The Official Work Pictures Thread

[MasterBlaster]

Just stopped him FROM BEING dead

ftfy

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Both

 

[CurSedVoyce]

So a follow up on the prune and cable job. Finally edited some pictures on the before and after stuff.
Tree 1&2 before


After


Tree 2 Before (Sorry, not the best shot)

Tree 2 After (Note the view from the crown raise is more open and the roses will get more light. From the pool area, you can see the coastal range on a good day, lights in the valley at night)

 

[treebilly]

Beautiful

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks Rich

 

[PCTREE]

Nice looking trims, personally I don't have the patience.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Don't know why I do. Other than its better than ugly crispy dead risky buggered pines......
Rob hates them. Bored to tears waiting to move in to clear the brush.
Was a lot in these. Just sort of whittle through it.

 

[SeanKroll]

Fine Pruning Work, both in quality and proper name. Fine Cabling, too.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Heck, I like trimming!

Nice job, good looking trees!

 

[stig]

Yep, beautiful.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks guys... Been working on the dead pines last couple.
But here are the 150 or so young pines I have been taking care of for the guy over the years, that we did the other day.
Nice doing preservation work. We remove a few at a time. First check for diseased (Pine gall rust), and then spacing. Mostly limbed up high enough so a flail mower can keep the brush down, and any dead as far as 12 foot of pole saw can reach.
I'll post some pictures later of one the dead nasties we dropped today. Doing mostly burning.

 

[Jed]

I did nail the shot too

That's my freakin BOYYY!!! Seriously... some pretty clean work fer a landscraper. Seriously... thanks so much for the leg-up at Eastside... I'm lovin those guys. Real tree guys... no corporate bs.

Still runnin yer rope wrench! Want it back? Give me an excuse to grab a unicender.

 

[Jed]

Nice looking trims, personally I don't have the patience.

Same.

I gotta say, though Steven... that's some seriously beautiful work. I'm startin ta freakin HATE pruning now. I'm always thinkin... "This is such BS... these trees are doing perfectly fine on their own." And then I'm ALWAYS, Always, always tempted to do less work for the same money. That's the only reason I freakin hate it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks Jed. Don't know what to say to help you change your inner thinking with pruning. I just figure I'll try to balance out how the customer feels it should be, to how the tree will react and the environment they share.
Less is more I often say.

 

[Burnham]

Best wishes on the new gig, Jed. I know you'll be a major asset to the company.

And I agree with you...nearly always, a tree does not need thinning by outside influences (i.e. us ). They can manage that on their own, as resource limitations decree. People are the ones who determine those parameters, dependent on human need or desire.

Stephen...aside from my snide comments above ...you are a true artist. I cannot begin to say how impressed I continue to be with your development as a full spectrum arborist. I applaud you without reservation.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

It's often a weird transition going from preservation type work to just slaying crispy nasty....
This one was pretty rotten and had to be cut at about 5 feet up to get good enough hinge wood to make her steer right in the hole. Had a big sweep in it with side lean. About a 130 footer 36dbh. Always a sigh of relief when they hit the hole and went as planned. Sent the top right up and across the road through a slot, just shy of the property line.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks B!.

 

[Burnham]

All kinda crappy fell to have to make, and you did it well. I repeat my last post, Stephen.

I think you might have been paying attention to some of the stuff us oldsters have been saying here these last many years .

 

[Mick!]

Same.

I gotta say, though Steven... that's some seriously beautiful work. I'm startin ta freakin HATE pruning now. I'm always thinkin... "This is such BS... these trees are doing perfectly fine on their own." And then I'm ALWAYS, Always, always tempted to do less work for the same money. That's the only reason I freakin hate it.

Nice documentation Steven thanks for posting.

I don?t like trims (though that has different connotations over here) because the client can argue that you?ve taken too much/too little off, and you can?t really argue.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I never argue - just ask for the check.

They hired us to trim the tree.

 

[stig]

I think you might have been paying attention to some of the stuff us oldsters have been saying here these last many years .

Sometimes us oldsters manage to screw up, too!

Had a beech barberchair on me for the first time in a decade or more.

Slim, tall leaner. I still can't figure why it decided to do it, as I had bored it and tripped it from behind.
Did some stump forensics, and my hinge might have been a tad too thick, but nowhere near enough to make it act like that.
It didn't have old wind checks or anything like that, either.

I'm pretty much thinking " Shit happens , sometimes" is the only explanation.

It came extremely fast as soon as the tree started going, almost like an explosion with splinters flying around, and the reason I made it out of there was that it decided to fall at the opposite side of where I was standing and that I followed Fionas advise and tripped it using the "Dogstooth" method, that she mentioned once in a thread about leaners.
It is for us who have to make low stumps. It means you can stand up while tripping the tree.
I thought it sounded like a good tecnique and have been doing it since. You can see the dogs tooth on the left side of the stump, it is split at the top, where the log came back.
So even if it had come down on my side of the tree, it wouldn't have hit me.


So thanks, Fiona

 

[MasterBlaster]

Crikey!!!

 

[SeanKroll]

Whoa! Glad you made it unscathed!

 

[Bermy]

Wow!
Whew, so glad you got out of that in one piece Stig, and if in some small way I helped, then thanks must also go to those who taught me because that's where I learned it...Jack Kenyon, Merrist Wood College.
Long live the dog's tooth release cut...and those who use it!!

 

[biggun]

Yup, standard practice in UK Arb and forestry felling for leaners.

Glad the dogs tooth didn't come back and bite yer Stig.

God Jul mate.

I am now officially on holiday after what felt like a toughie of a week. It must have been tough as I only worked 3 days LOL.

Deadwooding 30metre Elms in the ice and snow on Wednesday was not much fun. It was at the Vigelandmuseet in Viglands/Frogner Park, a major tourist attraction in Oslo and possible the busiest of the many parks.

We had to clean out the dead to the nth degree due to the location and footfall. Didn't get any pictures as it was too bloody cold and snowy.