The Official Work Pictures Thread

[August Hunicke]

Epic hedge work btw, if there is such a thing, very pro.
Sweet truck bots!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Does that throw you around pretty good when she takes out the slack?

 

[BOTS]

Geez, you have Brendan V jealous of that fine ride!


How can a tree truck be that clean!!

Ha, just cleaned it up yesterday, even sprayed that shinny goo on the tires

 

[BOTS]

Nice work going on there August, big pine zipping down

 

[Jed]

Wow that's some kind of rigging line August.

Say: on the face cuts... do you pulse out the chips on the horizontal in order to get a clear window to peer through to the far corner when lining up your diagonal, or do you just do it by feel? I've done that for years and years, but no one seems to know what I'm talking about.

Great pics. Love the Gerry B pose!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Jeebus! That's undermining the COG, for sure!!!

 

[August Hunicke]

Yesssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only in a place like this would someone know that was a Jerry pose.
#homesweethome !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[August Hunicke]

I go by feel Jed

 

[pantheraba]

I really like that first picture....great show of a deep face cut framing a beautiful work site...vibrant colors and clarity.

 

[Peter]

Um, smh awful work to do, imho. But more power to you gents for cranking it out!! Are you climbing in the hedge or using ladders or what? How do you keep it level? Thanks.

Climbing, I usually wear a harness so I have somewhere to hang my saw and silky, but rarely lanyard in.

Keeping the top dead level requires large amounts of personal awesomeness.

 

[August Hunicke]

LOL @ "large amounts of personal awesomeness"
I concur.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

You're up late, or up waaay early, August.

I had a sick friend to visit and a bit of a flood at home that I've been drying. And I was going to clear the clog this next couple days that was causing a slow bathroom drain...and then the toilet 'ran'. Wat-wa.

Going to clear the dock in the morning. See what conditions hold tomorrow. The neighbor can start repairs on the dock. It just vacation use. Not pressing, but figured offering the clear the dock pronto would grease the wheels, with the rest of the job fitting in as I can/ need.

 

[August Hunicke]

Cool, you got it! (the dock job)
Ya up late, Long day zipping that spar and then tucked the kids in and my wife sent me to the store. Then I went to my office and unloaded my go Pro cameras to my hard drive.
Now snack and bed.
Lol at "wat-wa"

 

[treebilly]

Those were some big pieces August.

 

[cory]

Climbing, I usually wear a harness so I have somewhere to hang my saw and silky, but rarely lanyard in.

Keeping the top dead level requires large amounts of personal awesomeness.

Very well put, Peter, I dug those shots of the top of the hedge, cuz in my book, that is hard freaking work. And you guys just knock it out. Dayum!

 

[treebilly]

My task today. Red oak with a rotten base. 60" dbh. The bottom limb stretched almost 50' and measured 27" in diameter. I shoved a probe into a hole at the root flare and had almost 4' of nothing. We decided to keep the rigging relatively small. I had blocks set pretty low for hanging out the bigger pieces of wood from the limbs. I've got a couple hours of rigging wood down tomorrow and drop the log. A much smaller and less complicated red oak to remove after that.


I despise hedge rows. Tedious obnoxious drudgery. But it pays the bills. I'm thankful I've only got about 200' of that kinda work to do

Edit: second limb was 27" diameter. Bottom was only about 18"

 

[cory]

That's a big ol bear.

Got any pics of the removal process?

 

[flushcut]

Biggin!

 

[treebilly]

Sorry but no. I need to get on that though along with videos. To give reference to size though, we had 40 yards of chips using an 1800 and hand feeding it( winch also). She was a big old bit<#. A shame to remove it but it was less than 10' from the gas line. The line was installed in 1949, so it must have been decent sized but far enough away to not remove then.

 

[Grendel]

Awesome pictures August. Biggest slide-linery I've ever seen!

 

[August Hunicke]

Thanks. Planned on more tech to it, and then rocked it caveman style. My style.

 

[August Hunicke]

Except I used the Wraptor 😆😆

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I had planned to clear the dock and then see where it went. Some experimentation on floating and rolling and cutting the tree apart. As a point of interest, dense branch wood butts sank. I pushed a 150-200 pound round with my pinky finger. We rolled them up some stout branches. The land was only 10" above the lake bed.

Mostly really nice straight grained wood, easy to split. Cut some butt rounds in half. I should have cut them to 12" instead of 18"-20". Would have been easy to split.

New guy built 6 ratchet strap- bundles of fir limbs, carrying them up stairs (LA Style, maybe). Probably at least 40 stairs, maybe more. Access was terrible. I could get my pick-up and trailer in as close as possible, saving 30 stairs. We also had to pack gear up and down them. I wouldn't have tried to take my chipper down there. I would have been stuck. The trailer was probably under 2k, while the chipper is over 4k. Steep, slippery, no turn around. I backed the trailer uphill, with ok traction about 200 feet or more. Not a change I would have risked getting my chip truck stuck down there.

While he finished splitting the lion's share of the cord of wood, I dismantled a 12" or so alder, about 45' tall, on a steep slope, above the ancient (read rotting) cabin's new roof. Loaded it all into a 5x10' trailer, and off we went. Minimal drag for the alder.

About 7.5 hours onsite. Nothing at too breakneck of a pace. Steady. He's gonna feel it. I'm sorta feeling it, but sorta business as usual.

Chest waders with rubber boots for neoprene and foot protection. Didn't get cold. Kindy stormy breezy.

 

[August Hunicke]

Excellent plan and description.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Thanks.

p.s. canola oil.