The Official Work Pictures Thread

[biggun]

I bet they were oak leaves in the gutter as well!

 

[Tommy_B]

She had a Walnut and a conifer in her garden that had been absolutely hacked. Proper hat racked. Then she told me that she had "a great tree lopper who has been coming here for years". I asked her if he could do reductions😄
They were terrible. Looked like pigeons had chainsaw feet

 

[lxskllr]

pigeons had chainsaw feet

RoFL!

 

[Mellow]

I was pushing for removal of this tree due to many factors, including proximity to foundation, poor structure, weak species(Quercus laurifolia), and protruding surface roots all over the lawn. The homeowner was insistent on keeping the tree and wanted it "made safe." Yes, that's why I recommended removal; to make it safe.



This is what they got; high elevation and cutback/reduce entire canopy. It was already thin in the center. I took out only a handful of low suckers to make it look nice. They were ecstatic.

 

[lxskllr]

What makes laurel oak weak? What happens to them?

 

[treebilly]

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Cameron and his third time on spurs. He’s the one that assists me with a majority of the climbing prunes. I was gonna do that one just to blow it out fast but offered him the chance while I did other things on site. I might let him do a crane removal next week if we can manage to get ahead of schedule.

working on that monster stump grinder this morning. Replacing the hydraulic pump. Can is blocked up. The mechanics crane is holding the pump close to position using a redirect.

 

[cory]

Good pics!

Were you tempted to bring it to rayco?

Cameron tying into that sucker shows good intuitive ability/understanding imo.

 

[treebilly]

Not a chance Cory. Need it running by Monday. Rayco would still be staring at it trying to figure which part was bad.
Cameron’s tie in was choked to the spar and decided to use his lanyard on that for better positioning and to eliminate the circle of death.

 

[Mellow]

What makes laurel oak weak? What happens to them?

Most of them are improperly pruned over the years and after about 20 to 30 years they start to decline and fall apart.

 

[lxskllr]

A lot of suckering with weak attachments and rot pockets?

 

[treebilly]

8800 lbs to finish the day.

 

[Burnham]

That stem needs to be headed to a mill.

 

[cory]

Nice!

What size crane?

 

[treebilly]

It’s heading to a mill.
38 ton altec Cory and a nice tight radius

 

[Mellow]

Mills around here won't take anything from a residential property. They're skeered of nails.

 

[greengreer]

Plenty of nails and old fence wire in the woods here too. Seems like sawmillers in general can be a grumpy bunch

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yup, seems like every field out here had a cross fence for cattle or sheep or....
No matter. Worthless wood.

 

[pantheraba]

Finally got to repay my cousin at our farm. He has often helped with projects down there....cutting trail to beaver ponds, helping cipher the best way to handle various farm stuff. He is a contractor, in pretty high demand by some fairly well to do folks down there. One of them has a pretty big house with a leaking chimney. Charles tried a fix but it didn't work...he discovered yesterday, after we got good safe access to the chimney, that the builders did some hinkey stuff with flashing and it is likely channeling water from the brick down behind the flashing and then into the house. Anyway, he is a retired firefighter and had a cast-off FF roof access ladder. You can see how he had it rigged to get access to the chimney the first time around. He wanted to have access to the top of the chimney. His painter offered his 40 foot ladder...ends up it was too short. He called all over S. Georgia for a lift...none available at all. Big storm coming through tomorrow. He asked if I had any ideas. We went and looked at it. You can see how we staged ladders for access. I started us with a prussic on the SRT line I set up but that was tedious. I put Charles on the Akimbo, I used the Rope Runner Pro...things got smoother then. It was a busy afternoon but some good came out of it. I finally got to repay him for all his help.

Here are a few pictures...all of them are at this site: steep roof chimney with Charles - GaryLayton - https://garylayton.smugmug.com/Farm-Hahira/Steep-roof-chimney-with-Charles/n-nwkJfQ/

 

[ruel]

Oh man, that gives me flashbacks to Winter 2014-5. Brutal snowy year, no tree work possible. We spent weeks straight shoveling roofs and pounding ice dams off the eves. SRT on roofs feels so secure, even on icy 12 pitch.

Fun pics Gary

 

[flushcut]

I gotta say Gary I am kinda disapointed in you for not making a ladder out of bamboo.

 

[stikine]

Haha, just not quite enough Chinese in our friend Gary I guess.

 

[pantheraba]

Oh man, that gives me flashbacks to Winter 2014-5. Brutal snowy year, no tree work possible. We spent weeks straight shoveling roofs and pounding ice dams off the eves. SRT on roofs feels so secure, even on icy 12 pitch.

Fun pics Gary

What really got my attention was how SLIPPERY a metal roof is...kind of powdery and bad slick. I cannot imagine being up there without a rope system.

 

[stikine]

Common up here, and yes they are slippery, especially when wet. We don't even go up them unless they are dry.

 

[SeanKroll]

Pollen on metal is SLICK.

 

[Pelorus]

Hemlock today; another victim of the Covid