The Official Work Pictures Thread

[MasterBlaster]

I sure wouldn't have liked rigging outta those. Good job, except... no stubs!

 

[treesmith]

When climbing a tree leaning that much, stubs are invaluable!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Why? What does lean have to do with it?

 

[treesmith]

Steps, something to help keep your balance, I used them for rigging, etc. What would it benefit to flush them all?

 

[MasterBlaster]

That makes sense... I can't remember the last time I climbed a leaner like that. I imagine they are nice to stand on. Besides, unlike a normal tree with stubs, nothing will really hang up on them, anyway. Cool!

 

[treesmith]

Once I got to the third or fourth limb, they were being lowered on the far side of the trailer. I had my daughter pull the few that came on the roof off with the hanger puller on the pole saw.

 

[Tucker943]

Stubs have their place Mr Butch!

Not too many. And they must be left in strategic locations as not to gag up you lines or lowered limbs.

 

[MasterBlaster]

On a straight up tree, I keep the trunk shaved smooth. I've had too many hangups, either with a limb or a rope, so I don't tolerate them at all. No biggie, that's just my style. It's all good.

 

[treesmith]

I agree on straight trees, Butch. I generally use a stub to rig nearby limbs, then cut it flush.

 

[Tucker943]

On a straight tree I usually don't. They've caused me problems back in the day. But you know my spin on that. I see guys around here leaving all kinds of stubs like crazy. How the heck can you even work with all those stubs? I don't get it. Pulling your saw up after a refill would be a nightmare, nevermind your ropes and lowered limbs going down and hanging up on them.

I left a stub once by my waist. I was reaching up and stretching out to toss my skinning line through the crotch right above me and I gaffed out and slid down. Cracked my rib on that stub. I was heated with myself over that. Self inflicted wound.

 

[MasterBlaster]

All's it takes is a slip of a few inches to really put a gash in you.

 

[stig]

Good call on those, Scott.
Leaving them would have been hard on the trailer.
I like those stubsies, too, to keep you from ending up on the low side of the tree.

I screwed up on a leaning pine in hard winds last year and flush cut it.
Then lost my footing and ended up dangling like a leaf in the wind on the underside of the tree with nothing to grab and pull myself back with..
Richard swore you could have heard me cussing a block away.

Butch is right about stubs being bad when you swing into the them. I have a scar to the left of my left eye, where I embedded a dead willow branch ( twig, really)
Went up to remove a couple of branches from a leaning willow to improve the view from a birdwatching tower. Tied into the neighbour tree and going down I slipped and swung into my tie in tree.
No safety glasses, of course.
I still remember standing on the ground, blood running down my face and thanking fortune that I didn't lose an eye.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I have a two inch scar on my left bicep from slipping one inch.

 

[stig]

Ouch!

 

[MasterBlaster]

It surprised the heck outta me.

 

[lumberjack]

Nice going helping those folks out, Scott. It looks like they were in a fairly dicey situation in terms of possible more damage. Hope you get paid.

Scott is what is known as a "good guy" for sure.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[treesandsurf]

Here's a quick vid from a job last week. Nothing exciting trying out the gopro for the first time. I've got a ton of footage from a more recent large takedown I'm putting together should be better....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsHkfApN2s

jp

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Cool

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nice tuneage!

 

[treesmith]

What kind of tree was that, Jon?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Imma go out on a limb here... a Bo tree?

 

[treesmith]

Haha....wasn't sure if that was the given name of it, or a local name for it. The leaves remind me of a cottonwood.

 

[MasterBlaster]

They don't grow here, that's for sure.

 

[Tucker943]

They put my silly butt in the paper today. Not sure what for. I do not for the life of me know what those branches are that look like branches left on the bole. There most certainly were not limbs left on that spar. I don't get it.