Fun With Groundies

[Frax]

Pulling the chain on the new guys is always a great way to lighten the mood at a job site. I hope this lightens the general mood here on TB too.

True story:

We have three guys on our crew. I won't name them to protect the guilty, and since their names all start with K, I will call them K1, K2 and K3. K3 is the new guy.

Scene: Beginning to chip brush from a heavily black knot infested choke cherry.

K2 Ummm... K3, are you gonna chip that black knot?

K3: What's that?

K2: It's that black ugly stuff all over those branches.

K3: Oh yeah, I was wondering about that. What?

K2: Well, just be careful.

K3: Why? (concerned tone) Is it dangerous.

K2: Well no, not if you got your vaccination.

K3: What!? I didn't hear about that! Is it safe? Maybe I shouldn't chip this.

K1: Most likely you'll be OK. Wear a mask.

(K3 puts on a mask. He asks again about whether this is true and whether its safe without the vaccine. He is kind of pissed at the boss by now too).

K1: Try not to touch it, and tonight when you take your shower, wash your hands really well before touching your junk.

K3: WHAT!!!!

K1: Oh yeah. It's not common but you could get your junk infected. Its not terrible though. Kind of comes and goes.

K3 gamely chips the brush. I have no idea what hygeine measures he used that night, but next day he went to the boss concerned that he had not been advised to get this vaccine.Cheered up boss for awhile too!

GRAPHIC IMAGE ATTACHED!!!! Please do not view if you are sensitive to medical images.

 

[oldoakman]

That's just wrong! Have to remember that one though.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Medical image?!

Looks more like art gone bad!

TSFW

 

[treestyler]

great ! love the humor in that one. Will use it some day soon Thanx Nora B !

just like fun with some clients I had in the past....

get all your gear under the tree, get a book out off the car (in my case the treeclimbers companion) and start at page 1 and discuss with the groundworker how we should use it all to get this tree down without hitting the house....and just let the client think it's your first tree ;-)

 

[Treespotter]

 

[goodaking]

That's great! I'm going to try to pull that on one of the guys. Funny!!

 

[robinia]

hmmm, common name "Black Knob" or maybe "Sh!t on a dick"?

 

[treeness]

yeah we call it poop on a stick too. Fetch the left handed monkey wrench!

 

[djm]

I love when people- both clients and crew members- ask me if we are taking the "whole" tree down. To which i usually respond "no just the bottom half. The crew usaully doesn't get it and the client or spectators walk away confused.

 

[beechluvr]

I like the left handed chainsaw one best. Gets them everytime....somehow.

 

[WillySieg]

I love sending them after a metric crescent wrench! Will definately be using the no only the botttom half line in the future as well as the left handed chainsaw!!

 

[JJackson]

Somewhat related back in 96 or so we were working on a project for one of our forestry classes and we chose to research black knot fungus on choke cherries. We did some field work and measurements and such and went back to the computer lab to look up info on the internet (not as nice as it is today). We did not find much on the fungus, but apparently at the time there was a lot of porn sites that would come up with a search for it.