The Official Work Pictures Thread

[rangerdanger]

Some video from yesterdays removals.

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[mistahbenn]

Good to see you again Rob!

 

[pantheraba]

Excellent!! Thumbs up back at ya!

You could call this Two Monks Tree Service...you both do well honoring your vows of silence.

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Good to see you again Rob!

Nutter, I saw you this morning.

 

[Husabud]

Here is one of the two Butternut( it was supposed to be 6) that we removed yesterday.
That is a 32" bar on my MS 660





The other tree is over the house and road and about 70'. It's trunk makes this one look like a twig.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nice when you can get the big wood...

 

[Jack]

 

[woodworkingboy]

This thread is turning depressing....

Is Butternut a usable wood for anything?

 

[Husabud]

White Walnut. Yes, turners and table makers and of course firewood. Shall I send you some Jay?

 

[woodworkingboy]

Kindly offer, Bud, thanks. As it turns out though, I think I am more familiar with it than I knew, and have already used it. Googling it, the wood seems very similar to our Walnut here, also a White Walnut. Very similar grain and the trees are most compatible for hybridization with Butternut. Some of the Walnuts here can be fairly hard and some rather soft, I always wondered about it. It seems line one or the other might be Butternut. The surviving Butternuts in the states might be hybrids with the Japanese variety, those seem resistant to the disease. 90% of true Butternuts are gone, apparently.

 

[Porkbrick]

had some fun in my back yard today!

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nice photos, did you order a pizza pie when assembled up there?

 

[MasterBlaster]

That's a hella backyard!

 

[Porkbrick]

Nice photos, did you order a pizza pie when assembled up there?

that would have been awesome. we spent around 4 hours in the tree, i was pretty darn hungry.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nice climb ... Beautiful pics. I hope the heat was kinder to you over there.

 

[Husabud]

Sweet!

 

[Bodean]

Rad Pictures. Jamie and Scott and Adrian and Benn and

The boss always says "easy job, Straight forward" that's code word for "you're fu$$ed"./.

 

[sotc]

Heres a fatty we dumped this am

 

[sotc]

Hmm, other pics didn't show

 

[Bodean]

Wow, what a blast that must have been.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

And using Jerry's saw to do is just wayyyyy too cool. Elevate that fell to epic..

 

[MasterBlaster]

Outstanding!!!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Now serious question. How well did you read the weight and lean. Was the Jack really necessary? Just wondering as I have used things on the past, mainly pull lines, as insurance and really did not need them.. Just when I read the tree, it was on the edge of questionable where the favour of the lay really was.

 

[sotc]

It slightly favored the lay but there was one forward leader I was a bit worried may fail with the face cut. Wouldn't have hit anything but I would have lost my forward weight. I had some wind in my favor. I set the jack around 3000 pounds and started cutting up one side. Jack was down around 2k so I cut till it zeroed. More hinge than I wanted but figured I better cut the other side. as I was cutting I knew it was going and stayed at the stump in effort to skinny up the hinge till I had to skedaddle. In hind sight, no, I didn't need the jack but I'd probably do it again the same way.

 

[sotc]

None of those pics really show the weight distribution to the lay