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  1. Shansen
    That's way cooler than my ancestors Al. I think they raised pigs in Denmark, and lived above them. Here is a job we did a couple of days ago. Pollarding a couple of fruitless mulberries.
  2. Shansen
    Yeah it is!
  3. Shansen
    How about some Yankee iron? This is a 2030 John Deere probably made in 1975 or so, 60 HP 4 cylinder diesel. Will lift about 1500 pounds. I love the little blue track layer.
  4. Shansen
    Looks good. That part doesn't have any strain on it to speak of.
  5. Shansen
    Here are some old pictures I took while repairing my dump trailer. The shackle for the front spring broke right alongside the welds. I welded them back then reinforced them with another piece of 1/4" X 4" flatstock. Welded the flatstock to the shackle and then heated it to bend it in and weld it to the frame.
  6. Shansen
    Remembering the vets today over here also.
  7. Shansen
    It seems that the welds would have to be pretty weak for them to fail on a modern port a wrap. The way the tool is designed puts minimal strain on the welds. It hasn't really rained here since February. Rained about a half inch a couple of weeks ago on a Friday but the wind blew pretty good over the weekend and the farmers were back to harvesting almonds on Monday.
  8. Shansen
    I was topping off the hydraulic tank for my boom truck and put in degreaser instead of ATF (they look identical). Got to the job and the boom started acting funny then froze up and wouldn't move. Had to change the oil in the system 4 times to get it all out.
  9. Shansen
    And the last picture. In the first picture you can see that I welded the pipe onto my welding table to hold it while I bent the rod around it. I couldn't hold it in a vise so I tried this method. The pipe is a piece of a worn out hydraulic cylinder tube and the rod my cousin had in his collection.
  10. Shansen
    I do whenever possible. I got a little spurt of energy this afternoon and built another port a wrap.
  11. Shansen
    My son and I took a ride up Del Puerto Canyon in the coast range mountains of central california. I worked on this ranch as a teenager. Pretty hot and dry and after 2 drought years in a row even hotter and dryer than usual. This country usually greens up in Nov. thru March or so. The trees are pretty much black oaks except for the cottonwoods along the creek bed. These hills only go up to about 2500' above sea level and as you get a little higher there will be more brush and a few pines mixed with the oaks.
  12. Shansen
    Here is a job we did about a month ago. Pollarded a sycamore and trimmed a valley oak. Am I hogging all the fun here?
  13. Shansen
    How much would you charge to do this for a customer?
  14. Shansen
    Here is a job of removing some berryvines at an apartment complex in the Sierra Nevada town of Jackson.
  15. Shansen
    I think that a two-stage compressor is way better than a single-stage. When I had a single stage my air didn't have adaquate pressure to clean radiators, it did everything else fine but when it came to raditors it fell short. 3hp 2stage should do you just fine.
  16. Shansen
    Here are some pictures from a palm tree takedown we did earlier this week. The climber is a contract climber guy I hired by the day and he is somewhat of a nutcase but did a good job for me. He had everything on the ground in about 45 minutes.
  17. Shansen
    Here is a job from last week. Took down a eucalyptus next to the swimming pool and a few other eucs. No stumps the guy is going to backhoe out the stumps and we left them about 8' high.
  18. Shansen
    Well I figured he could, but you never know.
  19. Shansen
    The Treehouse.
  20. Shansen
    With a little training she could go into politics.
  21. Shansen
    It's usually mites. Same thing happens here.
  22. Shansen
    Can you still work?
  23. Shansen
    That's my truck. I haven't changed the signage on it.
  24. Shansen
    Here is a job we did a couple of months ago. Lady was afraid the trees were going to damage the pool. Had the bucket truck full of chips plus the last pic in the back of my pickup.
  25. Shansen
    Yeah, the green grass doesn't usually last through May. We have a semi-arid climate here as even though we are only 90 miles away we get probably half the winter rainfall that Sacramento gets. Summers are hot and dry and if we do get any rain it dries out in a day or two and doesn't accomplish anything. We survive on irrigation using the snowpack from the Sierra Nevada mountains as the water source.

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