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  1. rbtree

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Thanks. Way back in 1995, I did the same thing. It was early on in my (and industry) adaptation of new climbing techniques. I was distracted and improperly tied a scaffold knot..The tree was a large cedrus. Josh climbed it first and set my line. I jumped on it and started footlocking, as best I...
  2. rbtree

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Wow, what a beast of a Monterey cypress, eh?!!
  3. rbtree

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Whoa..... (know anything more about that?) It's been over 10 years since a groundie was killed by a falling chunk. Years later, I got the details from the climber, a good guy and now a tree service owner. The guy was whacked out..ran under the tree after being told to stay clear, and did so...
  4. rbtree

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    So, what's up with the little trees......?!!:lol: I'm bidding on a young sequoia.... but it is prolly over a truck load of chips, and the last 20-25 feet is big with the typical swelled butts sequoia develop. Right by a road, no crane access, and will have to rip the chunks to get them...
  5. rbtree

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Hope it's the latter--cheaper if the rear end survives... I've had both happen,and more than once. My truck has a two speed rear end, and the shift mechanism is the bad design of two according to my mech---it has gone out twice, from shifting it improperly--- $3000-4500 each time, iirc.....
  6. rbtree

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Ne meither.....
  7. rbtree

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Scott and I go back almost twenty years. We climbed together on a few jobs, back when his consulting biz was much smaller. Awesome fella! Most typical tree thinning around here done by clowns like Evergreen, and is nothing but lion's tailing. That said, crown thinning a conifer is rarely if...
  8. rbtree

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Chainsaw singin in the rain..... A mighty wet one today it was. The rain had lessened at about 1:30, when Pat reached the top of today's Douglas-fir, which we are craning out Wednesday, to add to logs from three other trees, two which we are brushing out tomorrow, one which fell in the last...
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