The Official Work Pictures Thread

[MasterBlaster]

Damn skippy!

 

[flushcut]

Well I think that's exactly where the slider would help,wouldn't have to make the salami cut to get a fat chunk to slide off. I'm thinking could cut a 3ftish long fat chunk without having those stupid angles from the slip cut to deal with,just imo obviously

That's a lot of cutting brother well played Sir!

Willie
Rajan, Nice work!
Sean, Great job done!
Bodean, wow! What a job site.
Sam, nice jobs!
Hope I didn't miss anyone!

Nothing exciting here, only thing note worthy was the HO already took down the cable line for me when he dropped a small tree, gave me room to drop this one for him. Dropped 2 smaller ones before this. Easy peasey, HO clean up.

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I love the wind gust like a mini shock wave coming at ya!

 

[flushcut]

And the best action shots goes tooooo!!??? Reg! Wow sending the big wood!

 

[SeanKroll]

Nice shots Reg. Strong work.

Thanks for the winch mounting video. I have a chainsaw powered capstan winch that could work nicely, in a similar fashion.

Any thoughts to share on blowing big tops on dead trees, regarding structural stability and risk?
When I'm dealing with root disease or dead trees, I wonder about equal and opposite reaction forces pushing on the trees.
Thanks.

 

[pantheraba]

Dang, Reg...hella way to celebrate getting over being sick! Your photographer is doing an exquisite job...fine pictures.

Bermy...10-4 on torn fibers being awful to cut through. The first one tried to take my saw with it. I made subsequent cuts downstem of all the torn fibers and then roped down a 2 foot long gob of ratty, torn stuff. I wanted to just bomb it but it would have been like an arcade game watching it ping pong off all the limbs below me. We had to tag line and float everything.

Some shots of how we used a cut off limb as friction/redirect for the belay line:

 

[Jed]

Prettiest hinge If seen in a while, Reg. Man, the bark on that one made those look like mini-OG-Fir. I wonder if they were?

Peter! That was a clean drop, man. Cheers.

Sam: Big pita tree if I ever saw one.

Cory/Reg: Yeah... I ended-up not killin those bees, man... I dunno. Just work around it, ya know??

Gary: That was a cool little vid. Thanks.

Here was a weird and funny little root-rot Fir from today. Had to go up to take 2 side-limbs off...



Then I just high-stumped it off a wedge at about 20', but the "funny," part was the debate... I was like, "That top'll fit, hey guys?" They were like, "Ohhh come-on! Easy. You GOT this, man." (Like, what else are they gonna say. )

Here's the view from the neighbor's fence that the top hit, but barely didn't damage.



The high-stump hinge...



The low-stump hinge...



Andrew, bull-buckin...

 

[Jed]

Cool pics, Gary. Dang technical eh? Great to see that. Yeah... I never even really cut into those figers like that... chain-flippers.

 

[pantheraba]

Damn, Jed, you know a LOT. It did jerk my chain out of the groove. Alex sent a scrench up but just loosening would not let me get it back in. I sent the saw down for him to take the bar off and re-set the chain. Hence my "I am thru cutting thru fibers from now on" epiphany.

 

[RegC]

Nice shots Reg. Strong work.

Thanks for the winch mounting video. I have a chainsaw powered capstan winch that could work nicely, in a similar fashion.

Any thoughts to share on blowing big tops on dead trees, regarding structural stability and risk?
When I'm dealing with root disease or dead trees, I wonder about equal and opposite reaction forces pushing on the trees.
Thanks.

No problem Sean. It works great, and slips right off in seconds by pulling the pin.

I look at every dead tree individually. Try to work out how and when it died, past wind exposure etc. It seems unlikely that topping a tree (if done correctly) is going to to push or pull on the tree any harder that being hit with the past years winds. And while the bottom end and root system will be degraded, so is the part you're cutting off.....lighter and disintegrating, therefore nothing like a heavy live top of a similar size. I close attention needs to be paid when reading the favor, picking the spot of wood where you're going to make the cut, and getting the top off the stump fast. Even though I didn't use them yesterday, I always carry wedges, and a hand saw where there's a chance the chainsaw might
fail, or its bar impede the wedges. Top and bottom of it is, I would never go higher because I thought a bigger top increases the chances of the tree failing. It's all about making it fit.

Jed that double was an old tree compared to the others. And getting up there in height, it's just that Dave had the camera on zoom. Full of hardened spikes, tearouts and broken limbs on the way up. I generally work those trees with a single flipline. Otherwise trying to advance 2 lines takes an age.

 

[Mick!]

Good stuff and pics.

I recall a pertinent vid you did about spiking up dead trees and seeing a wave in motion as you ascended, pointing out its best to stop sometimes and let it settle.

That was for stone dead ones iirc though.

 

[RegC]

Thanks Mick. Dead firs in the PNW area can get into quite the oscillation at you're climbing up, or taking a top....because they get tall but taper is so gradual. Where's the conifers back home are reletively stout, and taper off fast. I did a dead dead grand fir last week that at half way up was wobble so much because of my rhythm of advancing the flipline. At which point at had to stop and crawl up with my chest against the trunk to keep it still. Ended up cinching off the climbline 10 ft below where I had to get to, to make the topping cut, such was the extent if the rot. Still didn't give me a great chance, but better than none at all in the event if it collapsing.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I move upward like a sloth on crispy pines.

 

[squisher]

Great pics everyone!

And good thoughts/insights Reg on dead tree dismantling.

 

[RegC]

I always take a good look and inspect the tops when they're down too. Try to determine how much higher if at all would've been safe to climb. As is evident, the top of the old fir was safe as houses. There's the cut

 

[PCTREE]

looking good Reg, love the winch on chipper. Any way i can find to get a motor to do my work Im in. Just lazy like that.

On that note here was my "Work" for the day, fun day.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Badass crane!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Digging the winch on the chipper !!!

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Reg, your tops are bigger than many of my trees!

Amazing work you all=D>

 

[dstimber]

A bunch of great pics! 👍👍

 

[Grendel]

Got to do some contract climbing today.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Show em how it's done!!!

 

[pantheraba]

I like that size tree...good shots.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Indeed

 

[Sgriff]

Crushing em Reg,awesome pictures. That photographer is a keeper!

Sweet deal Sam,did you hang the one tree from the other or.... What is happening in that first picture with the lowering device?

 

[Sgriff]

Nice crane!!