The Official Work Pictures Thread

[cory]

Quercus Agrifolia Coast Live Oak, they get fat

Deva, you obviously know way better'n I but even the leaves don't resemble oak. What am I missing?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yous guys need to some species research

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Looks nice, but I'd have left them bushy, and moved the chairs. Blocked more sun before. Just looked it up. Nice tree.

Speaking of which, i will be going back regular. I will be able to show you the progress. Place is going to keep me busy. Large oak to prune there Monday. New client.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. That thing just doesn't look like oak to me. We have willow oak here, which doesn't have the stereotypical oak leaves, but it still looks like an oak.

 

[Bodean]

Hi Gary.. for sure.. that lead was an oversized water sprout or sucker from previous hat racking full topping to the wood long ago… it was solid I put my weight in it, slowly… I only get great tie ins on removals… though squirrel climbing has its place… I did stab my eye today w a stick.. didn’t have eye pro cause all the excuses… got lucky missed the cornea and just got a blood shot poke. It’s a numbers game and ppe pushes the numbers back….

 

[Bodean]

Cory.. it’s a live oak, completely different than anything east coast. No happy soft large leaves here.. these leaves get in your belt line under your saddle and your getting poked and scratched all day.. many spines.

 

[cory]

Thanks man, I had no idea, good info.

Are they the same as live oak down Lousiana way MB used to talk about?

 

[Bodean]

I think the Southern live oak q.virginiana is stronger than our agrifolias... they used Sothern Live oak for the wooden Navy ships like Old Ironsides.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks man, I had no idea, good info.

Are they the same as live oak down Lousiana way MB used to talk about?

Closest tree we have to q. virginiana is our Canyon Live Oak aka Golden Cup, q chrysolepis

 

[PCTREE]

Today’s fun. Storm blew through last night and dumped this on a car and house.

 

[ruel]

Holy crap!

 

[cory]

Log truck ftw. Lordy I love a log truck

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Aweful close to the bed

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, that'll get your attention quick.

 

[ruel]

Quick enough to rip the toilet seat off!

 

[PCTREE]

Ruel funny thing is I didnt notice the toilet seat till I looked at the pictures afterwards. Whenever Im in a customers house I keep my eyes down, Feel weird indoors for some reason

 

[lxskllr]

Heh, I'm the same way. Feels like I'm being nosey if I look around too much.

 

[Nutball]

Do you have a shop vac attachment for the clutch cover of your saws when cutting inside a house?

 

[Bodean]

Crazy trees piercing the house, like a horror movie.

when I worked as a pre inspector for pge, I walked through many houses w weird ass people. I kept my head up and my hands in my pocket.
i thought they were either gonna club me and drag me to the basement or frame me for gramma’s jewels and cash missing.

That log truck is rad, we used to work w a guy from Mendo named Steve Turner w an old log truck self loader. I bet Jerry knows him.

 

[Bodean]

Looks like a white rot, armallaria?

 

[cory]

 

[cory]

 

[cory]

Ok, it wasn't "150' up and still 7' diameter" , but this big ol dead beech was really fat. At 60' it was over 3' thick.

 

[cory]

 

[lxskllr]

Big ol' beech. Was it sick? I'd really miss seeing that tree every time I went home.

realtime edit:
Just saw you say it was dead. Too bad. That was a nice yard feature.