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Fun job the last two days

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  1. swags

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    I took a few trees down knee the last few days. First one was a difficult maple that was storm damaged. A silver maple with two main trunks. One leaning into the yard and the other over the house. The storm took out the one leaning over the yard and fortunately the one leaning over the house stayed up. The base was rotten so it needed to come down. Only problems as all the top was over the house so removal was a little slow. A lift did the trick though and we got it down safely.

    Then I removed a decent sized cedar that was next to a pool. I friggin dropped my saw though and it ended up in the pool....... So I took a little swim to retrieve my saw. As good as it felt to jump in I wasn't happy that the saw took a dive.
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    You trained your saw to do high diving into small pools?

    Hopefully it wasn't a saltwater pool.

    Was it running when it fell or was it stopped? I'm assuming you drained all the water and got her running again, right?
     
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    Fortunately it wasnt salt water, havent tried to start it yet. Wanted to make sure it was dry first.
     
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    Drop the oil pan. :rofl: :lol:
     
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    I wanted to see the picture from the lift of the saw in the pool.
    Am I the only one? :D
     
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    Nice job on the tree! Sorry about the saw though! :( Hopefully it was a Husqvarna or something!? :hair:
     
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    I was thinking that too, but had my phone in the truck.
     
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    Nice pics from the lift, but I too was hoping for a pic of the saw sans swimmy wings....:eek:
     
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    It's best to get it started asap to fully dry out out.
     
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    Nice pictures... :yes:
     
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    Prolly better that the saw landed in the pool?... if you dropped it from any kind of height
     
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    Nice work on the trees man!

    Hey, did you guys see this over there?:whistle:

    Newest Swag Shop item now available. Small size life preserver for Sean's saw. Isn't it cute? image.jpeg :D
     
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    I was standing on the ground and set it down behind me to reach up and grab the branch I just cut. I guess I set it right on the edge of the step and it rolled down and over a few feet to the pool. So it didnt drop far, just rolled perfectly to land in the pool.
     
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    neat pictures from the lift. too bad about the saw.
     
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    Nice job gettin er down swags ,:saw::tree: saw takin a dip, better than gettin crushed by a tree , it will live again :saw:
     
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    So, couldn't you drive the truck into the pool to retrieve the phone?
     
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    Looks like that was a tough job Sean. Glad you got it down good but sorry about the saw. I doubt the saw was hurt and it will live another day.
     
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    Im just glad it was after the big tree was done. The saw I dropped was my Stihl 192 top handle, thats the saw I use to do all the work in the bucket. Really fortunate I got the big job done before taking the saw for a swim.
     
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    I mighta left it at "Man you shoulda seen the splash that saw made!!!!!
    :rofl: :lol:
     
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    You are not the only one! With almost 20 likes, I'd say that "misery loves company" holds true on this site!
     
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