rbtree
Climbing Up
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Started dry and finished wet
The first was mammoth.....7 feet at ground level, 4.5-5 feet dbh...and hollow. along with a younger double stemmer, and some fir limbing, we produced 45+ yards of chips. Pat climbed the big fella, I did the smaller one, then Wraptored up the biggie to drop two 17 foot logs, then the 35' butt log. Whew. I'se tired....and the cold of the last 10 days isn't helping...sheet, I just sneezed again!
Trading for the log proceeds, plus $600. Won't be enough due to the hollow log, less scale than
i guessed at, but the customer is very cool, likes us, and will pay what we need. which would be about $1700 total, and that is low, but I promised them a good deal. Way out on Ben Howard Rd past Monroe, along the Skykomish. Their kids own a farm two miles away and took all three chip loads......they also raise organic
Angus Beef...Yumm.
And a neighbor, for whom we've also worked, wanted a bid on removing a young leyland cypress hedge row...should be an easy $1500 or so...
Plus, I'm hoping to attract one of my woodworking craftsman to take the partly hollow butt slabs for table making, which could sell for $2000-4000 each finished. I only want 100 each for about 4 of them.
Here's a few pics, in slide show format
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157629448636385/show/
Included a coupla cool snags from the drive along the river.
The first was mammoth.....7 feet at ground level, 4.5-5 feet dbh...and hollow. along with a younger double stemmer, and some fir limbing, we produced 45+ yards of chips. Pat climbed the big fella, I did the smaller one, then Wraptored up the biggie to drop two 17 foot logs, then the 35' butt log. Whew. I'se tired....and the cold of the last 10 days isn't helping...sheet, I just sneezed again!
Trading for the log proceeds, plus $600. Won't be enough due to the hollow log, less scale than
i guessed at, but the customer is very cool, likes us, and will pay what we need. which would be about $1700 total, and that is low, but I promised them a good deal. Way out on Ben Howard Rd past Monroe, along the Skykomish. Their kids own a farm two miles away and took all three chip loads......they also raise organic
Angus Beef...Yumm.
And a neighbor, for whom we've also worked, wanted a bid on removing a young leyland cypress hedge row...should be an easy $1500 or so...
Plus, I'm hoping to attract one of my woodworking craftsman to take the partly hollow butt slabs for table making, which could sell for $2000-4000 each finished. I only want 100 each for about 4 of them.
Here's a few pics, in slide show format
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157629448636385/show/
Included a coupla cool snags from the drive along the river.
