Some HO pictures of a Pine we did...

CurSedVoyce

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HOs we did a couple pines for sent these to us from a while back. They just live right behind us, so we had a family day killing some pine.
Guy had a nice camera and I had to down size them a bit to fit in here.
Enjoy.. Was a great fall day :)
 

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That last one made the WesSpur news letter this month :D
Sorry these are out of order. They were kind of weird to edit.
 

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Katy helped me with speed line and lowering. Rob had to tension the line from about 200 feet away, best anchor and road we could find.
Then Rob just kept moving material with the Dingo's help :D
 

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Did you clear a path and blow the top out before removing all limbs? That's what pic 3 looks like.

Tree had been topped and made into an antenna mast years ago. Thus the really fat limbs.

Some of the fat limbs we lowered were over 1K.
Left a few legs at the top to keep the trunk from rolling down a slight hill when I felled it.
 

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Customer got some good sequence of the felling.....
 

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Those are great pictures, Stephen.
You sure get some ugly trees up your way. Beautiful countryside, but ugly trees.

Next time I visit , I'll have to teach you to make a face cut the right way:lol:
 
I meant starting with the top cut!

I'd do it at that height, too, next to a house.
 
To cool for school Stephen, very nice pics, very nice of the HO.

The last job I just did the HO took 200 pics, after job was done he offered to fix them up and give them to me if I took $200 off the bill. I couldn't refuse, I'm a sucker for some good pics.:D
 
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I meant starting with the top cut!

I'd do it at that height, too, next to a house.

On a Humboldt, that would be a top cut ;)
Used conventional on this one.. But I can cut top or bottom first, either way. I prefer the horizontal (gun?) first though.

Brian... I love it when I see the good camera come out at the site and the HO snapping away.
I keep files from all our jobs. Pictures are a great educational tool and a reminder of how we progress.
See things you might have missed as well from when you are aloft.

I can't wait till I get a vid camera on my helmet. That is going to be fun :)
 

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Very nice, I thought it might have been previously topped. Yep, those pondo limbs carry some serious weight!!
 
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Especially after a rain.... It had rained a couple days before. About 3" over a couple days. The limbs went from an easy snap cut to stringy and heavy as all get out. God only knows how many 100s of gallons of water they drank that quick. But it was like night and day they way the wood behaved and the weight.
 
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Too wide and the lean and weight were toward the house. The lower part of the tree would have smacked the stairs, the upper part, a Toyon (shrub) they wanted untouched.
 
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The other consideration was that this was a HO clean up. This tree would have been up in the air on legs and would been more dangerous to get the trunk on the ground being "tripoded". The limbs were thick enough to support the trunk. Bad game plan.
 
The first pic in post #2--looks like a super long connection to the HH. Do you have a long bridge? You have that pulley, adding length, the the HH, is that right? How does that work for an elastic or over the shoulder slack tender for when you're not Wraptoring?
 
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I had a pinto pulley and useed a biner for a link. Now I have a DMM Bat rigging plate. 3 connection points for Ddrt and Wraptor. Or M config.
And I do not use an over the shoulder thing for my HH. I tether the bat plate to the double handled ascender. It advances fine in this fashion.
 
Too cool Dude. I love pines, make me smell nice at the end of the day.

Great to hear Katy working with you. I miss those daze.
 
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