The Official Work Pictures Thread

[pantheraba]

I'm with Burnham...uber high-level work, well done. Crazy tree situation there.

 

[Rooted]

 

[flushcut]

36" x130' dead white fir laid between driveways (long wedges were at the truck, broken wedges can be good for stacking and short back cuts).
Still need to cut up a cutting board for stacking plates.

Dead cedar wrapped by a rotten Co- Dom alder. View attachment 116221View attachment 116222View attachment 116223View attachment 116224View attachment 116225

You need a farrier’s( horse shoe guy/gal) file to tune up you wedges. What make is the axe?

 

[SeanKroll]

Husqvarna.

As heavy as a $5 thrift store ax, and as useful for wedges. Someone misplaced my pounder for me one day, and I was already at the rental shop / husky dealer.

I had an alder barberchair on me and wreck the handle, ending the ax.
Lifetime guarantee!!

Does a nice job as a splitting ax.
Over-priced as a pounder at $100.

 

[SeanKroll]

I wonder if i "grew up" with the wrong color saws.

 

[stig]

There are no wrong color saws.

That is just something guys go on and on and on and on and on about, just to hear themselves talk.

 

[lxskllr]

I was almost a Husky user. I got burned out on the research, said "screw it. I'm gonna pick a brand and stick with it to simplify things". Husky won due to being in walking distance of work. Contrary to the website, they were closed when I went to buy a saw, so I went to the Stihl dealer. I later added echo for small saws.

I'm still a little salty about the coil failure on my brushcutter. Most of this stuff is for the lulz, but I happened to need that cutter for a job, and it let me down. I ended up buying another one, cause it was the only big machine I could get on a day's notice. Yea, you can get a coil failure on anything, but it was Husky that dropped the ball. My Stihls and echoes just keep going.

Practically speaking, there aren't a lot of Husky dealers around here, and I particularly like the way Stihl sounds when it's idleing, so it works out, but whatever. They all cut wood.

 

[stig]

I run Stihl for the simple reason the local Stihl shop is the best saw shop in the country.

I've run into people from other parts, that have been sent there by Stihl, for warranty issues that their local shop couldn'tr fix.
Also, having come there for 30 years, I get excellent treatment.
Apprentice wrecks a saw on Island Møn.
I drive 2 hours up to the shop.........parts take 4 days to deliver.
I go: "Shit, Bjørn; we are logging on Møn!!!"
He goes in the show room, takes a saw apart and gets the parts needed.
1 hour later I'm south bound again.

The local Husky dealer is an asshole, simple as that.

 

[lxskllr]

My Husky dealer treated me alright. He gave me an extra blade for the new cutter I bought, and I think it was a year later I went in to ask about bar oil cause I was cutting on the farm, and ran out. He remembered me, and gave me a quart of oil gratis. Just small stuff, but he didn't have to do anything, and most shops won't. I can't complain.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yup. Really depends on your service local.
But broken down simplistics, every badge has good saws and crap saws. You just need to sort through it all and get what suits you in each class. If you look in the back of my truck, you'll see Echo, Stihl and Husky.
Example, last couple jobs. Felling large pines with an 066 with 36 bar. One pine limbed out with an Echo 590 first. Echo 800 in truck as back up in case of metal with a 30" carbide chain. Then the Oak tree got the Echo 2511 up top, 590 on the ground, Husky 36 near the roof line and the Husky 272 for the fell.
Pick the tool that works best for the job. Make sure you have a good service center to back it up. My two best service centers handle all 3 badges.

 

[Jomo]

Any of you old climbers remember Echo's original name?

Circa 1975...



Jomo

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I think I remember seeing one of those in a Godzilla movie.

 

[Jomo]

Mine had a butterfly chain on it.

Kolve chain

Kolve chain

forestryforum.com

Ever seen a butterfly chain?

They work best on hardwoods.

Pretty much suck on softwoods though.

Jomo

 

[ruel]

Clipping tree sprouts from a view. Easy and quiet, just wind and waves mostly.

 

[gf beranek]

I found this image on the internet

Looks like a sort of ripping chain.

 

[lxskllr]

That's a weird looking thing. I wonder what the 'wings' do? Better chip clearance?

 

[gf beranek]

It's for cutting end grain fibers. So, yeah, better clearance.

 

[Jomo]

Nice find Gerr!

They went extinct for a reason, they sucked, were hard to sharpen, etc.

Jomo

 

[treebilly]

Getting a little more familiar with the crane today. Beautiful day in Cleveland. The bucket op said he got a pic with the boom and the city skyline. Wish he’d of sent it to me.

 

[lxskllr]

That first pic looks pretty cool.

 

[cory]

Great pics.

Is that town work, by the curb?

 

[treebilly]

Gas company needs to replace the valve which the stump has engulfed over the years.
Also ordered a case of cable lube and a case of white lithium for the boom and outriggers.

 

[SkwerI]

Gas company needs to replace the valve which the stump has engulfed over the years.
Also ordered a case of cable lube and a case of white lithium for the boom and outriggers.

Lubri Plate? Best stuff I've ever found, but hard to find. And about $12 per can.

Amazon- Lubriplate chain and cable fluid

 

[treebilly]

That’s the stuff I ordered Brian. And that’s the link that our sub crane op sent me

 

[cory]

Hard to find/amazon link... huh?

That upcoming gas company work sounds tricky