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    Nerd Alert

    This evening, I pulled the woodstove out of my house and replaced the fire brick and welded up a few cracks. I just put in the cheap fire brick that Tractor Supply carries, because the stove is a cheap stove from Tractor Supply. I had to cut a couple bricks to fit, per the factory design...
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    AI affect on arborculture

    Jobber staff have told me not to use their AI receptionist yet, it still needs help… Their AI marketing email creator though is good, I mostly like what it has been producing for us. We’ve had some rather good results out of it in the last couple months.
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    Arbsession cord protectors for head coms

    That really is cool to know. Thank you for telling me about that!
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    Arbsession cord protectors for head coms

    Really? That I did not know! That’s cool! If I ever do get out there, I’d like to see that. MASH is my favorite show, I own all ten seasons and have half the episodes memorized…
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    Arbsession cord protectors for head coms

    Not a bad offer, maybe some day I can make it happen. Funny story - Your town name always reminds me of an old MASH episode, where Radar gets his school diploma from the AAA Diploma Company of Delavan, Indiana.
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    Look at the line launcher I found on Amazon

    I agree with you, I will not buy such knock offs because I disagree with the way the Chinese infringe upon patents. I would much rather spend a bit more to support a truly American company then to send my money to the CCP, supporting oppression and child labor and a regime that badly treats its...
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    Arbsession cord protectors for head coms

    Wow, that looks great! I wish that I could visit in person, but it’s a bit of a drive.
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    Today....

    If that’s a 14K dump, you’re probably OK. We move loads that look similar all the time in a 14 foot, 14K dump trailer. And we move Oak, not so much pine around here.
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    Bevel buddy

    We use a grinder a flap wheel to touch up once between knife changes, it works well but you do have to be careful not to take to much off the edge itself. I do the touchups myself, and make sure the wheel rotates towards the edge, so it cuts the flat before running off the edge. Grind the other...
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    Nerd Alert

    That is interesting to learn. And very timely, because I have to replace the fire bricks in my woodstove.
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    That’s correct, if we call and they tell us we are clear, and we cut something more than 18” away from where it’s marked it’s not on us. For sure, never cut a big fiber bundle, but that would be incredibly expensive to repair!
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    Comcast lays their cable that shallow around here as well. Problem is, they refuse to mark their cables. They say it is “cheaper to repair one in ten cables than it is to mark all 10.” When they do mark things, back when I had my landscape companies as well, and we did a lot of digging, we...
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    I agree, it can be profitable, we just don’t usually have time for it during the right times of the year, and that requires me to switch gears from our normal loads on the trucks, and to train the employees to do something they are not accustomed to doing. Unfortunately, that takes all the...
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    I agree, that would be nice if they were look at categories. I do not do any consulting, or not enough to count at least. Maybe a few hundred dollars a year at most. No planting either, we refer that out. In house, we do pruning, removals, stump, grinding, and treatments. All of those are...
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    I agree with you completely. The system seems to be backwards. My new liability insurance company bases their premiums on gross sales, I think that is much more sensible than payroll.
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    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Thank you, and a happy Thanksgiving to you also!
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    Fixing old arbortech toolboxes ( L pack style)

    So did we, but that is aluminum. It takes a thicker piece to get the same strength out of aluminum.
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    Before we closed the other year, I was paying over $70k a year, and that was with excellent workers comp rates. We aren’t back to that level yet, but will be soon. Insurance is expensive, but well worth it. When one of my drivers wrecked a truck and we had to replace it, the insurance company...
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    I agree. I feel like while I am trying to answer a question, there really wasn’t a question to begin with. I think that justification for working without insurance is being sought and I cannot give that.
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    I started my career in landscaping, by the way. I was insured back then, and I am still insured now. The only work I have ever done without insurance was a couple lawns I mowed for neighbors while I was a teenager, and one winter that I cleared driveways with my grandfather‘s snowblower in the...

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