The Official Work Pictures Thread

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Put this poor tree out of its misery today. What looks like limbs on the right is actually the top just folded over.

 

[Nutball]

Could've planted another tree in it.

 

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Easily could have supported another tree.

 

[davidwyby]

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[Burnham]

Winch for the win. I'd have been left with few palatable choices many a time in my USFS work without the big Warn on the front bumper of my several assigned 4x4 trucks. I have not heard yet any real reason why so few arb services have one or more on their rigs...maybe it is pure lack of imagination .

@davidwyby...Why no roller fairlead? I can see there would most often be little sideways pull for the trailer, so maybe that is it?

 

[friedrich]

Winch for the win. I'd have been left with few palatable choices many a time in my USFS work without the big Warn on the front bumper of my several assigned 4x4 trucks. I have not heard yet any real reason why so few arb services have one or more on their rigs...maybe it is pure lack of imagination .

@davidwyby...Why no roller fairlead? I can see there would most often be little sideways pull for the trailer, so maybe that is it?

i would love to but my bank account tells me my little petrol winch is enough

 

[Burnham]

Well, at least you have a powered winch to put to the job as required. I applaud.

I needed the well-used and often neglected Lewis winch, powered by an ancient but reliable Stihl 056, more than a few times when the truck mounted Warn couldn't be put in play.

 

[SeanKroll]

I've got a Simpson capstan. Useful.

So much of our work is away from the truck, and other things to buy.

 

[SeanKroll]

Near the topping point

 

[davidwyby]

Winch for the win. I'd have been left with few palatable choices many a time in my USFS work without the big Warn on the front bumper of my several assigned 4x4 trucks. I have not heard yet any real reason why so few arb services have one or more on their rigs...maybe it is pure lack of imagination .

@davidwyby...Why no roller fairlead? I can see there would most often be little sideways pull for the trailer, so maybe that is it?

Need a round tuit.

Upgraded from my old 12k that served me well for many years, two decades, finally died…bought used - to a used 15k. Haven’t modded the fairlead yet. Feeding off the boom, the cable generally goes where it’s supposed to.

 

[davidwyby]

I find a winch there more useful than on the front. I also have a receiver mounted one that I can also anchor to a tree or whatever…as long as the battery lasts

 

[davidwyby]

Grooooosss

 

[Burnham]

That looks like a pain in the butt.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

It was waving Hi.

 

[Burnham]

Or giving you the finger .

 

[davidwyby]

I wanted to fell them whole but it was windy. Turns out they’re more of a bush than a tree and Full of pigeon nests, dead and alive critters, caterpillars, dirt, trash….

 

[Mick!]

This popped up on my memories thing on FB.
13 years ago, an Ash.
Wish I’d kept that little digger!

 

[cory]

Big tree, nice machine

 

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Spruce tippy top, this was part of the job, the other part was cutting back two walnuts over the roof and removing a small dead ash plus a privit hedge removal.

 

[SeanKroll]

New grinder anti-vibe system for the grinder sweep valve...a bungee. Need to put in a tension pin for the tongue valve....round tuit.










I'm liking the Jet sled so far. Only used it a bit. Root mat from under bricks.





Worked on Steamboat Island yesterday and part of today.


Some tip-tie and lower between power and internet lines. Maybe a red maple. Very upright.

 

[cory]

New grinder anti-vibe system for the grinder sweep valve...a bungee. Need to put in a tension pin for the tongue valve....

Today I watched a very high production tree service grind a huge stump with a beat-looking but highly effective RG100 which imo is one of the best grinders ever made. They used bungees to keep the throttle lever fully engaged and they did the entire clean up and loam and seed by hand. This outfit does all the big or difficult town tree removals here and I was a bit astounded to learn they clean up all stumps by hand. And they commute 1.5-2 hours per day from Rhode Island to do this town work.

We would crush huge stump clean ups with the Kubota 520 wheel loader. Diff strokes/diff folks.

 

[SeanKroll]

This is the one lever that gets held non-stop while grinding. Chives transfers through the machine.

The Hulk anti-vibe gloves are good for unavoidable vibration.

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I had a bungee on hand. 4 small stumps today. Maybe a bunch of small stumps tomorrow. I had the bungee in the truck.


I want to avoid white finger.