The Dignities and Virtues of Hard Manual Labor

[jomoco]

So the onslaught of Sudden Oak Death here in California's wiped out Coastal Live Oaks locally on a massive scale, leaving poor rural area residents who own many acres with a huge fire hazard potential.

 

However the state of CA has initiated a program that allows the homeowners to have any staged debris/limbs/brush to be chipped up for free by participating tree services, usually a two man chiptruck crew.

 

This enlightened approach to fire hazard mitigation has been very beneficial to very many of my clients in the past few years. It allows them to realize substantial savings by having me safely rig down their huge oaks, stage the brush, and walk away.

 

However just the staging of that brush has reopened my eyes to just how valuable each crew member truly is, particularly the brush draggers who know how to stage brush in an optimum configuration for chipping, even if the tree's big enough to require fifty square yards!

 

Summer's begun, and I'm taking great satisfaction from earning my keep by giving my clients true value for their money.

 

Takes a gallon of water a day to stay hydrated staging that brush!

 

Makes the beer taste better at the end of the day for sure!

 

Here's to hard working groundies everywhere lads!

 

Jomoco

Edited June 2, 2016 by jomoco

[geoff]

Quite fascinating, and eloquently told, I too tip my hat to the groundies, and those who feed them from the canopy.

[SteveA]

There is nowt to compare the strength of a well-worked groundies neck muscle.

cheers, steve

[PeteB]

Eloquently put and so true. A good brash rat is a god send!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

 

Takes a gallon of water a day to stay hydrated staging that brush!

 

Makes the beer taste better at the end of the day for sure!

 

Here's to hard working groundies everywhere lads!

 

Jomoco

 

Made me think of that scene in "The Green Mile" when they gang are supping beer on the roof!

[treequip]

Made me think of that scene in "The Green Mile" when they gang are supping beer on the roof!

 

Haven't seen green mile but wasn't that Shawshank?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Haven't seen green mile but wasn't that Shawshank?

 

You are right! My mistake - but you get what I was thinking..... (probably better than I did!)

 

PS, both great films!

[easy-lift guy]

So the onslaught of Sudden Oak Death here in California's wiped out Coastal Live Oaks locally on a massive scale, leaving poor rural area residents who own many acres with a huge fire hazard potential.

 

However the state of CA has initiated a program that allows the homeowners to have any staged debris/limbs/brush to be chipped up for free by participating tree services, usually a two man chiptruck crew.

 

This enlightened approach to fire hazard mitigation has been very beneficial to very many of my clients in the past few years. It allows them to realize substantial savings by having me safely rig down their huge oaks, stage the brush, and walk away.

 

However just the staging of that brush has reopened my eyes to just how valuable each crew member truly is, particularly the brush draggers who know how to stage brush in an optimum configuration for chipping, even if the tree's big enough to require fifty square yards!

 

Summer's begun, and I'm taking great satisfaction from earning my keep by giving my clients true value for their money.

 

Takes a gallon of water a day to stay hydrated staging that brush!

 

Makes the beer taste better at the end of the day for sure!

 

Here's to hard working groundies everywhere lads!

 

Jomoco

 

Your thread may be the first pro active attempt of the state of CA to actually use state tax payer funds towards a good use. All tax payers from the state of CA. benefit from this type of work. I only hope that most of the home owners will not allow this type of hazard to occure for future generations by planting and maintaing better types of trees for their properties.

easy-lift guy