These days 14-17 year olds can make way over minimum wage at all fast food and convenience stores near me. My local Wawa is paying $17/hour to start!
Just found your new thread. Off to a great start again. Impressive as always...... Hope you can find some good help. That is some big rounds, but that's what you get sometimes with tree service drop offs. Best of luck this year, my friend...
Yeah, it's ridiculous. I had a kid working for me in the fall and when I didn't have work for him, he got a job at the bowling alley making $16 an hour for doing "basically nothing" as he put it.
Yesterday was straight to summer. A week ago I was I’m wearing my insulated carhartt jacket and yesterday I was in shorts and drifit tshirt. Talk about a shock to the system. Yesterday afternoon was also the start of spring break so hoping it will be a productive 10 days.
Guess I'm an outlier. I'd take all that big stuff I could get! Lots of splits per piece and the horsepower to make it manageable in size.
Time is money. Straight big stuff is one thing but take a 40” red oak with a 20” knot in it and now you’ve got a headache and a mess. Just not worth the time.
Got al of the mixed hardwood from this pile cut up and got some of it split. Noodled some of the 4’ diameter logs as well as some of the knotty ones to more manageable pieces.
It was supposed to be rain and storms here today. Beautiful blue sky all day... Wish I could have taken off work...
jrider , how many cords would you guess are split at this point? Keep up the good work and hope you have some good helpers During break.
Mid 40's stiff wind & on and off drizzle here all day. Pretty much the spring weather on my days off so far. Hoping for a dry day tomorrow to finish some clean up in the log yard. Nice work jrider, looking good! I hear ya loud and clear on the help too.
Dealt with this garbage today. 40” across and nothing but huge knots up and down the whole trunk. Splitting misery in my future.
I’d simply noodle it to size. I have 34T’s of hydro but I don’t like the ugly splits and I like noodles for fire starter.
