Frustrating things people do on a job......

[COtreerat]

That's how you warm it up!!

Hahahaha engine might be warm, but the oil wont be distributed around the bar!

 

[evo]

Minor thing that I don’t even mention to people, but when I shut off a saw, I always flip the switch back to the run position, so when I need it again, just pull the cord. I was taught to do this by my trainer, I guess the majority of folks don’t do this. Kinda irksome to pull the cord a couple times before I realize someone else had used my saw.

Gawd.. the guy I worked for about 8 years drilled this into my skull. It never bothered me before, but sure pisses me off now. I really think that’s my favorite feature of the 500i.
That and very detailed specifics on how to stack brush, and coil ropes.
Quite specifically it was his way and his way only.. now anything other than that is grating..
funny thing is I’ve now hired a climber from the guy I worked for before this person. And this x2 employers ago was trained by the same person that brought me into the industry. Im noticing the nuances coming around full circle.

 

[evo]

Some of these frustrations are comical when they’re written down and shared. But when they happen in real time there is rarely a chuckle

How does your training change when these things happen? What is ‘the talk’ that goes on after that over revved cut?

I had a guy who would keep the saw revved while brushing down trees that were felled whole. He would cut, keep his finger on the throttle then turn and walk back towards his team mate who was stacking. Almost gutted a couple guys.

I had a private talk with him

Next time…whistle stopped him and loudly reprimanded him with a consequence

Third time…consequence he didn’t run a saw for a week

He finally got it

Way way back when I was working one of three 24 hour dinners in PDX, and the only one with in a good few miles from downtown, right in the heart of downtown PDX, just a block or so from Powells bookstore…. We kept a old polloroid camera behind the counter, and three ring binders with incident reports. The goal was to always try to snap a shot of the drunk ass homophobe as we were occasionally forcefully detaining before the cops arrived.
On slow nights we would all chill in the back alley, and read through years of these binders. Always talked about turning them into a comic or a zine.
There was a certain unity and a way we took care of our own in that community, and employer as at every 2:30-3am hordes of drunks would line up at the door. We called out to each other ‘the idiots are coming’ with the same distain as one would use at the end of a zombie movie.. we had drunks screwing in the bathrooms, street kids putting needles in their arms under the tables, and occasionally riot cops showing up just outside. It would have been a great comic..
a comic is where this thread should go..

Anyone mention pitch covered gloves left on when moving or driving the truck? What about putting the saws ontop of the gear in the truck tool boxes, leaking bar oil all over everything!

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I feel like these posts are coming in within minutes of experiencing these pet peeves hahaha

I could write a manual about the. Lol

 

[flushcut]

Has it gone to print yet?

 

[Chris Schultz]

I cannot believe I didn’t think of this earlier, because it happens all the time, and drives me wild…… : when someone sends up a saw (especially a large saw) and attaches one end of bungee lanyard to saw, and one end to climb line…… not only is it stretching the shit out of the bungee, but is putting a whole lot of faith and weight on that piece of material(that they’ll typically stand right underneath…) When I explain why that’s wrong, and why I won’t hoist it aloft, all I get is the confused puppy dog eyes look. When I worked at the tree service, if the boss did this, or tied on a “lotta knot” I wouldn’t pull it up either.

 

[southsoundtree]

People are ready to get under a piece being lowered well in advance of being able to reach it.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

People are ready to get under a piece being lowered well in advance of being able to reach it.

Yeah, it’s not really irritating as much as perturbing.

You have to say ‘listen, some day this’ll slip out, maybe not with me, maybe after I’m retired and you’re working for someone else, so back off till it’s touching the ground’

When you explain it, they understand.

 

[Fivepoints]

People wandering around with vape pens constantly having to set them down somewhere before doing any task they are asked to do.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Vaping is the new pipes

When I was a kid I remember my Dad talking to his Uncle. Jack was the foreman in a plant that built big machines. Jack didn’t allow pipe smoking because there was no end to the time wasting putzing that went with pipes. No different than vaping