How'd it go today?

Stupid gas chipper won’t start in the rain. Known distributor issue but you shouldn’t need to put a new one on every damn week. And after putting down 50 mats and 30 sheets of plywood a sheet popped up and gashed a hole in the def tank on the bucket truck. At least it’s only raining steadily and not storming right now. It’s going to be a great day🤬
 
No doubt a root hiding underneath helped the sheet pop up!

Did you really lay 80 total? That is a fookload of mats!
 
Yup. Had to hop scotch about 12 to get to the last tree. Sucked and it never quit raining. Some JB tank weld got us up and running again
 
treebilly said:
Stupid gas chipper won’t start in the rain. Known distributor issue but you shouldn’t need to put a new one on every damn week. And after putting down 50 mats and 30 sheets of plywood a sheet popped up and gashed a hole in the def tank on the bucket truck. At least it’s only raining steadily and not storming right now. It’s going to be a great day🤬
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That is a lot of mats and plywood. What is the companies take on getting a tracked lift? The bucket truck can end up being a square peg for a round hole in those situations far off the drive scenarios.
 
Ground stumps yesterday, officially quit working with new companies today and fired one repeat company, long story that I'm not getting into, no lawsuits or anything, im just sick of the B.S and other guys expecting you to change your schedule around them

finally got to grind stumps myself for the first time, rental was cheaper than hiring out the grinding and it gave me some experience, enough to say I'd be cool with never doing another stump and just pay the price of hiring a grinder
not a fan of that fecon stumper, works fine but it abuses the machine and operator, plus being in a skidsteer it creeps pretty quickly, and I'm pretty sure that is a high flow grinder on a standard flow machine, just doesn't seem to spin as fast as I think it should, but then again it could be working as intended, never ran another one to compare it with



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Heres the exact spot we talked about with the mini loader tearing it up, this is after drying out in the sun for a week, its as hard as concrete and near impossible to dig without a machine, being clay the water doesn't drain through it fast which leaves an inch or two of slime ontop, just enough for the grass to get peeled back and mud pressed through, never really sink much in it but you won't have any traction, similar to ice
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FJR said:
That is a lot of mats and plywood. What is the companies take on getting a tracked lift? The bucket truck can end up being a square peg for a round hole in those situations far off the drive scenarios.
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I agree that the bucket is not the best tool in a lot of situations. I like the spider lifts but boss doesn’t so we stay in the Stone Age. I debated climbing it but years have taught me that the risk involved doesn’t need to be there. To much could go wrong given the situation. Even out of the lift it was sketchy.
 
It took Rich's treeco seemingly ages to get into crane work, probably the same for spider lift. The boss is probably not an 'early adopter"
 
Not a bad day today. I personally don't get into the bbq/party thing. It's a somber day, not that I don't think of it other days. I do work, like any other day.

I finally, I think, have my electrical gremlins under control on my board edger. Or, the gremlins have just gone into hiding. What I think it was, was that the idle rpm was too low to make alternator voltage, and the shutoff solenoid would drop out and kill the engine. I've bumped up the idle rims, and it now stays running. Key switch has come under suspicion, and may still be biding it's time to bite me in the ass.:lol: A quick greasing and oil change, and it's ready to go back to the mill.

I put the field mower on the Kubota and mowed around the farm a bit, then the field at my house. The gauge got towards hot, but settled shy of the red mark. That's normal-ish. I put a lot of work (money) into the cooling system last year, it's nice to see it's working.

The sun has been out all day, and no rain drops!
 
ouch, that sucks, atleast the damage wasn't really all that bad, gonna suck to fix but I'd say he got about as lucky as it gets, and he will never pull a trailer with an unsecured load again!

this is the only advantage to a dump trailer for equipment IMO, atleast if shit comes loose, you'd have to roll the trailer before its coming out, never tested because I've never hauled a machine unsecured, but I'm told it helps, by the same guys laughing at me for chaining stuff down "because it takes too long"

hope he has insurance, if they will even cover that
 
WoodCutr said:
ouch, that sucks, atleast the damage wasn't really all that bad, gonna suck to fix but I'd say he got about as lucky as it gets, and he will never pull a trailer with an unsecured load again!

this is the only advantage to a dump trailer for equipment IMO, atleast if shit comes loose, you'd have to roll the trailer before its coming out, never tested because I've never hauled a machine unsecured, but I'm told it helps, by the same guys laughing at me for chaining stuff down "because it takes too long"

hope he has insurance, if they will even cover that
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Funny thing is the day before he was telling me he was going to trade it in on a new Bandit stumper. Lol I have my doubts insurance will cover anything being not chained down.
 
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