TCIA

TCIA WAS GREAT!
As usual all the folks I met were real friendly and willing and ready to share.
Many thanks to all of you for showing up. The day of service was a blast. You shoulda seen all those trucks and equipment. A whole lotta work got done. Greg Good,myself, Gerry B.(filming) and Christian (climbing) took down a tree over a play area. This guy Blain ("try Blain you wont complain") came in with a Volvo articulated loader and picked up the 16' log effortlessly and brought it to the curb. Man what a machine that was. Emerald Ash Borer has killed most of the Ash trees at Bella Isle, so the work was primarily taking these down. Brush piles and wood all over the place.
TCIA issued us white shirts and black stocking hats. We looked like a bunch of gang bangers.
Thanks Tom Dunlap for all your friendlyness and to Greg Good, the Euro guys and all the others who helped make my trip a success.

Really looking forward to another TCIA
Frans
 
My TCIA journey began Monday morning, as Octavious (splice dept. manager) got stuck with rental truck detail. We made it to Cleveland that night, and hung out with Bill from Arborwear. Tuesday we got to Detroit, and spent most of the day waiting in the marshalling yard, and then unloading the truck, ad setting up the booth with our salesmen and Tobe. We all went out that night. Wednesday was pretty much the same.

Thursday the show started, and I was behind a register for most of the show from then on. I did get to meet quite a few people. Some I've already met, some I was meeting for the first time.

What I was most happy about at the show, was simply the fact that I never got beamed in the eye with one of those green lasers we were selling. Every where you looked, there was a green dot bouncing around on something.

It was a fun show. Looking forward to Columbus already.

-Sean
 
Sean;

Thanks for dragging my order across the country.

I forgot a few items which I'll have to mail order and I'll get to that soon.

Mark, thanks for the shirt and the stickers, nice meeting you as well.

I had Beranek in my sights but he was engaged in a conversation with someone else and

when I made another pass in his direction he had disappeared, also

bumped into Tom.

I met Andrew and LW from the U.K. for the first time, nice folks.
 
TCIA was great, again!

The pub of choice this time was "Tom's Oyster Bar". Good chow and reasonably priced.

Every year this gets to be more of a family reunion. As I meet more of the cousins, I see that we really are related in spirit if not blood.

Meeting some of the TB regulars was great!

Tom
 
how many people had problems with customs this year?

I heard a few stories and had a horrible experience myself. I will have to seriously consider going to the next Trade Show. I guess with the crashing US economy, you guys don't feel you need our tourist dollars. Sorry, I'm not bitter at all Americans, just power hungry customs officials that feel they are intimidating because they have a gun.

Dave
 
No problem here Dave except the gal looked under the hood of my truck going into the U.S and didn't bother with the rear box which is covered.
I couldn't quite figure that one out.
 
Yes, Dave, they were definitively jumpy!
In Frankfurt we had to pass four security checkpoints, all luggage was screened four times. Erk Brudy was telling me that they insisted on fingerprints from his four year old son and on x-raying his (the child's) bottle. As I mentioned before, I was in Immigration's bad books from the word "go" because of a non-machine readable passport. So now I've got a big red stamp in my passport that'll admit me to the states only once on parole. I was jittery every time we drove up to the hotel in Detroit, because the right hand lane takes you over to Canada. Take a wrong turn and that'd have been it, the lads would have had to bring me my bags over, return flight from Canada!
On the way back, one precusory check, "yeah, fine"...
It's a crying shame, every time I'm over I get to meet such nice people and get to see such great places (OK, a slight exaggeration when discussing Detroit, pretty it's not). This I do honestly appreciate and cherish. But just the getting there is starting to get very difficult and time consuming.
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I can agree with that, Mark! I've been to Canada dozens of times. I remember flying in one evening (around 11:00 at night) and being pulled out of the line to be "inspected". My (then ) girlfiend (now wife) had been waiting for the flight to land due to winter weather delays. Not nice to be delayed more. The airport was very quiet and I was the only person being searched. I eventially asked why? They said...you're a young man from NJ traveling alone at night... I guess?


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A wierd thought on those laser pointers. I was having a absent minded moment staring at Sherril's animated ad here. Why don't you boys rig up an adapter for that laser to be mounted to a Big Shot. All the gun nuts would get one just for the novelty, it may or may not increase accuracy. Like I said it was a wierd thought.
 
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