The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Maximalist]

I've always liked useful things.

 

[Maximalist]

Today I sawed the pines again -
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Today I was working with the legendary 200t saw. Working with this saw always causes me delight and admiration!

 

[biggun]

A while back we were taking down a few trees at a cabin. There was a sizeable maple with a spilt right down the trunk the owner asked us to do. We said wait till it fails and the powered line company will fix it.

Sure enough the split side failed leaving the half hanging over his two out buildings and a domestic electric cable.

We went today to take it down. Rigged pretty much everything. All left in the ravine where the other side failed.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Risky SOB right there. Kudos for getting that down

 

[Kaveman]

A while back we were taking down a few trees at a cabin. There was a sizeable maple with a spilt right down the trunk the owner asked us to do. We said wait till it fails and the powered line company will fix it.

Sure enough the split side failed leaving the half hanging over his two out buildings and a domestic electric cable.

We went today to take it down. Rigged pretty much everything. All left in the ravine where the other side failed.

Nice job, a very nice job!

Our maples around here are probably 30 years from climbable, I hear it's really prone to splitting and barber chair. Any truth to that?

 

[flushcut]

Some maples tend to split like Norways and silvers, occasionally a boxelder. Sugars are solid.

 

[Nutball]

I had a short bushy 20"DBH free standing sugar maple split from a string wind gust. I noticed it a year later, and took it down before it started rotting.

 

[biggun]

Nice job, a very nice job!

Our maples around here are probably 30 years from climbable, I hear it's really prone to splitting and barber chair. Any truth to that?

Thanks.

Yes they can be prone to splitting, but at the same time are pretty hard woods.

The problem in this area is they are natural forest grown trees. By that I mean they haven’t been formatively pruned, hence the number of inclusions and defected trees.

It was a bit of a leaner, more than it looks in the picture. One of those jobs where the first few rigs where light to see how the tree reacted and then work from there.

All went well. We didn’t damage anything, get hurt and we got paid.

 

[Maximalist]

On the topic of "before and after" -

 

[Bodean]

Walking on sunshine. Whoa O.

 

[treebilly]

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Fun one this morning.

 

[treebilly]

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[treebilly]

This is the cut where we find out if all the rigging was worth the effort. I had a shorter video of it but it won’t load properly. Sorry it’s so long

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nicely Done! The kind of rigging that makes a tree professional shine.

 

[Maximalist]

Find the differences -

Today I had 5 willows, 2 ash trees and 1 maple.

 

[lxskllr]

Nice spot out there Andrey. Looks like a pleasant, and relaxing work environment.

 

[Maximalist]

All the places in St. Petersburg are great!)

 

[SeanKroll]

 

[SeanKroll]

Large fir on the left, canopy raise.

Mirm with her two canopy raises.

Rotten willow felled between the power line and a madrona with character.

 

[Maximalist]

There were quite a few trees today. Birch and willows are the most interesting of them -

 

[davidwyby]

How bout some more Sean? From a couple weeks ago, I’ve been traveling.

When I get a chance I’ll put the videos together. Just got home from a towing job in the mountains…crown Vic, blown ball joint. Should have gotten some pics, had to get pretty creative.

 

[davidwyby]

Luckily the largest was the freshest, so he worked off it and pieced the others down.

I dumped the spars.

The burb, etc. in the background prevented me from just dropping the trees whole.

 

[Kaveman]

Freaking dope David! Rock on man!

 

[davidwyby]

Freaking dope David! Rock on man!

Pfft

I was just a groundie

He was the one bouncing around 100’ up on spindly dead trees 😬

 

[Kaveman]

A good groundie is worth his weight in diamonds, especially when dealing with 100ft spindly dead trees. Don't short change yourself.