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  1. rbtree

    More Lombardy poplars!

    I priced those trees for $2150. We got them done in a day....I was able to run the camera a fair bit. But I should and could have charged $3000 or so. Sans a chipper winch, those two trees would have taken at least 1.5 days. It saved our skin. And, it got a lot of the wood under 8-10" delivered...
  2. rbtree

    More Lombardy poplars!

    That final top which Pat flipped was a ballsy move. Fence and deck each within 5-10 feet of the butt. However, check starting at about 4:50, where I note that the section is tied a couple feet above the block and that it would be OK. Well, it surely wasn't,as the piece broke and fell, landing...
  3. rbtree

    More Lombardy poplars!

    mY 250 xp is a '97. I think winches add 3000-5000 to the price of a chipper.
  4. rbtree

    More Lombardy poplars!

    Ben, Since most of our trees are excurrent, I like the vertical format as it allows more of the tree to be in the image at a time. Granted, it does mean lots of blank area on a horizontal monitor. As well, I also am shooting still images at the same time, and don't want to have to rotate the camera.
  5. rbtree

    More Lombardy poplars!

    These two Lombardy poplars were ~100-110 feet tall, and ~3 feet in diameter, so not overly huge,. But they were in a small back yard and over three other yards, so rigging was required. We were able to tip tie and lower the larger lower limbs and leads,, which is much easier than butt lowering...
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