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  1. rbtree

    Yikes, my butt's puckering again -or Hollow 121 foot grand fir wreck

    Canon: 5D Mk ll, 21 mp, full frame sensor.....and 7D.. 18 mp, 1.6 crop sensor, full comp of pro L lenses....
  2. rbtree

    Yikes, my butt's puckering again -or Hollow 121 foot grand fir wreck

    Yup. It's pukin' at Alpental and Crystal right now, with 1-2 feet predicted by tomorrow. And, after a brief warm up, you might get some white stuff on the hills around ya. Don't think it'll be windy enough to blow us in any tree work.....
  3. rbtree

    Yikes, my butt's puckering again -or Hollow 121 foot grand fir wreck

    Lol! I got it from someone on da Buzz, mestinx........
  4. rbtree

    Yikes, my butt's puckering again -or Hollow 121 foot grand fir wreck

    That's an anchor bend, Sean....being as I've had to cut off both my splices on my two oldest lines. It works, but can get in the way, and hang up the Vt a bit. Time to break in the new spliced Blue Tachyon..or is it Lava?
  5. rbtree

    Yikes, my butt's puckering again -or Hollow 121 foot grand fir wreck

    more In this image, the two vertical cracks are visible. I'm also wondering why, in my zeal to reduce the width of the backcut, I cut out some of the holding wood where my hinge ended up, on one side anyhow.
  6. rbtree

    Yikes, my butt's puckering again -or Hollow 121 foot grand fir wreck

    Scott Baker of Tree Solutions had tested this tree (using his spiffy Picus Sonic Tomograph) and found it to be hollow, plus there were two vertical seams/cracks extending up about 10 feet from the base. The top had broken out many years ago. It was 121 feet tall. Amazing that it had withstood...
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