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In the "Good Ole Days"

Removed a couple of big oaks today. I need a taller crane. Glad I could get up tight to this one

Cable job yesterday on the tree that dropped a limb on a roof. I pruned the part over the roof. Installed that leg.. Here's Kavey installing the other side. This tree is going to have one more cable to the limb far right over the roof. waiting on materials. HOBBS on trunk for scale. Blue oak.

Understood.

Jamie Goddard. The rope man, and so much more. A true icon of the arbor-world, and a very good person. RIP Jamie.

Root disease pocket being managed. I set a throwline for Wraptor-ing up the next tree while high in the first tree. Speedlined branches over understory trees and natives.

The owner asked specifically to not drop anything. Behind was a bit of irregular slop, with lots of targets little plants.:D To the right was flower bed with 1 meter free space to manouver, also this right side was a downhill ending in a pool:cry:. Did I mention the septic tank 2,5 meters far...

an old friend of mine and also the person who got me into treeclimbing would only use rigging as a last resort and therefore lacked practice when it became really hairy. nice to see euc‘s in europe :)

I cut down a dry pine tree. Then he cut down the spruce that shaded the pine and juniper and a few other trees.

Doubtless.

tough too, I expect

Cool as shit is more like it! Very admirable.

@Naturarbo Not to cast any stone at your work or the way you pursue it...but just from what I can see from your posted vids it seems like (I know, pics/vids never show the whole scene :)) that at least some of that work could have been felled either whole, or a lot earlier in the process after...

Sounds like more than a few of the logging crews I knew back in the 70's and 80's.

A rare bird, her.

Yup...go big or go home, as noted :).

Exciting stuff, 19" pine, ~90' tall, through the chipper in ~4:10 minutes. Hecka handy

Friends thru technology!

I met a couple weeks ago with the son of the first guy who ever gave me a shot at the tree biz, logging in Maine in '77. The son is in the septic biz and we need a new one at the camp. I asked him if he knew this crazy mofo I had worked there with, Earl. The 2 stories about Earl that I...