A family fair

My crackhead tree guy recommended some stump grinders to me . This unfortunately was before I knew he was a crackhead. They gave me a decent estimate but I was told that they would use a hydraulic grinder to do the job. (A hydraulic grinder takes 20 minutes to cut a stump 12 inches below the soil) Theyre hydraulic grinder was broken. So they used a small manual grinder that was WAY too small to do this job.(*A manual grnder takes 6 hours to grind a stump flush with the soil) Now they have 6 stumps to grind and theyre getting paid 300. After 2 days they had 2 stumps flush with the soil. I think theyve spent that in gasoline already and parts to keep the grinder working.

Heres the history of the stump grinders. The business was owned by Randy who committed suicide last fall. The wife, Jean, and her son, Mike decided to cotinue the business. The hydraulic machine is broken and they dont have the $400 to fix it. They smoke, they all smoke and drive a big old rusty truck.

Did I mention that Mike was a carny 10 years ago and was ran over by a garbage truck and has severely mangled legs? He can still walk but he's got some seriously messed up looking legs. So Mom, and aunts and cousins and basically this whole family shows up with kids and bikes, lawn chairs and everything in tow. the women sit in lawn chairs smoking while the crippled guy runs this manual grinding machine for hours, or until it breaks down over and over again so someone has to run uo to autozone to buy parts for it every few hours, thats when the smoking aunts get out of their lawn chairs and go to work.

Oh and the guy with the mangled legs has blood and fluids oozing from his legs so I'm freaking out and none of these women seem to think this is a big deal. I offer bandages, protective eye wear, lemonade. No thanks, he's fine. He's used to this. Are you freaking kidding me?!
I fired them yesterday and found someone else to finish the job. I fired my crackhead tree guy an hour later but he begged me to stay so I'm giving him another chance.

I really wish I had pictures of all this