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My own driveway is very steep and unpaved... hard to plow without tearing the driveway and adjacent lawn apart. It still gets plowed... but only when there is a real accumulations (so much that a car couldn't get up the driveway). The M.J. thang was a serious mystery Ted! ;) With Brian denying...

Too late! ;) I've already got 4 gift cards!!! :mrgreen: Dougster :starbucks:

I am not buying it... :D ...and neither is anyone else here on NTT!!! :tiphat: :wave: I'm sure that you (Dianne/Mrs. B) are a very sweet person who just fell in with the wrong crowd... specifically, a certain rich, large equipment-crazed person who looks like Santa Claus but drives a...

Well Dianne... all I can say is that this noble defense of Hollywood Brian's devious antics shows that you are a person of great loyalty and character... but it's crystal clear to me (and others no doubt) that Hollywood Brian must have put you up to it... and so HE still gets the lion's share of...

Nope Nope Nope!!! You get the blame!!! It's called being an instigator and co-conspirator!!! It's actually worse than if you did it all by yourself!!! :mrgreen: At least you could have blamed it on temporary blue tractor insanity (and everyone here would have believed you!!!). :yum...

Hmmmmmmm... :confused: I was gonna say that I was SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED... and that this appeared to be a blatant attempt by an ever-faithful wife to cover-up for Hollywood Brian's dastardly and diabolical escapades... and probably a direct result of Brian's building "about-to-explode"...

No question that in this crazy environmental wacko world hauling everything down to my tub grinder guy in Little Rhody is the professional and politically correct way to go. The problem is that clients often have their own ideas about what they want and it does little good to them or me to point...

As Larry points out... this is not a simple thing here in the People's Republic. And I am neither an advocate nor an opponent. I am just trying to provide a service and give my prospective clients what they have asked for. It will be interesting to see how these assignments eventually pan out...

Shinn lives up in the glorious land of "Live Free or Die"... so no sales tax OR income tax! :thumb: Of course, the property taxes are crazy through the roof (as I recently found out the hard way). :rolleyes: Our whole concept of moving North was based on Al Gore's global warming thang...

Amen Brothers Tim and Jay! :thumb: But can we please have a little more sun than rain? :D Dougster :starbucks:

Again, please understand that out of concern for client privacy I can't print the names of the towns... but I would describe them more as suburban as opposed to rural. I'm sure permit conditions vary from town to town, but that is not my concern. I am not the one that will be pulling these...

Oh, I think I get plenty of dubious publicity!!! ;) Clearly WAY more than my share. :wave: Dougster :starbucks:

Don't want to violate client privacy, but the latter is not going to happen. These jobsites are not exactly close by either. I've still got plenty of time to talk them into off-site disposal. In the end, if this burning process really takes as long as you folks are suggesting, immediate haul-off...

Something tells me these clients are not going to pay me to hang around for days at a time trying to burn their stumps. Perhaps a compromise is in order. Burn logs and brush... haul away stumps! :rolleyes: The issue of managing burn piles never came up when discussing my business with my...

I don't like the sound of that "every few days" if they only give me 4 to 8 hours of burn time. Obviously, these very restrictive permits are not aimed at burning stumps. :rolleyes: In regard to water, I'm sure the towns require a working hose to continuously wet down adjacent areas... and...

Well, you are right of course... but it does me no good for me to b%$#& and moan about it. And no... we cannot return a stump to the ground from whence it came (hence the increasing popularity of stump grinders over stump pullers like moi). Heck, we can't even return purified water to the...

I probably should have my tree guy take a look at the stuff in question and see what he thinks. He is the artist with the chainsaw thang. I had been thinking that I could just crunch the trees and logs apart with my backhoe, thumb, stump bucket and/or grapple. As for the stumps, if they won't...

We do have lots of restrictions down here, including a limited burn time of 4, 6 or 8 hours depending on the town. As you can tell, this does not lend itself to the burning of logs or stumps... but what can I do? These clients seem unwilling to pay the price of hauling out-of-state to my tub...

Never miss a chance to zing the old Dougster... do you??? :o How has that managed to become one of NTT's favorite pastimes??? :rolleyes: Dougster :starbucks:

These marginal/nuisance storms will be the death of me. It's no win... damned no matter what you do or don't do... with my clients. To make matters worse, I am covering for another plow guy this weekend as well. It's bad enough having to deal with my own clients in such marginal weather. It's...