The Official Work Pictures Thread

[MasterBlaster]

Gotta love the easy ones! They don't ALL have to be killers!!!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Never even put on the gaffs. Nice high TIP made that leaner a piece of cake.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I never leave my hooks in the truck on a TD.

 

[vharrison]

Hard labor.

Yep, just glad men are willing to do it. I have helped on occasion, but it is hard work. It pays though, if you demand what it is worth. Don't do it otherwise.

 

[vharrison]

I never leave my hooks in the truck on a TD.

No reason to! Might as well have them handy.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I never leave my hooks in the truck on a TD.

Who said they were in the truck or left behind anywhere??... They were on the ground next to my climb bag next to the garage. Just did not need them ...

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool.

 

[mistahbenn]

Just back from 2 week vaca, and this tulip welcomes me back. 2 1/2 hrs climbing, then a big clean up... Back for the wood.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Pull er over!!!

 

[Tucker943]

Slip bark season! Nice work! Get down with yo bad self!!!!

 

[mistahbenn]

Gotta love the white slipperyness!

 

[Tucker943]

I've seen bad things happen during slip bark. More so when I was logging. I have known of crane picks of tulip poplar logs have slipped right out of their bark and straight down to the ground.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I had a close call with a crane pick up in a tree when the bark slipped. Fortunately it was a little off to one side then. Try to always wrap under a limb where possible, or go around once and flip the cable or sling over itself and then fasten at a lower point. At least you have two points where the bark needs to slip. Scary...

 

[FJR]

I've seen bad things happen during slip bark. More so when I was logging. I have known of crane picks of tulip poplar logs have slipped right out of their bark and straight down to the ground.

Were webbing slings being used?

 

[Tucker943]

Don't recall. But that doesn't matter. Ive watched them slip out of choked chains, and Prentice log loaders as well when logging.

 

[Burnham]

That's bad. I've seen it happen on younger Doug fir, but never to that degree.

 

[rangerdanger]

I've seen it happen some with tulip poplar, heard about it a lot as well. Scary stuff when it happens.

 

[Tucker943]

Ive skidded logs to a downhill landing during slip bark and unhitched my skid. Pushed the tree length wood up onto the pile with the skidder blade for the sawbuck operator to sort through, only to watch logs shoot down at the log loader cab like flying arrows. With an operator in the cab. Quick work with the boom on the loader operators behalf saved his life more then once on that landing. There wasn't much we could do the way the landing was laid out by the forester. Like any kind of downhill logging, we just had to be on our toes and quick to think and respond. Slip bark is a nightmare to cable skid downhill also. Grapple skidding not so bad.

 

[Maximalist]

Today I worked with a bucket truck - http://youtu.be/mg8pToEDPZg

 

[pete mctree]

fast & efficient

 

[MasterBlaster]

Dizzying!

 

[Ryan]

It would be hard not to peek into the windows on a job like that.

 

[Jack]

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Little prune and cable today....
Sorry no real before's
A lot of cut and pitch on this one. Tons of dead in the beginning.

 

[Burnham]

Looks nice, Stephen.