How'd it go today?

Mowed, swept, vacuumed, laundry, spread out 8 truckloads of chips w/mini, picked the 5-string a couple hours...now to hit the sack early & head out of town again tomorrow.
 
Bermy said:
It's beautiful out there so no hardship!
Yup, into the water. It's fairly deep with not many rocks close in so the tide should take it all out in a week or so I reckon. Casuarina sinks, so they can be fish habitat for a while too.
Got to come and go by boat every day, bit isolated to camp and no fresh water source. They managed to get a chipper barged over and lifted up there for the trees up top, wonder what that cost them!?

Side story, years ago in one of the fortifications (called the Devonshire Redoubt) we found some grafitti, one of my husband's relatives had scrawled his name, he was killed in France in the first world war, must have been on a picnic before they shipped out...
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Sounds like one cool gig!
 
While looking for some signage pics for Colin-Roberts, I ran across this from 4 years ago, probably. An early F8 revolver SRT set-up. So early on, a couple steps away (one way or the other) from the metal box wrench that inspired the Rope Wrench. <a href="http://s658.photobucket.com/user/southsoundtree/media/Holiday%20Valley%20SRT%20Pruning%20and%20Removals/P1060337.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu303/southsoundtree/Holiday%20Valley%20SRT%20Pruning%20and%20Removals/P1060337.jpg" border="0" alt="SRT Distel photo P1060337.jpg"/></a>
 
Good on all you dads taking the time with your kids:thumbup:
Bermy that looks to be a absolute joy to do!
Took today off with threats of lightning after a small job completed and working both days over the weekend. I keep interviewing ground help to no avail, sure do hope a good one comes along soon. Any of you climbers like a working vacation?
 
Ugh, I'd love to rsky, already used up all my vacation. . .

Had a couple dead, leaning Birch to deal with today. Nice thing was there was a monster Red Pine right off to the side. Set up SRT with the Wrench, and spiked the first one to get the top out. Second one was pretty blasted by woodpeckers, and felt pretty soft. It was favoring right toward a screened in porch, so I set lines in two adjacent trees, and weaseled a descent choke around the top with both lines, allowing us to kind of steer the tree to our desired lay. 8)

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Had a great day today where I left my chipper/trailer at home. Only had to bring the pickup with climbing gear, saws and drop the trees for the customer and he had summer students clean it up.
Life doesn't get any better then this!
Felled and bucked up this multi stem maple with my 346XP-16" with very little comfort distance wise to the fence and house............stick trick never lies:D
 

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That's awesome Willard! Really used up all the space they gave ya hey?

What kind of summer students does that customer have dominion over? Were they being punished? haha

Cheers.
 
Trailer fell off the truck yesterday while driving down the road. I have know idea how it happened. New guy hooked it up and I double checked. Ripped both cables out too. Couldn't have gone better though. The road which had been busy suddenly cleared up just long enough to get the trailer back on and get outta there. Hell of a way to start the morning. Needless to say that later when the trailer was loaded I was a bit nervous driving
 
Glad you came out of it OK Page.

I'm a bit over the top when it comes to hooking up trailers, chains & binders, or opening/closing the back and ramps.

I have an order I want things done in...and it will be done in that order! I will stand and watch to make sure, or I'll do it myself...:/: I'm a firm believer in a proven routine done by one person (plus I get flustered and might miss something when something else gets done out of order).
 
Page said:
Trailer fell off the truck yesterday while driving down the road. I have know idea how it happened. New guy hooked it up and I double checked. Ripped both cables out too. Couldn't have gone better though. The road which had been busy suddenly cleared up just long enough to get the trailer back on and get outta there. Hell of a way to start the morning. Needless to say that later when the trailer was loaded I was a bit nervous driving
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Was it a ball with the coupler latchy-thingy that got pushed up, and the trailer was only resting on top of the ball?
 
Grendel said:
that's a cool picture Sean. SRT History
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There was a really cool two page spread on the evolution of it. Kevin could maybe post it, if he see's this. To give a 4th hand nutshell story, storm work hangers in texas were paying sh(*, and Kevin needed a better way. Insert a box wrench in there somewhere, one shot rope, but one great idea. I was reading on the Buzz regularly when Kevin was developing the first wooden rope wrench, and just offering up the info for people to use. Generous!

F8 revolver doesn't allow emergency descent. You hade to unweight your system to add a friction point, like on secured footlock at TCCs.
 
Fiddler said:
Glad you came out of it OK Page.

I'm a bit over the top when it comes to hooking up trailers, chains & binders, or opening/closing the back and ramps.

I have an order I want things done in...and it will be done in that order! I will stand and watch to make sure, or I'll do it myself...:/: I'm a firm believer in a proven routine done by one person (plus I get flustered and might miss something when something else gets done out of order).
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I'm really aware that losing a chipper/ trailer is a likely way to kill people. I act like it.



Something about it being smart to learn from your mistakes, and wise to learn from someone else's, instead.

I lost an extension ladder off the truck one time when I was super exhausted, on Highway 101 in Oly, in the dark. Many people would panic if they came a cross a ladder in the road at 70 mph. Strap it down right/ hook it up right.
 
SouthSoundTree said:
Was it a ball with the coupler latchy-thingy that got pushed up, and the trailer was only resting on top of the ball?
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Yup. Ball and coupler. I suppose it could have been resting on top but since a new guy was hooking it up I was standing there inspecting it. I tell u one thing, those cables are f'ing junk. Broke right off. Anyway trailer went to shop to get fixed up. I'll have them check the coupler to see if there was something wrong with it. On the bright side the chipper came back from the shop and we banged out day rate in 3 hrs.
 
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