Personal Best (or Beast)

[Altissimus]

... I will try to to get some photos ... I'm working in the Largest Oak I have ever been in (or seen) ... Red Oak ... at least 165 foot high (I'm tied in at well over a hundred)... decent canopy spread maybe 70 foot .... the log is huge FOUR foot D.B.H. ... I just don't get to work in trees like this very often .... an old forest tree left at the time of home construction ....

 

[SkwerI]

Freakin awesome, Dave. I hope you follow through with some pics.

 

[wiley_p]

That sounds like a great tree.

 

[Altissimus]

I'm hoping the Home owners will photograph on Sunday .... Last time I was down there we only had a part day ... I cut all the suckers off the log on my way up .... cleaned out the crown some .... set my super high TIP .... removing the very top limbs above that ( I hate going back for them)... and set an ISC ....we will use the GRCS .... and a 200 foot lowering line ....

 

[Altissimus]

That sounds like a great tree.

... Yes it is ! .... also in perfect health with very little deadwood to deal with ....

 

[Widow Shooter]

sweet deal, can't wait to see the pics, carry a camera man, carry a camera...

 

[canadiantreeman]

No doubt! I would love to go out east and work on some of those big spreading oaks one day...hopefully in the fall to catch the colour!

 

[PCTREE]

So this is a TD or trim???

 

[Altissimus]

So this is a TD or trim???

...top comes off , immense log stays for a year or two then fell .....

 

[Old Monkey]

That's a shame. I took out a pretty fair sized valley Oak in California before I left. I got carte blanche with the stump and cut a spiral stair case in it.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Why that camera angle???

 

[Altissimus]

... I know ... I know.... pics

 

[Old Monkey]

Sorry, I don't have a better shot of the stairs.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Actually, I just meant that last pic of the steps in the stump. The shot was from the back/side...

 

[rskybiz]

Dave let me know on the pics if Ted isnt available I'll get Stephen my old groundy to shoot some he's bored as of late!

 

[Altissimus]

Joel if only you could have come down to Conn. when you were up North , we coulda done this one ... It was clearly marked number one ....

 

[gf beranek]

Here in Cali a tree like that would be surrounded by 101 protesters and the litigation just to do the job would take years and 100 thousands dollars to see it down. Tree killers and protesters. Would make a good board game I think.

 

[Cobleskill]

If it was a tree on my house site, in perfect health, I think I would keep it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

+1

 

[woodworkingboy]

There was a guy in N. California who used to hand carve great chess sets, really nice work. One in particular I recall was made of characters he envisioned at a porn shoot. I imagine that he could do something very interesting with the theme of loggers vs protesters.

 

[gf beranek]

Those Red Oaks are totally awesome. The Pics I have seen of them in the forums just blow me away. Then someone builds a house under one that has been around for 200 years before they arrived and then decides to kill it because they are afraid of it, want a view, a swimming pool or more sunlight. so long... tree.

Oh, oh. Liberal alert!!

 

[Altissimus]

Here in Cali a tree like that would be surrounded by 101 protesters and the litigation just to do the job would take years and 100 thousands dollars to see it down. Tree killers and protesters. Would make a good board game I think.

... only one group gets toilet paper ...

 

[gf beranek]

Keep us posted with pics or I'm going to send some protesters out there.

 

[woodworkingboy]

The protesters that Jerry sends would probably be wearing caulk boots.

 

[Altissimus]

the other point that makes this a little stupid is that the whole thing leans AWAY from the structure ... I could just Fall the Beast ....