I'm not a young Mexican anymore

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CAJUNLAWYER

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So I'm at the office Friday and the clinic across the street is having two big oak trees removed. I'm watching the mexicans jumping around like acrobats with those little chain saws on the end of the weed eaters cutting up the scraps ( Don't you love watching a tree cutting crew that knows what they are doing with their lifts grinders and all the other neat stuff)...... Anyway I cut a deal with the foreman to trim back a water oak, cut down three trash trees and grind out a 3 foot stump while he was there . (got him to do all of it for half the original price he quoted just to trim the water oak-Amazing what 5 benjamins will get you-but that's another story :D)
Anyway, I decide to go to Lowes and buy one of those chain saw attachments for my weed eater and trim my own two oaks in my back yard at home this afternoon. I mean it looked pretty easy watching them youngsters do it. Do y'all have any idea just how heavy one of those things is with both extensions in holding it over your heat cutting branches!!!:eek:
Thankfully I ran out of gas about half way through so I could quit without abject shame.
Think I'll call up the boy and see if he wants to come home one evening this week "for a home cooked meal" ;);)
Man it's hell being a fat middle aged white boy!!
 
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All my trimming tools (BOTH of 'em ;)) are B&D battery powered. Saves a 200' cord and I don't use them often enough for gas powered to make sense.

After a half hour or so of work I have to charge 'em for 8 hours. :D

Don't tell my wife they sell extra batteries separately. ;)
 
Ya know, I always wanted a Stihl pole saw. Long ago I had a manual pole saw (I called it a hand job) that extended and you could saw limbs to your hearts content. Well, at least until your arms got tired. They actually worked pretty well, and taught me to take it easy.

Then during a period of great wealth (I was kind of generous), I went to Sam's club and bought an electric pole saw. Its main problem was the electric chain saw was all up at the end of the pole. Not impossible if you were cutting directly overhead, but anyone who's done that understands the branch tends to obey gravity, so you need to be quick. In all fairness, I only used it a few times. Then my oldest son needed it to harvest a limb that had attacked his motorhome. So he borrowed it, I guess 5 or 6 years ago. I haven't seen it since, except once on his garage floor.

I'm starting to understand that aging gracefully involves having the common sense to pay others to do jobs we're not skilled at doing. I've discovered an allergy to pain.

I have 2 dead trees in the back, right on my fence line. Neither are very big. I also have 2 chain saws aging in my garage. I actually looked at them today, and even dumped the stale fuel out of one. But I figured the 50:1 mix was from this spring, so chances of the saw starting weren't all that good. So I put the saw back without trying to start it.

Then as I was coming from the garage to the house, I even looked at the 2 dead trees. The firewood is drying as the trees stand. Maybe I'll get to it this fall. Then again, maybe not.
 
Kinda feel like young Skywalker being tutored by Obi Wan.
I guess the nest lesson is to walk down the hill and **** them all :D
 
You guys are right. I had a 160 yr red oak fall after the last hurricane. Every illegal passing by would stop and ask to cut it up. Nope ain't happening. This weekend had a redneck, good old boy beer drinking I need wood for the stove chop up. Had three splitters, 12 chainsaws all going at once. No drinking till it was done. I cooked hot dogs on the grill when done. My yard is clean. All the good old boys did it and they got wood for the winter. I love living in the country. Oh and my scout troop has wood for bon fires for the next like two years....
 
I have one of those electric chain saws on a pole. Need to trim lots of palm fronds all year around. Your right, it kills your arms after a few minutes. Like doing isometric exercises.

Every Bubba with a pickup and a ladder drives through our neighborhood looking to trim your trees.

Get off my lawn! No insurance, no license ,ya right!. Fall in my yard and sue me. No thanks!
 
Heck, I'm a fat old guy now, but even when I was young...

When I was in college, me and a buddy decided we were going to make some money cutting firewood. (In those days, you could go out in the West Texas countryside and cut all the mesquite you wanted.) We took some orders and went out...we cut about half a cord, and the engine on the chain saw seized up...permanently broke. No problem, we had an ax. Well, we did finish cutting the first cord, and then retired from the firewood business...forever.
 
Well at least now you can scavenge/repurpose the chainsaw attachment and use it to build yourself a handy AR-chainsaw bayonet. Nods.

Wish I could find a spare hunk of hardwood. It's starting to get cool outside, which means that it is time to sit around in the back yard methodically hacking war clubs out of random bits of wood that I find. It passes the time.
 
A few years ago...well maybe more than a few, I gave away every tool I had with a pull cord and replaced most of them with electric models. Weed trimmer, chainsaw, pole pruner, etc. Anyhow, there now sits across my back driveway 6 fallen poplars from the last hurricane. Each was uprooted, are about 30+ feet long and have a rootball the size of a small truck. 3 are hanging rather precariously on the limbs of some standing trees. A farmer offered to take them for their outdoor furnace which is ok with me, but that was a month ago, so the trees are still blocking the driveway. Bubba came by yesterday and asked if I wanted them removed. He said he'd do it for only $350 and the use of my chainsaw cause his was in the shop for repair. I took him to the tool shed and handed him the saw and he looks totally puzzeled and say's "wheres the pull cord?" I couldn't resist....what a dope.
 
ahhh....The young mexican phenom. Around here they're roofers by day and amateur pharmacists by night. Last week about 8 of them in 2 adjacent houses provided continued employment for about half our police department. We neighbors knew of drug sales judging by the number of visitors they had in those 2 houses round the clock. We neighbors didn't know the extensive records these young mexicans had until the local newspapers published the bust report next day. Young mexicans, gotta love em. And whats more, judging by the new crop of ninos I see around here each spring they're self replenishing too..
 
Benjamins, Grants, Jacksons ...

CAJUNLAWYER said:
Amazing what 5 benjamins will get you-but that's another story :D)
Click to expand...

Couple of weeks ago crew was pouring a concrete driveway just down the street. Foreman mentioned that there would be extra concrete in the red-mix truck.

My comments:
1) You have extra concrete.
2 You have a wheelbarrow.
3) I could use the concrete between an out building and a fence.
4) I have your crews lunch money in my pocket.

Where do you want the concrete??

Everybody happy...

Four years ago I had a load of crushed rock delivered to GFs driveway. (A gift she needed and appreciated.) Couple of weeks late there was a crew paving a parking lot only one block away. Short transaction with foreman - they brought the vibrating packing roller over and really did a great job on her drive way.

A crew on site, a polite request, and some fine engravings of dead presidents can get great deals. Unreported income?? What income??

Bekeart
 
I'm a young 63 yoa and I'm pretty too. But smart enough not to buy things that require lots of muscles and stamina.

I made those mistakes at an earlier age.

Rule 303
 
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