The Official Work Pictures Thread

[FireFighterZero]

So you think that might save the tree?

 

[Mick!]

Yes.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Cool!


We had some green ash trees up at Dads that were crappy. Not a bit of green growth anywhere.


They pruned them right at ground level......and the stupid things started sending up shoots.




Some trees like a little abuse I guess....

 

[Mick!]

That’s called coppicing in the UK

 

[FireFighterZero]

In the US its called " i am tired of those gawddamn sickly trees"


I felled a monster...probably 4 to 5 inch DBH, ash behind the shop. Did the same thing now that I think about it.


I looked up coppicing....yep. I guess thats what happened. Never thought you could help a tree by cutting the stupid thing down.

 

[Mick!]

Helping trees isn't the aim, it’s to use the wood, then in 15/20/30 years go back and do it again without having to replant.

 

[FireFighterZero]

But only specific varieties of trees right?

 

[Mick!]

Yes, Ash, Hornbeam, False acacia, sweet chestnut (using UK names) all coppice readily.

Where I come from in the uk there are loads of overstood hornbeam woods, planted for the furnaces dating from medieval iron production.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Is there point where coppicing will kill them?


On a smaller scale....winter wheat will tolerate repeated grazings....up until the plant enters the "boot" stage.

At that point grazing will pretty much kill it.

 

[Mick!]

Dunno really, I guess the ‘stool’ (The stump from which the regrowth.....grows)
needs a certain amount of years to accrue enough energy to survive another cycle.
I don’t know what that is though, species dependent I guess.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Thats cool about the iron production.


Did they burn that directly or did the colliers get a hold of it?

 

[Mick!]

Colliers are coal miners, it was the discovery of using coal in iron production that spelt the end of the iron Industry in Sussex, it moved to the coal mines in other areas, industrial revolution etc.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I thought that's what they called the guys who burned the mounds to make char?

 

[PCTREE]

Sub's log truck?

No that’s my truck. 78 international with twin locking rears. I love that truck

 

[Mick!]

I thought that's what they called the guys who burned the mounds to make char?

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[FireFighterZero]

Yeah, I am sure thats right.


Wish I could find that program I watched a while ago.


Worst Jobs in History. It was interesting.

 

[PCTREE]

View out of my office window today
Good day. Big tall oak in the back of back yard. 25’ jib with 20’ pull out offset to 35. Good for 2000 lbs. all went smoothly

 

[lxskllr]

I thought that's what they called the guys who burned the mounds to make char?

The operation is so delicate that it was generally left to colliers (professional charcoal burners). They often lived alone in small huts to tend their wood piles. For example, in the Harz Mountains of Germany, charcoal burners lived in conical huts called Köten which are extant today.[when?]

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:shrugs:

 

[cory]

Quite the stretch, Paul. I've never used a jib.

Worst Jobs in History. It was interesting.

Which ranked worst, farming or treework?

 

[Tree09]

Charcoal production. They lived outside town tending the smoky fires, and were kinda outcasts

 

[ruel]

Saw a treemugs video a while back of him making charcoal, looked pretty interesting. I did some reading and came up with this burner. Idea is to fill this with wood, build a fire underneath- then the wood gas comes out holes in the pipe and keeps cooking it.

Unused so far, but I think it'll work. probably going to make a non threaded plug for the other bung, emergency pressure relief.

I really hate dealing with all the little end pieces from bucking up firewood, hopefully put them to use

 

[ruel]

Mini skidding through the woods today. And a view from the start of the driveway

 

[pigwot]

Cory,
You'll have to come play when we have the jib on the 60ton crane's boom.
We have a 260 ft rope set aside just for when the jib comes out, for the fellow setting the slings to get back down to the ground before the pick gets cut.
Here is Herman heading past me on his way up to set slings. (Hand by his mic because he was telling bad jokes on his way up in Spanish ( because el jefe (the boss) doesn't speak Spanish).
It was only a 155 foot Tulip poplar, but we were on a steep hillside and he needed almost the full length to get back down.

 

[cory]

Ruel- Good stuff!! Keep us posted!

Wow, Pat, good stuff!!!!

 

[pigwot]

Seriously, I'll put your name down for some tall tree days
CT isn't that far from DE and SouthEast PA... but I hear you're a bit busy without the ninja... maybe I should come give you a week.
I'll be on the road to Michigan in Nov. to deal with oak wilt trees at the day camp, and some Fall leaf cleanup. After that maybe...