The Official Work Pictures Thread

[pantheraba]

Great 'splainin', Brother Jed. A succubus iPhone is awesome...not good awesome, but awesome.

 

[Bodean]

Jed you spark many a thought here at the TH.

Last tree was pretty big. Tons of squirreling and end weighting… walking on top of huge green fluffy clouds.

 

[pantheraba]

Monterey Cypress blows my mind! Great pictures!

 

[cory]

#f'ghuge!

#monereycypressftw!

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Very nice pics to visualize them conquering the space.
I worked on a bunch a Cedrus atlantica of a similar shape in my favorite castle. Amazing. I'm in awe each time I get there.

 

[stig]

Jed, your lack of posting ability set some great mind to work.
We all benefitted from that.

That is how it usually goes in the 'House.

 

[Maximalist]

Powerful trees, Bodean. We don't grow cedars here. Yesterday I sawed quite large trees too -

 

[treebogan]

Spruce Tree Holocaust

 

[Maximalist]

It was for dessert)

 

[gf beranek]

Aborists and Woodsmen in their natural habitat.

 

[pantheraba]

Yep. Good run of pictures.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

An oak I worked on. Been down in ranch land all of 2 weeks and scheduled 4 more. 5 different properties. Prune, crown raise, dead wood, cable and brace here. Before and afters. Still needs one cable and one 3/4 all thread. Messed up a 13/16ths 5 foot long auger hitting metal in it. So carbide bit on order then hog it out the rest the way through. They have me booked in a couple weeks for more work, so no biggie.

 

[Bermy]

That tree is a stunner!

 

[lxskllr]

They seem to have a lot of cool looking oaks up there. He's done a few nice ones.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Been on "vista prunes" last couple days. Feel like I am hacking some nice trees to shite. But hey, not my trees. I can only advise what will come of it. I'll get some afters there. Full on dead wooding as well. Busy trees. Most all down there are blue oaks. Some nice stately ones.

 

[cory]

How do trees get so big in that dry environment?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

VERY drought tolerant. They will shed leaf as early as July to survive

 

[Jed]

Lol at Stig’s comment. Deva: You are putting up some of the best tree work pictures I have ever seen in my life man. I am like Paul… I wish I could print those out and put them on my living room walls.

Treebogan: Nice to see you in here brother.

Maximalist:Every time I see your pictures, I think, “that guy works like I do.”

Stephen: Stig’s right... you live in a beautiful place.

Jordy topped his Fir and then shot me topping mine.
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[treebogan]

Awesome work Deva!

I dont honestly envy you working on those stabby ,tangley ,stringy macrocarpa's. I grew up around them in New Zealand but the genetic stock seems to be very different down there.The first time I saw long straight trunks on Macrocarpa trees was in San Francisco.All of the ones back home exhibit decurrent form and while they may be massive through the trunk,they dont get very high.They also seem to be gull of old fencing wire and of course a concrete fence post or two.

 

[SeanKroll]

Looking down Before

Looking up Before

Faux broken tops

 

[lxskllr]

Where are you working Sean? I'm aware of that technique, but why did you use it there?

 

[flushcut]

Bird habitat is my guess.

 

[SeanKroll]

Those lower trunks are still green.
Tops were dead. Trees may live, may not.

Either way, it a simulated natural break, instead of a flat top cut.

Common to do on habitat providing snags.

 

[stig]

Yep.
Anything we top for the forest service, we do that way.

 

[pantheraba]

@Maximalist -- Andrey has a good video showing how he raises and lowers his saw for fueling...he sent it to me via FB Messenger. After Jed posted the rope thru the groove in the top of the spar, Andrey contacted me asking what that picture was supposed to mean. We had some back and forth and he said he would make a video of how he does it. I think he will be posting it here soon.