the 'todays job' thread

[Mark Bolam]

Last 2 days on these leggy ash with dieback over a fragile old barn.

 

Plenty of timber to go round (there’s half as much again out front), but the customer kept it all, the bastard!

 

 

[Mesterh]

So you didnt do it for the wood? You fool!!

 

[Mark Bolam]

🤦‍♂️

[sime42]

58 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Last 2 days on these leggy ash with dieback over a fragile old barn.

 

Plenty of timber to go round (there’s half as much again out front), but the customer kept it all, the bastard!

 

 

 

He might as well have given you the logs and burnt the barn in his wood burner instead.

 

 

[rapalaman]

Just climbed out of some snotty, slippery conifers being retopped - Raining cats and dogs and I’d forgotten how much I hate working in the rain! Luckily I did them last time so decent foot and hand holds left but I’m soaked to the skin, exhausted,  pi…ed off and want to finish and go home to get dry ☹️

[Doug Tait]

42 minutes ago, rapalaman said:

Just climbed out of some snotty, slippery conifers being retopped - Raining cats and dogs and I’d forgotten how much I hate working in the rain! Luckily I did them last time so decent foot and hand holds left but I’m soaked to the skin, exhausted,  pi…ed off and want to finish and go home to get dry ☹️

 

You have my utmost sympathy!

[roboted]

1 hour ago, rapalaman said:

Just climbed out of some snotty, slippery conifers being retopped - Raining cats and dogs and I’d forgotten how much I hate working in the rain! Luckily I did them last time so decent foot and hand holds left but I’m soaked to the skin, exhausted,  pi…ed off and want to finish and go home to get dry ☹️

There's a nautical adage for that, known as the Three "F's".

Fcked up, Fcked off and Far away from home

 

[peds]

I knocked over a row of alder for a guy in September. He just wanted them felling and leaving, he'll do the rest. Make sure you get them ringed, split, and stacked ASAP, alder isn't very patient, I told him. Oh, I will, he said. 

So I'm back here today, ringing them up. 

[Mark Bolam]

At least we haven’t had any rain since September.

[sime42]

46 minutes ago, peds said:

I knocked over a row of alder for a guy in September. He just wanted them felling and leaving, he'll do the rest. Make sure you get them ringed, split, and stacked ASAP, alder isn't very patient, I told him. Oh, I will, he said. 

So I'm back here today, ringing them up. 

 

At least the job hasn't trebled in size. Better than the customers who promise they'll "make sure that the leylandii/privet/laurel hedge is trimmed regularly now, so it's nice and easy next time you come".