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Living Up to the Name Forest thinning project for a custom home lot on a private lake, up to 10 days, negotiated day rate. Remove saplings, fallen, dead, dying & diseased trees. Brush mowing throughout. Canopy raising up to 16'. Neighbor took 2 loads of chips, 2 others went to a Girl Scout camp...

Those power lines are looking positively American! I thought it was mostly underground in Europe? Looking into some saw chaps for extensive ground work sessions like this. I don't think the climbers would like any saw pants that were constrictive -- and no local places to try stuff on ahead of...

Suburban Logging Job in Leawood, Kansas (right on the KS/Missouri border) -- driving up to the job in nice, well-to-do suburbia, you would never expect to do a logging-style job. Drop-n-chip 20 slightly declining white pines all around the back fenceline perimeter, leave all wood (19 in back...

We'll be ordering a fall arrest harness, now that it seems that a spider lift is in our repertoire (2nd time renting). And of course, we're still in the market for a bucket truck, so well be getting all that stuff (harnesses, saw scabbards, etc.) MB -- that pic was the very first cut on the...

Oakie Dokie Today's job (yes, just one!) was an oak removal for a township, at a T-intersection of two country roads. The oak was a historic landmark, well known in this part of the county -- but very crispy, dead. It had obviously been declining for years, no foliage this year and perhaps last...

Must be slipping, only 3 jobs today. #1 was a medium sized ash removal, over the roofline and over the neighbor's fence. Climbed & craned out the leaders with our grapple. "New" 372 was a joy to cut with today, limbing the logs that we were keeping for firewood, doing the big leader cuts, and...

Grappling with a dead ash Running a bit behind this week. Wednesday was in Bonner Springs, a nearby city, but we were working out in the country. We pruned 2 sycamores (I did lower deadwood and light crown raising on one, other was climbed). Removed 2 redbuds and a walnut limb over a barn...

Trim-Trim-iny around the Chim-Chim-ney 2 roof line clearance trim jobs filled up the morning -- elms, mulberries, ailanthus. Unexciting, but it pays some bills! Afternoon job was more photogenic. 2 big split mulberries, at least one was lightning struck (had the top blown out of it last year...

Gumball Machine First job was a sweet gum removal. Nothing too complex, just a fair bit of long leaders to feed the chipper -- but decent drop zone space, no targets. Piece out, bro! (No rigging needed.) I dropped the spar (bore cut with the 395XP), we'll pick it up in the morning with the log...

Where late the oak once stood Large pin oak removal today, victim of oak blight. We had removed some limbs from off the roof last fall, homeowner knowing that it was a losing proposition and the tree was likely a goner, but gave a bit of relief for the winter & spring storm seasons. It leafed...

Rest assured, I don't think that way. 18", BABY!

Peter, just to follow up -- I have to agree with Marc on this one (of course, I generally do!). I remember now why the Gorilla Cart became parked & disused. Same scenario he mentions -- wheel base is too narrow, makes it tippy in turns. Light gauge steel bends easily, esp. on the flip down...

Ya'll gave me such a hard time about the 4 paragraphs, I was trying the opposite approach -- a picture is worth 1000 words. Pictures to invite questions... #1). 2 large broken hackberry limbs, hanging down and into the koi pond. We climbed it to tie it off and secure it, cranked it up with the...

No Words, Only Pics! 1) 2 downed hackberry limbs in koi pond 2). Cottonwood deadwood #1: #2:

When you have our kit, it was easy to crane out & feed in whole leaders and major branches into the 18" chipper. Made it go fast, plus we saved 3 logs from the main trunk on the log truck, so no cookies or slices saved a bunch of chipping time. 2 hours is actual work time. I'd say the chip truck...

Crackberry 2 Wow, this story is beginning to sound all too familiar: hackberry multileader over a house and power lines, cracking down its included bark. Under advisement, the property owner put up ratchet straps last week after we estimated it. He got several other prices, then had us come out...

Sorry boss, been super busy over the last 3 days, hardly posted much at all. Just now playing catch-up with the 2nd half of the week job pics. (I posted the one pic of the competitors and told that story in How'd It Go Today -- but not the whole run down of the day.)

:? Heat stroke? Two stroke? An actual stroke? Seeing double?

City/Country day Slow start to the day Thursday because we had a Mexican national show up to purchase our knuckle boom crane unit we had for sale. I had posted an ad on Craig's List and he had contacted, seemingly not a scammer, just a wheeler dealer passing through on his way back to Mexico...

Snippety Do Dah, Snippety Day Whole day full of trimmings on Wed. First stop was a willow with 2 broken limbs. They had a zipline that we tried out: 2nd job was a roof clearance trim -- 2 black walnuts, an osage orange, and a locust; a few limbs off of each -- mostly taken from the roof with...