The Official Work Pictures Thread

[rskybiz]

love that feeling!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

+1!
Would have loved to have borne witness to that one Stig

 

[CurSedVoyce]

This is sorta like doing Burnam's old job, only on private properties/easments and with smaller trees

These were some that were broke in 1/2 ...... The one that looks like it was all there was the one that fell in the LZ right uphill, but the hinge broke right as it committed.. She rolled a tad on her way down. Flop wit a twist

Fodder from above 33000 acres that burned a few years ago....

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just reposting a couple of old pics.

 

[lumberjack]

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[bonner1040]

Thats a big log!

MB that 2nd pic is awesome..

 

[MasterBlaster]

But, just say no to tobacco!!!

 

[treesmith]

I got this storm-broken red oak down this morning. It broke about 10' up and hung in a hickory about 40' away. Might know it'd have a little building under that wasn't worth saving......but they wanted it saved anywho.

 

[woodworkingboy]

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[MasterBlaster]

Sweet. Hey, if it was easy, everyone would be a tree surgeon!

 

[Marc-Antoine]

There isn't much wood holding the butt.
Did you rig the top like the butt or pieced it down as is?
Hard to tell by the pics, I guess that the thiner rope on the left is your climbing line.

 

[treesmith]

I climbed the hickory it was lodged in and pieced the red oak down in small pieces until all that was holding it was the bottom fork (6"). Then I rigged a block on the left fork of the hickory and rigged the top of the red oak through it and down to a porty while I cut it free. When it popped loose, the whole red oak trunk was suspended from two lines. The red line at the butt is 5/8" Stable Braid rigged off my GRCS. My daughter ran the porty (4 wraps) to lower the top down. I brought that block down with me, then lowered the butt to the ground. I just tied onto the 5/8" SB and body-thrusted up to the block to bring it down.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

OK, I got it.
Thanks for detailing the process.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I love a good rigging job. Especially if the kids can help. So what if they want to save some silly little thing..

 

[MasterBlaster]

Thats a big log!

MB that 2nd pic is awesome..

Here's that top, being laid down.

And me, kicking back!

 

[bonner1040]

Nice work Scott! I like storm damage like that.

MB did Jer take those pics? Nice camera..

 

[MasterBlaster]

No, the groundie took the pics. It was an Olympus, nothing fancy - a couple hundred bucks.

 

[Reddog]

Yeah, 3 props, 1 arm. It'll take under 10 minutes to fix. It'll take longer to clean out the clay based mud it came down in.

This showed up on Arbtalk.

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http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/video-forum/53440-last-thing-you-expect-when-you-up-tree.html

 

[lumberjack]

Nice, although I stopped watching. Does anything actually get done in the video or is it just the climber in a tree?

Also woulda been a nice place to have some different audio put in!


Guess I'm not the only person with the idea!

 

[Reddog]

From what I gather a neighbor sent it up and scared Old Mill tree care with it. So most likely he spent more time looking at it. Also looked like the owner was showing off going up and down and around.

Maybe Old mill will catch this here and fill you in some more.

 

[lumberjack]

Oooh, I took it to mean it was OM's bird. I understand now.

 

[treesmith]

I got a call today about 11:30 from a guy who had two pines on his trailer. I went over to check it out. Wasn't too bad....definitely could have been worse. No insurance, young couple with young kids. He didn't have the money to pay me and said he'd rather I didn't fool with them until he could pay me. I told him I'd rather go ahead and get them down before they did any more damage and we'd worry about the money later. I had to climb them, limb and top them, then pull the spars back away from the trailer. Had the primary not been 50' away running parallel with the trailer, I could have pulled them whole.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nice going helping those folks out, Scott. It looks like they were in a fairly dicey situation in terms of possible more damage. Hope you get paid.

 

[PCTREE]

Good for you Scott.

 

[bonner1040]

+1