The Official Work Pictures Thread

[rskybiz]

Great shot Deva! Here was today's fun or so I kept telling myself! Brushed out this camphor as well back to move the rest in the am.

Finally got called back to do what didn't fall in the pool last year.

Back to move this in the am.

 

[pantheraba]

Cool can see your hitch and rigging paw.
What kind of rigging plate is thatlooks big?

I don't think they make this size any more...it's a Petzl PAW.

 

[pantheraba]

Risky....that's a cool tree; interesting structure. And had to be a LOT of wood. That will make a big difference in their yard.

 

[rskybiz]

Yea his wife came home as I rigged the last of the brush, she was sad even though we are planting a live oak in the fall. And yes plenty of wood!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Some cool pics lately, must be getting into spring.

I did a little mistletoe and hazard dead removal in a lil ol valley oak today.

 

[MatthewMMeckley]

Locust removal over two houses and a tight drop zone. First decent removal of the year so far.

 

[MatthewMMeckley]

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[Bermy]

What's a dogstooth?

I figured he cut downward to make it easier to avoid the siding?? Why do some folks not like it? Fwiw, I usually do a horizontal cut just below the back cut. Thanks.

Dogstooth refers to how the cut looks when it's done, the bit left sticking up looks like...a dog's tooth!

The downward cut is the standard release for a bore-cut forward leaner taught in the UK. Some folks don't like it because they think your saw will get snatched in the fibres when it goes. That does not happen.

 

[stig]

I don't like it because it messes with the bottom of my saw log.
It is a safe enough practice.
I use it if I have the backstrap set in a root flare, then it doesn't affect the log, and it makes for a better getaway position than bending over to match your back cut.

 

[Peter]

Spoken like a true hardwood cutter.

Most of our conventions and practises come from softwood pulp cutting, I guess you'd lose a tiny bit of volume but a low stump is more important. Putting a horizontal cut in higher than back cut risks taking the saw with the tree, and lower is impossible without a spade.

 

[High Scale]

Been busy killing Beeches.

Butch, no we didn't strap that tree up but we had a excellent climber doing the cutting.

 

[Burnham]

That's a big tree, Carl. Nice one.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Dog tooth?

We call em dog eared...

 

[Mick!]

Nice big beech. Nice pictures.

 

[High Scale]

Thanks Burn and LB, actually two different trees, I can't seem to upload pictures very well on my laptop, it's also hellish slow.

Today I was cabling two Beech trees.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nice tree!

 

[sotc]

That's a fatty. Neat lowering device

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I love those beeches. I wish we had some here. Look like a great climb and a good challenge for a TD.
Nice work and pictures.

 

[High Scale]

That's a fatty. Neat lowering device

Yeah that's a SmartWinch, not mine unfortunately, same Harken winch as the GRCS but no need to change to a bollard as the bollard is part of the device.

 

[stig]

I don't think many of us who use the GRCS ever changes to the bollard.
I sure don't.

 

[Bodean]

never seen it changed out, either.

 

[sotc]

I need to take mine apart and clean them!

 

[Merle Nelson]

Them? Do you have more than one Willie?

 

[sotc]

Yeah, we have 2, comes in handy. Used em both yesterday, probably again today