The Official Work Pictures Thread

[treebilly]

Boss has called a two hour delay already. By six am I bet he calls us off. Supposed to keep snowing till 9pm tomorrow. I brought the quad up in hopes that I get called off and the kids get a snow day. Time for some redneck sled riding. Wife has had chili cooking all day so all is well. I’ll still get up and clear my drive and some of the neighbors for them before sun up and hopefully The kids will sleep in and the wife won’t 😉

 

[treebilly]

Thin layers Bigtwig. If you can keep your core warm the fingers and toes don’t need much.
Paul maybe just a little close.
Cory that’s awesome. I need to find a bigger crane that I can rent on the regular.
Edit: wrong thread. But it’ll work

 

[lxskllr]

My standard loadout at ~freezing is thermal top/bottom, polo shirt, thin poly work shirt, a thin wool vest that's a bit too small, an ACU/BDU jacket, and an unlined filson tin cloth vest. ACU/BDU pants and boots on the bottom, and a boonie hat or helmet on top. I have a jacket and heavy vest in the office, but I haven't worn them in years. Last time was when I had to grade beams at night, and it was 18°. A bunch of thin layers lets to customize to the weather, and easily shed stuff as it warms during the day.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Seems like it was dead battery day yesterday. The flat bed, the Dingo. Then flat tire today. New tires should be here tomorrow. Bent lug. That stud will need replaced. I think i hit a rock with it trying to squeeze in somewhere last week.

So took down the rest of that spar and took down an oak that we guyed over a garage. Boom. So 7 hours all told in stripping the 130 foot tree and roping logs down till I could fell it. Then roping down the oak stem over the garage and bombing the other side. Make fire wood out of the oak.
Got to burn all the slash. Nice not to have to drag the chipper about.
Always like your pics too Rich. Dude, you're a machine.

Some tree bondage.....
.. .

 

[SeanKroll]

Like a boss!

 

[cory]

Thin layers Bigtwig.

Cory that’s awesome. I need to find a bigger crane that I can rent on the regular.

Agreed, Rich, thin layers. But even so, I need help getting my saddle on or bucket harness on over it all, doh!

In just regular cold, 8 layers gets it done for me.

Rich, I've mentioned here before that I used to think the 33t was just an absolute beast of a machine, but nowadays, the 55 is king, 33 seems way too small! Bigger can be better.

CV, hella job!

Paul, the light looks like a face caricature

 

[BIGTWIG]

Interesting.

Usually I won’t climb in more than 2-3 layers and and I won’t work in more than 4 during winter.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Way up on the end of that pole. Looks good.

Th en I go from that to apple trees with an orchard ladder, pole pruner, secataurs, hand saw all day alone. Mind boggling.

 

[SeanKroll]

I like that kind of variety.

You're a machine.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Needs oil. Caffeine will do.

 

[Jed]

PNW... the land of cream and gravy... and the Bigrock Candy Mountains... man... I don think I have EVER had more than three layers on... ever. Now my Minnesota days... that’s a different animal.

 

[biggun]

Here in Norway, I wear merino wool long John under my chainsaw pants. Top half is usually merino wool thermal, T-shirt, fleece and then a wind or waterproof jacket on top of that. I can then remove the jacket if needed etc.

The uniform described above is pretty much November till May. Often in spring I will be down to two layers but the early mornings can catch you out so it is easier to have the layers on and remove if needed.

I would prefer to be warm and comfortable than cold and uncomfortable.

 

[Frankie]

@Jed ... chains arrived this morning ! (Center of pix) ... Thanks for the bonus file and file guide - really appreciate kind sir ... I’ll be testing the 20” in some 10” poplar “speed wood” ASAP with videos ... The goof filed chain looks like a “mini” sqr/sqr file as in not as “deep” as the others ... noticed ya clipped the rear of the tooth also - they look good and they are definitely sharp - easy to tell the hand filed from the ground, it’ll be interesting to see timed results of Jedi hand filed vs machine grind

 

[pantheraba]

Lotta Work!!! Looks good!

 

[Frankie]

Lotta work

 

[pantheraba]

Banner day! Got to fell 3 trees without climbing ANYTHING. Alex and I did a job for the fire chief...he needed an oak tree taken out from beside an outbuilding and I figured we would have to rig it. Sized it up, set pull line, bounce/limiter line and dropped it..only pictures of the after. (that extra kerf backcut was where I decided I was starting too low)

That went so quickly he asked if we could look at another...a big, nice pine beside a different building. It had some weight towards the back and building side so we set a pull line and a redirect block way out across the draw. Used the truck to pull perpendicular to the intended pull...I got some video of that.

That pine hit a 50 foot, 16" DBH oak down the hill..hard enough to break it loose to give it a 50 degree lean...unintended collateral damage but no upset (you can see it hit the oak at 0:12 seconds). But while they were retrieving gear it broke loose more at the stump (root ball was humped up) and fell another 3-4 feet to give it even more lean. We decided to go ahead and fell it. I Coos Bayed it and it did not split at all...a straight back cut would most likely have barber chaired it. It made a nice triangular post...no picture, phone was back up the hill.

Great day in the woods...temps 40s to 50s, good sun, good company, sharp saws, things worked like they were supposed to.

 

[cory]

@Jed

 

[Frankie]

.... @Jed ... looks like the sqr/sqr hand filed Jedi chain is about 10-12% quicker than the C83 sqr/rnd x-cut chain ... I did file the c83 and cleaned the gullets nicely so ..... Didn’t get a chance to run the goof filed one today ... When I get into some larger timber I’ll rerun the test but I think this is somewhat accurate ... Seems like the sqr/sqr while quicker , drags the rpms down a tad ... stay tuned for more “saw porn” courtesy of your friendly-neighborhood black cat 😀

 

[pantheraba]

That's just fancy! Good video.

 

[Cerealkiller]

Did my first full on crane removal today! Pretty good size silver maple. Adrian did the one who's stem you see first, I rode the hook up to set a choker he couldn't reach from the lift then after lunch I tackled the second.

 

[PCTREE]

good on you for taking the step over to the dark side of tree work. There is no easier way to totally eliminate a tree......

 

[PCTREE]

This was our target for today. Good sized tree with lots of decay.

 

[cory]

Hows the employee situation going? Is that the chip truck you made out of a garbage truck? You posted a long time ago about a plan to do that.

 

[Jed]

Gary: You are straight up the man. Period. Nice and gutsy Pine fall by the house. Just send it.

Cerealkiller: Right on man.👍 Crane work can be weirdly intimidating.

Frankie: Well yes, that IS nice to hear, but you gotta be perfectly honest, cause I don’t get to run in deciduous wood too much except for Maple, Alder and Cottonpig. I wouldn’t mind knowing how my chain fares in say... Shagbark Hickory or some other exotic stuff. Give me the gloves off criticism, please.

Jake flipped the Cubota today, but Terry got er up again!!!
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[Mick!]

Much damage?