The Official Work Pictures Thread

[GrappleYarder]

I think he has a set of these...

http://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?item=3456#detail

 

[pantheraba]

That does look quick and easy...I don't know much about crane work but that looks like a good product.

 

[mccauleytree]

Here are some pictures from today, pretty decent sized trunk, hardly any brush on it though. Had it down and the wood loaded by about 11:30 or so.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Larger Madrone logs have wood too pretty to burn.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nicely crispy Mike. Looks like some good logs in there..

 

[MasterBlaster]

It looks like a nice day up there!

 

[PCTREE]

OK so heres what I use

http://www.westechrigging.com/chain-slings-single-leg-mgs-grabiq.html

Buy 2 and get free shipping and you will never need another sling. They are so quick to use and you can adjust it by the link. Groundie never has to touch the ball just unsnap the hook.

Only downside is they can hurt if you get hit by them

I would NEVER go back to slings

 

[MasterBlaster]

I don't want to get hurt!

 

[No_Bivy]

OK so heres what I use

http://www.westechrigging.com/chain-slings-single-leg-mgs-grabiq.html

Buy 2 and get free shipping and you will never need another sling. They are so quick to use and you can adjust it by the link. Groundie never has to touch the ball just unsnap the hook.

Only downside is they can hurt if you get hit by them

I would NEVER go back to slings

I can see it for trunk pics but for rigging horizontal limbs it seems epic. Why not spider legs?

 

[PCTREE]

Never used spider legs. These just jive with my style is all. We use them for all sorts of applications..

 

[pete mctree]

I prefer chains. The way they grip vertical sections is reassuring & if you are organised they are easy enough to rig, plus with the length they are easy to work through the canopy whilst keeping the crane ball at a distance

 

[Thor's Hammer]

I also only ever use chains. I like the way they bite.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've never had a sling not do what I wanted it to do. Plus, a sling can hit you upside the head w/o causing any problems.

 

[Tucker943]

My uncle had a tulip poplar log slide out of a sling a few summers ago while bark was slipping. Log slid right the heck out of its own bark during slip bark and glanced down his back by a whisker. Big pick too. Planted itself deep in a flower bed. Always stored that in my brain about slings, and slipping bark in the summer.

 

[MasterBlaster]

If the bark is that slippery, I'll knock the bark off.

 

[Husabud]

Do you think a chain would have grabbed that Tulip?

 

[MasterBlaster]

I bet it would have!

 

[rskybiz]

All slings here. Though I do make a few small notches for purchase.
Here was my today after a 7am-9pm day yesterday.

 

[Tucker943]

No, the log slid out of its own bark. Tulip poplars can be brutal like that in mid summer. I would have said scoring the log with a saw (think groove on or two sides) would have been the best bet. But no one saw it coming. Crane pick like normal, log on ground. All in the same breath.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool pics, Joel. Collect the check!!!

 

[Limbrat]

Wow that's a couple more giants Joel. Here's a rotten baby Laurel Oak that had some very interesting and beautiful grain. No telling what Jay could do with that. Hit a piece of steel on my last cut and destroyed a chain ATTACH=CONFIG]56589[/ATTACH[/ATTACH]CONFIG]56590

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nice.

 

[Bodean]

Dang Joel.

 

[brendonv]

My old welders tree got struck by lightning two days ago. New baby in the house it was cracked and leaning so we got it done for him today. Bottom sections whee black scorched. Pretty cool.

 

[MasterBlaster]

No stubs! Outstanding!