The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Bixler]

bixler strikes again!!!

stig you gonna grind all those stumps?

Thanks again sawman.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Pretty damn cool!

Thanks for the vid!

 

[Gallagher]

Trimming on the right of way and had a decent view this morning

 

[Gallagher]

Land clearing yesterday for a substation . Sorry never get to post much so have some old stuff coming in at once.

Love the site though !

 

[FireFighterZero]

Keep em coming! I love seeing pics of where other folks work.

 

[Bixler]

 

[Gallagher]

Love the stuff bixler comes up with , it's like Christmas when I see a new bixvid on YouTube haha

 

[Mick!]

Decent size cedar takedown. Got its twin on the other side of the house to do tomorrow.
Poor lighting I'm afraid.

 

[MasterBlaster]

On the ground!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Chunky!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Nice.

I bet that smelled good.

 

[Mick!]

Cheers, cedar is such an easy tree to work on, rigs nice, easy on the chipper, plus the HO organized a sawmill guy for the trunk. And yes, Jim, the odour is not unpleasant
Happy days.

 

[BOTS]

LB, what type of cedar is it?

 

[bstewert]

Still pretty good pics!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

A little pine we dumped on the way home today from another job. Just limbed it out up to 40 or so feet to fit between some trees
Fodder

 

[MasterBlaster]

Limb that sucker!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I doubt we were there 45 minutes.. HO clean up and scheduled more work
I bet most of that was talking about the future work ...lol

 

[Mick!]

BOTS I'm pretty sure it was a blue Atlantic cedar.
The French plant them and the Deodars close to houses all the time, and have done for many years it seems.
I'm not complaining.

 

[mistahbenn]

We'll have to arrange that Benn... the winters here ain't so bad...

The TAC 730 has changed the game. It's a beautiful chipper.

Man that would be great! Winters here sure are tough, well, not after hurricane Sandy....

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Been working more big Doug fir, ripped at least once, long ago. Unfortunately, this type of tree is hard to size up from the ground.

Wraptor/ SRT helped so much on these two.

I threw a throw line from one top to the other tree, and pulled the access line in place.
Got the 100' TIP I needed to get to the higher old topping cut on today's tree. Thanks for working great in cold weather, APTA!!! I doubt the Bigfoot was going to shoot high enough at 35*.

first two big firs, "after"

Two firs worth of dead branches, stubs, and big dead ivy.

Today's start.

For a trunk choke with a biner, I descend a bit, open the 'eye' of the choke, and smooth the bark by pulling my rope back and forth in the path I anticipate as the pull-down position. Enough friction is present that it doesn't choke back up tight.

Scaffold knot cinched out near the gate for less pull down drag. I stand far from the trunk for less drag that at the base.a

A pole makes a pushing tool. I just tap the back end on the ground. The noise changes when the weight is in the very bottom of the barrel.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Hard shots. APTA was probably a true necessity.

 

[pantheraba]

Sean...the handle on your APTA is in a different position from mine...can you take a picture of how you hold your APTA when you fire it?

 

[BOTS]

BOTS I'm pretty sure it was a blue Atlantic cedar.
The French plant them and the Deodars close to houses all the time, and have done for many years it seems.
I'm not complaining.

Thanks LB, it didnt look like a Deodar

 

[BOTS]

Nice set of pics there Stephen...timber!!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks Scott. I was really happy he got a series of shots as she tipped.
Might make a good GIF