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It's been a long time since I've put a vid together. Read the long description on the vid. Watch in Youtube, full screen Feel free to discuss, ask questions, I'll do what I can to explain anything that's not clear.

After three days removing the low growth, non-merchantable trees and loggable firs, which produced over 100 yards of chips, this video covers dropping a few of the sticks and some of the lot clearing, performed by Ken's Excavating. Might be able to spot some of my sloppy moves. The last drop...

From last summer This video covers the brush removal of 3 of 4 large firs, prepping them for removal with a 60 ton crane assisting. No video of that, we were rushed. The video includes some still clips, some videos of Pat of Westside Tree Care brushing out the only easy tree, and three time...

A couple small lodgepole pines uprooted in the 10/14 wind storm. Steep driveway meant no crane access. Luckily, there was a well placed pine behind the failures large enough to use for rigging, but kind of small, so we didn't attach the GRCS . Instead, 5-1 mechanical advantage from a set of...

Removal of two large poplar, plus a few "sprouts", which ranged from 10 inches in diameter to 20 and up to 70 feet tall or so. Day one produced two full loads of chips--about 36 yards... We will have Marilyn's Recycle pick the junky wood with their grapple truck.. and they can grab the butts, so...

Craning of a cedar, tall but small fir, and a behemoth--150 feet tall, which produced over 2600 board feet! About 1000 board feet more than I guessed. We dropped the butt log, with the self loader nudging it, to save crane tim and due to the weight, which had to have been close to 10000 lb. It...

Gotta go to work soon, more later, if I can find the time. Jed, I think you know George Coronado, who had a great climb in the Master's Challenge. Could have beaten the perennial champ, Robert Bundy, imo. and congrats to George Tripp, Willie!! He also made the MC, and had a good climb...

The Lake Quinault Redcedar, the world's largest, and the largest tree outside of California, has fallen. I visited it June 5 and it appears to have failed--to a 20 foot tall stump, sometime after July 7. See http://northcoastnews.com/…/quinault-big-cedar-has-fallen-t… It's failure has been...

The first few shots are not time lapse, but with a different camera. The sequence was all 10 second exposures and a bit too bright for my liking..at least for the ones that are the most white. <iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cl573Hrf9KA" frameborder="0"...

Sure, if you're Reg or Graeme.. Look for more images and video sometime soon. Thanks to a new full static dyneema 9/16 Plasma core rigging line by Puget Sound Ropes---- forget Samson, this $800 line rules) rated at 29000 tensile, and a well place fir for a gin pole, we were able to rig two...

Time lapse of delimbing a 130 foot tall Douglas-fir, to ready it for craning the logs in three days. One of four on this project, about 4300 board feet. Shot with the Canon 7D Mk II, and 8mm Rokinon fisheye lens. I set the speed line using a throw line and Big Shot, and only got it set at about...

The job was removing about 6 hazard Lombardy Poplars, after one had failed in a storm, 100-125 feet tall...and a birch, 80% dead of bronze birch borer, plus removal of the dead tops of two more birch. Crew of 4 plus Catrina for 5-6 hours.... we put in 10-12 hours on day one, and got the work 95%...

Partially uprooted, actually--a perfect fit for the GRCS --and chipper winch. I love hanging trees and cutting them off at the butt. This one was only about 18 inches on the butt and 60 feet tall.... And the Wraptor powered ascender made for an effortless ascent into the ivy covered cottonwood...

I see that Bixler and August, at least, have viewed his videos. He's pretty cool! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsIFvStf9Oz99GMitW4vD_g

Dang, Our 3rd windstorm in less than 3 weeks.... Now maybe if it had been a Ford 4x4, it could have been driven off to the mill with the log...Ya think?? View on YT, HD and full screen <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GFEZjeql_B4" frameborder="0"...

Egads, how time flies. In a month, it will be 13 years since the 20 of us lucky enough to work with Jerry assembled along Hwy 101 to perform hazard reduction pruning on the tree, the largest redwood right on Hwy 101. 18 feet across, and 250 feet tall to its 3 foot diameter broken top. The below...

We (Westside Tree Care and Barnett Tree Care) had removed several pine above this spruce, that also were weak rooted. This changed the water runoff patterns, and had caused some minor flooding. Anyhow, before yesterday's storm, Pat was called out to look at the tree, which exhibited some minor...

Another rigging challenge taken on just yesterday. This one was a doozy! 22-24" cottonwood, with a lean starting at 10-15 degrees, and sweeping out to close to 80 degrees at the tip..... too large to lift or support the entire tree and cut it off at the base, even with the GRCS. So we tied it at...

I'm been chilling it for months...not very motivated to work all the time... some nagging injuries, sore spots..... at 66, I can't go all day every day the way i could when I was a whipper snapper...damn it.... Anyhow, the first is of a small hemlock which landed on a house. Lots of trees...

With lots of cool trunk character, and big knots, the slabs will make for some nice live edge furniture. I'll probably have the new sawyer for www.urbanhardwoods.com make me a table, in trade for most of the slabs.... or sell some of them. Will sticker them and air dry for a couple years.... or...