The Official Work Pictures Thread
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Burnham
Woods walker
Nail clippers.
Mellow
BCMA
And an emery board!Nail clippers.
Stihl gas hedge trimmer. The biggest cut was maybe half an inch diameter.
Trust me, I get it, B. Let me play devil's advocate for a minute here. Do you have hedges at your house? Or a lawn? Do you let them grow as nature intended? Never cut them back? How about pollarding, or topiary, or espalier? Should we give those up because its unnatural and a travesty of the environment? That tree is 20 years old and the homeowner is thrilled every time we cut it. She thinks it's the prettiest tree in the neighborhood.But that is just about the saddest travesty of a live oak I have ever suffered seeing. I mean, really?
Burnham
Woods walker
Fair point.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
A Mellow I would think they wanted deluxe addition. Hand snips only back to a proper leader or lateral.
Lifted this little poinciana Had fun.. realized I get to climb trees for a living so I had fun.
Had to get out to all those tips for the view of the ocean. It was nice to be in the shade all day Kona side.
Lifted this little poinciana Had fun.. realized I get to climb trees for a living so I had fun.
Had to get out to all those tips for the view of the ocean. It was nice to be in the shade all day Kona side.
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Mellow
BCMA
Right? Never thought 40+ years ago when I answered that Classified Ad for "Tree Climbers Wanted. Will Train" that I'd still be doing it today! I love my job!realized I get to climb trees for a living so I had fun.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Had some one told me when I was getting out of High School I could make a living with this work, I would have been all over it.
Burnham
Woods walker
Buuut...then you never would have been chef for Hef and his harem.
That would have been a travesty of lost opportunity, Stephen.
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That would have been a travesty of lost opportunity, Stephen.
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
True that.
Treeaddict
Treehouser
Then you’re thrashing the tree or shrub with a rake trying to get them out. A second to cut and a minute to clear the hangers.
Mellow
BCMA
Start at the tips and shave off an inch or two at a time with a nice smooth sweeping motion. All those little bits will rain down through the canopy with very little getting hung up.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I started doing that on my own hedge, I hate the job a little less now.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
This is a tree I boo boo'd in 2015 or 2016 when I had that 45 tree job residential logging for the most part.
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Cabled and braced, this multistem has faired better than most with the mono event and last years heavy snow fall.
Nice to see all the callous wood and compartmentalization. Right over the rod and nuts. Hardly see them now.
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45 Trees, 3 climbers, 3 weeks of residential logging.
45 dead trees on one acre.. All within reach of houses, street, power lines, septic systems, water and other utilities. Trying to save all she had left in the way of green trees. Some fruit and ornamentals as well. Pretty much make the dead smaller to fit, climb and rig most of them. Largest...
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Nice to see all the callous wood and compartmentalization. Right over the rod and nuts. Hardly see them now.
yep, survey was done yesterday, all marked for us (with bright pink painted grade stakes, nice and easy to see)
we are doing the stumps too, that machines big enough but id like a ripper tooth, one day I will need it bad enough
the small trees <2" are the worst, they break or rip in half before you rip out the roots, we aren't supposed to dig but we have to just to get the stinkin stumps out like they asked
day one of a 3-4 day job, ive got a stump to dig out first thing tomorrow that isn't nearly as tiny as the rest, although some of the 6" trees took me 20 minutes each due to the mass amount of roots in this area
*not my cut, was this way when we arrived
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I noticed you left out the thinking part
Burnham
Woods walker
"aren't supposed to dig" 
