The Official Work Pictures Thread

[stig]

We topped 10 poplars with the Ponsse Buffallo today.
Started at 9 Am, finished at 11 PM.

There were 2 large tops he was afraid of, so we set a line in them and pulled with the truck while he cut.
Worked great.

 

[cory]

Beast of a machine.

Are you leaving the trunks to sucker out?

 

[stig]

Yep.

 

[flushcut]

What’s the load chart like on the forwarder?

 

[treebilly]

Silver maple for yesterday morning. Had some chipper issues to start it off but went well. Why we have distributor caps on equipment in 2024 is beyond me. Hopefully the mech gets a new one on today. We covered it overnight just in case

Then a white oak and hickory removal behind a gas well for the afternoon. Only got a pic of Cameron in the bean pole hickory

 

[stig]

What’s the load chart like on the forwarder?

What is a load chart?

 

[cory]

Ponsee don't care. If the machine can lift it without tipping over, it's within the chart

Rich, how far do you travel to keep the iron busy?

 

[treebilly]

Cory I usually stay within a half hour (normal car time) of the shop. Little bit more in the trucks

 

[flushcut]

What is a load chart?

Lifting capacity.

 

[stig]

No idea.

 

[stikine]

The way the Ponsse is being used in that application a load chart probably doesn't apply I'm guessing.

 

[Maximalist]

Today was a pretty busy day. I cut down 5 trees with a car tower and 4 trees without a car tower -


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[lxskllr]

Is that black cover on top of the saw there to keep it warm?

 

[Maximalist]

Is that black cover on top of the saw there to keep it warm?

This winter kit is included in the MS260 Stihl package. This is just to keep the saw heated at low temperatures. What I like about the 260 model is that this saw starts at any temperature on the first try.

 

[cory]

@Maximalist, you must cut alot of frozen wood, does it ever present problems, like not cutting well or dulling your chains?

 

[stig]

Very unusually we are having some real winter.
Yesterday morning I got hit by a bit of 70es nostalgia.


Then I remembered, crappy iron wedges, no caulks, shitty ear protection, saw pants that were highly flammable and didn't fit and a saw that vibrated , stunk and needed the air filter cleaned twice daily......................................end of nostalgia!!

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, but the snow's nice. We're supposed to get some winter next week. Right around freezing and below all week. I'm hoping for some snow. I'm also hoping the boss pusses out for doing work, and I can work on tree stuff around the farm.

 

[Maximalist]

@Maximalist, you must cut alot of frozen wood, does it ever present problems, like not cutting well or dulling your chains?

Yes, of course, frozen wood saws a little slower than usual. I'm not sure about the fact that the chain is blunting faster than usual.

 

[stikine]

Very unusually we are having some real winter.
Yesterday morning I got hit by a bit of 70es nostalgia.


Then I remembered, crappy iron wedges, no caulks, shitty ear protection, saw pants that were highly flammable and didn't fit and a saw that vibrated , stunk and needed the air filter cleaned twice daily......................................end of nostalgia!!

But at least the trees still split when they hit the ground. 😁

 

[stig]

Figured I'd get some flak for that.
Triple co-dom and nothing to slow it down or break the fall.
Had to happen.
Only sure way to save would have been topping it first. No economically viable on a smallish Beech or any Beech in fact.

 

[Treeaddict]

Boring but first time I’ve done it. I’ve seen Pat deadwood with a throwline and John pull hangers but I’ve not done until now. It’s very easy and effective.

 

[flushcut]

Fracture pruning

 

[Burnham]

I do that quite frequently to pull out broken hung up Douglas fir branches on our place. Sometime just the throwline works, sometimes I need to pull a 11mm rigging rope up and over so I can pull hard enough to get them down.

 

[friedrich]

today i cut off someone’s toilett (broken branch) maybe a racoon? there was a hollow but i didn’t care to look any closer

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Boring but first time I’ve done it. I’ve seen Pat deadwood with a throwline and John pull hangers but I’ve not done until now. It’s very easy and effective.

Love it when you just get it thrown right and tag it right out. Like playing horse shoes