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Not to be confused with "I took the top at 120'" 
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Jed, you are always so complimentary on everyone else's work pics but guess what? You rock! I was looking at some 40' spruce around here trying to imagine that height times 3 or 4. Insane.
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Jed
TreeHouser
You guys are way too nice to me... of course my ravenously famished ego needs it, but that's another matter. Still... you guys are waaaay too stinkin nice.
Corey: Yeah... as usual... your nail-driving discernment (which seems to cover all, btw) pegged it perfectly. If you want to sound like a woodsman and not like an arborist in WA, you'll say, "It was took at about fifty feet," or, alternately: "it was tooken." "Taken," is not preferable. Always cracks me up when guys know perfecty well, that correct grammar (but honestly... who ever even COULD have cared about that anyway?) is, "Yeah... I saw it start to split on ya..." but prefer: "Yeah... I SEEN it start to split on ya."
We get to take the wood down tomorrow with our 38 tonner. Should be a pretty big build since the driveway (we can't be on the street) is really steep.
Corey: Yeah... as usual... your nail-driving discernment (which seems to cover all, btw) pegged it perfectly. If you want to sound like a woodsman and not like an arborist in WA, you'll say, "It was took at about fifty feet," or, alternately: "it was tooken." "Taken," is not preferable. Always cracks me up when guys know perfecty well, that correct grammar (but honestly... who ever even COULD have cared about that anyway?) is, "Yeah... I saw it start to split on ya..." but prefer: "Yeah... I SEEN it start to split on ya."
We get to take the wood down tomorrow with our 38 tonner. Should be a pretty big build since the driveway (we can't be on the street) is really steep.
Hahaha, Jed, you got it right. I gotta work tooken into my repertoire. And yes indeed my dear sir, the patois "seen", as in, "I seen it," is indeed highly effective when endeavoring to promulgate said working class locution. May I also suggest the use of "seent," as in, "I seent it start to split on ya." Some linguists would opine it to be 'next level shit" with regard to working man linguistics.
Lastly, you sir are altrodocious.
Lastly, you sir are altrodocious.
Burnham
Woods walker
Nice work up top, Jed. You're beginning to get the hang of this stuff 
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Buddy
Treehouser
Great pics Jed, makes me dizzy just looking up at’m.
ruel
TreeHouser
Damn Jed, sometimes I miss helping you kill those fir pigs. Here is my favorite shot the day. Not a 150 footer, but tree work in Maine!
Jed
TreeHouser
Corey: I love you for using the word, "locution." Freakin LOVE that word, and haven't used it in years. Had to look up "patios," (is it French?) and "altradocious," (is it new/slang?). Anyways... yer the man. Yeah... "seent." Haven't heard it with the "T" on the end, but it's kinda growing on me. Ohhh... my good fellow... might I suggest "clumb," as the past tense for "to climb," or even the present participle, as in: "The fist three can be easily fallen (not felled) but, unfortunately, the last two are gonna have to be clumb." ("climbed," really is just a bit bulky, don't you think?)
Sean: Dude. YER the man. Hey! I got yer freakin wrench, dude. Shoot me yer PM address stuff and I'll get it back to ya.
Everyone Else: O.k... o.k... my little ego is all freakin better, so take it easy er my head'll explode. Maybe this'll be good for me... I'll shoot up a pick of Jake taking the first log that the crane couldn't quite get...
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Dull saw, loose bark, small dogs, gutted hinge to get the stick to fall... excuses, excuses...
Sean: Dude. YER the man. Hey! I got yer freakin wrench, dude. Shoot me yer PM address stuff and I'll get it back to ya.
Everyone Else: O.k... o.k... my little ego is all freakin better, so take it easy er my head'll explode. Maybe this'll be good for me... I'll shoot up a pick of Jake taking the first log that the crane couldn't quite get...
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SeanKroll
Treehouser
Wind damage.
I'd already pieced the fourth leader out of the adjacent maples a year ago, and we had wind over the weekend.
Oops. Pushing onto a Doug fir. Yesterday, it seemed to be in two Doug firs. The one today was veritical once again, two hours later. Minimal cleanup.
The smallest trunk was cracked, but slightly attached, and with intertangled branches. Cedar aka Velcro tree. Topmost trunk.
A well-placed, tight first throw in front of the customer, so I told him, I didn't figure that today was a day to mess around with bad throws.
Pulled in a rope, anchoring the end to a tree, other end on the mini, like a 2:1 parbuckle around the trunk, pulling it down and free.
Couldn't imagine doing the work today with a rigid grapple like a Vermeer. The dangle is very self adjusting. I did have to do the swing move, where the grapple is outstretched, boom uncurled forward, high throttle, quick back and forward on the tracks, with a well- timed grapple squeeze allowed me to grab the mostly vertical trunk (Vermeer would have easily grabbed it). The self-adjusting dangle grapple let me manuever the top in ways I Speculate would have torqued and tortured a rigid grapple. 12" diameter top, I'd guess.
The lower two trunks were solidly attached to one another, hanging on about 4-6" of bottom-strap to the trunk, about 20' up. Cedar limbs top-cut at/ into the collar will my hang themselves down to vertical, not brittle wood. Surprising that it didn't rip down/ off the butt.
Faced up 36" cut, opposite the lean
Back cut on far side about 10" wide, came around and finished from the protected side with a clear exit.
The two trunks were solidly attached, with the upper trunk's forked top strattling the fir.
Cut the lower trunk free.
Cut the upper trunk free from base. The top crashed down, splitting the fork, getting it all on the ground.
Gouge through the fir bark, near the base.
I'd already pieced the fourth leader out of the adjacent maples a year ago, and we had wind over the weekend.
Oops. Pushing onto a Doug fir. Yesterday, it seemed to be in two Doug firs. The one today was veritical once again, two hours later. Minimal cleanup.
The smallest trunk was cracked, but slightly attached, and with intertangled branches. Cedar aka Velcro tree. Topmost trunk.
A well-placed, tight first throw in front of the customer, so I told him, I didn't figure that today was a day to mess around with bad throws.
Pulled in a rope, anchoring the end to a tree, other end on the mini, like a 2:1 parbuckle around the trunk, pulling it down and free.
Couldn't imagine doing the work today with a rigid grapple like a Vermeer. The dangle is very self adjusting. I did have to do the swing move, where the grapple is outstretched, boom uncurled forward, high throttle, quick back and forward on the tracks, with a well- timed grapple squeeze allowed me to grab the mostly vertical trunk (Vermeer would have easily grabbed it). The self-adjusting dangle grapple let me manuever the top in ways I Speculate would have torqued and tortured a rigid grapple. 12" diameter top, I'd guess.
The lower two trunks were solidly attached to one another, hanging on about 4-6" of bottom-strap to the trunk, about 20' up. Cedar limbs top-cut at/ into the collar will my hang themselves down to vertical, not brittle wood. Surprising that it didn't rip down/ off the butt.
Faced up 36" cut, opposite the lean
Back cut on far side about 10" wide, came around and finished from the protected side with a clear exit.
The two trunks were solidly attached, with the upper trunk's forked top strattling the fir.
Cut the lower trunk free.
Cut the upper trunk free from base. The top crashed down, splitting the fork, getting it all on the ground.
Gouge through the fir bark, near the base.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
After that, went to a previous job site, nearby.
Got four maple logs on the trailer for the homeowner, and down to my friend's mill, cutting the remaining into firewood. The homeowner's decided to buy a fireplace insert.
My friend has tongs in a chain hung from his bucket.
Got four maple logs on the trailer for the homeowner, and down to my friend's mill, cutting the remaining into firewood. The homeowner's decided to buy a fireplace insert.
My friend has tongs in a chain hung from his bucket.
MasterBlaster
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Get it to the mill!!! 
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Because of the limbs interlacing, and the tree showing it was going, I was able to cut enough, and get out away from the stump with lots of time to watch for javelins from above, and anything being launched from the undergrowth below. It was laying the trunk down right next to the trail down to the waterfront, which was a relatively clear area.
The wife wants to have a tree perch. The view from there would be amazing. Olympic Mountains.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/A...bc258ad3bf01c!8m2!3d47.1604777!4d-122.9531811
Mount Rainier https://www.google.com/maps/place/A...bc258ad3bf01c!8m2!3d47.1604777!4d-122.9531811
The wife wants to have a tree perch. The view from there would be amazing. Olympic Mountains.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/A...bc258ad3bf01c!8m2!3d47.1604777!4d-122.9531811
Mount Rainier https://www.google.com/maps/place/A...bc258ad3bf01c!8m2!3d47.1604777!4d-122.9531811
MasterBlaster
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That is so cool.
dstimber
TreeHouser
My bucket list includes climbing Mt Rainer.
I want to do a Denali prep type of course. Then do Denali a year later.
Probably will not ever happen but it is a goal!
The pics and books I?ve read and seen on Rainer are awesome. Beautiful place!
I want to do a Denali prep type of course. Then do Denali a year later.
Probably will not ever happen but it is a goal!
The pics and books I?ve read and seen on Rainer are awesome. Beautiful place!
SeanKroll
Treehouser
My 6'1" employee by the cedar
Jedidiah. Freakin hilaaaaaaarious!!
Don't even know where to start. So I had never heard of 'tooken' but I liked it right away. Sure enough I heard it the next day, ya know how stuff works that way??Ok, 'altrodocius.' I got you, sucka!!!! It's not a word but it comes from the movie "Shallow Hal" (I'm sure you've seent it, and definitely bears rewatching. Jack Black is da man. So many good scenes in that movie. Check it out this weekend after you shake all the sawdust off your self so you don't get yelled at for making a mess of the couch. Again.) Now I feel a lil guilty that you looked up a word that doesn't exist. Well, it didn't exist. But with clumb, seent, and tooken on the rise, I guess altrodocious is fair game.
Today lol I was thinking about tooken....imagine if that kick ass Liam Neeson kidnapping movie had been named "Tooken"
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Cory, Stig's going to be videoing soon...you're at least due for some pics!
biggun
Monkey for Hire
Well I started the tricky customer job the last few days. Felled two good sized spruce and chipped up with fracked chipper and logged the wood for pickup. Tooken out a poplar and a few other spruces on the front boundary. He decided to keep one f the lines so I left a spruce pole in case I need to rig away from the cables.
Lovely few days, working in a vest this Arvo.
Rich
Lovely few days, working in a vest this Arvo.
Rich
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Very good shots...like the top going over.
MasterBlaster
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ALWAYS like the tops getting chunked! 
