CurSedVoyce
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Well done Fiona 
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Gnarley mess!!!
pete mctree
Treehouser
Good job Fi. Leaves are falling in your part of the world as buds are swelling on ours here. Kinda weird to get your head around
August Hunicke
TreeHouser
Project I did over 10 years ago with just one ground man (who was the owner of the company).
Inserted stiff-arm uprights. Didn't want to tear up the place or damage retaining wall/patio...
Cleared the brush up to the triggers, Bruce chipped it.
Tripped the triggers and began reducing it back. Didn't care if rounds fell on the trashed patio roof but once I got to bare concrete I used small pieces of plywood at times or other pieces of wood to protect concrete.
When I got the trunks back to a group of strategic weight carrying uprights I would go down and slice them under extreme tension and the next uprights back would carry the load. Tree had no stump/root structure doing any supporting. Twin of the same size had fallen the other way on the other neighbor. That was a different contractor. I wasn't taking pictures back then. This was all homeowner pictures.
Followed that pattern all the way back till I was on the lawn where it got a lot easier.
Guy evidently stopped taking pictures.
Here's where the guy was sitting watching TV. Nearly dead center at the epicenter. Wife was laying on the couch with her head in the direction pointed toward the chair. Both of them were in the best place possible for getting dead.
If it was a mobile home or if there wasn't a wall running perpendicular to the force of the tree next to that couch they would be dead.
Anyway, fun day-in-the-life of storm work puzzles that I solved. I've done huge numbers of storm tree puzzles over the years. Definitely my favorite kind of work. It suits my personality.
Inserted stiff-arm uprights. Didn't want to tear up the place or damage retaining wall/patio...
Cleared the brush up to the triggers, Bruce chipped it.
Tripped the triggers and began reducing it back. Didn't care if rounds fell on the trashed patio roof but once I got to bare concrete I used small pieces of plywood at times or other pieces of wood to protect concrete.
When I got the trunks back to a group of strategic weight carrying uprights I would go down and slice them under extreme tension and the next uprights back would carry the load. Tree had no stump/root structure doing any supporting. Twin of the same size had fallen the other way on the other neighbor. That was a different contractor. I wasn't taking pictures back then. This was all homeowner pictures.
Followed that pattern all the way back till I was on the lawn where it got a lot easier.
Guy evidently stopped taking pictures.
Here's where the guy was sitting watching TV. Nearly dead center at the epicenter. Wife was laying on the couch with her head in the direction pointed toward the chair. Both of them were in the best place possible for getting dead.
If it was a mobile home or if there wasn't a wall running perpendicular to the force of the tree next to that couch they would be dead.
Anyway, fun day-in-the-life of storm work puzzles that I solved. I've done huge numbers of storm tree puzzles over the years. Definitely my favorite kind of work. It suits my personality.
MasterBlaster
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Been there, done that! Lordy!!!
sotc
Dormant hero!!
5.5 cord of firewood waiting to soak up the heat of summer
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Dry, baby! Dry!!!
Mick!
TreeHouser
That's clever stuff August.
With that sort of stuff the margin between professional success and being on a blooper reel somewhere is tight.
With that sort of stuff the margin between professional success and being on a blooper reel somewhere is tight.
August Hunicke
TreeHouser
Thanks, yeah, actually never botched one of these. Looks a bit sketch in the pics but to quote a friend, "controlled chaos." Or to coin my own phrase, "deliberate treework."
August Hunicke
TreeHouser
Awesome pics Fiona. That's some legit pause for thought.
Love two fisted saw swinger action...a 200 even YES!
Love two fisted saw swinger action...a 200 even YES!
Thanks guys!
Steve, that's blackberry at the base, nasty thorny stuff.
200t was fine until the trunks got too big...glad I didn't need the 461...was hairy enough with the 260.
Winter is definitely coming, claret ashes have a blush, elms are yellowing, there is a nip in the air in the evenings...and I'm off to Bermuda in a couple weeks
That's Willard's old 200t I bought, and I'm wearing the Sequoia SRT I bought from Bob Stewart...dressed and equipped by the 'HOUSE'
BTW I really like the Sequoia SRT, comfy and all the gear loops are in the right place.
Steve, that's blackberry at the base, nasty thorny stuff.
200t was fine until the trunks got too big...glad I didn't need the 461...was hairy enough with the 260.
Winter is definitely coming, claret ashes have a blush, elms are yellowing, there is a nip in the air in the evenings...and I'm off to Bermuda in a couple weeks
That's Willard's old 200t I bought, and I'm wearing the Sequoia SRT I bought from Bob Stewart...dressed and equipped by the 'HOUSE'
BTW I really like the Sequoia SRT, comfy and all the gear loops are in the right place.
Maximalist
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Russian proverb:"Petzl rulez"
Jed
TreeHouser
Really good to see those pics Fiona. I'm just totally amazed. Absolute pig of a Poplar.
August, I just used the "upright" trick for the first time about a month ago. I was like, "Why haven't I done this before?" Really great pics.
This storm saw a lot of smaller trees doing some heavy damage. Here's some angry home-owners. I've got pics of some other jobs, but my phone died.
Hemlock.... maybe 30"x100'
August, I just used the "upright" trick for the first time about a month ago. I was like, "Why haven't I done this before?" Really great pics.
This storm saw a lot of smaller trees doing some heavy damage. Here's some angry home-owners. I've got pics of some other jobs, but my phone died.
Hemlock.... maybe 30"x100'
Maximalist
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Catastrophe!
Steve Mack
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Steve, that's blackberry at the base, nasty thorny stuff.
Winter is definitely coming, claret ashes have a blush, elms are yellowing, there is a nip in the air in the evenings...and I'm off to Bermuda in a couple weeks
Blackberry.
I've got to get out of town more, haven't seen any for years. Lantana is a real pest, didn't think you had it down there but you do. http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/invasive-species/weeds/weeds-index/weeds-index-declared-weeds/lantanaHave fun in the sun, I'm off to see Autumn up north and see my Claret Ash change colour.
Mick!
TreeHouser
pantheraba
More biners!!!
You made a serious mess there...big trees. Good picture. Get an APTA.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Soon.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
No clean up? Man. That dogs got your number.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Yeah, no clean up.
She certainly never misses a chance, open glove box=sandwiches gone, she's so happy with herself about it that's it's hard to be angry.
She certainly never misses a chance, open glove box=sandwiches gone, she's so happy with herself about it that's it's hard to be angry.
biggun
Monkey for Hire
Pop floppin', gotta love it.
Did some more Spruce today in the sun and snow. Beautiful day and views to match. 2nd pic is off a new guy from NZ, 21 years old and been climbing 3 years. He will be a great climber when he gets a bit more experience. Hence the reason he has come to Norway for 7 months... Experience.
Did some more Spruce today in the sun and snow. Beautiful day and views to match. 2nd pic is off a new guy from NZ, 21 years old and been climbing 3 years. He will be a great climber when he gets a bit more experience. Hence the reason he has come to Norway for 7 months... Experience.
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Mick!
TreeHouser
Nice, what's that chest harness thing in the last photo?
biggun
Monkey for Hire
It is just to clip the Bulldog bone into or my Rope Runner. Helps it ascend when climbing SRT.
I know it looks like a bra, but it isn't, honest.
Mick it works a treat if you weight the line and clip in, just free limb the tree and it takes the slack up for you.
I know it looks like a bra, but it isn't, honest.
Mick it works a treat if you weight the line and clip in, just free limb the tree and it takes the slack up for you.
August Hunicke
TreeHouser
Great pictures everyone,
Jed, perfect those size trees with a long head start cut like a knife. Mick, the dog eating sandwich story pissed me off. I have no patience for that. Did it eat the baggie too?
Chest deally: That is where he hooks up his rope runner or whatever for advancing it as he rope walks.
New school but I'm thinking you probably know that Mick.
Jed, perfect those size trees with a long head start cut like a knife. Mick, the dog eating sandwich story pissed me off. I have no patience for that. Did it eat the baggie too?
Chest deally: That is where he hooks up his rope runner or whatever for advancing it as he rope walks.
New school but I'm thinking you probably know that Mick.
Mick!
TreeHouser
I know it's new school, that's all I know, I see pics of guys with ropes and hardware and I don't know what's going on.
No biggy, and it's pointless explaining, I need to be shown. I'm not knocking it.
I've got a ZZ and never really warmed to it, I found it "spooky" (to use your word)
It comes out on the really big stuff.
No biggy, and it's pointless explaining, I need to be shown. I'm not knocking it.
I've got a ZZ and never really warmed to it, I found it "spooky" (to use your word)
It comes out on the really big stuff.
