The Official Work Pictures Thread
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Bodean
Cali dreamer
Incipient decay is what they call that in Eucalyptus.. like pre-decay.
We had to top out a hazard tree for the State forest.
A beech in bad shape, lots of Fomes fomentarius conks and the woodpeckers had been going hard at it, which is a bad sign in beech.
Last week it dropped a major branch on the road, so they called us.
I told the forester that I wouldn't really have minded if he had called a year ago!
Anyway, after looking it over with binoculars, I decided that the back side, away from the lean, had enough sound wood in it that the tree could be climbed, but it had to be pieced out, none of our usual, drop the top in one piece, stuff.
I told the apprentice that this was his chance to show his worth.
He was shit scared.
He had sweated his t-shirt through, before he even got his harness on.
I had brought my own climbing gear and told him that if he backed out, I'd do the tree. ( Which of course meant that he would be known for chickening out and letting an old, sick man do the job
)
Once he was up there and had cut the first branch, he got totally calm and it was just business as usual. I've seen that happen with lots of apprentices, once the saw is running, the fear goes away.
He did real well on that tree and was about a foot taller when he returned to the ground.
Looks like I've made yet another good climber
A beech in bad shape, lots of Fomes fomentarius conks and the woodpeckers had been going hard at it, which is a bad sign in beech.
Last week it dropped a major branch on the road, so they called us.
I told the forester that I wouldn't really have minded if he had called a year ago!
Anyway, after looking it over with binoculars, I decided that the back side, away from the lean, had enough sound wood in it that the tree could be climbed, but it had to be pieced out, none of our usual, drop the top in one piece, stuff.
I told the apprentice that this was his chance to show his worth.
He was shit scared.
He had sweated his t-shirt through, before he even got his harness on.
I had brought my own climbing gear and told him that if he backed out, I'd do the tree. ( Which of course meant that he would be known for chickening out and letting an old, sick man do the job
)Once he was up there and had cut the first branch, he got totally calm and it was just business as usual. I've seen that happen with lots of apprentices, once the saw is running, the fear goes away.
He did real well on that tree and was about a foot taller when he returned to the ground.
Looks like I've made yet another good climber
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Good on ya, Stig! You got a happy and relieved hero there. Good he could settle down once into the fray. I can ID with being skittish before certain jobs...to the point I'll tell the folks around me chattering and asking stupid questions to "please let me focus on getting ready to do what I have to do... I need to think properly on things as I get ready." Most get my drift and back off.
Great pictures. Using shame shamelessly...you are a master teacher.
Great pictures. Using shame shamelessly...you are a master teacher.
Jed
TreeHouser
Insane pics Stig. Not fair to have been born a Dane. Shun the straw death.💪
PCTREE
Treehouser
Tight spot
PCTREE
Treehouser
gf beranek
Old Schooler
Nice image. Tight is right.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Nice pic. Climber looks uncomfortable.
PCTREE
Treehouser
Obviously pictures do it no justice
This crotch was 6’ across
This crotch was 6’ across
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Huge.
Wood always looks bigger on a flat bed.
Wood always looks bigger on a flat bed.
Jed
TreeHouser
Paul’s an animal.
Two resi-Firs to fall today. Tightish shots. Only took pics of one.
Two resi-Firs to fall today. Tightish shots. Only took pics of one.
PCTREE
Treehouser
That’s a ballsy drop right there Jed
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Not an inch to spare with those bystanders in the drop zone.
😄
You all have seen shortened grass and split wood, so I got nuthin'.
😄
You all have seen shortened grass and split wood, so I got nuthin'.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Some one yell goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllll ?
Jed
TreeHouser
Paul: Not so ballsy. (See response to Cory)
Cory: Couldn’t fit that pig. Had to go almost half way up (and didn’t wanna bang up the fence with the mondo lower limbs—thus the plywood.)
lol at World Wide Web.😂😂 See Corey... you East Coasters only have the stupid internet, but we PNW’s have the Information Super Highway.😂
Jed
TreeHouser
More resi-fallin today... the boys said if you slow down the vids at the right moment, you can just see the flying squirrel hit the road.😂
No animals were harmed in the making of this movie.
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Nutball
TreeHouser
Burnham
Woods walker
Jed, my fine friend...you know, if ya keep at it, you just might make a decent cutter, in time....
Well done.
.Well done.
