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Trimmed a Japanese maple and cherry blossom today. Get away from home and clean up the cherry’s tips. Took down a dead and unidentifed softwood with a maple hanger above it. Kept enough tree for the ninja course. This was for my sister. Brother in law helped load the trailer and it was nice working with him. Our kids all played together. Spring break and the kids are wanting activities.
 

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Hmm... Canal water. Isn't that a safety issue? How does purification work out there?
Don’t drink it. Drinking water is trucked in.

The history of water here is pretty crazy. Well water seems to be only good for geothermal energy.



I didn’t see a video about it at a glance but the flume in Yuma is pretty crazy too. Canal tunneled under a river way back when.
 
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This is a black locust after, what I call, Topping Restoration Pruning, last spring, for some new homeowners.
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They decided it is not the right thing for the location.
A greenhouse, instead.


Tight rigging today into sucker growth with no room to spare, pictures starting halfway through the dismantle:
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Table for the back yard
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The logs will go to local woodworkers. Chips for onsite mulch.
 
Half live-half dead maple that belongs to the custy's neighbor. Large dead trunks are out of frame.
Glove at the base.
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I had a dead hemlock dismantle to finish my run of work before Spring Break... homeowner cleanup.
KISS...one three-strand, 3 sling and biner combos, and wedges and a topping ax.


It was growing up into the maple so it started at 26" dbh, went to about 40' normally, with some normal-big limbs, then very quickly became spindly. Climbing to start at about 6-7" diameter, I snap cut and hand-lowered, then threw the top, leaving lower limbs as dampeners.

Worked down, dropping limb tips onto other limbs, then throwing them until I got into 8-9" wood for a TIP to work the lower limbs. 2 slings and a biner to hang, then throw when they were to big to cut and hold, easily. One double-whipped limbs.

Four 4-foot chunks, then used a munter to rappel on the pull rope (spurs and lanyard still on the spar), then the felling cut, with gas to spare in the tank. Used a natural crotched, pretensioned 3:1 with a gutted hinge and a couple wedges for an easy tip onto the brush pile.
About 2 hours, at a leisurely, but focused pace. Happy customer, ready to refer me.


I was aiming for one trip from the truck, and one trip back, but remembered I had to chunk up the spar, so needed a bigger saw than my 193t.

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IMG_6015.jpeg IMG_6011.jpeg IMG_6014.jpeg I forgot to get a before pic. So google will have to do. Ash on the right had one top break and fall to the right on the Indian laurel. Another was hanging down in the driveway.

The other smaller tree to the West had a bunch of dead limbs in it. I suspect too much sun. Knocked the dead out and gave the big one a reduction.
 
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