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treebilly said:
View attachment 42094 View attachment 42095 This is what I was sent to fix yesterday. 10 hours, a lot of one inch cable,150,000 lbs of iron, and a few hurt egos later she was out. I learned that everyone has ideas on how to do it but they say it might work. I'm sorry but when you have a quarter of a million dollars teetering on a creek bank, "might work" is not gonna cut it. Spent four hours today recovering timber mats and filling in the hole from getting the 34 ton machine out. Waiting on the boss to reply on what I have tomorrow to decide if I gots the sniffles or not.
Oh and I was told Friday night that it was just a little stuck. I was probably experienced enough to walk her out.

Oh, my photos aren't tilted. The machine is
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Wow! I could only imagine the adrenaline, the shit stained underwear, and the amount of dollars put in the swear jar that day.

I've never had anything close to that stuck. Did seem like everyone was just making it worse? You earned your paycheck this month


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I've been getting the saws fueled up and ready to go... ice storm took down a lot of trees and limbs. Above freezing, now... starting to melt off, so most of it should be gone by noon tomorrow. Got several calls today, and most didn't even ask for a quote... just, "Come get this off of my car!" or "Come get this off of my house!" so should be a good day.

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It's actually real pretty out there, right now!
 
They don't care, its going to be insurance work. I've come to carry/ have on hand: tarps, lathe strips, nails and tar during storm season. Insurance companies want to seal out the elements ASAP.
 
That is a nice one! My kids used to call them "haunted house trees" because they can get so twisted and gnarly looking, they look like they should be in the front yard of a haunted house. They called sycamore/plane trees "bone trees" from the white barkless patches in the winter. No idea where they got that shit.
 
southsoundtree said:
They don't care...
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Well, you were right about that... so many of these calls were just limbs down, not really a threat to anything, so we took both trucks and a couple of trailers and told everyone we were only going to get stuff out of the way and safe, until we can go back around tomorrow and finish the cleanup. We wanted to get the scary ones on the ground until we could clean everybody's crap up. It hit 46 degrees F'nheit... the day after an ice storm. That's Nebraska for you. If you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes.

Was sloppy wet and a lot of stuff was still frozen to the ground. Wood was soggy on the outside and frozen in the middle. But, I didn't have to do any climbing. Will be a little bit tomorrow, but all the ice will be gone.

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Last one of the day.. that mulberry at the far left I took out 2 years ago, and another one (stump is buried in there somewhere)... I knew I'd be back for these. Got everything cut up and ready to chip tomorrow, and haul away the firewood. Owner wants both of 'em gone in spring. That's why I don't mind the storm cleanup. Always pick up something to get started on when the weather turns nice, again. Note limb on neighbor's garage... picked up some work from him, too. :)
 
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