I like this pic!

[MasterBlaster]

Feel free to post yours. :drink:

[MasterBlaster]

No takers? :what:

I'll pray for pics! :whine:

[RIVERRAT]

It's a cool pic Butch. FOR SURE! But the second one is the first I can remember of you that far back on your safety.
For me personally the second pic of you is best.
I likes the second one.

[fishhuntcutwood]

My Dad took this one of me. My shirt is all puffed out, and I look like a lard-ass, but I love this pic so much I had it blown up to a 24'x36' and got it framed.

[sotc]

100 feet

[top hopper]

I like this one.

[TC3]

Really sweet pix. Mine would be a guffaw next to y'alls. Keep 'em coming !!!

[Stumper]

Nice pics guys. I really like your shot Willie.

[TC3]

Jeff, only a fly-fisherman/ person would appreciate that pic... :/:

[The Branch Doctor]

Here's a couple I like.:D

[TC3]

Friggin' SWEET !!!

[vharrison]

Here are a couple of my favorites.

[No_Bivy]

...............

[MasterBlaster]

How's you get that last shot? Is it a tropical delusion?

[No_Bivy]

It's about a twenty foot tall tree right at the top of a very steep drop off.....looks airy huh? It was as wild as it looks............

[Old Monkey]

Nice series of picts Gigi. John, that one of you and your kid is absolutely classic.

[No_Bivy]

Stellar sunset OM!

[Old Monkey]

We had just had a major storm hit the Bay Area and had been doing storm work all day when the boss asked me to do one more job for a customer in one of the highest dollar real-estate spots in the county. So this is me coming down the tree after removing a few broken, hanging limbs. I decided to carve off a piece of their million dollar view for myself.

[RIVERRAT]

WOW!!...... No pic of myself I can find worthy of posting here.
Some really outstandind pics!

[Lucifer]

The great British pollard

[Blinky]

I can't touch most of those, especially the ones from OM and No Bivy but here goes...

http://www.arborcarolina.com/_Images/NOLA_LiveOak_4.jpg

http://www.arborcarolina.com/_Images/SP_2706.jpg

[No_Bivy]

Great shot Blinky...dont know your real name. Nice big Live OAk!

[brendonv]

Kinda liked this one.

[brendonv]

and...

[No_Bivy]

:thumbup:

[lumberjack]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/attachment_9075.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/Trees/IMG_1890.jpg

Coulda been cool if it woulda came out:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/Trees/IMG_8287.jpg

[Stumper]

Carl, In pic 2 above it look sas if that big section is freefalling onto the manly lift outriggers. I assume we have some foreshortening effect from the camera? How much clearance did you have?

[MasterBlaster]

Haha. We discussed that the last time he posted that. I think it was too close, Carl thinks it was a trick of the camera. I think if that piece would flipped, then they'd have been hell to pay.

That's the main thing I don't like about those lifts for TD's. Too much exposed outriggers always too close to the drop zone.

[Wagnaw]

Here are some of mine.

[Frans]

Man, youse folks take the best Pixs!
That last pix wagnaw must have been photochopped?

[MasterBlaster]

No, he was trimming trees on Mars. LOL.

[Wagnaw]

Yeah, I photoshopped it. All my good pics are when I'm with friends and family. They take good pics. The one of the knuckleboom crane pick is my favorite cause it was the first time me and my dad worked together doing tree work (one of two times total). My second favorite is the one of Mandi, the first time I got her to climb with me. We were up 125 ft tulip tree near our house.

[Wagnaw]

Here's a few more. The third is on a service trip I went on to do trail work on the AT. I'm the fool up against the HUGE old growth tulip tree in Joyce Kilmer National Forest.

The first pic is from the top of a 42 DBH hemlock overlooking my school.

The second is me doing some "low impact" view enhancement for a friend of mine. I just took down a few trees and thinned a bunch, so he could peer through the woods better. It was crazy cause it was on a REALLY steep slope, and I climbed four trees out of one big tree up the hill. Needless to say there was a lot of swinging involved :D

[lumberjack]

Carl, In pic 2 above it look sas if that big section is freefalling onto the manly lift outriggers. I assume we have some foreshortening effect from the camera? How much clearance did you have?

I don't remember specifically, but I don't remember feeling nervous about it. Also out of the picture is a fire hydrant that I was missing with that piece.

I've had the lift for 2 years and some change now, never been nervous that I was going to flatten an outrigger, nor have I smacked them with anything I didn't plan on, such as brush, for example.

[fishhuntcutwood]

Jeff, only a fly-fisherman/ person would appreciate that pic... :/:

Oh...OK. :roll:

Well then here's two of my favorite "tree" pics. Maybe they'll fit in better.

[treesandsurf]

Great pics guys! Wish I had more but here's a couple.

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And one of rumi...

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jp:D

[Old Monkey]

That's a great shot of Leon.

Wagnaw, I like the one you took while canoeing. The subtle grin on your face makes that shot.

[Jonseredbred]

Wagnaw, I like the one you took while canoeing. The subtle grin on your face makes that shot.

Yah, OK. Thats what I was paying attention to in that picure also.:|:

[Skwerl]

Wagnaw knows how to canoe. He gets the chick to paddle while he scopes out her luscious ta-tas. No wonder he was grinning. 8)

[tntree]

Canoein yes, big trees with tiny men in them, chunking it at the camera, Oms sunset Great shots!
This one of my gracee and grampa enjoying the harley pipes is in my top ten, and a professional photograher took this photo of my buddy boone zipline'in in the redwoods, riggin for the tramp and me, and Jerry on the tramp are some of my faves

[Thor's Hammer]

That's a great shot of Leon.

Wagnaw, I like the one you took while canoeing. The subtle grin on your face makes that shot.

Ahem. the mamaries 'made' it for me:|:

[Old Monkey]

Alright you guys! The breasts were nice, but the picture was made funny by his expression.

[Skwerl]

Oh Blinky,
Sorry but I got distracted and forgot to comment on the awesome live oak picture you posted (post 21). The other picture is cool, too. What is that machine with the camera lens that you're holding? Yeah, I'm ignorant.
:|:

edited to add: OK, I'm an idiot. The aluminum tube that must be part of the camera stand is what threw me.

[MasterBlaster]

It's a camera, LOL.

[fishhuntcutwood]

Wagnaw, I like the one you took while canoeing. The subtle grin on your face makes that shot.

Me too. Because that's the same smile I'd have if I was out in a canoe on a sunny day with a pretty girl...breasts or not....I'd be smiling the same way. 8)

[sotc]

more i like

[Old Monkey]

I like this one because it captures my easy going nature... and my gut.

[sotc]

thats why mine are far away:D

[MasterBlaster]

You fat bastard!

[sotc]

very subtle:D

[Jonseredbred]

No, I think I got fat bastard tree guy all wrapped up.

[MasterBlaster]

The way you have your lanyard "secured," dunno 'bout dat...

I remember we discussed this.

[Old Monkey]

It worked very well for me and it was what I was taught.

[RIVERRAT]

It worked very well for me and it was what I was taught.
I have seen a lot of guys that use steel core do that. As far as I have seen & know it is an accepted practice.

[MasterBlaster]

And you can shift/move around w/o it coming loose?

Do you still use it? I was never shown that, I'm sure I'd have done it.

[RIVERRAT]

I have only used that a couple of times myself. With a steel core safety it worked very well. No problems at all....But again I never made it a practice of mine.

[Old Monkey]

I stopped using it when I switched to a saddle with smaller dee rings. I never had a problem with it.

[Stumper]

I like this one because it captures my easy going nature... and my gut.

Mine is bigger than yours.

[Frans]

The way you have your lanyard "secured," dunno 'bout dat...

I remember we discussed this.

It's called a 'cats paw' you youngster!
Of course it only has been used for about 100 years or so... so it might not be safe :D

I learned on a 3/4" manila cable core flip line and thats how you tie them. Back then I also one handed a rear handle 020..ahhh those were the days. Poor pay, long hours, rude alcoholic bosses and big wood.

[Frans]

this better not turn into a 'fat bastard' thread :O

[MasterBlaster]

I never said I had any training at all.

Never.

[Frans]

I never said I had any training at all.

Never.

self taught here. Never did any of those arborloser training. Opps sorry that just slipped out 8)

[Old Monkey]

Mine is bigger than yours.

Geez! Look at that spare tire


































or what ever that is around the tree.

[MasterBlaster]

I had never ran a chainsaw or a bucket truck, but because the foreman was a buddy, I was in a Hi-Ranger chopping away with a hydraulic pole saw my first day.

Ha! :drink:

[Stumper]

Darin-It was a tire. Why it was there I do not know but it is there no longer.

[Poleframer]

A lot of guys used that hitch when I started climbing trees for the FS (some still used 3-strand "gold-braid" in those days), they would lay over limbs by uncliping, holding on one-hand, flip, reclip. I felt safer with two lanyards for laying over till I freeclimbed.
Guess we all seem to have survived.

[MasterBlaster]

I know I woulda used it if I woulda been shown.

[rumination]

I had never ran a chainsaw or a bucket truck, but because the foreman was a buddy, I was in a Hi-Ranger chopping away with a hydraulic pole saw my first day.

Ha! :drink:


A primadonna from the start.:P

[fishhuntcutwood]

You ain't got nothin' on me and my gut Darin! Hell, you're lean and mean in my book.

[fishhuntcutwood]

By no means in the world am I any kind of an expert, but I learned on steel core manilla, and used the cat's paw. I think I saw it in Jerry's book, but can't remember where exactly. Heck, I think I might have first seen it in Darin's picture on this site.

It'll lock down so much you've got to wrestle it loose.

[treesandsurf]

I learned on a 3/4" manila cable core flip line and thats how you tie them. Back then I also one handed a rear handle 020..ahhh those were the days. Poor pay, long hours, rude alcoholic bosses and big wood.

Yup, sounds like the dark ages of arboriculture.

jp:D

[stehansen]

I was taught on the catspaw also. My teacher called it the flip-line hitch. I had a 3/4" flip line so it filled the D-ring up pretty well. A rope grab thingie is a lot easier to work.

[High Scale]

The dark cutter.

[pantheraba]

Very cool pict, High...

catspaw

[Blinky]

Skwerl... it's a 4x5 view camera... you almost never see the ones on monorails like that outside of a studio... I used to shoot ads for a living.

I've got a trampoline shot to add...

http://www.arborcarolina.com/_Images/101_Barnhill_Assessment_05-08-07_018.jpg



Three kids were on it when a tuliptree snapped about 20' up and fell on it. No physical injuries but acute arborphobia ensued.

[No_Bivy]

:\: near miss!!!!!

[top hopper]

Trampoline?

[Frans]

that last pix of the trampoline is one of the better ones I've seen. It almost looks like an image of the earth

[MasterBlaster]

Yeah, with some mighty strange continents! ;)

[squisher]

Well I have not much for pics at all, but I like this one. For me thank god the days of a belt and flipline are over. Now I have endless options for being safe, never ever did like unclipping to pass a big limb but I did it.

[gf beranek]

Cats paw? A lot of guys just used a half hitch. Loosen it up and push the slack the way you want it and lean back. The steel core manila was too stiff to pull through the hitch.

[Burnham]

Here's one of me that I've always liked.

[Magnus]

Here is a couple from this summers show's.

First is in Degeberga Old engin show, an houer before it opens.
Second is from Målilla engin show.

[gf beranek]

what a collection of neat old saws

[fishhuntcutwood]

OMG!!! Where's your PPE?!?!?

Outrageous!!!
















:lol:

[MasterBlaster]

He IS like a newborn babe in the woods, isn't he? LOL!

[TheTreeSpyder]

Some awesome pix folks!

From not any place closed to here; in BC it's that time of year we don't get to see
(courtesy of my Magic Jeannie):

[High Scale]

Stunning!

[Bodean]

Cats paw? A lot of guys just used a half hitch. Loosen it up and push the slack the way you want it and lean back. The steel core manila was too stiff to pull through the hitch.

That's how I learned, called it a Cat's paw or something,
but basically just a half hitch on the D.

I was sketched to begin with but it's a sturdy knot.

I only changed to the gibbs to use just one hand to pull slack.
The knot required two hands.

:)

[TheTreeSpyder]

a lil'off topic; but ol'favorite:

http://www.mytreelessons.com/images/human%20statue%20of%20liberty.jpg

From Snopes.Com: (http://www.snopes.com/photos/patriotic/liberty.asp)
Status: Proven True...

The design for the living picture was laid out at the drill ground at Camp
Dodge, situated in the beautiful valley of the Des Moines River. Thousands
of yards of white tape were fastened to the ground and formed the outlines
on which 18,000 officers and men marched to their respective positions.

In this body of soldiers are any hundreds of men of foreign birth &mdash; born
of parents whose first impression of the Land of Freedom and Promise was
of the world's greatest colossus standing with beacon light at the portal
of a nation of free people, holding aloft a torch symbolic of the light of
liberty which the statue represents. Side by side with native sons these
men, with unstinted patriotism, now offer to sacrifice not only their
liberty but even life itself for our beloved country.

The day on which the photograph was taken was extremely hot and the heat
was intensified by the mass formation of men. The dimensions of the
platting for the picture seem astonishing. The camera was placed on a high
tower. From the position nearest the camera occupied by Colonel Newman and
his staff, to the last man at the top of the torch as platted on the
ground was 1,235 feet, or approximately a quarter of a mile. The appended
figures will give an adequate idea of the distorted proportions of the
actual ground measurements for this photograph:

Base to shoulder: 150 feet. <BR>
Right arm: 340 feet. <BR>

Widest part of arm holding torch: 12-1/2 feet. <BR>
Right thumb: 35 feet. <BR>
Thickest part of body: 29 feet. <BR>
Left hand (length): 30 feet. <BR>
Tablet in left hand: 27 feet. <BR>
Face: 60 feet. <BR>
Nose: 21 feet. <BR>
Longest spike of head piece: 70 feet. <BR>
Flame on torch.: 600 feet. <BR>

Torch and flame combined: 980 feet. <BR>
Number of men in flame of torch: 12,000 <BR>
Number of men in torch: 2,800 <BR>
Number of men in right arm: 1,200 <BR>
Number of men in body, head and balance of figure only: 2,000 <BR>
<BR>
Total: 18,000
<BR><BR>
Incredible as it may seem there are twice the number of men in the flame
of the torch as in the whole remaining design, while there are eight times
as many men in the arm, torch and flame as in all the rest of the figure.
It will be noted that the right thumb is five feet longer than the left
hand, while the right arm, torch and flame is eight times the length of
the body.

[Thor's Hammer]

Whoa. I know it says its true, but it still seems like clever photoshop work.

here's another dark arborist -

[Paul B]

for Treespidey
the violet hue of the trees in the first pic on the last page of posts is likely a pair of purple leaf plums (Prunus pissardi nigra), a common tree here but unfortunately its purple, nowhere near as intense as the cool shot that was posted. This pic is from the same grotta at Butchart Gardens BC from sept 2005

grrrr. uploader not working again for me. changed file name, changed size, still goes to "unavailable web page" in the upload window. sigh. another time perhaps.

[MasterBlaster]

That has GOT to be something on your end, but WHAT??? Damn.

[Paul B]

dunno. trying to clear caches and such, that helps sometimes.

[High Scale]

Try closing upload window then reopen MANAGE ATTACHMENTS and see if the picture has loaded anyway, it happens to me sometimes.

[GASoline71]

grrrr. uploader not working again for me. changed file name, changed size, still goes to "unavailable web page" in the upload window. sigh. another time perhaps.

Had the same problem last night too Paully. It doesn't do it all the time... but it does do it enough to be annoying.

I will usually wait an hour or so and try again. Then it usually works. I have tried clearing cookies, caches, webpages... everything... :|:

But this will still happen. It is the only "glitch" I ever experience on the TH.


Try closing upload window then reopen MANAGE ATTACHMENTS and see if the picture has loaded anyway, it happens to me sometimes.

I will try that as well next time Carl... I never thought to do that. :)

Gary

[squisher]

C'mon ya derailers this ain't the whining thread it's a picture thread :what:

[GASoline71]

LMAO...

Justin... Sasquatch is gonna pay you a visit... :P

Gary

[IchWarriorMkII]

I don't know if this is really worthy, but I'll bump the thread:

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h309/IchWarriorMkII/Me72xp.jpg

[sotc]

big Q. kellogii

[Stumper]

For a second it looked like the world was tilting out from under that poor tree! Cool felling shot Willie.

[Mangoes]

Lets see what I might find.......

[tntree]

Nice Flop SOTC, Mangos that 1st one reminds me of "contract" elms. heres one of the boys loading a carcass out on the Ice