Tree Monkeys Grinding Stumps? Stick to Your Ropes, You Muppets!

[Stefan Palokangas]

Stefan here—Arbtalk since 2014, grinding stumps out of Darvel, Scotland. Oil-rig welder turned stump lord, and I’ve got a bone to pick.

 

Tree surgeons—tree monkeys swinging in your fancy harnesses—why the bloody hell are you lot messing with stump grinders? Machinery’s for the big boys, not you branch-hugging climbers. I’ve tipped my rig, laughed through gas leaks, ground ‘til the sparks flew—years of this shite, and I own it.

 

You lot? Stick to saws and ropes—leave the grinding to pros who don’t monkey about. Climbed a tree lately? Good—stay up there and stop mucking with my game. Rant over—prove me wrong, you soft sods, or sod off back to the canopy!

[skc101fc]

Oooh looking forward to seeing what direction this goes in. Nothing like the direct challenge to get fingers clicking on keypads 🤪

[Joe Newton]

Oil rig welders, stick to welding...

 

The simple answer is stump grinding is easy. Any one that isn't fully married to their sister can do it.

 

If you can run a tree business, organise complex works etc. Why wouldn't you but a simple machine and earn money from it. It's not difficult. 

[Stefan Palokangas]

8 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

Oil rig welders, stick to welding...

 

The simple answer is stump grinding is easy. Any one that isn't fully married to their sister can do it.

 

If you can run a tree business, organise complex works etc. Why wouldn't you but a simple machine and earn money from it. It's not difficult. 

grinding stumps since you were swinging from mummy’s branch. Easy, you say? Tell that to the gas pipe I hit at 100mm—fumes choking, sparks flying, me laughing like a nutter while you’d have wet your harness. Started arb at 12 in Sweden, our forest, not some posh tree biz with daddy’s cash. Oil-rig welder turned stump king—I’ve tipped rigs and ditched weddings for this ‘simple’ game. Buy your toy grinder, you rope-tugging twit—let’s see you last a day before you’re crying for your saw. Stick to climbing, ya smug sod—I’m the psycho who owns this turf!

[Stefan Palokangas]

36 minutes ago, skc101fc said:

Oooh looking forward to seeing what direction this goes in. Nothing like the direct challenge to get fingers clicking on keypads 🤪

ha ha, well it's true in most cases.   stick to the trees and get me a banana while up there 

[Mark Bolam]

Stefan, welcome back you madman!

Always loved your input.

 

Joe has made a very good point, but I know where you’re coming from.

There’ stump grinding and there’s stump grinding.

 

Can anyone link that recent post where the customer refused to pay because his gardener couldn’t replant?

[Rich Rule]

Have you been in the white spirit Stefan.

 

I can’t help but laugh at Scandinavians who when they find out what I do say they have been cutting trees since they were a boy.

 

There is a vast difference between cutting trees for a week in summer at grandads cabin and climbing and cutting 5 days a week for 20 plus years.

 

Stump grinding isn’t that hard, especially these days with remote control grinders and tracked machines that are very capable.

 

Stump grinding is a shit job, stick to it.  You can have them all as far as I am concerned.

 

😜

 

 

[Rich Rule]

Anyway we all know it is the climber who gets the birds.  Not the guy covered in tree dust and grime operating a deadly machine at ground level.

 

🤣

[Stefan Palokangas]

2 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

Anyway we all know it is the climber who gets the birds.  Not the guy covered in tree dust and grime operating a deadly machine at ground level.

 

🤣

I stopped shagging years ago wont bother me 

[AHPP]

Has anyone ever seen Svat and Stefan in the same room?