The Official Work Pictures Thread

[CurSedVoyce]

It is amazing how much a couple of guys can get done as a crew with a good game plan... Nice work!

This is another from yesterday. I did the inspection. Fat little oak on a main road. Fence. HO did not want the surrounding trees hit.
Rotten, hollow nasty cracked. I told the guys, DO NOT climb. set lines in the tops and pull them out with the truck. Then fell the spar with MA. Tree was about 40 DBH
POS broke at the first main crotch when Mikes jeep just started to roll.
It was all firewood cleaned up by the tenant when I came back a few hours later. There were relief filled faces that were very happy about that call. No damage to anything or anyone. Comm helmets were nice to have as well

 

[pantheraba]

Fugly tree...good call on how to get it down.

 

[sotc]

Air spading this a.m. After a spray job

Here's a nasty willow I bid today, can't believe it's still standing!

 

[ch74]

That thing don't look so good bro b safe is that willow.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Grrrrrrnasty Willie

 

[sotc]

Yeah, willow, I think I could chip most of that trunk. Bucket removal

 

[FireFighterZero]

Ya need a break Joel? Got them taters cultivated?

 

[candoarms]

FireFighterZero,

I could certainly use a break, but unfortunately that won't happen. I was the lucky winner in a bidding war for the installation of a new a city fencing project. Work begins immediately. 4250 feet of fence to put up. It's going to be a woven wire fence attached to steel T-posts driven every 10 feet.........so approximately 420 T-posts to drive in. I purchased a Ski-drill gas powered post driver for the project. The cost of the post driver will be worth it in time savings, as it will allow me to get back to the tree work a whole lot sooner.

The taters are looking good. A bit weedy, but that's to be expected when a guy isn't around to take care of things.

I'll try to stop in here a bit more often, but summers are short up here in North Dakota, as you well know. I'll have plenty of time to visit here between Halloween and Memorial Day.

Joel

 

[MasterBlaster]

Visit when you can, Joel - and good luck on that fence job!

 

[candoarms]

CurSedVoyce,

That's some sort of screwed up oak you had there. If I didn't know better, I'd swear that it had somehow been crossed with a Boxelder when it was just a wee little guy.

I've often said that God was just a man....like you and me. He was sitting around the campfire with his buddies one night, after having a bit too much to drink, when he said, "Watch this". And that's how we ended up with mosquitos, ticks, fleas, biting flies, and boxelder trees.

Joel

 

[CurSedVoyce]

drunk prankster

 

[Jed]

Actually Joel... the drunk prankster goes by another name.

 

[flushcut]

I received a call from a fellow tree man in a nearby town. He wanted help with a project that he had placed a bid on. It was a Siberian Elm tree that was located inside a totally enclosed yard, with no access available for a boom truck. Two days....two guys.....and I'm nearly too pooped out to post this message here.


Joel

Gigs like this is where a GRCS rule! This one reminds me of when I first started and 'Year of The Silver Maple'

 

[candoarms]

Flushcut,

You must have been reading my mind. I have a GRCS in my shopping cart at TreeStuff.com as I type this.

I was thinking of maybe going a cheaper route, but each time I've done that I end up purchasing the better things anyway..... and parking the first purchase in the back of the trailer. No more of that. I just want the GRCS and be done playing around with indexing rope winches on the rigging line. Phooey.....The GRCS just makes me smile when I think about taking on another tree like that.
I'll likely place my order sometime over the weekend.

Hey......question for you or anyone else with the GRCS. I own a gas powered 1/2" drill. I was wondering if I could use that with the GRCS, or maybe I need something with a lot more torque. What do you folks use, as far as drills, when powering the GRCS with the drill adapter? Much appreciated.

Joel

 

[flushcut]

A GRCS is by no means cheap and will it be used on every job? NO! Will it pay for itself in very short order doing jobs in tight quarters? Hell Yes!
I have a Tanaka gasser and it labors with 200lbs on the line.

 

[Merle Nelson]

David Driver says the Stihl gas drill won't do the job either.

Atom Augers out of Australia has some new models out that may be of interest as well as the older ones that bolt up to your saw powerhead.

That or corded, Hole Hawg.

 

[candoarms]

Thanks guys. I was wondering about the Tanaka drill. I have one, but it's not near as powerful as a 3/4" electric. I know I won't use the GRCS on every job, but since most of my work involves sending trees to the grave, I'll likely use it quite often.

Joel

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Root disease project at the preschool.
Just started raining. Did we need some! A lot, but not like some (Stephen). Unfortunately, burn ban came a month or so early this year, so I couldn't burn as much as planned. The Boxer/ Ogre navigated the chipper in to place. A customer has been asking to buy mulch for his orchard. Make lemonade or chips, as the case may be...

Speed lined to the staging area, cut branches in half, feed from the middle right into the chipper... new guy Gary fed from the middle, I went for burgers, truth be told.

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New sandbox at the preschool... Another parent was starting the filling process, with the shovel. Like 5000 pounds. Hey Mike, try the Ogre!

Waiting out the rain a few...Tapatalk is way harder to type on coherently, than a desktop. I'm editing now.



Thought I could cut up close to the finish hinge and set wedges, but it sat back too soon, making a good impression of the chain links in the wood. I had wedge tips in, but just a hair into the wood, not enough.

Took off the 460 powerhead. Should have used the smaller bar 192 T (lots of room for the wedges to get started) or quarter-cut (half the back cut, insert wedge, other half of back-cut, insert wedge) and wedged this one. I bored just above the bar and chain, gutting the hinge, giving myself a place to wedge through the hinge and pounded this one back over. If the hinge ripped while wedging, it would have crushed the power head. No worries , good hinging Doug Fir!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Good luck Joel.

I dont have one yet, but my hired man wants me to get a gas powered post driver. I will get one.

Time savings is one reason, another reason is to save what wear and tear you can to your shoulders and wrists. I hate woven wire!

 

[No_Bivy]

Only used drill few times. Really not worth it.

 

[candoarms]

FireFighterZero,

The city fencing project involves two parts. The first will be installed around the water treatment plant and the lime pits. The larger section will be installed around the new dump grounds.

We'll be driving 8' T-posts. My plan is to place a man basket on the tractor forks, then hang the gas powered fence post driver over the side of the basket, secured by one of my retired tree climbing lanyards. This will allow me to drive a post and then let the post driver hang on the outside of the basket while we advance forward to drive the next post.

The post driver weighs about 35 pounds. It's powered by a 4-stroke honda engine. They say it will drive a 3-1/2" post and the model I purchased includes three post adapters in different sizes. Average time to drive a post is less than 20 seconds. Check out SkiDrill on the web.

Hope this helps.

Joel

 

[ch74]

This is what I was dealing with Saturday... That's good work southsound, damn that tree is tallllllll....look

 

[ch74]

*lol

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Close quarters too

 

[ch74]

Thanks cursed... I didn't even hurt the screen. Lol