ruel
TreeHouser
I'm pretty jazzed by your videos Cory! Cool to see those big southern hardwoods
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Burnham
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Thanks! But Maine has plenty of elms, no? Idk, maybe I'm dreaming.
But regarding tulips, which are very common here, I just realized I don't think I've ever seen on in Maine.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Playing with triple hinges lately.
Leaning willow toward the orchard/ garden, over the fence.
Tree material will end up in a hugelkultur.
Lots of pole saw widdling (Kombi with 3 extensions), one face cut/ backcut at 20'+, until it was narrow enough to go sideways.
Pretensioned with the Maasdam rope puller in a 2:1 through a natural crotch...medium tension. Hoped for more elastic rebound in the 3-strand with the 2:1.
Cut to that point and a hand pull to finish.
Last pic... pointing at a little vertical fracture at the front of the hinge. I could see it across the top of the hinge, but didn't take a picture.
Landed where faced.
Leaning willow toward the orchard/ garden, over the fence.
Tree material will end up in a hugelkultur.
Lots of pole saw widdling (Kombi with 3 extensions), one face cut/ backcut at 20'+, until it was narrow enough to go sideways.
Pretensioned with the Maasdam rope puller in a 2:1 through a natural crotch...medium tension. Hoped for more elastic rebound in the 3-strand with the 2:1.
Cut to that point and a hand pull to finish.
Last pic... pointing at a little vertical fracture at the front of the hinge. I could see it across the top of the hinge, but didn't take a picture.
Landed where faced.
Jed
TreeHouser
See, I gotta love/hate now (after my dreaded sizwill fail) with all of this trick-cut stuff, and (just to fly my flag) I happen to be of the opinion that the whole business does next to nothing, or is even detrimental.
I, like Burnham, am utterly perplexed at watching a man with Corey’s enviable size, (who could happily be swinging a six pound Collins) content to deftly tap away at a tiny wedge with a tinier hammer. We the perpetually frustrated, must always bang our guts out with the biggest tools within our reach, because we are perpetually mad at the world that the demonic gods have caused to fall to this extent. The ninja-like dexterity that is content to massage-over some perfectly cut hinge, completely eludes us.
I, like Burnham, am utterly perplexed at watching a man with Corey’s enviable size, (who could happily be swinging a six pound Collins) content to deftly tap away at a tiny wedge with a tinier hammer. We the perpetually frustrated, must always bang our guts out with the biggest tools within our reach, because we are perpetually mad at the world that the demonic gods have caused to fall to this extent. The ninja-like dexterity that is content to massage-over some perfectly cut hinge, completely eludes us.
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Burnham
Woods walker
Now wait a second, Jed old buddy...I was with you there for a bit, but then I think I might have been subtly insulted as that second para progressed.
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Jed
TreeHouser
... only thing is: I never meant to insult either of us.West coast is the best coast.
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BeerGeek
Tree Numbnutz
Here's the nasty poison ivied cherry from the latest:
And here's one of the split stem Dougies:
And here's one of the split stem Dougies:
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Jed, I thought you were having good luck with the 3H except for that one fence that got eaten on a job that was going 2x faster than was bid. So I would think that if a cut which is understood to involve some risk and trickeration whenever it is used, goes bad 10% of the time, then it does indeed have some usefulness? Just gotta know when that 1 in 10 shot is going to come up
BeerGeek
Tree Numbnutz
DNH? Nutball, is that "Diameter at Nipple Height"? You kinky bastard....
lumberjack
Young man on the go
We took out a fat pine this week covered in poison ivy, very minimal reaction to the ivy.
lumberjack
Young man on the go
The first two pictures are early April, before the ivy had leafed out. The ivy was ~12’ in diameter through the canopy, petering out ~10’ from the top.
Nutball
TreeHouser
Neck height. The narrowest spot on the trunk.
lumberjack
Young man on the go
He wrote it on a whim, turned out to be advantageous.
I’m glad I didn’t have to climb that tree, I left 4-6’ stubs from the lift, then peeled the ivy back with the ex for trimming the stubs on the ground.
Nice.
ruel
TreeHouser
Zero soil and 80+foot spruce= job security. Set pretty hard into that oak, and leaning towards a camp. 5:1 pulling a 3:1 helped free the branch lock, and acted as a nice retainer line too.
Rest of the day was unglamorous dead spruce felling and dicing, nice to mix in some more technical stuff too
Rest of the day was unglamorous dead spruce felling and dicing, nice to mix in some more technical stuff too
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Jed
TreeHouser
Sean: Man you and Sven do some nice work on some messed up jobs.
Carl: Did you cut that rad hinge up? How you liking the five-hundo?
Stig: You are TOO funny man! Wow.
Beergeek: Man yer puttin up some WORK brother.
Corey: “Trickeration”.😂😂😂... Dude... in all honesty I have never even bothered to cut up a 3h in my life. My big lament was over the Sizwill (fence-smasher).You know how it is when you think that you can take something to the bank? And then she lets you down?… That was what happened to me with the Sizwill.
Had a double resi-send today.😂. Got a back leaner yer too scared to pull? No problem... just tie er to the head-leaner and send er out.😂
36” handle on axe. Oops... sorry about the double post.
Carl: Did you cut that rad hinge up? How you liking the five-hundo?
Stig: You are TOO funny man! Wow.
Beergeek: Man yer puttin up some WORK brother.
Corey: “Trickeration”.😂😂😂... Dude... in all honesty I have never even bothered to cut up a 3h in my life. My big lament was over the Sizwill (fence-smasher).You know how it is when you think that you can take something to the bank? And then she lets you down?… That was what happened to me with the Sizwill.
Had a double resi-send today.😂. Got a back leaner yer too scared to pull? No problem... just tie er to the head-leaner and send er out.😂
36” handle on axe. Oops... sorry about the double post.
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Jedidiah (Smith)-
Lol trickeration but the funniest thing basically ever was in treeson's recent vid where y'all were having lunch and all the guys were eating lettuce-filled, plastic "salad tubes" and they were like what about you Jed and you hold up your half eaten apple and say," no just 'conventional' "..
I hear ya on the sizwell, sorry thought it was the 3h. But if she let ya down, maybe you should court the 3H for a bit.
The dub resi-send sounds rad, did ya have a rope on the head leaner?
I've done that with cabled trunks/stems, sweet stuff fo sho.
Jed
TreeHouser
Jed
TreeHouser
Corey: Yeah man it’s pretty fun. Yeah I was dumb/scared enough to actually go through the bother of hanging a stable braid 3/4 in that pig to yard it over with the bucket if I had to. As it was... she went with a few wedge cracks on the back leaner. Fun job.
ruel
TreeHouser
Those things are brush monsters!
