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Dopher

Things have been mental at work over the last few months, does anyone know of any Tree work going in New Zealand/Australia looking to relocate with the family. Any offers or details would be great

Cheers Guys

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Francisca Suverkropp

Hi,
I work at a California Hardwoods in Auburn, CA. previously a Historical saw mill. The Cal Ida saw mill. There is alot of interesting info on the web about us.
We try to help in the recycling of logs and trees people bring in and also recycle other wood products that normally would be thrown into landfills.
We have a sawmill operation in our upper yard that is fading fast due to the county shutting down that part of our business. Its sad and unfortunate, because it has been a very big part of our business. We also sell flooring and many other wood products. We have amazing slabs and beams we have collected and cut over time and also must clear those out due to Placer county's demands. They want our property to put a Cosco on it. We have survived many road blocks and will continue to do so. Its an amazing job and people in this field of work are also great. We hope getting the word out will bring support by others to keep our business alive and well.
Cisca
530 305-6101

Therrin

Welcome to TreeWorld!!


Well I'm back home from the mountains. Whew...the craziness of it all. I made some good money on the side. Pulled 6 ppl off the side of the road. One guy had thrown a chain and was stuck, needed to get towed to the top of the one mountain to "try to make it down the other side" (), he handed me all the cash in his wallet (about 65 bucks) and I towed his truck (twice the size of mine) about 4 miles. Not a bad deal.

Downed trees everywhere, downed carports, downed wires, stuck cars. Ahhhh, gotta love it. I got contract work doing road clearance using tractors, so I did that all day today and going back at 6am tomorow.

I had gotten on a work crew at the conference center I used to work hourly at, had just gotten a shovel and the maintenance director was like "hey dont you know how to drive a tractor?" so he told me to give the shovel to someone else and I spent the day driving 3 diff tractors, swapping out equipment, getting 2 other rigs up and running. It was really pretty good. Got cold feet though =)

rbtree

Yup, that I did!!

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Stevens is opening in 2 hours, with 24 inches of new ultra light fluff (on top of 20" of older light stuff), and I'm out the door. It's 0 F, and dropping...brrrr

The area where I have my season pass opens tomorrow, but Alpental, the gnarly one of its four areas, needs a bit more snow and time....dang it.....they've got almost 40 inches on the ground, and also 24 new...

i just got back from stevens pass....24 new and 48" of unconsilidated 4-5% moisture content awesome powder, but nothing any good open. Going to Crystal tomorrow...where my bud said it was waist deep pow....but he was skiing 2400 vertical of steep and deep fall line. esp one of the classic US runs called Exterminator.

Now they say another 2 feet in mt's this weekend...and easterly winds thru the passes..up to 115 kph in the foothill towns...could be trees down....a bud might get work...I don't get calls from there normally. And maybe an ice storm in some parts of the lowlands....

The knees made it....kinda....but its not fun having to be careful....that ain't in my normal modus.....
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Eric Frei

It's stinking hot here with occasional thunder storms and the humidity is like a sauna with a spa inside.

Weeds are growing like buggery, did the rounds with the old glyphosate. Now the bloody ants are waging war so I'll be going to get some stuff to kill them bastids next.

The other day I swear it was raining ants, we were working in some creek all nice and shady then kept brushing ants off each other day long ... trees are loaded with ants, maybe looking for high ground away from water, and they're hungry buggers biting all the time. I'd love to have a decibel meter and see WTF all those Cicadas are cranking out, it's a BUG FEST here!

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Jeff Darby

LOL.. yeah, those cicadas sure can make a ruckuss, I've camped under a tree when I was younger just got settled in and bull ants started droping out of the tree above...yikes...LOL..They were the black one's with mandivals around an 1/8 to a 1/4 of an inch long. they were hitting the deck and burring straight up ready to claim me for the nest...man did I scarper from that place quick.

Dont you love it when you get home an out pops a bloody spider from your trousers!..He's a memory now..LOL the old No 8 got him quick smart.
JayD

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Rick Haggins

started on a large oak today at least 5 foot diameter 100 foot tall loaded down with english ivy (all the way to the top).fogy all day damp and prety cool about 50dgrs going to be between 60&70 tomorow.getting ivy out not removing.pretty nasty tree though.got about half done today hope to finish tomorow

newguy18

Can you get this down under?it really works.

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treevet

We had cicadas so bad that if you climb on every hand around the stem you squash one and get their sticky body fluids dripping down your arm. The noise is horrible. Ants are hell too. Would feel sorry for you if wasn't ice on every tree here and 20's in the day. You makin some good bucks?

Treeson

Been doing loads of smaller jobs last few weeks, winding down for christmas as ya do. Keep coming across bumble bee hives whenever we dig up a flax or toitoi bush which is fine until you start the saw up and get them grumpy!
Look forward to being back in the new year, bring on 2009!

jeffswede

We are very busy.Booked well into 2009. We don't do resedential work. Lot of rain last week and looks like more to come. The economy has not affected us really. Glad the cost of gas is down.
Jeff Lovstrom

treevet

Welcome Jeff. What kind of work do you do if not residential work? Are you an arborist?

jeffswede

Thank-you for the welcome! Yes, cert #7624A, Western Chapter. Started climbing in 1977 in Chula Vista, Ca, in San Diego county, got cert. Treeworker in 1992 #449 and got a big head and became a freelance contract climber for the next 7 years then having babies and bigger bills, I landed a great job as Operations Manager for Urban Tree Care,Inc. I have not climbed production in about 5 years, but climbing would be a less stressful job than mine. All is good, we are commercial and H.O.A and Golf courses and municipal driven. We are well known in San Diego county as well as near our home base in Valencia,Ca. and Orange, and Riverside. The owner of the company is the best owner I have worked for in the last 30 years.
Jeff Lovstrom
urbantreecare.com

rbtree

It's been snowing here in town foff and on for a week now!

Today, the winds kept a coupla roads closed, so I couldn't get to my fav ski areas, hence:

rbtree

Hi Jeff, good to see ya!

Must be nice to have commercial clients. We do little of that.....



Do you know jomoco, from AS?

newguy18

I put the ranger back togther and put it up for sale,i have to many vehicles in ym yard,heres a list.

1.1994 f-150
2.1984 ford ranger
3.1960 f-350
4.1987 toyota corrolla gts
5.1981 dodge d-150 custom
6.2000 mercury mountaineer
7.1986 kawasaki 454 ltd
and possibly in the next month an 88 toyota tercel.

Lord help me!

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treefeller

Hi all, been quite busy over here, weathers been rather pants lately. I have also been doing quite a bit of garden maintenance as well which has really taken off. After xmas i have a new contract working on a load of trees for a local authority.

AnnetteR

Merry Christmas everyone, thank you for the tip on the ants, I swear they are going to carry my house away, and I think jumping ants realy enjoy biting people, I think they bite then sit back and watch and have a good laugh. But to day the PAPER WASPS got me, very hard running away from them on crutches, dam doctor said another five weeks, dam. Such extremes in the weather, hope everyone manages to have a great day wether you are around a fire or in the swimming pool.

TreeDimensional

Sorry to laugh at your pain Annette, but it's finally NICE to be the one, NOT WOUNDED!

Ya know what they call an out-doorsy person on crutches?...................................a TARGET!

Hope your wasp nip feels better soon, your crutches last the next five weeks AND you have a GREAT Christmas sitting in the warmth of the sun.

Merry Christmas!

Therrin

Wow, you all just HAD to talk about crutches.

I stepped out onto the porch last night, and my right foot slipped. I crumpled to the ground, right knee dislocated and the lower extremity sticking out sideways. It popped back in when I hit the ground (screaming).

Going to the doc's office tomorow. I'm STILL paying the bill from the last time I had to go to the ER, so I checked Pulse, Motor, Sensation... no tingleness, no numbness, equal pulses, swelling isnt toooo terrible and very little bruising.

I cant beleive I did that... that was the MOST painfull thing ever, I was screaming.
So..... yeah, looks like I'm down for a while. Damn.

Garry Brockley

Damn Ken thats not good get well soon mateit's taken 18 months for my ankle to get back to what feels almost normal after i ripped the tendons in it on top of Helvelan(large mountain in the lake district) then walked four miles on it.
Well today it starts im packing up my stuff in the house, steam cleaning alot of my tools, dismantling all my furniture and selling what tools i can, the container gets here soon then all hell will break loose.
take care GB

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newguy18

Damn Ken,take it easy,get well soon,DON'T stress your knee,don't want to end up like me.This just isn't your year.I feel for you.

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Therrin

Went to the doc today, they said nothings broken, according to the xrays, but they referred me to a orthopedic surgeon. apparenlty my ACL and other ligamets are all FUBAR and need some work. I've got a temporary cast on, and crutches and I'm down for the count right now.

Hope to keep up with you guys if I can

Eric Frei

Ligaments can take just as long as bones to heal.

That happened to me I'd be FUBAR! Old bastids take longer to heal.

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treevet

.....and real old bastids sometimes don't heal at all!

newguy18

it took me 6 weeks before i totally recovered from hyperextending my shoulder.

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rbtree

Well, dang it, Ken and Annette....ya'll do be careful, ya hear!!

Brent, if you'd like, I could mosey up there to the frigidflatlands and whack with with my cane......

Annette, while feeling bad for your problems, I thank you for the humor in your post.

Ken, I'm cringing,and wish you the best..and wondering what the heck I'm doing back on skis, after my knee injury last August. The MRI was less than pretty. It also revealed the extent of the damage from back in 1980 when I had a run in with a tree at 20 mph, skiing.. I'd had it scoped, but no repair was done, as the technique for PCL replacement is very weak. ACL was torn, but they didn't fix that either. Till last Aug, the knee's given me no problems.

rbtree

fixed it for ya
or, in the case of the ACL/PCL, not at all......

aaarrgghhh

AnnetteR

Well what do you lot consider OLD. I am the other side of 50 and that is old. OK OK I know I dont look it but my body knows it, and on top of that the local butchery, (hospital) made a serious error a few years back and now my body thinks it is way older than it is. (Womens stuff). But all it good, your not dead till they put you in the box. (I am going to make my own). I had an idea last year and now that you lot have told me the value of some of my trees I might just get on with it. I want to make coffins, They cost so much I figure that one may as well make use of the dam things while we are still alive, use them for coffee tables, fill them full of the stuff you want to take with you but the main reason was so the people who drive past my place on the way to the Gympie Muster could buy some thing to sleep in, I was going to make them water proff as it ALWAYS rains at Muster time and being the artist that I am I was going to make them personal, paint them and what ever, what you all think?

Eric Frei

LOL, he kids, this is your new toybox, you can use it till I need it.

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