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Jed
TreeHouser
Ahh... you trickster you Will... I just thought that you had taken one into the woods.
Now here we have pro timber cutter Tony (how could I have failed to have gotten his last name!!?
) workin temporarily for us, for some inconceivable reason, or was I workin for him? I was hired-out to reck-out an oak for him, and was then free to tag along like a puppy and pull ropes for him and stuff. The guy is a living picture of God's own grace... he never even told me to go away! 
He back-bars a ton of stuff... he uses a 36" bar on a 441! I'm not kiddn ya! West-coast, baby. The guy's got one brown eye and one blue-green eye... I'm not kiddn ya! Oh... I forgot to tell you that he uses the stump-shot fiber to steady the bar while he's a-filin'. Nice trick, eh?... timber-cutter. 
Cuts his outside (bar-wrench?) pockets off his pants so that the little lady don't gotta deal with the saw-chips in the dryer lint-trap... timber cutter.
Tony's work...
Pretty expensive little Oak, eh?
..... Man!... propaganda's somethin else...
Now here we have pro timber cutter Tony (how could I have failed to have gotten his last name!!?
) workin temporarily for us, for some inconceivable reason, or was I workin for him? I was hired-out to reck-out an oak for him, and was then free to tag along like a puppy and pull ropes for him and stuff. The guy is a living picture of God's own grace... he never even told me to go away! He back-bars a ton of stuff... he uses a 36" bar on a 441! I'm not kiddn ya! West-coast, baby. The guy's got one brown eye and one blue-green eye... I'm not kiddn ya! Oh... I forgot to tell you that he uses the stump-shot fiber to steady the bar while he's a-filin'. Nice trick, eh?... timber-cutter. Cuts his outside (bar-wrench?) pockets off his pants so that the little lady don't gotta deal with the saw-chips in the dryer lint-trap... timber cutter.
Tony's work...
Pretty expensive little Oak, eh?
..... Man!... propaganda's somethin else...
pantheraba
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hahaha, Jed...sounds like you are in heaven. Cool to see those pictures...he is making some razor sharp Jedi hinges there...great picts you took. Enjoy.
flushcut
TreeHouser
Razor sharp hinges with some fiber pull. No Humbolt IDK I would be questioning his cred. 
And to top it off no hickory stripe! Highly suspect I tell you.
And to top it off no hickory stripe! Highly suspect I tell you.
PCTREE
Treehouser
Jed ,sounds like you got a crush!
We did 2 jobs today then got a call about a fallen maple that needed cleaned up asap as the woman couldnt get in her house as the door was blocked by brush. Went and looked at it at 1 whilst the guys cleaned up our job. Big tree lots of brush but a decided fug it we would just work late and bust it out as Im booked for the rest of the week. Older lady, I told her $2K which I knew was cheap and she jumped at it as she had already had prices.
After we were all done she came out and said she had to leave and gave me a check for $1500. I asked her why it was for 15 not 2 and she said she wanted to see how our clean up was, I told her this is basically what you get other than us blowing etc. She said we needed to clean up all the broken branches in the bushes and small trees that the tree had fallen on. I explained we were contracted to remove the wind blown maple and a cedar so she could get in her house, she said the tree caused the damage so we should clean it up???? It was 7pm after a hot day so I said I would talk to her tomorrow......
We did 2 jobs today then got a call about a fallen maple that needed cleaned up asap as the woman couldnt get in her house as the door was blocked by brush. Went and looked at it at 1 whilst the guys cleaned up our job. Big tree lots of brush but a decided fug it we would just work late and bust it out as Im booked for the rest of the week. Older lady, I told her $2K which I knew was cheap and she jumped at it as she had already had prices.
After we were all done she came out and said she had to leave and gave me a check for $1500. I asked her why it was for 15 not 2 and she said she wanted to see how our clean up was, I told her this is basically what you get other than us blowing etc. She said we needed to clean up all the broken branches in the bushes and small trees that the tree had fallen on. I explained we were contracted to remove the wind blown maple and a cedar so she could get in her house, she said the tree caused the damage so we should clean it up???? It was 7pm after a hot day so I said I would talk to her tomorrow......
pantheraba
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THAT truly sucks...hate shite like that. Too bad you can't just put it all back on site.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
It went on the truck, it can come back off. That is one nice thing about being an employee. If the customer has a problem after I'm finished ( which is rare), I just tell them to call the boss.
Dang Jed, you gotta be loving that. Getting your fill of hinge porn working with him?
Fiber pull is fine if you're not salvaging timber.
Dang Jed, you gotta be loving that. Getting your fill of hinge porn working with him?
Fiber pull is fine if you're not salvaging timber.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
I'm proud of myself today. I took five dead ash out of this area with very minimal damage to the 40' tall understory. All bucket work, but only two broken maple limbs. Had five more declining ash in open yard and two more to finish the job. Plus an overgrown crab apple. The home owner asked for advice on raising up a young maple. What he wanted would've been well over 50%. I thought I talked him out of it but then he met with his landscraper and that guy was shaking his head and staring at me a lot. We will see what he wants done tomorrow morning. I'll revive my advice but do what he wants.
What a prick that lady is. I think you did the right thing, when you are hot and tired in a tough situation like that, get back to her after you cool off.
Jed, back barring is da bomb but doing it with engine down instead of up?? Thats news to me...
flushcut
TreeHouser
True but IMO if you're billing yourself as pro timber cutter in the PNW your stumps should be text book perfect. Jeds look better than what I'm seeing here.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
Ok I see your point and agree. But to compare Jed's hinges to anyone else is unfair. The man has spent his life perfecting the hinge pic
flushcut
TreeHouser
Indeed Jed has some mad skills.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Paul nailed it with the crush thing. Everybody got a man crush I'm sure.
Rad pictures, rad to tie in with talent and learn stumpthing.
Contract climbed in Sonoma.
Here's a pic I snapped of the guy I worked for.
Rad pictures, rad to tie in with talent and learn stumpthing.
Contract climbed in Sonoma.
Here's a pic I snapped of the guy I worked for.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Galling for sure, one of the flip sides of being so well equipped is that doing stuff ultra fast makes the client question the price.
I think you did the right thing, walking away for a bit. She'll be thinking about it as well no doubt, maybe throw her a bone of a couple of hundred.
Jed
TreeHouser
Sorry to hear that Paul... but good job all the same. Yeah, I fell into a deep admiration/respect crush for the guy. The dude's wife left him to raise three kids by himself when he was out in the woods. He started working line clearance to be able to spend more time with them. He's got a better one now, thank God.
Rajan: On that Arboretum job we were supposed to leave high stumps. He was definitely a top-notch production cutter and no OCD perfection geek. You wouldn't believe how fast he could dead-center a log with a little 441 bogged down by a huge bar. Like Rich mentioned... we just wanted good shots, not saw logs re the fiber.
Cory: re the motor up or down thing... I wonder if this is just more of our old handle-bar controversy silliness. I hate back-chaining, and only do it when I have to, so I wouldn't know. I'm trying to think of why it would matter. Does the weight of the motorhead torque on the bar weird as you progress the cut? It would depend on how you're countering this by torqueing on the handle-bar as you go, eh?
Rajan: On that Arboretum job we were supposed to leave high stumps. He was definitely a top-notch production cutter and no OCD perfection geek. You wouldn't believe how fast he could dead-center a log with a little 441 bogged down by a huge bar. Like Rich mentioned... we just wanted good shots, not saw logs re the fiber.
Cory: re the motor up or down thing... I wonder if this is just more of our old handle-bar controversy silliness. I hate back-chaining, and only do it when I have to, so I wouldn't know. I'm trying to think of why it would matter. Does the weight of the motorhead torque on the bar weird as you progress the cut? It would depend on how you're countering this by torqueing on the handle-bar as you go, eh?
Mick!
TreeHouser
S'funny really, to me this transient traders licence sounds a bit anti free trade. You'd never get away with that in the UK or France.
If the contractor pays his income tax he can quote and do work anywhere.
Seems strange the things you accept over there.
If the contractor pays his income tax he can quote and do work anywhere.
Seems strange the things you accept over there.
MasterBlaster
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Ditto!
Mick!
TreeHouser
Yep Shelbyville is an odd place.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Sure I understand, gypsies, what's that about? I don't think you understand what that means.
Anyway, it's just I find it odd that you berated Stig for "sucking at the teat of the government" or some such insult then run off to report someone to you local dignitaries if they don't pay their local taxes. Then brag about it on here.
If that's the way things roll over there so be it, I'll pay to take a dump any day over that.
Anyway, it's just I find it odd that you berated Stig for "sucking at the teat of the government" or some such insult then run off to report someone to you local dignitaries if they don't pay their local taxes. Then brag about it on here.
If that's the way things roll over there so be it, I'll pay to take a dump any day over that.
pantheraba
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Have wild and large natural disasters like erupting volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, and tidal waves, and outside contractors are loved. No standing in line for a local business license. The from elsewhere rescue teams might not get to people trapped inside their demolished structures in time if they had to wait for some clerk scratching his or her butt to sign off on the papers. The search dogs would get bored too. Funny how that works, people often aren't appreciated until the shit hits the fan and you really need them, then it's thank you up the wazoo. Roofers man, they get treated like kings in frilly white blouses.
Jed
TreeHouser
Yes, yes but you don't explain WHY, my dear sir. It is "key," you say: well then, my good man; key to what, might I ask? I always figured that it was for chaps who couldn't sharpen that well. Why not turn one's nose up when one can not envisage a conceivable reason why one would ever deign to back-chain when one has far better methods for progressing through the tree using conventional methods? I ASK you!
Stig: Oh, so you caught him then, did you, you facetious rascal you. Cum'on man... everyone misses now and then, and you know it. Don't mess with my new boyfriend!
Rajan: No. That's the weirdest thing. Bone stock, that pig. I couldn't even believe that it could cut so well. I kept asking him all kinds of nerdy questions like, "is that .63 gauge?" Turns out it was just full-skip, factory square-grind .050, which he nearly wasted one of my brand new Pferd 7/32 round files on by converting it into round-grind.
Stig: Oh, so you caught him then, did you, you facetious rascal you. Cum'on man... everyone misses now and then, and you know it. Don't mess with my new boyfriend!
Rajan: No. That's the weirdest thing. Bone stock, that pig. I couldn't even believe that it could cut so well. I kept asking him all kinds of nerdy questions like, "is that .63 gauge?" Turns out it was just full-skip, factory square-grind .050, which he nearly wasted one of my brand new Pferd 7/32 round files on by converting it into round-grind.
