd it go today?

tows the trailer with the excavator, or an excavator being trailered behind a cybertruck? sorry I'm a little out of it right now, long day


side note, 11,300 steps in today, decided to start tracking my steps when I'm at work just out of curriosity, today was mostly riding around on the GiAnt moving debris and loading logs, I gotta go back tomorrow to chip todays brush and either start another job on the same block or haul equipment off site depending of the other customers tree guy is a no show like he was today

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and Brian was right, mini ex is slooow to get stuff out of a back yard

still a better machine for stacking and chipping IMO, but damn that wheel loader can move some material, I used to hate my BMG but I can't wait to get a new one for this machine, I've ran one on this same machine 2 years ago and there ain't much I can't do with that, with a quickness
 
@WoodCutr. If you’re tracking steps with your phone it sometimes registers bouncing around in your pocket while on the machine as steps. Just a heads up. I’ve had many days that my step goals were doubled and all I did was ride the mini
 
treebilly said:
@WoodCutr. If you’re tracking steps with your phone it sometimes registers bouncing around in your pocket while on the machine as steps. Just a heads up. I’ve had many days that my step goals were doubled and all I did was ride the mini
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I think mine was doing that today, machine goes slow enough to count as walking, steps were at over 6K by 1pm today, and I didn't show up to work till almost 11am
 
friedrich said:
what is the benefit of such information? i am genuinely curious.
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It’s about setting goals. A good goal is 10K steps a day. Just about keeping fit, really. More important to the sedentary workforce than us folk.

My Whoop band (health tracking device worn on my wrist) has my steps around 12.5K daily average. Tree jobs can get me in the 40K range. It’s not spot on but I believe it’s a decent enough estimate.
 
still building truck exhaust, on my third mount design and this ones the last one, didn't think about how much of a massive PITA exhaust work is, especially when you're in the 4 and 5 inch range so nothing clears anything and its all super heavy and awkward, but atleast I'm getting through some scraps in my shop

I may have said it before, but a metal cutting blade on a circular saw is totally awesome, diablo steel demon on a cheap skillsaw has saved me so much time and wasted cutoff wheels, cut the big C channel for the flatbed shortening project (frame rail basically) in about 10 seconds, cold clean fast and accurate
 
or, hear me out, its designed, engineered and tested, and used by thousands of people every day for the last who knows how many years, its perfectly fine, BTW that milwaukee can't miter cut so thats out the window for most of my work anyways

also, the blade I'm talking about isn't designed for a metal cutting saw, it goes on any standard 7 1/4" circular saw, not sure if you think I am just shoving shit together in hopes it works but I'm not

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yeah I've been wanting to buy a mag77 for a few years, just haven't been able to justify it for how rarely I use a circ saw
 
Yeah but it’s a tool so even if it sits awhile you have it. There are lots of tools I bought early on in life and still have and use today. Most of my socket set I bought when I was 16 and nearly 32 years later I still have them and use them, not often but I have them.
 
How'd it go today? Pretty darn well. Weather was good. Mud is receding. A friend passed a small welding repair job to me. Things are moving steadily forward. I went to the sawmill with my Milwaukee bandsaw to harvest some scrap metal to build a battery tray and turned my internet on in time to get a call from my tractor clutch person. Effort paying off.
 
dude hasn't paid, going to the courthouse monday to do paperwork, he's now threatening to come lie on my company reviews so I guess there will be more to this lawsuit than just the 3 grand he owes me, atleast he's easy to find despite his best efforts to stay hidden (wouldn't tell me where he lives, didn't want to meet at his house although its 10 minutes from mine, etc)
 
at this point, the more I look into it, the more I think I may as well just review bomb the guy with pictures and all, then forgetaboutit, court looks like a pain in the ass, its an hour away and he's as likely to win as I am, despite me having LOTS of evidence against him and him having NONE against me, first he said 2 trees, then he said 20 when he replied to my yelp review, now he's saying 12 to 15, he probably can't even remember which company he's complaining about at this point
 
So, what do you think you could have done differently to avoid this unhappy situation? It's too bad you're losing money, but maybe you can figure how to not let it happen again. That would be a worthwhile lesson.

P.S. @WoodCutr Sorry for my unhelpful post just a little bit ago. If you missed it, all the better :). I deleted it and replaced it with the above.
 
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I missed it so no worries there
what I should have done was not show back up after being stood up the first time, and block his number, but here we are

no more working for other companies unless I already know them and/or have worked with them in the past
 
UPDATE, his customer just called me asking if I had a way to get in contact, they paid him before finishing the job, and of course he never came back to finish it
 
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