The Official Work Pictures Thread

[lumberjack]

Depends if I have the GPS or it or not. Currently it doesn't, so if it flew out of range it would do it's on thing as best I know. With the GPS it would return to the point I had set when I turned the hexacopter on and land.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Got 10 grand laying around? I bet a nickle you do...

http://www.gizmag.com/sensefly-ebee-uav/25851/

 

[lumberjack]

Nice, although this hexacopter is all I want to handle... maybe a bit more. I have enough to learn as it is, and the hexacopter is finicky enough as it is. I'll have to put a gimbal on the bottom of it to carry the camera to get rid of the vibration. On the airport job I'm currently doing doesn't require much climbing like I thought I would, so I haven't had the time to capture aerial footage like I'd thought. I'll have other jobs obviously to capture that footage, and other things to spend $10k on.

 

[PCTREE]

How to fit a 120' pine in a 70' hole.......

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[Husabud]

Private vid there Paul.

 

[PCTREE]

fixed???

 

[bonner1040]

That was great! I assume you had a notch in it halfway and another line at the top?

 

[Husabud]

Nice folding tree!

 

[woodworkingboy]

I've seen it done before, so plagiarism. Still cool though.

 

[Tucker943]

Word

 

[PCTREE]

I assume you had a notch in it halfway and another line at the top?

Wraptored up half way and made a notch facing backwards and made the back(front?) cut leaving a 2-3" hinge. Felt a bit spooky coming down with that thing half cut?? Yes I had a rope in the top tied off behind..

 

[bonner1040]

I didnt think you climbed up there!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Very cool!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

You just rappel real gentle like Nick

Nicely done Paul

 

[lumberjack]

Getting unloaded today.

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[MasterBlaster]

Wow, I've never seen a crane like that.

Hey, how's your Pops doing nowadays? All healed up?

 

[lumberjack]

Na, but he's as good as he's going to get. He can drive and amble about, takes care of the property etc.

Thanks for asking. )

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yea, I kinda know how he feels. Good to hear, though!

 

[top_notch]

Wow, liked the folding tree trick! How much did you get paid for the wood Carl?

 

[bonner1040]

$60 / ton = Over $1k right? 17tons x $60...

 

[lumberjack]

$60T, 13.41T, a touch over $800. Takes 1.7T to pay for hauling it, 2 trips, means I cleared $600.

 

[stig]

Paul, if you make your back cut by setting two overlapping cut ( like a snap cut), so the wood has to break along the fibers, it'll hold the top securely untill it meets enough resistance to break while the tree is going over.
I love the folding tree trick and it always impresses the hell out of homeowners and bystanders

 

[canadiantreeman]

Geez, stig, that sounds an awful lot like a cut a certain master of the universe might advise!?!

Some of us repollarding some willows down by the lake, we bought a small 3" bearcat with a honda motor...my first chipper haha! The thing takes a while, but it works. The alternative on that job would have been to drag everything 150' and up 3 flights of stairs to process. And the clients were sold on using the chips and wood for their lanscaping purposes. The trees have been hacked time and again, but I hope now that I've got a hold of them that I can re pollard them every 2 years or so and develop some cool looking pollard heads. There were some shoots that had previously grafted that I cut just past the fusion just to see what it'll look like next time. Like an experiment. Then a red oak I pruned.



Now some td's! Lombo, and walnut.

 

[stig]

I guess it does, at that

Nice pollard job. I'll look forward to seeing it next time you re-pollard it.

We started the day by removing a couple of hazard trees. Martin, the apprentice, got to test to outer limits of what a 24" saw can cut.
And managed to ding the roof of his car with a flying branch, even though we were dead certain we'd parked far enough away.
So much for dead certain!

 

[FJR]

Pretty dang cool. I'd love to go out in the woods for a day with you Stig, it would be like gold.