the 'todays job' thread

[Ian Flatters]

Outriggers n everthang!

 

Mighty nice Ian, mighty nice.

 

Jomoco

 

 

It's really handy. Never going to lift huge lumps but certainly nicer than using your back all day.

 

 

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[mad matty]

Cheers for the reply that Ian...will keep my eyes peeled for one or something similar.

Thanks Matty

[Darrin Turnbull]

does it take one pound coins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sorry only joking.

 

 

my favorite film of all time is avatar 2.

[jomoco]

It's really handy. Never going to lift huge lumps but certainly nicer than using your back all day.

 

 

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One of the most eye openin experiences I've had on the job?

 

One Marlboro puffin groundie operatin a big tracked bobcat with grabber bucket stuffin big dead cedars into a WW2 tank landing craft on the beach, as fast as I could drop and buck them! On Lake Arrowhead, doing the HOA removal contract. Subbin to a 3rd generation loggin outfit.

 

Brush in the bottom, 33 foot logs across the gunwales!

 

That bobcat operator also skippered the TLC expertly as well.

 

Loggin's an entirely different world from urban arboriculture IMO.

 

Jomoco

[Gray git]

No pictures jomoco?

 

sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.

[jomoco]

Nope, sorry, was way back in 07, after the fires. A week in Arrowhead, home on the weekends.

 

As far as I know that tank landing craft's still on Lake Arrowhead somewhere. Probably now owned by the HOA of the lake itself?

 

Twin Allison Diesels powering it. Very cool method of dealin with shoreline removals. Everything ended up at a staging area abutting the east end of the lake. Brush into a huge tub grinder on site. All the logs milled on that site as well with a huge portable mill, owned and operated most the time by the logger I was subbin for.

 

I know loggers make a heckuva lot more money than the average tree service owner does per day.

 

But there again, they work from pretty much dawn to dusk, and are about as mechanized as you can get.

 

Fortunately for me, at that time in that area of SoCal, few if any of those loggin outfits had any climbers worth much, allowing me to get a pretty good run of about 8 months in climbin for a variety of outfits from up north. Even did a dozen big dead cedars at Santa's Village at the Rim of the World.

 

Catchin fat cedar logs with a Hobbs over high value stuff is worth 5 bills a day everyday, and then some!

 

Jomoco

[Ian Flatters]

does it take one pound coins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sorry only joking.

 

 

my favorite film of all time is avatar 2.

 

 

Yeah it cost me £8 In fuel just to get the pepper pig toy.

 

 

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[Robbyrasta]

Cow work in the morning, funeral pyre in the afternoon. ( to cremate a deer)

All in a farmers day.....

[HuntingHicap]

pardon my ignorance but why cremate? could you not dig a nice big whole with that three tonner and bury it?

[Robbyrasta]

It's for a student studying forensic science at Uni. In the morning they are studying bullet wounds, and in the afternoon burning the carcass.