How'd it go today?

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Crane Cherry popped. Tree deleted in two pics.

I find it interesting just how little I know with 20 years experience. But that's OK, I like to learn, I just haven't had many opportunities to do so. Also, a good portion of my career has been jobs that only a climber in the tree can do, places cranes and lifts can't access. I've come to realize that my specialization is swinging big saws in relatively short, fat trees in shity spots.

In the second tree today, I dropped a piece onto the roof and was reprimanded. Boss thought it was too heavy. I made the mental call to drop the "small firewood" sized piece, based on my experience in construction and tree work. Well, that just shows that my assessment made an ass of me.
 
Kaveman said:
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Crane Cherry popped. Tree deleted in two pics.

I find it interesting just how little I know with 20 years experience. But that's OK, I like to learn, I just haven't had many opportunities to do so. Also, a good portion of my career has been jobs that only a climber in the tree can do, places cranes and lifts can't access. I've come to realize that my specialization is swinging big saws in relatively short, fat trees in shity spots.

In the second tree today, I dropped a piece onto the roof and was reprimanded. Boss thought it was too heavy. I made the mental call to drop the "small firewood" sized piece, based on my experience in construction and tree work. Well, that just shows that my assessment made an ass of me.
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It just looks bad even touching a structure, let alone what unforseen consequences might happen. I'm sure we all get lax occasionally about something, then reprimand ourselves.

I often see lazy/intentional gutter brushing, but it's easy to mis judge the force on gutters, and often times old gutters are already about to fall off.
 
You sometimes get tunnel vision, and do things a certain way cause you've always done them that way. You might even know better if you really stopped to think about it, but you just go on autopilot. We have variables A, F, and M, so that means we'll use solution Q. Let's get it done! Nevermind that solution W is pretty compelling if you stopped to think about it. You just need the kick in the ass to think.
 
Mick! said:
Dare I say, it’s good to see you in a hi-viz and helmet.

Very pro looking. 👍
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I almost always wear HiVis, even when I'm not at work. I just won't wear orange, because that color is for inmates.

I'm getting used to the whole helmet thing, but that's a separate issue. Also, it was nice to have coms with both Stephen and the crane operator.
 
Kaveman said:
In the second tree today, I dropped a piece onto the roof and was reprimanded. Boss thought it was too heavy. I made the mental call to drop the "small firewood" sized piece, based on my experience in construction and tree work. Well, that just shows that my assessment made an ass of me.
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More of a advisement of limitations and boundries.
Canyon live oak is very dense and heavy wood. Tad forgiving a live branch laid flat on the roof. Butt first not so much.
Even the dead can be heavy.
Man must know his limitations, especially with species newer to him.
20 years in this trade and I still feel infantile in my knowlege compared to many in this business and this forum.
Always learning.
 
Kaveman said:
I almost always wear HiVis, even when I'm not at work. I just won't wear orange, because that color is for inmates.

I'm getting used to the whole helmet thing, but that's a separate issue. Also, it was nice to have coms with both Stephen and the crane operator.
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I won’t wear yellow hi-vis because it attracts wasps and bees. I have only been stung at work once since changing about 7 years ago.
 
Other variable is you have no idea the condition of the roof.

I had a tiny gig for a buddies dad recently. A six inch locust limb under the service drop and over the neighbors 40-50 year neglected carriage house. I could have easily slow bender the limb on the roof but it had a large hole in the roof. Now more than likely nothing would have made it worse but having them say I damaged the roof somehow is drama I don't need. So I walked pending better access from the other neighbor.

And another thing: Why the hell don't people know their neighbors anymore? WTF! I had that shit up in the city. Live in an apartment building and don't know the guy on the other side of the wall.
 
flushcut said:
Other variable is you have no idea the condition of the roof.

I had a tiny gig for a buddies dad recently. A six inch locust limb under the service drop and over the neighbors 40-50 year neglected carriage house. I could have easily slow bender the limb on the roof but it had a large hole in the roof. Now more than likely nothing would have made it worse but having them say I damaged the roof somehow is drama I don't need. So I walked pending better access from the other neighbor.

And another thing: Why the hell don't people know their neighbors anymore? WTF! I had that shit up in the city. Live in an apartment building and don't know the guy on the other side of the wall.
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Yeah, it was in pretty rough shape. Two potions of the house had new metal. This one, old decaying shingle and dry rot at the eves. Best not even have them hear a thump on the roof if they are home. Building was vancant, so some thumping allowed. Hole and damaged shingle, not so much...... just close, but no damage.
 
hardest I've ever cringed was doing a walnut, in season, over a tin roof, with people inside, and having to swing every branch straight down over the roof was madness, thousands of full size walnuts breaking off and landing on the roof from 20-60ft

is fun watching the groundies dodging the flying nuts, when I work for other companies its hard to make them wear helmets, but this was a day that I didn't even have to ask them LOL
 
flushcut said:
Other variable is you have no idea the condition of the roof.

I had a tiny gig for a buddies dad recently. A six inch locust limb under the service drop and over the neighbors 40-50 year neglected carriage house. I could have easily slow bender the limb on the roof but it had a large hole in the roof. Now more than likely nothing would have made it worse but having them say I damaged the roof somehow is drama I don't need. So I walked pending better access from the other neighbor.

And another thing: Why the hell don't people know their neighbors anymore? WTF! I had that shit up in the city. Live in an apartment building and don't know the guy on the other side of the wall.
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Meh, sometimes it’s best to fall out with your neighbours from the start, save embarrassment later on.
 
Friends and being friendly are two different things. But not knowing who they are or how to get in touch with them is silly. I see it all the time in my home town, just a lack of community. If I’m having a fire, like one of my log roasts, I want my neighbors coming over and hanging for a beer and food. We’re all in this together. A lone wolf dies alone but a pack thrives.
 
If one doesn't know one's neighbors out here in the hinterlands, one is missing out on a lot of potential help. I don't own a tractor with a bucket, but two neighbors do, and I have benefited from good relations with both of them when I needed.

If the need to call in a Life Flight occurs, it's way better to know the folks living on the property beside me will be alright with me telling the EMTs to land the ship in the hay field next to my house...as a small example that has happened when some non-local folks missed the square corner curve and hit a tree.
 
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