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Therrin

Hey what's up? How's work goin? Let us know what you've been up to lately. Has work been good/bad? Heavy or slow? Is there a big project going right now or any other ones you've completed and haven't mentioned yet?

Lets hear it.

Galbee

http://www.treeworld.info/f8/galbee-s-day-4639.html it's here mate, i have been trying to keep up on things but work is moving along so quickly at the moment i have bumped into myself several times.
im working on selling some of my gear and house and setting up a five year contract with a new business partner, we will have to see how it goes and getting rid of all my life laundry thats pleasing.

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Eric Frei

I have been working my ass off. I have waited like 4 years for the storms to bust this town up. I call it a wake up call.

The ole Queensland beautiful one day perfect the next was true for about 3 years. Hardly a day lost to rain, storms WTF are they.

Then came drought, water restrictions etc and frankly anything outside fo the aircond home and Plasma 400" screen didn't matter a crapper to the average "what's a tree" bloke in this town.

Well, WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAAM, mother nature made a few realise the world isn't about their internet, shares, plasma screen or picket fence .... perfect the next day become STORMS EVERY DAY, even today as I type we GOT HAMMERED.

So the damage made many tunnel visioned suburbanites realise that in their peripheral vision is trees ....

Yeah, those things that seemed to have disappeared for 4 years are back ... WITH A VENGEANCE!

These pissed off, neglected, abused and untrained trees most likely to BANG THE BRAIN a wake up call, "HELLO WE'RE BACK" is what you might think they said but .......................... what I here is my brain saying "I TOLD YOU SO"

Tree care isn't seasonal, doesn't run on wet/dry periods, doesn't care what your party plans are it's an ever present constant.

Brisbane received it's wake up call, sadly many forward it onto the insurance companies but I got something planned for you types, called " I TOLD YOU SO"

Ignore it then claim insurance!

The day is coming where YOU WONT BE INSURED if the tree displayed clear VTA symptoms of failure.

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Ace Master

Therrin,
We got the xmas rush on now, work has been up and down like the stock markets, i have been doing alot of bucket hire lately aswell as the crew have just finished a building site where 300 trees had to be removed plus stumps, but we are hoping for a storm down in Melbourne just like Ekka's one It's been a storm quite year for us, just a couple of split trees and lighting strikes that has ignited the gas pipe lines.

cheers.

Ace Master

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Caveman

Hi, no don't have a lot of work at this moment, a few jobs to do, next month...So, I have the time now to convert my wood into firewood ;-)
It's much calmer now, in any economic section, here in Belgium...
We have to wait and see, hopefully it's getting better soon...also for the spirit among people.

Therrin

Heya, I've been "converting my wood into firewood for some time now as well.

However, at the moment im in Texas. My grandpa isnt doing so well so 13 of us in the family all came out to see him and get together for a week.


As far as work goes, just been splitting like crazy. Finished about 8 cords since the season started, and I've sold off about 5, but have another 4 or 5 to process.
I continually "harvest" from the forest to keep things going, and always wood that's already dead and seasoned but not rotted. Which, isn't always that easy. lol.

The other work calls have dwindled a bit, but I've still been doing alot of palms lately.

newguy18

oh between helping ym friend move,decorating for christmas,and putting up a round pen for my mom i haven't had much time for my own projects,hoping to get the welder up and runnin tommorrow.A friend of mine moved back to town so i'm trying to help him out.

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Knotahippie

Nothin' much.

Takin' time off for the holidays.

Helped a friend out with a little job yesterday.

Got a new tandem bike, It's baaad!

Eric Frei

Well I hope she likes it, and the color, you think with a little training she might behave OK?

I'd need to build a square one for my wife!

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phill ellison

we have been really busy at the mo, of couse a lot of people would want their trees and gardens done before the Xmas hoildays, we could almost start up another gang up but then it may go too quiet after the hoildays and then everybody be standing around, not good

sawtooth ID

Hello Therrin,

Things have come to a screeching halt for me here in Denver. There is still some work in the mountains, removing beetle killed trees. Other than that very slow.

I know how Ekka feels about ISA certifications. But how do you all feel about TCIA certifications? The tree service industry in Denver is fairly progressive as far as protecting trees, the major metro cities require tree companies to pass a written and physical test to apply for a business license. In lieu of the tests you can seek ISA certification, so we did that and as most of you know it was not very difficult. Are there any benefits to TCIA certification? Where do you all feel like the industry is going as far as regulation? (Both in the US and other countries) Is that a good thing? Are municipalities pursuing the right regulations? Will it reduce our insurance? Just thinking out loud. Thanks for the input. Carry on.

How are things with you Therrin?

Brent

Treeson

Hey, Yeah been busy with loads of work on. Everybody wants jobs done now. Will be flat out till we shut down for christmas break.

dci2005

yeah we doin good here in newcastle OZ land it has been a busy year our excavators and trucks are all working till chrissy construction is slowing here at the moment, have a big christmas show planned in 2 weeks then looking forward for some time to relax and also do some fishing camping on the holidays cheers

newguy18

Lol,its so she can continue training one of her horses.She decided that it was a good idea because i told her the next time he bit me or kicked at me i was gonna beat him within an inch of his life.peta is non existant around here.

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Q.Q.

Hmm been pretty quiet out this way, only the odd tree removel and some pruning. Lucky I do garden work it's the only thing keeping us afloat, but the old dears are nice. Spent three nights out at Bollon QLD, doing garden work for a lady, big garden three 12.5 hour days.
Sort of a full week this week, nothing next week yet at all. might take it off and build our BBQ area before Christmas. No time off thought as last year a good storm went throught and I was the only person willing to work any day.I'm praying for a big storm again.

Lost alot of quotes to my beloved localily,government funded, ,organization. Ekka knows who I'm on about.

Been busy with our new arrival though, just makes coming home even better every day..Staying here for Christmas too far away for everyone to come, ha ha good in some ways.

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treevet

We're still busy working on storm damage. Like Ekka said people have neglected trees for decades and bought frivilous (sp?) things and this year we had 2 major storms and a hurricane. Still having fond memories of jobs completed/checks cashed/extravagant things bought. Best year ever. Trees are on everyone's minds as it is not the storm itself that defines the devastation but rather the trees falling on things that is the issue.

Weather has predictably slowed our production somewhat and within a week it went from 70 degrees to 30 degrees f working temps. Clothes piled up everywhere......in the trucks on the floors on the stairs etc., as they are put on and taken off as the day warms up and the body warms up. Been selling firewood slowly as last year it sold out in Nov. Figured I was selling it too cheap. Will sell it all over the winter but this year will make much more on about the same amount of wood. None of that small quantity sale that just is annoying and not profitable. We planted a whole $hitload of trees last week with the Dingo and stumpgrinder cutting the holes that made some big bucks.

Trying to think of what to do different next year to be more profitable while trying to read as much as time permits to "do the right thing" whenever possible.

Cheers

treesandsurf

Haven't been doing much tree work lately. Been focusing on finishing up at school, only three weeks left. Did prune a very beautiful Narra tree on the east side of the island on Friday.

jp

kevin clark

Hey. There i've been so swamped with work at the NY DOT, salting and plowing the roads. my pruning jobs have been a little slow, but hope things pick up soon. and "tree world" thank for every thing that all of you done for me.

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jtrouse

I've been flat out that past few months been contract climbing to various companies around melbourne, been working for Ace Trees a fair bit and getting alot of varied work from that it. Been doing some big trees with them cause its all BIG out in the hills.

Other than that been doing a bit of splicing here and there.

But life is great!!

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Therrin

TV,
I'd try to stretch my firewood sales out more, except that at the moment the folks who own the ranch where I live want the area I'm using to plant a garden, so they set an end-date for when I have to have all of the wood out of there. That's roughly 3 weeks for now.

So at the moment I'm trying to sell as much as I can, and figure out where to move the rest of it too that isnt too far away cuz I dont want to lose money on moving it around much. I may move my firewood operation to a friend's property up in Lake Hughes though, we're still talking about it so I'll have to see how it goes.

Mmmm... come to think of it, I brought a ton of pictures out here to gma and gpa's place to show them "what I do" and in the mix are all of my palm pictures, I'll have to edit some up and post them while I'm here.

pcarborist

Same in the Wasatch. Lately I've been collecting unpaid invoices and waiting for it to snow.

First day of December and it was 50oF in Park City today! (global warming?). Can't ski without hitting a rock so I went for a 6.0 hr mtn bike ride today, could be the last ride of the year because the forecast is snow tomorrow night. Finally.

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Quintrex

Just tickin' over here. I do more cherry picker hire than my own tree work now
Just had the 75' Abbey rebuilt and working the 78' GMJ most days. When it's slow I resort to removing stinkin' Cocos palms. There are always plenty of them to do.
Did a nice removal of a Forest Red Gum (Euc Teretecornis) last week with 60 tonne all terrain crane, that was a bit of fun. Doin another at the same site tomorrow, Grey Box ([I]Euc Mollucana).
Railway 33kv line clearance friday.

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arborjockey

Still working on storm damage? I cut down every tree in your county i think. This is how i hit the storm damage. Give the customer their deductable back by adding it to the bill as clean up. The adjusters will catch on and actually help out. They will tell the customer " tell the tree GUY its gunna be $500" or "$1000" for clean up. See they dont care because their indepentent contractors who get paid by the job. Bigger the job the more $ they make. so i go from house to house in my Chevy van loaded w/ everything including g-friend. chop and drop the tree. Then 1 of the 3 ground crews comes in behind me. Best time in my working life. NO CLEAN UP. 7 crane jobs and 78 stump removals in 2 weeks. over 80 hrs a week. I miss those long summer days. Not much time for photos. I LOVE URBAN LOGGING. and im getting better everyday No damage 2 report Oh yeah and im out of tree work here ? got the $ now i need 2 run... anybody need help?

how do i downsize my photos to 1000x1000.. everytime i try it the photo only crops and stays the same size.

treevet

That sounds like fraud AJ. Might want keep your name out of the print.

treevet

Love to see some picts. of those trucks Quintrex.

treeseer

Wasatch is so beautiful--do they still have the 100-mile run in the summer?

"Trying to think of what to do different next year to be more profitable while trying to read as much as time permits to "do the right thing" whenever possible."

Sounds like a plan, Dave. You got em in the right order.

Yes an efficient rapist best not brag about bending the rules that much. How about pruning storm-damaged trees? Better money in that long-term.

Therrin

AJ,
open the picture up in MS Paint, click on "Image", then "stretch/skew" and type in the percentages you want and it'll reduce the size of the picture accordingly.

The ones I take with the camera usually turn out HUGE on the computer so I reduce them to a value of 15%/15%

sawtooth ID

PC arbo,

Park City is good living friend. I worked at Snowbird for 4 years and would escape to PC when the Zion Curtain became too oppressive in Sandy. And the Mtn Biking is not too shabby either. I love the "Ant Farm", smooth and fast. Have a good winter.

willem

Hello treeworlders,

I'm very busy at the moment. Unfortunatly not with cutting firewood or cleaning up stormdamage. I'm busy doing dekswork.

But I realy shouldn't complain because it's my own choice. I changed jobs.
From working as an arborist to working as a tree-technical advisor.
Because of this job change and me buying a new house I haven't been posting as much as I wanted. Hope things slow down next year and I can finaly get some shot of my burls and show them to Leifr.

vl2007

Just found the thread.

At my desk trying to find time to clean 40 more palms before Christmas. Tree work is slow, but palm cleaning is steady. Palms get dangerous and ugly if you don't clean them every four months. For now, my clients have found the money to keep cleaning them on that schedule.