The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Bermy]

Love all this different stuff that comes up here

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Interesting stuff Stig.
Good to see ya up there Mike. Hope not many thorns.

 

[flushcut]

Love all this different stuff that comes up here

 

[biggun]

Took out a dead spruce yesterday. Required permits for lane closure so the guys could work safely. As we had the space we stacked in the road and then a grab lorry came and got rid. All done in under 4 hours.

Very expensive though for the customer as the traffic management alone came in at about 10000nok for 4 hours.

Got a few more pictures scattered around just need to get from the customer.

 

[Mick!]

Shoulder ok now Rich?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Wow! You can't do the traffic direction yourself? You have to hire pros? Here we just give a couple fellas hi-vis vests and signs...

 

[Mick!]

And some guns, in case George the 3rd tries something sneaky.

 

[pantheraba]

Good picts...nice job.

I googled that amount..... $1,115.42 United States Dollar for traffic control.

 

[Frankie]

4 hrs total , $1115.42 or 278.86/hr !!! That’s some good coin my man

 

[Mick!]

Meh, there’s training, insurances, capital investment, wages, then profit.

Back in the nineties I used to hire traffic control systems, then later I’d hire the company to do it all, customer paid or he/she didn’t want to, then I’d turn it down.

These days I don’t do that stuff. Too much possibility to end up as a YouTube viral vid.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sounds like some agency's making money off some working stiffs.

 

[Mick!]

Not really, client pays or it doesn’t get done. Their choice.

All depends on the road as well, main road with angry entitled speedsters, no way.

Country back road with good vision in both directions, sure, as you say, some signs and a hi viz will do.

 

[MasterBlaster]

So, the clients aren't working stiffs, too?

Some institutiom's making money off someone - trust me.

We don't have to do that nonsense down here... not yet!

 

[biggun]

Shoulder ok now Rich?

Sort of. It is ok on a day to day basis, aches a bit after I train or have a heavy day. In general it feels a lot better and getting stronger.

I did notice the weakness though, pulling up the 660 to about 18metres took a bit longer than usual.

Thanks for asking Mick.

In response to the cost of things and traffic management stuff. You can manually direct traffic on the side roads or send guy/girls on courses to manage your own. The road was owned by the highway, if one bus is delayed and get a complaint, someone from highways drives by or something happens the shit will get thrown at you. We needed to apply for permits, especially as the grab lorry was turning up. Plus we needed to work safely in the road to get the job done efficiently. It was priced as no impact as he had a pretty nice arrangement or Rhodedendrons and landscaped garden. So priced for no impact, only sawdust was on his side. Plus a power lines out a foot from the tips of some of the limbs.

The whole job was quite expensive for actually what it was. Grab Lorry 5500, traffic management 8100, tree work 13000 all in NOK plus tax at 25%.

Seems expenses be but everything is expensive here in Norway. For example, I just popped to the shop for a loaf of bread and a litre of milk... 78NOK or 8.70USD. Wasn’t even organic either!

I just wish I could get that calibre of work and client every day or at least a couple of them a week.

 

[biggun]

Also, on the public transport and roads issue. If a bus is 10 minutes late, every passenger is entitled to make a compensation claim and receive 50NOK. If a bus is during rush hour and delayed then that will be a fair amount of compo paidout.

We were working for the road networks once and there was delays of 45minutes to busses in the area. The Road network guys were out sharpish shutting down the job... even though we were working for them. Different department and a different pot of coffers. We eventually were allowed to proceed after reducing closure times to reduce the backlog of traffic.

It is madness, I tell thee!

 

[pantheraba]

Keystone Cops it sounds like!! Who's on First????

 

[MasterBlaster]

Lordy - none of that here! A late bus is a late bus!!!

 

[biggun]

Another job that has been in the pipeline for a while, just waiting for suitable time, weather and my shoulder to get better.

This pine had pretty extensive dieback, pretty typical for this area. Originally it was down to deadwood but it would have left a ugly tree and more than likely would need to be one again in a couple of years. When we were discussing what we caused it the issue of landscaping and the fact the customer had remove around 5 major roots a couple of years ago when they had drainage put in the driveway.

They decide to remove the tree. Customer helped out, chipped everything we could to use on the lot. Lots cut and left to 30cm for him to split for firewood. Rain held off and the shoulder felt pretty good.

A couple of pictures the customer took.

 

[Mick!]

Nice, I’m quite enamouréd by Scots pines, blue tinged needles and that orange bark.

Réduction on a compromised oak, figured it would please some of you.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yea, the poor thing needs to go... good job!

Nice reduction, Mick!

 

[treebilly]

Since we had a decent rain last night, I decided to save a downed tree in creek clean up till a bit later in the day. Had the boss and both ground guys giving me suggestions for this storm damaged cherry. It had a good angle and a lot of tension on another tree. The brain trust was still coming up with a complicated plan when I dropped it. That beautiful log has been cut into firewood and wheel barreled out of the back yard. Back to the lovely smelling creek mud for the afternoon

Looks like they made a good decision on that pine removal Rich
Nice looking reduction Mick

 

[Nutball]

Another job that has been in the pipeline for a while, just waiting for suitable time, weather and my shoulder to get better.

This pine had pretty extensive dieback, pretty typical for this area. Originally it was down to deadwood but it would have left a ugly tree and more than likely would need to be one again in a couple of years. When we were discussing what we caused it the issue of landscaping and the fact the customer had remove around 5 major roots a couple of years ago when they had drainage put in the driveway.

They decide to remove the tree. Customer helped out, chipped everything we could to use on the lot. Lots cut and left to 30cm for him to split for firewood. Rain held off and the shoulder felt pretty good.

A couple of pictures the customer took.

Looks like the homeowner has a couple really old Husqvarnas

 

[biggun]

Yes he did, they ran pretty well but you could have “riden bare arsed to Blackpool on them”!

That was probably his effort to sharpen them. He said he got stuck down a rabbit hole on YouTube yesterday watching Buckin’ Billy Ray.

 

[stig]

We've been working at a large project down at the castle on Island Møn, where we logged 7 weeks last summer.
They have a LOT of dying ash trees between their fields.
As they die, they fall into the fields and become a complete nuisance.

So we suggested to the owner, that we take them all out at once.
They'll all be chipped and the amount of chips generated should pay for the whole thing, more or less.
We are talking 1000s of trees, here.

The Feller buncher goes first, taking out what it can handle, then the handfallers move in and finally everything is forwarded out.

We had really bad weather this week, rain the whole time. Working 10 hour days while soaked is not fun.
My truck got bogged down in a field, the Feller buncher was handy for getting it free.

By the time we finish, we'll have made somewhere near 3000 cubic meters of chips!!!

 

[Mick!]

Great stuff Stig, you’re really putting the numbers on the board atm.

Get a new truck though, that thing is shit.