Toyman01 + Sized and said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
$8k to pull a tree??!! Ouch! I just had two 60' tall pines removed for the princely sum of $950.
It's all about context with trees.
Toyman01 + Sized and said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
$8k to pull a tree??!! Ouch! I just had two 60' tall pines removed for the princely sum of $950.
It's all about context with trees.
In reply to Antihero (Forum Supporter) :
It's been a while since I've seen a F150 of that generation where the bottom of the doors aren't rusting away. That'd probably be an easy sale at that price in Ohio.
As for tree cutting, I bet there are multiple structures in the way where the tree could fall, and they'll need to take it apart carefully piece by piece, possibly with a crane.
In reply to Antihero (Forum Supporter) :
<Cornishman> LUXURY! </Cornishman>
Around here it would be that same truck except with rust holes you could see pavement through in the bottom of the cab and the entire bed.
Duke said:Toyman01 + Sized and said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
$8k to pull a tree??!! Ouch! I just had two 60' tall pines removed for the princely sum of $950.
It's all about context with trees.
When we had to have one of the two trees that the deck at the cabin was built around cut because it had died, it was about $700 to just cut the one tree off a bit above the deck because of difficulty of ensuring that it didn't fall onto the cabin and take out the roof.
Ashyukun (Robert) said:Duke said:Toyman01 + Sized and said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
$8k to pull a tree??!! Ouch! I just had two 60' tall pines removed for the princely sum of $950.
It's all about context with trees.
When we had to have one of the two trees that the deck at the cabin was built around cut because it had died, it was about $700 to just cut the one tree off a bit above the deck because of difficulty of ensuring that it didn't fall onto the cabin and take out the roof.
The two I had removed were 15' from my shop. They brought in a bucket truck, chipper, stump grinder, and about 10 guys. They took them out from the top down and 2 hours later they were gone and so were the trees.
I was pleasantly surprised the price was that low.
Just when I was feeling really good about getting my helmet in time since it made it to Cincinnati over the weekend, USPS strikes again:
I guess we'll see... Last time I had this sort of status on something it took about 3 months...
wae said:Just when I was feeling really good about getting my helmet in time since it made it to Cincinnati over the weekend, USPS strikes again:
I guess we'll see... Last time I had this sort of status on something it took about 3 months...
Let me know if you want to borrow my SA2010 size XL helmet.
eastsideTim said:In reply to Antihero (Forum Supporter) :
It's been a while since I've seen a F150 of that generation where the bottom of the doors aren't rusting away. That'd probably be an easy sale at that price in Ohio.
As for tree cutting, I bet there are multiple structures in the way where the tree could fall, and they'll need to take it apart carefully piece by piece, possibly with a crane.
That truck is definitely worth $3500 even if it needs an engine and trans. Awesome looking bed and body.
As for the tree, it overhangs the house and neighbors' property on both sides. We were quoted $6k just to have it pruned, last year.
Regarding trees, we have a guy in our area. He's from Switzerland, where he went to school for forestry.
Watching him take down a tree by himself is magical.
Toyman01 + Sized and said:Ashyukun (Robert) said:Duke said:Toyman01 + Sized and said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
$8k to pull a tree??!! Ouch! I just had two 60' tall pines removed for the princely sum of $950.
It's all about context with trees.
When we had to have one of the two trees that the deck at the cabin was built around cut because it had died, it was about $700 to just cut the one tree off a bit above the deck because of difficulty of ensuring that it didn't fall onto the cabin and take out the roof.
The two I had removed were 15' from my shop. They brought in a bucket truck, chipper, stump grinder, and about 10 guys. They took them out from the top down and 2 hours later they were gone and so were the trees.
I was pleasantly surprised the price was that low.
What do you think the overhead is for that? Bucket truck, chipper, gas, and grinder, plus insurance for the job and benefits for the company... I'd guess about $300 per job? That means that if the company is taking $100 for profit, those 10 guys are making $25 an hour. For some reason, that seems about right, while the $950 seems really low. But I have no clue as to what these [skilled?] laborers rates should be, and even less about overhead and profits for this type of business.
Whoever designed the stupid dual secondary air injection check valve system with it's cross-ram manifold on the GM LEA 2.4L can go berkeley themselves in the ass with a cactus.
In reply to Duke :
Try pulling the exhaust manifold off one, and you'll agree.
Even worse is that it doesn't even need it. The customer just wants their catalytic converter and exhaust manifold replaced before the special coverages expire on both, and so the service writer wrote up a phony RO for exhaust noise and a check engine light and then ordered the parts, and then lucky me gets handed it.
I think I actually know the truck, I looked at it awhile back.
To give you perspective on the market here it was for sale for $800 for about a year. It has more rust than that pic shows too.
There are huge amounts of trucks up here, that should be about $1000-1500 here
Toyman01 + Sized and said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
$8k to pull a tree??!! Ouch! I just had two 60' tall pines removed for the princely sum of $950.
Last year we had a 60' maple taken down that was a little more than about 10' from the house. He also trimmed a taller black walnut way back and did it al for $800. The bonus was that one of the limbs broke from the maple, came down and took out one of two living room windows.
I was in the shop at the time and buddy came back with his tail between his legs to tell me and was so relieved when I didn't flip out. He had a window guy there within an hour and told me he'd replace both windows so they were matching. I have no idea what it cost but we'd been talking about replacing those ancient windows for years. I figure I came pretty close to breaking even on the windows and got the trees done for free, or vice versa
In reply to NickD :
There was coverage for them? I just paid to have both replaced. I assumed at 250k it was just something that went bad.
Had our first known exposure to covid this weekend, 13 months, 1 wedding (ours), 1 childbirth (ours), and huge amounts of safety later. Definitely frustrated, even more so since it was a family member who was feeling fine when we saw her, but felt so bad the next day she went to urgent care. Definitely sorry that she has it, but we now expose an 8 week old. 1 negative test back so far and we'll do more later this week
In reply to classicJackets (FS) :
ugh.. I am sorry to hear this. Hoping the best for you and the 8 week old.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:If everyone could stop getting berkeleying tumors for a bit I'd really appreciate it.
More bad news? Cheez. It would be a win if you got to post an actual minor rant once in a while.
Best of luck, man.
So, earlier today was Apple's Spring announcement event- and as was somewhat expected, new Apple-silicon iMacs were announced. But.... only their replacement for the smaller ones- formerly 21" and now 24". Every benchmark I can find says that even these will be over 2 1/2 times faster than my current one and that the graphics performance will blow mine far, far out of the water- as you'd expect for a new computer vs. one a decade old. However, with internal storage topping out at 512GB and memory capped at 8GB it seems, that's a third of the internal storage I have now and half the RAM... and while the newer chip may be far more efficient with the RAM usage, the video work I do for The Dancer's Non-Profit chews up storage like Pringles. At the moment out of 1.5TB total storage I have less than 100GB free.
So, as much as I want a new iMac (and as much as The Dancer would likely be thrilled to get my old one, since the Mac Mini she has now is unfortunately very underpowered it seems- though it would be much less so if she didn't keep 3 dozen OpenOffice documents open at once and seem to have a complete aversion to closing anything and rebooting the computer every now and then) AND we could actually afford one at the moment, I guess I'm going to be waiting another 6 months or so until the Fall event when they'll hopefully release the larger and higher-performance ones.
Outlook is stuck in a loop where it stops working and closes, holding the OST files open until I reboot.
Tried repairing Office, cleaning up/defragging the drive and no improvement.
Gotta love coming back from vacation and NOT being able to check your email.
Gonna try webmail to get by, but after dealing with my younger brother self-sabotaging his care (again), I think I might just get a beer and write today off completely.
I can't seem to win with bone-conduction swimming headphones...
For my birthday last year, my parents bought a set that I had on my Amazon wishlist so I'd have some tunes when swimming laps. I got to use them like 4 times before the lockdown. I used them a few times when mowing the lawn (since they work well with earplugs in) but they largely sat unused until things started to open up last fall. Went to try and use them the first time back at the pool- wouldn't power on. Nothing I could do would get them to work.
I found another, nicer (in theory) set and put it on my wishlist for this year, explaining to my parents what had happened with the previous ones- and got them. Have used them a number of times over the last month or so since getting them. They've not sat unused for more than a few days between swimming and using them when mowing. Went to mow the lawn this afternoon (may have been a bad idea with having had my 2nd vaccine shot this morning...)- they won't power on. Computer sees the onboard memory just fine and I can transfer files- but so far (again) I can't get them to power on. Have them hooked up to a non-computer USB source to see if they need to charge from there and not the comp (see no reason why, but hey- it's a long shot), but assuming that fails I'll have to get my parents to initiate a return and try and find another set that maybe won't die.
Or accept that the universe wants me swimming laps in silence...
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