I know all about the 12 hour days, just spent the first 8 on a tractor mowing a field for pipeline work then another 4 takeing down 3 trees at an apartment complex. Get to go in the morning and clean up my mess then do several trees at another complex. The screen width, word wrap, thing is all good now. Thanks.
I envy you monkeyman. I don't know that there was anything I enjoed more than running my NH 555E backhoe, pulling up stumps. Heavy equipment runs in my family, and it is in my blood also. Most fun a man can have with his pants on is running dozers and backhoes clearing brush and digging up stumps.
Sick, sick, sick. I always thot either shooting, or drinking beer while drowning worms a better way to eat time.
I don't know Ghrit, I have never been a big fisherman, but there is a big thrill knocking over a big tree, or digging up one that takes a 90 HP tractor an hour. Then, jumping into the hole you just dug and not even your head showing. It is a feeling of accomplishment too. A big stress reliever, like shooting. BTW, WTSHF I will volunteer to run the backhoe to bury the bodies...........