Yeah, they have been struggling for quite some time now, I retired over 2 & 1/2 years ago and we always had a top notch training program but as fast as we could get them trained they would get a better job offer, several guys that I helped train came to me and asked what to do, I always told...
That's where I retired from, it used to be a well run , well respected utility but unfortunately a liberal city commission ran it in the ground. Small world, I hope your plans work out , retirement can be a good thing, I was just afraid if I didn't start something else I would either not have...
No I retired from a municipality that had a little over 100k customers, I went there from the contractors while I was still young. I've worked storms in SC for Santee Cooper a couple of different times, Conway and Myrtle Beach were a couple of places.
Yeah we were South of all the bad storms and Tornado's , Tallahassee got tore up pretty had, some of my old lineman buddy's from Lafayette Louisiana got there today to help restore power, I kinda miss the storm work , but so far not enough to give up my little skid steer/tractor work business.
I had him dump it just inside the driveway up by the highway and it worked out good , I should have remembered some final product pictures but I wanted to get out of there and head home since I got a late start due to getting rained out yesterday morning.
Today's work was for myself, drilled in some Tiff Quick bahia got it all in and everything cleaned up and ready for some upcoming pasture seeding jobs that I have coming up, I will put it back under the barn in the morning before church, got my fingers crossed for some rain next week.
A little Friday lime rock driveway job, I got side tracked and forgot to take some finished product pictures, but I spread a semi truck load (29 yards ) the driver couldn't get down this driveway, hope everyone had a good week. Charlie.
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Thank you, most people are well satisfied and they recommend me to their friends and some of them are regulars in one way or another, this particular customer has quite a bit of property and he uses me to forestry mow, clear, grapple work and seed pastures for him, so I have quite a few...
Not around where I live, we have good black row crop farm dirt, but where I did this job at on the far side of the county it absolutely is, there has probably been more fill dirt dug from over there than anywhere local, it's known as Archer fill and it's tough on pins, bearings etc.
You are the first person that I have ever heard say that, like anything else I'm sure there are others but mega ramps were a game changer on trailers to me, and tilt trailers are even a better fit for some applications.
Yes, those are before and after pictures ( roughly 10 hours from start to finish) and I am always amazed at how different a grown up property can look after a days work, this customer has a tractor with a bush hog and a grapple so he will be able to take care of it now, neither of the tree...
I use motor oil or used hydraulic fluid whatever I have an abundance of at the time but I try to cut it with an equal amount of diesel fuel. I try to apply it on a good hot day ( which where you and I are there is no shortage ) I use a paint roller on a stick with a roller screen in a 5 gallon...
Not really, I try to be very mindful of property lines and in this particular case the customer owns that piece of property as well, so no issues, but when I am forestry mowing I often have people come and want to know what I'm doing and the occasional do-gooder that says that i am destroying...