The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Maximalist]

What is the substance you dressed the wound with?

Acrylic paint.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Haha, I've done that!

 

[HolmenTree]

Not many photos posted here lately, so thought I 'd just post 2 of a big old brittle willow I removed today. Nothing special, a little climbing to cut and chuck a little overhanging the customers house, chipped up the limbs and left the blocks for the owner to dispose of.
Three stem stump totaling at 68 inch diameter ground level to grind out, easy peasy though....... willow stump chips are soft grinding and extra light to haul away.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nice mess!!!

 

[HolmenTree]

Nice mess!!!

Sure is Butch, but I like it this way
The customer wanted to save some money by hauling away the blocks to the land fill himself [don't hurt my feelings] , willow is no good for firewood.
I chipped and hauled away the limbs for him, ground out the stump and hauled away the chips. I never haul away blocks because there is a posse of firewood hunters around every corner who will haul it away for me.
Only exception is DED elm which I have to dispose of myself to the landfill.......good workout and good extra coin for me.

 

[Porkbrick]

i really admire you solo outfit there Holman. tight and efficient. heres a few of mine from the past few weeks... 50 olive trees pruned up for a party.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That could be in a Hobbit flick!

 

[HolmenTree]

i really admire you solo outfit there Holman. tight and efficient. heres a few of mine from the past few weeks... 50 olive trees pruned up for a party.

Thanks Jaime,
Those are outstanding pics you posted here, beautiful work and job well done on a species so valuable to a society of people who are in the know what's good for them to live "healthy".

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nice olive grove. Good pics as well Willard. I wish I could even sell stump grinding
Been busy here... Little mistletoe job on a respectable live oak.. Fire up here (Carstens Fire) made for an interesting day next to the airport with helicopters sporting water buckets flying over head. Run way and helo pad was about a foot ball field away
15 plus MPH gusts and blade wash... weeeeeeee..

 

[Porkbrick]

do you treat the mistletoe, or just plan on cutting it periodically?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I treat it if I shave it with a tar based pruning sealer. I'll will maintain the tree on two year intervals for latent seeds etc. What infected branches I removed are gone for good.

 

[HolmenTree]

Awesome pictures Stephen!
Sometimes I'll get my customer to take pictures of myself climbing, but I have to say most times I'm a little camera shy. ha ha

 

[woodworkingboy]

I see customers taking photos, and then ask them later if they wouldn't mind sending them (or some) to me. They always answer, "Sure", and seem happy to, like it adds meaning to their photography. I give my email and the pictures never show up. I can't help wondering if they died or something?

 

[Steve Mack]

Nice pictures as usual everyone.

A bit of Deja vu for me today.

I was there years ago but they are selling and wanted the stump out of sight, going to hide what's left with mulch. No wonder that's where it got left.

Gave the 2100 a workout, it was bloody hard. Lemon Gum. Don't ask me how I lifted some of those those blocks out of there, I can hardly lift a beer now.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I can see why they wanted the stump removed...and the back breakers.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Slice and dice!!!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Lotta chunks..... Hope you had your towel handy

 

[Maximalist]

Today I worked solo. Work photos and that is nearby. Tourists from the Rising sun Country... In St. Petersburg there are too much poplars... Some landscapes distracted me from work...

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool! Where'd the snow go???

 

[Maximalist]

Cool! Where'd the snow go???

It is poplar down...

 

[rskybiz]

I love the scenery where you are! The spires are they named Andrew?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Very nice scenery!.

That looked pretty cripsy there Andrew.
Also looks like they think it's the new park bench lol

 

[Maximalist]

I love the scenery where you are! The spires are they named Andrew?

It is a spike of the Peter and Paul cathedral. (Read in Vikipendy)

 

[Maximalist]

Very nice scenery!.

That looked pretty cripsy there Andrew.
Also looks like they think it's the new park bench lol

It too always surprised me. I so can't!

 

[rskybiz]

Yesterday became one strange moment as I watched a hawk fly to a transformer to land and then fireworks. Sounded like a gun shot.