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Worked for my old man for bout 25years family owned sawmill it all started with my old man ripping out 900 railways sleepers with an 090 in the mid 80's.
From there he got a Buzzsaw to cut sleepers and slowly got better gear every year up to a sawmill with a few million in gear. In the mill we could cut about 250 sleepers a day.
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The bush used to be full of Sleeper cutters with Buzzsaws many moons ago.
This is a old pic of a sleeper cutter using a Buzzsaw to cut railway sleepers.
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Cool pic of an old-school mill. My great grandfather bought and operated his own mill cutting railroad ties on his property which is now under Lake Murray in South Carolina. Unfortunately he was killed in an mill accident in 1924 when my grandfather was only 10 months old.

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I start a new job March 2 of 2020 as the Service Manager of a Big Dog/Echo dealership. Been where I am at for nine years and it has become painfully obvious that they are not interested in growing that part of the business and there is no room for advancement. The owner of the new place is the man I served my apprenticeship under and we are like minded in what we want for both the future of the business and ourselves.
 

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I start a new job March 2 of 2020 as the Service Manager of a Big Dog/Echo dealership. Been where I am at for nine years and it has become painfully obvious that they are not interested in growing that part of the business and there is no room for advancement. The owner of the new place is the man I served my apprenticeship under and we are like minded in what we want for both the future of the business and ourselves.
That's awesome Joe! Congratulations!
 

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6 months out of the year I do backcountry trail maintenance for the National Park Service in Northern Wisconsin, the other 6 months I figure out as it comes, doing tree cutting and chainsaw repair work when it comes but I'm lined up to get on with Wildland Fire this season so that'll probably change a few things in my off seasons.
 

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6 months out of the year I do backcountry trail maintenance for the National Park Service in Northern Wisconsin, the other 6 months I figure out as it comes, doing tree cutting and chainsaw repair work when it comes but I'm lined up to get on with Wildland Fire this season so that'll probably change a few things in my off seasons.

Sounds like you work close to the @Stump Shot area.
 

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6 months out of the year I do backcountry trail maintenance for the National Park Service in Northern Wisconsin, the other 6 months I figure out as it comes, doing tree cutting and chainsaw repair work when it comes but I'm lined up to get on with Wildland Fire this season so that'll probably change a few things in my off seasons.

Very cool - I think you'll enjoy fire. I did 21 seasons, the last 8 were at Crater Lake for the park service. We managed a bunch of big fires while I was there.
 

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I start a new job March 2 of 2020 as the Service Manager of a Big Dog/Echo dealership. Been where I am at for nine years and it has become painfully obvious that they are not interested in growing that part of the business and there is no room for advancement. The owner of the new place is the man I served my apprenticeship under and we are like minded in what we want for both the future of the business and ourselves.

Woohoo, free Echo's for everyone!!! Lol

Seriously though, you earned it and congratulations to you!
 

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I had a small tree service and stump grinding business but am selling out of that and just have saws left.

So I went back to wrenching at a Ford dealership since I’m chasing down 50 very fast I wanted to take it a little easier so back to wrenching I went.

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I am a water treatment operator and water distribution and a new member here wanting to learn how to work on my own chainsaws and hopefully acquire some new saws.

So you’re a Plumber too: that’s so cool!
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I had a small tree service and stump grinding business but am selling out of that and just have saws left.

So I went back to wrenching at a Ford dealership since I’m chasing down 50 very fast I wanted to take it a little easier so back to wrenching I went.

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Whatcha doing on the taurus? Changing the cabin filter? :D
 

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Whatcha doing on the taurus? Changing the cabin filter? :D

That UPS truck shook the transmission to death with a locked up ujoints.

The escape had an issue with HVAC that required the whole assembly be replaced. Not a common issue I might add.

Everyday it seems like something new shows up that a person has never seen.

That seems to be the shop joke when you’re sitting there with a transmission out and someone ask what your doing. “Changing air-filter”


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