The Official Work Pictures Thread
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
sotc
Dormant hero!!
I forgot a picture of Mt.McLaughlin when I was up there, dur. View pics rock!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Jeeeeezus that twas rotten.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
That's the Indian paint, totally expected that. My tree moved a whole lot more than Kyle's!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
rskybiz
TreeHouser
Couple recent jobs
A little 3:1 and we swung it off.
And some crazy amounts of firewood.
A little 3:1 and we swung it off.
And some crazy amounts of firewood.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Nice it left you a high rigging point 
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Cool rigging...love to see such done.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Some exceptional work pics recently.
Cursedvoice, you don't have any issues with fires? looks pretty dry there.
Cursedvoice, you don't have any issues with fires? looks pretty dry there.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Probably the last one of the season to be sure..
We had a perfect day for it. Recent rain. Open area that was defensible with plenty of water and personnel on hand. Favourable winds.Cut all the grass around and bared the ground. We only burned the stuff that was close and easy nearest the buildings. All the other slash that was way down in the bowl below is being staged for next season. Fire was extinguished at the end of the day.
We had a perfect day for it. Recent rain. Open area that was defensible with plenty of water and personnel on hand. Favourable winds.Cut all the grass around and bared the ground. We only burned the stuff that was close and easy nearest the buildings. All the other slash that was way down in the bowl below is being staged for next season. Fire was extinguished at the end of the day.
SouthSoundTree-
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Ironic that the areas with the most fire danger, and need fuels disposed of, are also the most at risk for a fire escaping. I just had two bonfires here. Green grass around my fire pit at home, and recent rain for my big burn. I get nervous burning, from my time in dry country.
Mick!
TreeHouser
I had a job twenty odd years ago strimming long grass on a large area with young saplings in plastic tree tubes.
So I got a bit ambitious with the fires and lost control, it got away in the dry wind and every tree it got to set fire to a plastic tube killing the tree, lost hundreds that day. All my fault.
So I got a bit ambitious with the fires and lost control, it got away in the dry wind and every tree it got to set fire to a plastic tube killing the tree, lost hundreds that day. All my fault.
Peter
Treehouser
Shortly after I moved to Cambridgeshire I had a job for a farmer, clearing a load of trees around a derelict house. To keep costs down he asked me to burn it all on site, which I did. It was a pretty big fire and a few days later he rang up asking if I had a digger.....
Turned out the fire had set alight to the peat layer under the ground, as a lot of this area is ancient peat bog. Fortunately we had two days of torrential rain and it went out, as I later found out underground peat fires can burn for years, it just smoulders away underground and pops up every now and again. They can cost thousands to put out, as you literally have to dig them out.
Narrow escape I feel!
Turned out the fire had set alight to the peat layer under the ground, as a lot of this area is ancient peat bog. Fortunately we had two days of torrential rain and it went out, as I later found out underground peat fires can burn for years, it just smoulders away underground and pops up every now and again. They can cost thousands to put out, as you literally have to dig them out.
Narrow escape I feel!
MasterBlaster
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Damn! I don't think we have that stuff here...
Peter
Treehouser
Probably not in Louisiana, but plenty of peat in the USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bogs#Americas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bogs#Americas
Mick!
TreeHouser
My old man used to say to me "you could feck up a fine day boy"
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Have to be very careful and diligent around fire here. Best know what you are doing in dryer conditions. But even then......
Even the pros lose on to prescribed burning once in a while
Even the pros lose on to prescribed burning once in a while
flushcut
TreeHouser
There was a peat bog fire not to far from me many years ago that burned for three years until 60+ inches of snow smothered it.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
There are coal fires that have been burning for fifty years or more.
Waaaaay longer than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennender_Berg
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I was actually thinking in the US, but forgot to edit the post.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Sooooooo I popped my Palm Pruning Cherry today..... Not like we have a lot of them up here and most that are ain't looking all that great or dead.
Of course it had to be a Date Palm
HO set the prune parameters and would not let me have my way with it and try to do a Jamie.
So I did what I could to his liking on a budget.
Only a little blood let and took a C note home for it...
TADA!!!
Have at it boys...
And no... Ladders were not involved... Only available
Of course it had to be a Date Palm
HO set the prune parameters and would not let me have my way with it and try to do a Jamie.
So I did what I could to his liking on a budget.
Only a little blood let and took a C note home for it...
TADA!!!
Have at it boys...
And no... Ladders were not involved... Only available
I would 
