The Official Work Pictures Thread

[cory]

Cheese blocks!

 

[flushcut]

Toothpicks

 

[stig]

Had a shit job today.
A privet hedge to cut back severely.
These days I pass jobs like that on to my subs, but I've had the client, a 92 year old lady, since 08.
661 with 36" bar. Only threw the chain 8 times.

 

[lxskllr]

Jesus, that's miserable stig. A lot of saw to sling around for a dumb bush, and the derailments are rage inducing. Luckily, I've dealt with neither on that scale. Smaller bushes and smaller saws. Kill any chains in the process?

 

[stig]

Nope.
Just about killed my shoulders, though.
Should have put that bar on a lighter saw.

 

[flushcut]

Or buy a hedger. Maybe one of those backpack spring jib deals as well. But yes hedges suck!

 

[Mellow]

Yuck! These days, I price them so that I can afford to take the following day off to recover.

 

[Kaveman]

@stig, I'm pretty sure you won "Shit Job of the Week" with that one!

Why did you use 660? Seems a bit masochistic...

 

[lxskllr]

Stig mentioned wishing he used a lighter saw. I wonder if that would really be better? Seems like you'd be fighting bar droop the whole time. I bet that light bar's a good match for the 661. Going smaller with the saw might make it nose heavy. I have an ES on my 661, and I don't like the way it balances.

 

[flushcut]

880 seven foot bar = less passes lol

 

[Kaveman]

The Dane has a 500i, I'm sure of it... then again that saw is nose heavy with most long-ish bars because it's so light.

Off early today, and I have tomorrow off. Trimmed some willows at the RV park. Were almost done with that job, just a few trees left.

The girls will be out of town, so I'm supposed to go walk the dogs tomorrow. That gives me a chance to drop my big tool box off, empty of course. I also have some bits and bobs that will improve the camper stashed away over there. Still need weather stripping...

 

[Bodean]

West Maui

 

[lxskllr]

A line of palms with people on platforms looks weird to me :^D

 

[Burnham]

@stig Nasty in the extreme, brother.

@Bodean Sweet...are those portable deer stands?

 

[stikine]

Looks quite bad @stig .

This little gem was in the rock pit where we met up before going to the training site. You can't make this shit up...am I in West Virginia? Haha

 

[Maximalist]

Working in cramped conditions.

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[Steve Mack]

@Bodean Sweet...are those portable deer stands?

Could be linesman's pole stands. I've got one down the back I haven't used for years.

Can't believe how much they want for one now.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Tight one Max. Squeeky tight. Nice work

 

[Bodean]

Great job Max, chunking on those exposed root flares can be a surprise w a bad bounce. Couple half sheets of plywood.

Those are deer stands…. I’ve only just started using them…. Someone said they are illegal in Arb but I’m sure cheaper than the $2500 Swiss grippers or bands…. Spikeless pruning is what they do in the resorts at west Maui…. It’s kind of a sketch feeling climbing up w deer stands on a skinny kinky leaning 80 foot tall piece of grass in 30 mph tradewinds then give it a shave w a machete, sickle and handsaw…. Haha haha ha. Makes me appreciate real trees w branches.

 

[Tree09]

You don't set a line and climb it on rope? Being in illinois I've never done a palm but i would have thought that was the way.

 

[Bodean]

No that would take a very long time…. Need to be doing about 3 an hour.

The royal palms pictured here are way easier to SRT and harder to grip or band up because the trunk gets thicker as you go up hard to adjust. Whatever it takes to trim the trees and you don’t die.

 

[davidwyby]

Gonna demo these tomorrow. Wind is supposed to be from the south instead of the usual west (pictured) so it will help me bomb them into the yard, just make it a little warm.


Not liking the one hanging over the house.

 

[flushcut]

Speedline out the fronds and catch a few chunks. Easy peezy lemon squeezy. Or are you going for the flop?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

If the wind's right, he could pitch the fronds and they would find the street, or two neighbors down... LOL

 

[BIGTWIG]

A project that we are wrapping up.
New homesite and road clearing with defensible space and Lodgepole Pine thinning.
It’s been a fight with the weather.
We have seen 3’ of snow in the last month.