How'd it go today?

[CurSedVoyce]

Ruining whats left of a perfectly good tree, here is Kavey up the larger lead we are removing. I was busy removing a cypress, setting rigging and pruning. Joined in on the rope too. Rob had a long haul to the chipper and little room to stage. Gives me a chance to provide guidence to the youngun as well I'll post more when we are finished. Custy wants more, I want less taken. I'll cash the check and we need the work.

 

[WoodCutr]

What's wrong with the 500i? Have you been abusively cold seizing it with no warmup? That one is particularly sensitive to being worked hard without enough warm up.

broken plastics and a broke dog, it runs but its iffy weather or not its safe to run, top cover is cracked so the air filter isn't sealing, not gonna risk blowing it up, woulda swapped bars but I didn't have a spare with me and the job was an hour from my house, my mistake on not bringing a spare

the dude I'm working for has a habit of cold starting saws and rev bombing them, including my 500i, I've gotten to where I yell at him for even touching my saws because I hate rebuilding saws, I usually let mine idle for the walk from the truck to the tree before touching the throttle

 

[Cobleskill]

Used washer I bought several months back, to replace the newer one giving us fits, just died as well. So using the laundry mat for a while. Blessing and a curse.
Appliances just are not built like they were.

Speed Queens are still supposed to still be a durable make. Not cheap though. Used one might be a good option.

 

[flushcut]

The day started out well. One blow down, swung a smaller oak, and pulled a leaned over. First tree went well layed it parallel to the blow down, got that cleaned up and started on the blow down. I had my guy set a four to one on the log and rootwad so I could spin it out of the hole. The dumb mother son of a biscuit didn’t screw the blocks down all the way down on two 5/8” CMI ss got tore up. Anyway I started in on the root wad with the mini then (Kapow!) the main bolt holding the grapple on broke dropping the wad with the grapple still holding firm luckily the hoses didn’t let go. We replaced the bolt maybe 200 hours ago from the original that had nearly 2000 hours on it. Oh well.
Now for the leaner, I had to set a line but I only had a small hole to throw into maybe a foot square. I was a tad rusty so after fifteen throws from this mosquito infested murder hole hell I get the shot. Happy I run the line up only to find the line is hung up in a tight branch union just above the target crotch, pull it out and rethrow. Now sweaty and a pint low I throw and miss to the left, frustrated and missing another half pint possibly dealing with early onset malaria or west Nile disease, maybe Gangi fever I can’t be sure lol. The throw gets stuck like tie it off to the mini and snap that 2.2 Zing-it because that’s your only throw line you have. I walk back to the truck to grab a spare ball but it’s a 12oz and I normally toss a 14. It’s an older ball that has seen many throws and came to me by my old sub who passed away. Tie it on and make the perfect shot in one toss. Run up the line only to find the previous and gone for good stuck ball in the rope bag of the line we just ran up. Miracle or ghosts but it’s a head scratcher as to how it got in the bag.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

🤔

 

[Burnham]

Some days...

 

[vharrison]

Woodcutr, glad you listened to your gut the other day and got out of the tree to cool down!

 

[WoodCutr]

Woodcutr, glad you listened to your gut the other day and got out of the tree to cool down!

if I waited another minute or two, I probably would have died, it was about a mile of switchbacks that you can barely fit a pickup truck on to get to the job, zero possibility an ambulance would have made up up there and it'd be a decently long ride to meet one at the main road, I just wish I had a video of me getting out of the tree, felt really dizzy and drained real quick and started screaming for a hose and drink while absolutely flying out of that tree, not something I EVER want to do again, 2nd time in about a month now, glad we had a hose this time around

I went ahead and called the few people I work with and let them know that I will be adding in a lift rental any time we have a climb over 2 hours, lift is cheaper than dying of heat stroke, wouldn't be nearly the problem that it is except everyone on my crew has had it atleast once (not related to our work besides me and one other guy) so we can't handle the heat as well as we should be able to

I've had actual heat stroke atleast twice that I can remember, and been really, really close to passing out 4 or 5 times in the last 5 years, I'm well versed in what dying feels like and I make these posts to remind everyone IT SUCKS, DRINK MORE WATER!!

did give me a chance to climb in the dark for the first time, and you know what? I loved every second of it, I have VERY good night vision so I had no issues seeing what I was doing and it was nice and cool, no bugs and no neighbors out to be nosey yet

 

[friedrich]

if I waited another minute or two, I probably would have died, it was about a mile of switchbacks that you can barely fit a pickup truck on to get to the job, zero possibility an ambulance would have made up up there and it'd be a decently long ride to meet one at the main road, I just wish I had a video of me getting out of the tree, felt really dizzy and drained real quick and started screaming for a hose and drink while absolutely flying out of that tree, not something I EVER want to do again, 2nd time in about a month now, glad we had a hose this time around

I went ahead and called the few people I work with and let them know that I will be adding in a lift rental any time we have a climb over 2 hours, lift is cheaper than dying of heat stroke, wouldn't be nearly the problem that it is except everyone on my crew has had it atleast once (not related to our work besides me and one other guy) so we can't handle the heat as well as we should be able to

I've had actual heat stroke atleast twice that I can remember, and been really, really close to passing out 4 or 5 times in the last 5 years, I'm well versed in what dying feels like and I make these posts to remind everyone IT SUCKS, DRINK MORE WATER!!

did give me a chance to climb in the dark for the first time, and you know what? I loved every second of it, I have VERY good night vision so I had no issues seeing what I was doing and it was nice and cool, no bugs and no neighbors out to be nosey yet

how hot does it get kn your area?

 

[WoodCutr]

how hot does it get kn your area?

average summer day is 90-100 degrees F (32-37C)
I've seen heat index of 123F (50C) here, and its almost continuously 95+ % humidity all summer, it wouldn't bother me one bit if it was dry heat, but the humidity is a real problem

 

[Mick!]

Easy to say, but pick your jobs depending on the weather.
If it’s a hellish day find one where you’ll be out of the tree early.
Plan your week the weekend before after looking at the forecast.

 

[WoodCutr]

Easy to say, but pick your jobs depending on the weather.
If it’s a hellish day find one where you’ll be out of the tree early.
Plan your week the weekend before after looking at the forecast.

I always schedule around weather, this was an emergency job with an actively splitting tree, would be great if the tree decided to split a different day but ya work with what ya get

 

[Mick!]

I always schedule around weather, this was an emergency job with an actively splitting tree, would be great if the tree decided to split a different day but ya work with what ya get

Well I hope the price reflected that.

 

[WoodCutr]

Well I hope the price reflected that.

$700 an hour, and we didn't haul a single twig off the job or cut anything once it hit the ground