Contract climber diaries

To the contract climbers out there: how many contractors do you guys work with? Do you keep a set number and set group? That is my plan.
One minor problem is some of these guys are companies that offer tree services with literally no climbers or people with felling skills. I mean I did a job the other day and never pulled out my throw cube or even a rope. So it become a juggling act sometimes, but it's working out.
 
Bring your own mix gas to your jobsite! Had a close call recently, someone let me use his mix gas but hands me a can of regular gas. My buddy was working with me and caught on when he filled my saw for me. Like I usually have someone else do. Always with my own gas now.

Avoid learning that the hard way...
 
CutHighnLetFly said:
Bring your own mix gas to your jobsite! Had a close call recently, someone let me use his mix gas but hands me a can of regular gas. My buddy was working with me and caught on when he filled my saw for me. Like I usually have someone else do. Always with my own gas now.

Avoid learning that the hard way...
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I had two cans in my truck this week - one regular and one mix. My ground guy accidentally filled my 3 week old 562xp with the regular on 100 degree day.

Scored the piston and destroyed it [emoji35][emoji35][emoji35][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]

$400 repair in order.


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NorCalBrock said:
I had two cans in my truck this week - one regular and one mix. My ground guy accidentally filled my 3 week old 562xp with the regular on 100 degree day.

Scored the piston and destroyed it [emoji35][emoji35][emoji35][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]

$400 repair in order.


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I bet your ground guy feels like crap, crap happens,
Jeff
 
jefftheswede said:
I bet your ground guy feels like crap, crap happens,
Jeff
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For sure...it was an honest mistake. He is a stellar employee. I put it on myself for having two red cans and not clearly making them.

In fact, that morning I thought "I should mark those more clearly". But got in a hurry


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I keep a paint stick with my files and scrench. Mark my gas cans with mix percentage. Also lets me put a quick paint mark or intials on new equipment (saws, scarbards, cooler, etc) I've gotten. Keeps someone from mistakingly putting my things in the wrong vehicle.
 
AP1017 said:
I keep a paint stick with my files and scrench. Mark my gas cans with mix percentage. Also lets me put a quick paint mark or intials on new equipment (saws, scarbards, cooler, etc) I've gotten. Keeps someone from mistakingly putting my things in the wrong vehicle.
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I must not be fully awake because I'm quite lost as to what you are doing with the paint stick. Could you explain that a bit more, please?

--andrew
 
Hey kite, I mark 50:1 on gas cans. I put my initials on other items. Such as paint intials inside porta wrap, on scarbards, my cooler. Paint my chainbrake with the pen. It causes less confusion if I'm in the tree and groundies start cleaning up. Less likely my items end up in someone else's vehicle. Plus I can spot them in a glance if they do. Hope this helps.
 
AP1017 said:
I keep a paint stick with my files and scrench. Mark my gas cans with mix percentage. Also lets me put a quick paint mark or intials on new equipment (saws, scarbards, cooler, etc) I've gotten. Keeps someone from mistakingly putting my things in the wrong vehicle.
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I paint all my stuff with a lot of hi-viz paint. I found a customers (unmarked) rake in our truck yesterday (employee).

I spray it into crevices, so its hard for a potential thief to fully clean, as well as the usual visible spots.

$2.50 flagging tape, cheap electrical tape, cheap duct tape, and cheap spray paint are all readily available. Sometimes I have to put straight gas in a mix can----lots of flagging or rope or duct tape on the handle making it impossible to not see/ feel the warning device.


Mix gas (marked) goes on one side of my pick-up bed, straight gas on the other.


Business Name and phone numbers help on bins, rope bags, etc.




Paint pens are good for writing service dates/ filter numbers 'under the hood' , date/ mileage of change of part and store from which its purchased. Suppose you have a starter motor go out from a store where you have a "rewards account". If you can see Napa written on the side, you might remember that it has a lifetime warranty, or you could write Napa LTW. 2/24/16,
 
AP1017 said:
Hey kite, I mark 50:1 on gas cans. I put my initials on other items. Such as paint intials inside porta wrap, on scarbards, my cooler. Paint my chainbrake with the pen. It causes less confusion if I'm in the tree and groundies start cleaning up. Less likely my items end up in someone else's vehicle. Plus I can spot them in a glance if they do. Hope this helps.
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Oh! I was thinking 'paint STIR stick'. That was my confusion. Plus, I normally call that a paint pen.

Good idea now that I'm on the same page! Thanks :-)

--andrew
 
I avoid carrying unmixed gas. But if I did, I'd get the blue can for it, and buy a large enough size for it to be unwieldy. That's how I avoid getting diesel in my saws. My saw tanks are little 1 gallon jobs, which are easy to use and divide among job sites on busy days. My diesel is a 5 gallon yellow tank. I think a lock is the next best bet...
 
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