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  1. eyehearttrees

    [MS 193 T] New-to-me unit, suspect the block's spark-plug-slot is compromised but cannot be sure (pics in-post!!)

    Using a 'bit' that's sized for the head of the spark-plug, so I can generate quick&powerful torque that I couldn't generate by-hand (my scrench's are "regular" and this Stihl-spark-plug was a weird dimension I've never used, had to get out the socket-set :P ) So yeah was literally "lining-up"...
  2. eyehearttrees

    Cheap Chainsaw Hacks (Save time and money)

    Oh it works great, so great I am not even going to try finding a better alternative since it literally doesn't have 1 single "demerit" I can come up with! I only found a small handful of cold-weather-complaints when doing my research on canola-as-B&C oil research a few weeks ago.....I cannot...
  3. eyehearttrees

    [MS 193 T] New-to-me unit, suspect the block's spark-plug-slot is compromised but cannot be sure (pics in-post!!)

    Hmmmm....just looking at the pic here I can see that someone has tried taping it, which makes me think someone DID get a plug in there after the "squish event" lol, fingers-crossed here ;D
  4. eyehearttrees

    [MS 193 T] New-to-me unit, suspect the block's spark-plug-slot is compromised but cannot be sure (pics in-post!!)

    tl;dr-- Pretty sure the block's spark-plug-slot is damaged/untrue, cannot even drill-in the new spark plug I got when trying to revive this 193t this afternoon....I'm OK with the insertion of a spark plug in a manner where "it'll never come-out again", which is why I was OK trying to drill it...
  5. eyehearttrees

    "Setting-up" a truck for tree-work....any tips, tricks & insight would be greatly appreciated!!!

    lol like that picture that's my avatar/profile-picture here, that job I had my dinky lil sedan over-flowing with my gear (my usual MO), when I'm basically done I call my friend (who I've previously confirmed with, of course) who comes by and we both load-up his bed (sometimes chip as well) and I...
  6. eyehearttrees

    "Setting-up" a truck for tree-work....any tips, tricks & insight would be greatly appreciated!!!

    So I've had a real rough time Re vehicles the past ~1.5yrs, not ideal when you've gone and insured yourself as a sole-proprietorship tree-service, using a sedan and sub-contracting the debris-clearance, it made it so I couldn't get a ton of jobs and I'd pay a heavy tax (for my friend's...
  7. eyehearttrees

    Nutrition supplement suggestions

    While others have nailed it - and while this here late-30's male is facing the same problem after realizing last week I wasn't really up for a 6-day, all-days climbs week which I MUST be if I wanna be a 1-person company lol - I'll reiterate what's been said, add some, and keep it prioritized...
  8. eyehearttrees

    Nailed my helmet w/ steel anchor, force quite possibly could've been a skull-cracker...lamest way to die!!

    Oh btw I had the Mercury beside it in the pic because I was also rigging w/ the Mercury that job, have been finding it an incredible bullrope liike very very very great, am already holding so much over half a thousand feet lol but wanna get a hank or two more (of the blue variety now that it's...
  9. eyehearttrees

    Nailed my helmet w/ steel anchor, force quite possibly could've been a skull-cracker...lamest way to die!!

    So I was taking down this Oak limb, maybe 25' long and about 20' up the trunk, I could hardly get-onto it (no good vert/high anchor points) so was basically suspended from the limb I was cutting for a lil while, taking bits of the tip off so I could safely drop the remainder in one piece (only...
  10. eyehearttrees

    [I know there's no hard-#'s!] How frequently% do you guys think tree-failure is the culprit for climber-deaths?

    So I've yet to get going on my first ISA - the TRAQ (to me it seems "an obvious choice", honestly, but uncertain it's the 1st choice of most) I only know by-experience, supplemented with what I see online....and I am still seeing a MASSIVE chasm between what I'll see online, and where my...
  11. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    Hoping someone(s) with personal experience on this can answer something- Is it really a 1st-come/1st-served situation that has a "cut-off"? Or is that just a sales-tactic? My agent just told me, paraphrased, that "Because there's only so much work in a given area, we *cap* the # of people we...
  12. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    Wait wait WTH it's ALSO a home advisor company just like angie's? Makes me wonder if someone gets 3X as many leads, or basically the same leads, when they sign-up for either: A - just 1 of these services, or B - angie's, craftjack & home advisor the monopolization here is insane am amazed...
  13. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    Thanks! Can I ask how long it took you to get to that point business-wise? I'd always gone referral-only and it worked great for landscaping & handyman services but people need those repeatedly, when I tried using my ~30's deep "client pool" to pivot to just tree work (got insured for it and...
  14. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    BTW Mr Kroll ( ;) ), I gotta say I'm curious after seeing your Signature here- why did you stop w/ ISA?
  15. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    Worst part is I just can't stop that lil part of me thinking "Yeah but you only need ONE of those leads to be a good, full removal project to make this worthwhile", but that feels so much more like gambling than "sound business decision" God I suck at this, just wanna be doing what I actually...
  16. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    Sadly they're a name I didn't hear a single time when asking my clients what they use when they don't already know a specialist, angie's was huuuge though I mean BY FAR the most-common answer!! Which sucks, as I'll explain below: Yeah it's looking more&more this way, sadly... I just heard...
  17. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    They "double-pronged" me, when I signed up I got contacted by "an individual" from Home Advisor, saying they've got clients needing work right now, I almost cheered out loud at the lottery I'd just won (landlords/realtors are some of my best clients, so this sounded awesome), then I realized it...
  18. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    It means you've paid them, and they've verified your reviewers' legitimacy....then they tell the customer/leads base "Businesses don't pay to be on here", honestly I'd put it in a note on my Angie's page "Note: I am paying for boosted promotion" but suspect angie's wouldn't tolerate that kinda...
  19. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    Do you remember if there were "cheap packages" available and, if so, whether they were inferior (or simply smaller)? I could see paying that IF my phone were ringing so often that i could cherry-pick my jobs, though that seems a bit unfair/schemey...How many people in your operation when you...
  20. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    LOVE it!! Have done bandit signs/car magnets/etc the whole roll-out (including big direct mail campaigns), dunno how I didn't think of this (oh wait yeah I do it's because I'm a shy/bashful guy who's ability to self-promote is like 1% of what it was when I was in my early-20's :P FWIW I'm late...

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