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Power lines ran between the chip truck and bucket truck. He wanted no lawn damage either. They were good sized trees, 36" at the bottom cuts.

Can't even tell I was there. not one rut or tire track, even as the log truck was leaving fully loaded.

There was 14 of them in total, those were the biggest. The other 11 got chipped and hauled one load of logs on my grapple trailer.
 
Cool vid, Brendon. Aside from the fine skills of the climber, it looks like an excellent crane operator as well.
 
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I hate going down through the top of the tree - I've stopped doing that alltogether. I have them drop the ball, sans the sling, down through the tree as close to the trunk as possible, then tie in and ride it up through the limbs. Dropping down from the top is going against the grain of the limbs and they want to fight you all the way.

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Out of curiousity, what stopped you from dumping those white pines over whole?
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Among other reasons, there's a whole lot less dragging and raking when the crane can set the load in the same spot behind the chipper.
 
Here is part 1 of my Louisiana trip I took this past December working with Keith Stevens. Had a blast. Go easy on me, first time doing crane work as the climber. Going back I realize most of the mistakes I made, big or small. As for movement on the last two, I knew they would do what they did, so I was positioned for it. Keith and his Dad walked me through it all, so I wasn't just going off my own knowledge.

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Adrian, just as a general comment and not meant to be critical, lots of guys getting into using cranes don't get the idea that you can use the crane to your advantage aside from just the vertical pull. Cutting part way then having the boom repositioned and watching how it is opening up, can allow for a safer lift away from the climber and also aid in cutting without binding the bar. Especially good with broad limbed trees that will twist and such. No rush, work with the crane, and different ways to control the situation by degrees. You can open up sides to add lean, whatever.... Observation can tell you what is happening before it happens. Jamming through with your cuts can make for rather abrupt. A nice easy lift away is a thing of beauty. Sometimes it can be prudent to drop down a ways and not be in the zone as well. Do the cuts and adios.
 
Yep, I hear what you're saying Jay. I was rushing through a few of the cuts more than I should have most likely. That was their thing to, is they don't like snap cuts, they like one cut so they can see how the pick moves and reacts. Being my first time with cranes I think I was paying too much attention to the cut, compared to communicating with the operator more about moving the boom one way or another, or cabling up or down as I saw how the pick was moving and how the kerf was opening or closing.
 
I'll remember that next time I'm doing crane work. I learned a ton from that experience down there and think it was a pretty solid foundation to build off of.
 
My honest opinion is that ordinarily you are very smooth and deliberate with the saw in your videos. Very fluent and in control. In this you seem hurried and haphazard. Where you stressed out or nervous? Im not busting your balls. Im curious. Ive made note in the past of your clean and smooth trim saw handling.
 
woodworkingboy said:
Adrian, just as a general comment and not meant to be critical, lots of guys getting into using cranes don't get the idea that you can use the crane to your advantage aside from just the vertical pull. Cutting part way then having the boom repositioned and watching how it is opening up, can allow for a safer lift away from the climber and also aid in cutting without binding the bar. Especially good with broad limbed trees that will twist and such. No rush, work with the crane, and different ways to control the situation by degrees. You can open up sides to add lean, whatever.... Observation can tell you what is happening before it happens. Jamming through with your cuts can make for rather abrupt. A nice easy lift away is a thing of beauty. Sometimes it can be prudent to drop down a ways and not be in the zone as well. Do the cuts and adios.
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That is excellent advice Jay, I could not have said that better. That is the first thing Vern (crane op that I work with) went over with me in the beginning. Just take your time Adrian, otherwise great job man.
 
Brendon, great time lapse. You got the timing just right on the shot intervals. What kind of options does the gopro give you for the shot intervals?

Oh, and nice work too. :)
 
Big, rotten cottonwood removal time. One big, hollow one blew apart recently prompting the project.

Amazing what having a track-hoe and 10 yard dump truck on site does for productivity. Mostly wedging or gravity falling, though we did have to pull a few.

Got to use our Wraptor for the first time today to set a pull line in one. Trained one of the guys on it, too.

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One of two big ones around the restroom and keeper trees for tomorrow.
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rumination said:
Brendon, great time lapse. You got the timing just right on the shot intervals. What kind of options does the gopro give you for the shot intervals?

Oh, and nice work too. :)
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Many choices. .5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 30, 60, seconds.

That video was every 10 seconds, then sped up to .13 seconds per frame to make the video. I think it's a good ratio. Most times on real time tree vids I get bored. Figure these time lapse are good for a website to quickly show a customer a job from start to finish. That was about three hours of time.
 
Nice pics and videos everyone! Brendon that is one sweet operation! Here are some of a spruce removal from Tuesday. The piece blew out in a wind storm from a couple days ago and lodged itself into the ground. I climbed the last tree, tied into that and set a lowering line in the piece and cut it from the bottom. I climbed down the broken piece and took off any branches that were close to the house. Came down nice and smooth. Used the winch on the chipped to pull the butt out and laid it flat. We took the remaining tree down because it had a ton of rot in it and was leaning towards the power lines.
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Finished off the last two big cottonwoods today. About 20 some trees in all. A few floppers tomorrow, and some bucking, limbing, and low stumping.

Had two leads on the first. After using springboards for the first, I decided that it was to muddy, and no calk boots ("corks"), so better to make a staircase and some ledges to stand on. F'ing 088 stalled several times. 50" bar had to chase around some to the far side, making it more awkward. Used the Wraptor to hang the pull line.
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Second one was cut by my co-workers. Bucketing off some side/ back weight and hanging the rope before ground felling. We joked about using the Husky 246xp for it, but it would have been fine and much easier than the ms 660. 4-6" shell around a completely hollow center, 50" wide.
 
Nice work, all. Brendo, your setup is awesome. Do you have employees or do you contract labour/hire buddies for the bigger jobs?

A short vid of a bigger job we took care of last week. All chips and wood stayed on site (my fav!). I hired a buddy to come out and help with the climbing, and it was nice. Probably saved me 8 hrs in the spurs, but it wasn't necessary. Sometimes its just plumb nice not to have to do all the climbing!

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Timba!

That job I hired a friend and his help for the morning. Actually I ran my bucket for him the other morning, so we traded off. I have many people I can call in for help on the bigguns.
 
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