How'd it go today?
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Shooting elevations at predefined points so deckpans can be set accounting for sag when loaded with concrete. In this case they were 10th points where each span(2 spans total) is divided into ten equal spaces. The white paint in the pic is where the grade points were.
Yea, everybody's got to do their jobs right. The most mysterious aspect is the steel fabrication. Other stuff can be read from a spec sheet plugging in the necessary details, but it's all based on the steel behaving in a predictable manner. The right amount of flex and spring with predicted loads. Might be easy when you're in the steel biz, but it's like magic to me.
Removed a small white oak from primaries, and pruned a bunch of others, crown raising and shaping hedges mostly
Had about a 10ft wide area to set the bucket truck up in, with primaries running overhead on the tree side, extremely tight fit to not break mad, primarily cut and toss but some work reaching between the cable TV and phone lines with an insulated polesaw, also tried out the tongue and groove notch, works decent enough on small trees
New guy did good for day 1!
Had about a 10ft wide area to set the bucket truck up in, with primaries running overhead on the tree side, extremely tight fit to not break mad, primarily cut and toss but some work reaching between the cable TV and phone lines with an insulated polesaw, also tried out the tongue and groove notch, works decent enough on small trees
New guy did good for day 1!
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
Worked at one of my favorite sites today. We rigged and removed 11 cherry trees that leaned over the neighbor’s property. Since the crane was useless we used the mini to hoist the trees out of the understory leaving the homeowners privacy. Then after work I watched my son’s tee ball game. Only a few kids were crying by the end. Almost everyone went for ice cream. Now I’m waiting on him to use the bathroom so we can go pick up a red bud that my brother in law dug out and then I’ll have to plant it somewhere at my house yet tonight. Almost 8 pm and not looking like I’ll be done till long after dark.
Knotorious
That Guy With The Face
Been busy practicing how to teach the "Drop-C" and "Z-Drag" methods for crevasse rescue demonstrated on grass with a barrier wall as the crevasse. There is an abundance of methods for retrieving a climber from a crevasse, but the "Drop-C" is superior. This can be done with the same rope or with a second rope. Demonstrating how to shift ones, and the victim's, weight from their belay loop to the first snow anchor is something I want to demonstrate correctly. I intend to display a method which shows how to do the "Drop-C" using just pulleys and prusik cords. Commonly used devices like the Rope Man and the Microtraxion can cause de-sheathing of the rope at 4Kn, whereas a prusik will just slide and than grab again once the forces have subsided. Here are some images of a "Drop-C" using the methods I admit work, but are less safe than the pulley plus prusik (PPP). So when you see these mechanical devices in the diagrams, just know that I'm advocating for an old fashioned PPP! It's safer for everyone on the glacier/mountain! Also, where they show pulling through carabiners, this must be avoided or mechanical advantage is hugely lost. Pulleys, pulleys, pulleys! Each team member during glacial travel must have at least two pulleys and they must be placed as close to the pull strand as possible in a pulley system.
I know this has nothing to do with arboriculture, but that's what I did today.
I know this has nothing to do with arboriculture, but that's what I did today.
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Mellow
BCMA
Grandbaby number 5 born today! All boys, so far.
pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Got this a while ago, but just started it while having my morning coffee today.
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Patrick A
Treehouser
Lost my footing in boulders while felling an ash pole. Knee feels like a wet noodle, ER doc assumes at least 1 ligament is torn. Appointment with an ortho next week. Here is a pic from the top of the tree when birds were still singing and mood was high. In retrospect, I should have left a bigger hinge and finished it with a wedge and a long axe instead of staying that close.
Time to open the ISA cert book and get it.
Time to open the ISA cert book and get it.
Patrick A
Treehouser
One day before the issue.
Went to my noisewall job again, got pissed off again... I hate that job so much.
Got home, and decided I wanted to make a 36" sling out of my tube webbing using a beer knot. I cut off a 48" piece and put it together to allow for tail bury of course. You math specialists will probably recognize where I went wrong :rollseyes:
Got home, and decided I wanted to make a 36" sling out of my tube webbing using a beer knot. I cut off a 48" piece and put it together to allow for tail bury of course. You math specialists will probably recognize where I went wrong :rollseyes:
Knotorious
That Guy With The Face
@lxskllr I had never heard of a Beer knot before now. It looks like it has the potential to be tricky to tie. Apparently it's very secure. I just read that it gets its name from the claim that it is better than the Water knot, just like beer is said to be better than water. It was first displayed in the 1980's by an Austrian man named Peter Ludwig at the National Speleological Society convention (a caving convention). Anyways, I just thought that was interesting.
vharrison
Island Girl
Patrick, ugh, heal up quick. That picture of the sawdust flying is fantastic! Love it.
Patrick A
Treehouser
pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Patrick,
Let us know if it takes a while to heal up - if you need help paying bills. You’re part of this family. I live my younger days vicariously these days through your posts… worth the price of admission.
Let us know if it takes a while to heal up - if you need help paying bills. You’re part of this family. I live my younger days vicariously these days through your posts… worth the price of admission.
pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Went to where the city composts the leaves they collect in the Fall to pick up another trailer load of leaf mulch. On the way back stopped at a yard sale. Picked up this Garwinner 52cc, 20” chainsaw for $20. Looks practically new, the chain has some wear but isn’t dull beyond use!
Fresh gas and it started right up on second pull. Known as the ‘cheapest chainsaws on Amazon’ it will be just right for those times when someone asks to ‘borrow a chainsaw’!! 🤣
Matter o fact, got a hole in your roof? Maybe a drill press that needs refurbishing? Or one of your crane jobs can't wait? Pat's got you
I'm not too far away, and though I never leave town, if you need some bucket work lmk
pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Cory,
Let me know if you are going to help with any jobs for Patrick. Danbury isn’t too far afield.
Let me know if you are going to help with any jobs for Patrick. Danbury isn’t too far afield.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Weirdness today.
We were 200k away from our house at the coast, as we passed a parked blue Ranger my wife said “looks like your old one!” I carried on driving, then not more than 200 metres down the road round a corner, there was my old Ranger (recognize the number plate) He put a camping cell on it.
Bit of a Truman Show moment.
We were 200k away from our house at the coast, as we passed a parked blue Ranger my wife said “looks like your old one!” I carried on driving, then not more than 200 metres down the road round a corner, there was my old Ranger (recognize the number plate) He put a camping cell on it.
Bit of a Truman Show moment.
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