Don’t you just love working alongside main roads…

climbingmonkey24

climbingmonkey24

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Idk why this irritates me so much. Maybe it’s because I’m the kind of driver that if I see someone on the side of the highway I try to slow down and move over; or if I see a truck trying to turn or do something I give them time; maybe it’s because I used to drive a truck for a living.

Today we were taking down a tree that involved backing a crane into a tight driveway. Crane arrives with a trailer behind it so I’m standing in the road trying to back him up and monitor traffic so he can park it in a grassy area alongside the road. Got a yellow helmet on and reflective jacket.

Truck drives past and someone yells at us to use traffic cones, and the crane operator told me he heard him also call us a name I’m not going to repeat here.

No sh*t we are going to put f*cking cones down, but can we get into position first? That doesn’t include the other drivers that were speeding by and more then once I wondered whether I was going to get hit.

Honestly, I have little respect for people who do sh*t like this. Just like tailgating or inching by a truck trying to back in causing the truck to then get stuck in the middle of the road because they couldn’t wait a few more seconds.

Yes, we all are busy and have things going on, but all this kind of behavior and attitude does is put everyone at risk needlessly.

Ok, that’s my rant for today. Happy holidays!
 
I once put gas cans as oolorful visibility and stacked brush as a barrier on a sidewalk where I was piecing down branches near a smaller road. I watched a pedestrian step over a can and struggle to climb through the brush pile so they could get into the drop zone as I called out to them, then they struggled over the far side brush pile to get out of the zone. "Can't you see I'm working here?". Some drivers zig zag around/through pylons too. Feel your frustration.
 
climbingmonkey24 said:
Idk why this irritates me so much. Maybe it’s because I’m the kind of driver that if I see someone on the side of the highway I try to slow down and move over; or if I see a truck trying to turn or do something I give them time; maybe it’s because I used to drive a truck for a living.

Today we were taking down a tree that involved backing a crane into a tight driveway. Crane arrives with a trailer behind it so I’m standing in the road trying to back him up and monitor traffic so he can park it in a grassy area alongside the road. Got a yellow helmet on and reflective jacket.

Truck drives past and someone yells at us to use traffic cones, and the crane operator told me he heard him also call us a name I’m not going to repeat here.

No sh*t we are going to put f*cking cones down, but can we get into position first? That doesn’t include the other drivers that were speeding by and more then once I wondered whether I was going to get hit.

Honestly, I have little respect for people who do sh*t like this. Just like tailgating or inching by a truck trying to back in causing the truck to then get stuck in the middle of the road because they couldn’t wait a few more seconds.

Yes, we all are busy and have things going on, but all this kind of behavior and attitude does is put everyone at risk needlessly.

Ok, that’s my rant for today. Happy holidays!
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Road work is the worse
 
The younger pedestrians I had to deal with the other day weren't as bad as some of the older folks. I somehow got stuck on traffic duty for a couple of hours, and I was aggresively reminded how ridiculous people can be, but especially entitled people.
 
The most miserable job that I’ve ever had the misfortune to assist with, was tree work for a school with DOT oversight. We were clearing trees so the school could add a turn lane. Every time a branch fell five feet from the edge of the road, they would get out of their vehicles enter into our work zone and complain.
 
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School - one time doing 1 or 2? dead ashes by a fence backing into a school yard, in the middle of summer school's out no kids and I looked and checked every time I dropped something into the school yard. We saw someone was in/on the property inside the school so thought it courteous to inform/get blessing to roll onto the grounds to clean up (it was a long walk out the gate to the street). We were rewarded by having a strip torn off us for possibly dropping a branch - on the kids that weren't there. "Well they could appear and sneak up when you're not looking." " So is it ok to go and clean up or do want us to leave the mess there?" "ok, go." No good deed goes unpunished.
 
I’ve had cars drive past my flaggers, single lane ahead signs, prepare to stop signs, 100’ orange cone run up to the site.
 
I got clipped by a side mirror.
We were working on a gravel road in a HOA, everyone knew that we were there and what we were doing.
Had the road blocked and coned off, truck parked face out at an angle to block the entire road bed.
Climber in the tree and I was chipping, toss one in and stepped off to the side to have a pickup race around under the crown of the tree between me and the chipper.
The climber (owner) knew the kid and his dad, had some stern word given to pops. Unfortunately pops just got defensive….
 
I really don't miss city tree work, dealing with the chipper and chip truck on the road almost every day, hoping the parking works out, pedestrians, distracted drivers, always being watched.... The worst was always around the University of Washington, those students would walk right through your worksite all the time for some reason.
 
Last week I got a parking ticket, in the company truck, in a place this company has been servicing for 28 years now.Even those tasked with enforcing rules don't always pay attention to what's going on in front of their eyes.
 
27RMT0N said:
I really don't miss city tree work, dealing with the chipper and chip truck on the road almost every day, hoping the parking works out, pedestrians, distracted drivers, always being watched.... The worst was always around the University of Washington, those students would walk right through your worksite all the time for some reason.
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I would hate to have to work in town.

We're super spoiled that way!
 
27RMT0N said:
Most of my work is like, down long private gravel driveways, on multi acre parcels of land, I love it.
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You know what why don’t you rub a little salt in the wound why don’t cha. :nocausagracia:;)

I have a mix of job sites. Some acreage, some postage stamp with targets everywhere. My buddy called those places Disneyland, shit everywhere.
 
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