So this morning I had hydralic oil leaking out of the machine's head. So I shut her down and found a hose that was leaking. Pat got some stuff from the shop truck and made a hose. I think he's getting a replacement tomorrow. Regardless it works, it's just longer than needed so there's extra hose snaking around in the head.
Then, not four hours later, I was extending the head out to put a log down in the deck and it wouldn't stop. Went all the way out to the stops. Pat was in the loader at the end of the deck so it was good the head was angled down enough, otherwise he might have had a log through his window. Anyway, then Tom (he was in the yarder) says on the radio, "shut it off. Your pumping oil everywhere." Great. So I blew a big hose on the top of the boom. While Pat worked on fixing that, I drove to the shop truck (it's down the road a ways parked in a wide spot) and got 15 gallons of hydralic oil. There is now oil everywhere. My tacks are super slippery.
So, I'm getting a bit frustrated and I'll be really happy when spring break-up comes.

-Miranda

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Yes, this is getting ridiculus. The guy we had last week didn't show up on Monday or Tuesday and never called. So Pat basically said he was done. He's fed up with dealing with these people that don't want to work, or just can't show up for work. However, last night a guy called about the job and Pat was pretty harsh with him, but the guy still came up today. He did pretty well too. He has experience which always helps. We'll see if this one lasts.

-Miranda

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YAY I didn't have to go to work today! It was too cold. We don't go to work when it's below -10. Pat went up and called at 5:30 saying it was -19. When he called again a few minutes later it was -22. Brrr. It's colder there than in town here too, but when I got up around 9ish the thermometer said -10 and that was in the sun.

-Miranda

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Well... the guy worked for two days and he is probably very trainable, but he is even greener than I was coming into it and he's not in shape at all. So, Pat just interviewed someone else tonight. He has a bunch of experience and hopefully will work out.

-Miranda

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Well, the guy from last Thurs. called and quit that night... We have a new guy that started today. He has absolutely no experience and is from North Carolina so we'll see how he does. There's another guy coming from Illinois that Pat told he would try out. So we'll see how he does too once he moves to town. Hopefully this new guy sticks around.

-Miranda

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