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biggun
Monkey for Hire
Not posted in this thread for a while. Climbed and dismantled a decent sized spruce today. Had Haakon out with us helping in the ground.
Surprisingly sound timber as at that size they are often decayed round these parts.
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Surprisingly sound timber as at that size they are often decayed round these parts.
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biggun
Monkey for Hire
The squeals on the last clip were because the land dropped away towards a cabin. One of the lumps I knocked off rolled that way and wedged in between the trees and was a bugger to cut up. Hence the delight after we built a little catchers mitt to keep the log off the floor and rolling sideways.
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Today’s hackery.
thought they would have the fence down but had to do it. Couldn’t fit truck and lift in the side yard under the eaves, had to push it in by hand. I’ve not been feeling well, out of it…forgot gas for the lift and the 2511. Delays got the temp up. Cut the downed tree out of the way, pulled the root ball out when I departed. Neighbor wanted it all gone, just cut his side short. The weak regrowth I’m always talking about gave me my first real scare in the lift. I was up over the tree and down toward the pool and didn’t realize the lift has rested on a limb. It let go and I went for a ride. Thought I was going in the pool and had visions of drowning, being tied in to the basket. Got up to 100, first time working in the heat this year. I considered bailing out into the pool intentionally multiple times.
pigwot
RuMi's, Juni's, Lowen’s, Inge, and Dolly’s Gpa!
Levitated a 55 ft tall dead one yesterday. Hollow at the base and up about ten feet, and the Pileated Woodpecker had blasted it halfway through about 30 feet up. Hung it from the hickory next to it and whittled it from the bottom up.
Cobleskill
Treehouser
Cool. I will have to look again at a tree I have to take down. Might work. It has a lean for a building. If I use the anchor available to pull, it has a 20 foot White Oak in danger. My bud planted the oak 20 years ago. Been pondering using two pull ropes. One to get it committed to away from the building and then take up the slack from an anchor that would keep it from hitting the oak.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
COOLVESTS!!!!!!!
Mick!
TreeHouser
Not very big, but not very small sequoia we did last week.
As you can see had split at a co-dom earlier this spring.
As you can see had split at a co-dom earlier this spring.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Thanks, light was good, blue sky etc.
Kaveman
Treehouser
I hear the Sequoia do right well across much of Europe. That one seemed to have taken to it fairly well. Any idea how old it was?
Mick!
TreeHouser
They do ok, this one was 75/80 years old.
They were rarely planted in groups, probably because they were expensive, so in isolation I often see them with their tops blown out, which ruins them aesthetically.
They were rarely planted in groups, probably because they were expensive, so in isolation I often see them with their tops blown out, which ruins them aesthetically.
Power co and beetle kill, removal.
Bigger than it looks. 3’ dbh. I topped out the lift and ended up thru wedging a pretty big top off (red). I really
like that narrow alum wedge and 4lb estwing fireside friend.
Rigged and lowered most of the right stem off the center.
Another chunk off the center to keep it from limbing the keep tree.
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Coast live Oak is abrasive…
Bigger than it looks. 3’ dbh. I topped out the lift and ended up thru wedging a pretty big top off (red). I really
like that narrow alum wedge and 4lb estwing fireside friend.
Rigged and lowered most of the right stem off the center.
Another chunk off the center to keep it from limbing the keep tree.
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Coast live Oak is abrasive…
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Just dirty or glazed/ fused fibers?
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Yes, looking closer.
@davidwyby what was the circumstance?
Leather cambium/ rope savers are so quick and easy, plus cheap. Blocks/ rings cost more but also save ropes.
@davidwyby what was the circumstance?
Leather cambium/ rope savers are so quick and easy, plus cheap. Blocks/ rings cost more but also save ropes.
Light glaze, groundie must have let it run too much.
I was not in my usual truck and was short on gear. I hadn’t expected to rig, and that arborplex is somewhat disposable. I had planned on it being a
Natural crotch rigging rope, but forgot how nasty the surface of oak is.
I have a difficult to express relationship or feeling about rigging, especially after yesterday. I think it’s cool and respect those who do it well, but I prefer to spectate, it’s too slow and fiddly for me. Same goes for heights in the bucket. I don’t care for it, the lift is getting old. I do trees mainly for fun, and that is not fun. I’m really looking forward to some PNW stay on the ground and fell conifers vs. these messy contorted over targets trees.
That tree is one of several on a summer
Cabin tract I was supposed to do, but only that one worked out. Others are maybes…original plan was to bring Tele up as a “crane” to piece down, and do all of them… not worth the transport for one tree. I looked at it several months ago and of course my pictures and memory made it seem smaller and easier than it was.
Side note, we knocked off a couple other hazard limbs for other people, and there is one elderly lady (fixed income) who lives there full time. She had a couple oak limbs getting long, hollow, and over the house she wanted trimmed back. I had told her I would do them and had planned to just knock them out while I was there and not charge her. Well, she lost my card and hadn’t heard from me, so when I showed up to do hers, she said she had someone coming next week to do it, but the work had expanded a bit - three setups. The price they had given her seemed pretty good to me, but she asked if I would do it for less, my buddy (who I did the big tree for) and I agreed, let’s knock it
out despite being late in the day. We had been doing it all day and were in the groove, so it went quick. She insisted on paying us, but I only let her pay me a fraction of what it was supposed to be…it’s nice to see happy tears for a change. :-)
I was not in my usual truck and was short on gear. I hadn’t expected to rig, and that arborplex is somewhat disposable. I had planned on it being a
Natural crotch rigging rope, but forgot how nasty the surface of oak is.
I have a difficult to express relationship or feeling about rigging, especially after yesterday. I think it’s cool and respect those who do it well, but I prefer to spectate, it’s too slow and fiddly for me. Same goes for heights in the bucket. I don’t care for it, the lift is getting old. I do trees mainly for fun, and that is not fun. I’m really looking forward to some PNW stay on the ground and fell conifers vs. these messy contorted over targets trees.
That tree is one of several on a summer
Cabin tract I was supposed to do, but only that one worked out. Others are maybes…original plan was to bring Tele up as a “crane” to piece down, and do all of them… not worth the transport for one tree. I looked at it several months ago and of course my pictures and memory made it seem smaller and easier than it was.
Side note, we knocked off a couple other hazard limbs for other people, and there is one elderly lady (fixed income) who lives there full time. She had a couple oak limbs getting long, hollow, and over the house she wanted trimmed back. I had told her I would do them and had planned to just knock them out while I was there and not charge her. Well, she lost my card and hadn’t heard from me, so when I showed up to do hers, she said she had someone coming next week to do it, but the work had expanded a bit - three setups. The price they had given her seemed pretty good to me, but she asked if I would do it for less, my buddy (who I did the big tree for) and I agreed, let’s knock it
out despite being late in the day. We had been doing it all day and were in the groove, so it went quick. She insisted on paying us, but I only let her pay me a fraction of what it was supposed to be…it’s nice to see happy tears for a change. :-)
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