Rainin' again

cutntrim · #1 (**permalink**) 10-13-2005, 08:42 PM

How's the weather treatin' you? We've pretty much made up for all the drought we had in the summer. It's been gloomy and rainy all week here. Now that everyone's lawn furniture is put away and people have retreated indoors, their lawns are suddenly green and lush again. Lying on the road scraping the gunk off the bottom of the mowers after each house is getting old real fast.

PSUscaper · #2 (**permalink**) 10-13-2005, 09:46 PM

think we've had close to 12" over the week and a half. Wasn't too bad, except for the last two days pretty much got shut down.

I can't complain though, as the summer overall has been very dry and we were able to get a lot of projects done without all those nasty rain days and other things associated with jobs that rain makes a PITA....

HardDaysKnight · #3 (**permalink**) 10-13-2005, 10:23 PM

We've had 10+ here on long Island, NY and another 2" forecasted for friday. We needed it bad but not all at once.
We had a customer we just finished a job for call to say they had a puddle in the back yard. Great people, but everyone in the tri-state has the same

. Looks like it clears for our area saturday afternoon.

Stonehenge · #4 (**permalink**) 10-13-2005, 11:01 PM

We'd been waiting all season to do the big pond/landscape we're working on now. Couldn't buy a drop of rain for 3-4 months. But now that we're working on this pond, 9' below grade, we get rain every couple days.

I was able to get a Cat 315 excavator stuck for awhile today in that pond - mud completely covered the tracks a few times during the day(though getting it unstuck was a little fun, too

).

GLAN · #5 (**permalink**) 10-13-2005, 11:42 PM

I just hope we can work Saturday and get enough guys in Sunday......heck......if they want any kind of a paycheck this week they will come in Sunday.

cutntrim · #6 (**permalink**) 10-14-2005, 07:59 AM

Tomorrow will make 3 out of the past 4 Saturdays that we will have worked. Prior to that, I think we only had to work 1 Saturday all season. I've never worked on Sunday, I always just let it slide until Monday.

Pelican · #7 (**permalink**) 10-14-2005, 12:29 PM

I worked Monday of this week, that's it! Nothing but rain here the rest of the week. It's supposed to blow out tomorrow. It will be too mucky to work the next few days while things are draining.

In 8 years of business I've only worked 2 Sundays. That was during a Spring growth period both time where we had been delayed by rain. It wasn't about the money, we couldn't let the lawns get too far out of hand. I really don't like sending machines out to work on Sunday, too much noise on the day of rest.

I had drained our pool to make a repair and piped the rear gutter to it. Would you believe the 2 storms we had these past 2 weeks have it 6" from full??? That's a lot of rain!!!

jwholden · #8 (**permalink**) 10-14-2005, 01:33 PM

I worked on Monday and then went to the jobsite tuesday to try and move some boulders around the jobsite with a skidsteer.

After about 30 seconds I realized that was a futile effort. Could be time for a tracked machine.

NOT!

Took advantage of the time to sharpen up my welding skills and read some more of my book on estimating.

Something about rain days, you don't feel guilty for taking it a little easier...

VoodooChile · #9 (**permalink**) 10-15-2005, 10:15 PM

Man, I would pay dearly for a month of rain-days. I was spent mid-Summer, but the sun keeps on shining. There are worse problems though...

Rob Shauger · #10 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005, 11:17 PM

We were 9 inches behind here in upstate NY for rain. We got it all back at once the last few weeks and then snow last night. To darn early for that.