The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Burnham]

I cannot agree more.

Pete...you and I have shared some intimate conversation about the risks and the rewards this chosen field of work brings. I know pretty close just what you feel, I think. Been right there a few times.

What helped me through some of those mentally challenging times was to just hold my sweet lady, my beloved canine, and my special property tight and close.

Remember, my friend...you won, you beat that demon tree...as my esteemed instructor Doug Dent liked to say "there is a tree out there with your name on it; it will kill you in a heartbeat if you give it a second of opportunity. The only way to not get killed is to treat every mother effin' tree you cut like it's that one".

You did that, my friend. You did good.

Hug Jo hard, give the dogs some extra scritches...and get right out there tomorrow and kick some more tree felling ass, my great friend.

 

[stig]

Pete, do you think it would have popped on you like that if it hadn't been rotten?

 

[pete mctree]

Pete, do you think it would have popped on you like that if it hadn't been rotten?

No, it was the brittle timber created by the decay that failed under load. As I said a deep face cut did not help me at all, as it increased loading.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

In the opposite, couldn't it be a candidate for a no-back-cut felling, by increasing more and more the depth of the notch?
I don't know if it's doable on a such diameter (and wood condition). I have done it just once on a 8" spring pole, a skinny mapple heavily bowed by the wind fall of a big beech.

 

[Danthetree1]

45” tulip poplar in Atlanta GA. The chickens were not harmed in this tree removal...hahaha!

 

[SeanKroll]

Pete, might that have warranted a longer bar and/or binding?

 

[PCTREE]

I doubt a longer bar or binding would have changed much .
Glad you skidadled Pete to cut another day !

 

[Tree09]

If it's a brittle as the dead ash is here nothing could have helped, that stuff is nasty.

 

[PCTREE]

big assed tree Dan, did you rig it all down??

 

[Danthetree1]

big assed tree Dan, did you rig it all down??

To a fat stub. The whole thing went as good as it could with the English Ivy that was out of control. 🤙

 

[Danthetree1]

That magnolia didn't help at all.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Killing a bunch of oaks over and around this rental. Week plus work here. Then another rental and the owners back yard. Dude is leveling the pad and putting a shop further back. Sits on the town's creek so tad sticky. But the chipper is parked in the shade. Spent yesterday removing leads from another group to make room to shave off this one over the roof. Speed lined the tops yesterday afternoon from over the roof. Set new rigging points today and now she'll fit in the in the lay. Every oak seems to have grown into another oak. Slaying the one over the service and garage tomorrow. I'll drop this one and another for Rob and Levi to clean up while I set up the next one.
Fodder.

 

[Danthetree1]

Killing a bunch of oaks over and around this rental. Week plus work here. Then another rental and the owners back yard. Dude is leveling the pad and putting a shop further back. Sits on the town's creek so tad sticky. But the chipper is parked in the shade. Spent yesterday removing leads from another group to make room to shave off this one over the roof. Speed lined the tops yesterday afternoon from over the roof. Set new rigging points today and now she'll fit in the in the lay. Every oak seems to have grown into another oak. Slaying the one over the service and garage tomorrow. I'll drop this one and another for Rob and Levi to clean up while I set up the next one.
Fodder.
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Hobbs!

 

[ruel]

That ash was nasty!

Big tough tree guy stuff today. Foundation shrub pruning, no joke my absolute favorite! All the way down the peninsula today, and still 85+. Nice to have these little gigs for hot days.


Body thrusted 15 feet today after reading Burnham's thread bump. fun for a change but glad it's not an all the time technique anymore

 

[lxskllr]

A shrub pruning would cause me more anxiety than a removal. That requires more artistry, and I *am not* an artist.

 

[Bodean]

Yes.... the new office... tree management.
Exciting as a frozen monkey.

 

[lxskllr]

What does a tree manager do?

 

[flushcut]

Foundation shrub pruning, no joke my absolute favorite!

You are truly one sick individual

 

[Bodean]

Basically find problems and fix them.

 

[ruel]

Living the dream, hedge pruning again! We did this one a few years ago, back for a deep dive. Mostly pulling crossing branches and thinning from inside. Love that change of pace

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I made a Saguaro out of an oak today.

 

[Tree09]

Holy crap that looks dry

 

[ruel]

Back to glue on some spines later?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I have to rig off that piece towards the fence and the roof.So I left a rigging point.
Soooooooo maybe

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I had to use some of that tree to do the tree under it. Spider down and cut it out of the blue oak on the left. had big cracks in it. Then go back up and piece down the part i was tied into. I had already taken two leads out from over the garage and power lines yesterday. Then just flopped large tops to clean up while I dumped the chips.