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A nice easy one for today
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A nice easy one for today
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Oh man electricity, GP.
The bidder dont know much, Rich.
Beauty pics everyone.
1 climber had SRT the other ddrt and the srt jammed light years faster.
The tips are springy and bouncy unless they break out.
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The bidder dont know much, Rich.
Beauty pics everyone.
1 climber had SRT the other ddrt and the srt jammed light years faster.
The tips are springy and bouncy unless they break out.
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treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
Another easy one this afternoon. That bull rope was setup as a guy line in case shit went bad when we took the top. It would have pulled everything away from the primaries and my boom.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Lawrence helping us out in Penngrove... way far north.
With his help...I'm able to herd cats and snails to do treework... if I clmbed I'm not sure my crew could keep up and finish in a sensible day.
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With his help...I'm able to herd cats and snails to do treework... if I clmbed I'm not sure my crew could keep up and finish in a sensible day.
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treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
You even got a pic without the Protos
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Such a tiny piece in that first pick... was the operator shy?
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Didn't want to rig that down and rake up a brazillian pieces?
Stumpshot
General Purpose
Been doing that the last couple of days -- crispy dead pitch pines. 10 mins to drop, 20 mins to rake up the myriad of crispy twigs that went everywhere!
(And that's with laying it over nice & slow with holding wood on the hinge.)
(And that's with laying it over nice & slow with holding wood on the hinge.)
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Totally Rich.
He's such a humble mellow guy.
100% Pure Pro.
He was done by Noon.
45 Tonne crane.
It was a tight drop zone...amongst houses and line drops...
So much dang material... pine cones bombing everything around...
We had a whole gravel parking lot...fried my chipper knives...
I got a tiny chipper... had to move all the wood 100 yards and buck it a drip it into firewood....
The neighbor loaned and operated his bobcat moving wood and clean up around...
Right on, GP. We love them dusty, dry and light.
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He's such a humble mellow guy.
100% Pure Pro.
He was done by Noon.
45 Tonne crane.
It was a tight drop zone...amongst houses and line drops...
So much dang material... pine cones bombing everything around...
We had a whole gravel parking lot...fried my chipper knives...
I got a tiny chipper... had to move all the wood 100 yards and buck it a drip it into firewood....
The neighbor loaned and operated his bobcat moving wood and clean up around...
Right on, GP. We love them dusty, dry and light.
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Bodean
Cali dreamer
Todsy,
Let Nat climb and do some felling on some little Bays...
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Let Nat climb and do some felling on some little Bays...
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Cool. Nat is a good hand.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
I’ve met Lawrence a handful of times and he’s always been very easy to talk with and was always willing to answer all my questions. At the craneman inc class I almost felt bad for asking him so many things but it didn’t seem to bother him. The man is half squirrel or something though. He can chase the ball like no one I’ve ever seen.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
He's super approachable.
He's an outstanding ambassador of arborists.
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He's an outstanding ambassador of arborists.
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treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
Excellent description of him.
MasterBlaster
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I was always in the next position, waiting on the ball.
Mick!
TreeHouser
It can be done if you shout loud enough.
MasterBlaster
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Or have a strong arm and good aim.
Mick!
TreeHouser
My current hired man was into karate for years and is considerably bigger, younger and stronger.
It would end very badly for me if I did that.
It would end very badly for me if I did that.
MasterBlaster
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Throw bigger pieces. 
SeanKroll
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HA
Bodean
Cali dreamer
I was going to reply...
My first real boss... was a monkey flower screaming viking... he was rough to work for.
Sean. You sign the checks.
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forestkeepers
Forest Keeper
Snippety Do Dah, Snippety Day
Whole day full of trimmings on Wed. First stop was a willow with 2 broken limbs.
They had a zipline that we tried out:
2nd job was a roof clearance trim -- 2 black walnuts, an osage orange, and a locust; a few limbs off of each -- mostly taken from the roof with the pole saw. Also, I wrecked down a small apple tree by the driveway. The house was on a pretty steep hill, owner wasn't home, whole lotta oranges and walnuts on the ground quickly gave rise to some lawn bowling and then shots to the Brute can (home of basketball and all that). I was the first one to peg into the Brute, knocking it over. Then chipper bowling with the oranges as well...
3rd job was right up the street, not really worth pics. Some simple pruning/thinning of 2 crab apples and a locust.
4th job was to raise the canopy on a black walnut out front, remove a burning bush:
...and then trim up an elm from off the house & roofline, while still preserving some shade for their patio. Also raise the canopy on a 2nd elm.
5th job was for a financial advisor company at their offices. I drop-n-chipped a dead pitch pine in about 15 minutes while the other climber started thinning a swamp maple. Also, we now have an Echo hedge trimmer, so we've been doing a few additional bush & hedge trimmings lately -- more like a value added service, since I don't think it pays nearly as well as the tree work portion of a job (if we were to break it down to a per-hour rate).
Whole day full of trimmings on Wed. First stop was a willow with 2 broken limbs.
They had a zipline that we tried out:
2nd job was a roof clearance trim -- 2 black walnuts, an osage orange, and a locust; a few limbs off of each -- mostly taken from the roof with the pole saw. Also, I wrecked down a small apple tree by the driveway. The house was on a pretty steep hill, owner wasn't home, whole lotta oranges and walnuts on the ground quickly gave rise to some lawn bowling and then shots to the Brute can (home of basketball and all that). I was the first one to peg into the Brute, knocking it over. Then chipper bowling with the oranges as well...
3rd job was right up the street, not really worth pics. Some simple pruning/thinning of 2 crab apples and a locust.
4th job was to raise the canopy on a black walnut out front, remove a burning bush:
...and then trim up an elm from off the house & roofline, while still preserving some shade for their patio. Also raise the canopy on a 2nd elm.
5th job was for a financial advisor company at their offices. I drop-n-chipped a dead pitch pine in about 15 minutes while the other climber started thinning a swamp maple. Also, we now have an Echo hedge trimmer, so we've been doing a few additional bush & hedge trimmings lately -- more like a value added service, since I don't think it pays nearly as well as the tree work portion of a job (if we were to break it down to a per-hour rate).
forestkeepers
Forest Keeper
City/Country day
Slow start to the day Thursday because we had a Mexican national show up to purchase our knuckle boom crane unit we had for sale. I had posted an ad on Craig's List and he had contacted, seemingly not a scammer, just a wheeler dealer passing through on his way back to Mexico City. He had a flatbed semi with a couple of other pieces of equipment on it, paid cash for it (genuine US currency). So we didn't leave our lot till after 11 after loading it up for him with our log grapple and forklift. I took that time to do some stump grinder maintenance, giving it a good tune up.
First job out of the gate was an elective elm trimming. For whatever reasons, the homeowner wanted to take 2 limbs off the street side and 1 off his neighbor's drive side. Ironically, a competitor was set up next door doing a removal and went to lunch right when we rolled up, so they got a front row seat for the whole show. Done in 20 mins.
Then out to a country horse estate outside of town to do some trimming for roof clearance on a metal building they are about to put up. A mulberry, several silver maples, and I wrecked down another pitch pine. Lotsa big wood coming down in their large gravel driveway, chipped and gone in about 2 hours. They took a load of chips, so we left mostly empty.
Then back into town for a small roof clearance trim -- 2 black walnuts and 2 catalpas over a roof. 30 mins, trimmed, chipped & gone.
Slow start to the day Thursday because we had a Mexican national show up to purchase our knuckle boom crane unit we had for sale. I had posted an ad on Craig's List and he had contacted, seemingly not a scammer, just a wheeler dealer passing through on his way back to Mexico City. He had a flatbed semi with a couple of other pieces of equipment on it, paid cash for it (genuine US currency). So we didn't leave our lot till after 11 after loading it up for him with our log grapple and forklift. I took that time to do some stump grinder maintenance, giving it a good tune up.
First job out of the gate was an elective elm trimming. For whatever reasons, the homeowner wanted to take 2 limbs off the street side and 1 off his neighbor's drive side. Ironically, a competitor was set up next door doing a removal and went to lunch right when we rolled up, so they got a front row seat for the whole show. Done in 20 mins.
Then out to a country horse estate outside of town to do some trimming for roof clearance on a metal building they are about to put up. A mulberry, several silver maples, and I wrecked down another pitch pine. Lotsa big wood coming down in their large gravel driveway, chipped and gone in about 2 hours. They took a load of chips, so we left mostly empty.
Then back into town for a small roof clearance trim -- 2 black walnuts and 2 catalpas over a roof. 30 mins, trimmed, chipped & gone.
MasterBlaster
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Did I have a stroke?
