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On a final note from me. I want give a big Thank You to the Tree House and it's members that have helped me achieve this level of work through sharing their methods and expert advise. The constructive criticisms over the years that helped hone my skills and guide me. Big thanks to Paul in...

Prolly right Sean... Thanks guys.. I feel like I should put a disclaimer on it like a Murph vid... Do not try this at home or on a ladder........................................................... Joel... the grins were seriously genuine glee. Nothing like it when a plan all comes together on...

He used a snap cut. There was also a lack of communication between climber and operator. Climber did not know terms and did not communicate to the op about boom placement, action or cable tension. Tag line would have helped. Op made the choice of single choker and no tag line. Felt he could...

The insides was pretty uglies.... :lol: You can see why the kitty likes to run up the hole and scare squirrels ;)

Tipping the spar... We just used the large guy for pulling and holding the split codom together whilst felling it. Hollow bugger. Alls well that lands well... Her kitty still has a hollow stump to play in and ambush squirrels from. Also to tease the pooches in the kennel :lol: We will be going...

I thought some of the Dingo footage would be to your liking Dave. She is running sweet with her new motor. :) Thanks Paul. I probably could have pulled it off if I had a GRCS.... But it would have been a horrible removal. Surrounding trees were kind of small limbed and not real tall. So...

I was prepared. I kept my hand pretty much on the other side of the limb as well as my body. Using that part of the limb as a shield. If you watch how easily I push it away, you get more of a sense how little the pressure and impact was on that Y part of the branch. It was Mikes turn now. He...

Oh... and there seems to be a blank spot 1/2 way through that vid... it comes right back. I will try to fix it another time. Never had a problem in 10 years of doing it that way. The ring is there, I just have a biner in it to click into my saddle. Keeps that sucker tight to me. Having the...

Willie, we actually did really well with it. Crane only came to under 6 bills at 140.00 per with trip and I billed out 12 hours on the crew. Chipper was only there 1/2 day. I did let her initial emergency visit go toward the removal. She paid 1/2 the removal so I could pay the crane straight up...

Here we go Rich.. Sorry this took so long. I have been sun up to sun down with dead trees and such. Happy we got the footage. Lucky to get a few angles on the work as well. So as I stated, the tripping of the lead off the other tree looks a tad sketchy, but it was really not all that bad...

I bought the operator set for this job and future. He lovvvvvvved it. Chipper, saws, crane all going and no yelling or misreading hand sigs . he is going to buy a set. Heads up Paul. The op had never worked with comms before.

More to come... Uploading is coming along.....

So onto to the wood.. Brush gone... It was time to get the wood set to be released. Guy lines were tensioned. Crane was strapped and loaded. The cut was made. It kind of looks worse than it was. I repositioned for the final nip JIC. I had a second tie in sent up that I had set first thing. The...

More from the brush picks.

Crew sets up... Couple more checks on the rigging... Here goes ... Lets get that brush out! It was like pulling velcro apart! Limbs through limbs, under limbs that were over limbs... crikey! Normally as a climber, I have the luxury of hacking my way in from underneath and pitching the offensive...

Well... So much for the order of up loading......... :dontknow: This is going to be long and drawn out for the shorter attention span folks... bear with me. Especially the video footage... Yeah..... Mini movie. Any who.... Crane day... This is our local, next town over crane company. His...

The next visit, Mike and I started removing the brush from the forward leader to allow for the crane to take picks. We only had a 15 ton to work with with not much reach. We also need to reset all the guys and add lateral stabilising guys for sideways movement. Blocks were placed on the "good"...

Yes, I finally popped my crane cherry. :yes: The removal was a call from a new client that we had started work on. Seems an oak failed over her dog kennels, and luckily for the critters, hung up in some tree on the other side. Not really a straight forward removal as I figured out the mechanics...