The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Mick!]

I had one of those cherry pickers on hire once, found them devilishly difficult to steer.

 

[Peter]

I have a young lad who does all my mewp operating. He's going to France for a week in May if you want to borrow him?

 

[Mick!]

Ha ha, I'm sure he'll have better things to do.
It took me half of hour to travel a hundred yards.
My current employee (29 year old Dutchman) has certification to drive telescopics et al on construction sites. I put him on the new grinder, within half an hour he was better than me. The digger took him a morning to learn, speaks French, German, Dutch and English, good job he can't climb trees. (Well actually that would be handy)

 

[Peter]

Nonsense, he's just poncing about with his Dad in an Aston Martin, I'm sure a bit of tree work would come as a welcome relief from the tedium.

 

[Peter]

Another day killing pines. The big one I flopped across the road. The smaller one was very close to a cabin, leaning over the building. Put a pull line in as high as I could reach with the mewp, around 18 metres, and pulled it with the tracked chipper. Came over nicely, measured it at 27 metres on the ground, only 18" diameter at felling height.

 

[stig]

What an awful mess of ivy!
I hate that stuff.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That woulda been a fun climb, lol!

 

[Peter]

I had to do a bit of climbing, one tree couldn't be topped at 18 metres (Max reach for lift) because of a parked car I couldn't get moved. Ben stripped it out as high as he could reach and then I climbed another 6-7 metres to top it out. Took about half an hour to get that far, stripping Ivy as I went.

 

[BOTS]

just some vista/deadwood on a Ponderosa...blue skies, warm...

 

[MasterBlaster]

Square it away!

 

[Limbrat]

Beam me up Scotty!

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Last year, lightning hit this Lombardi poplar trunk, and traveled to the roots. This year it blew out in a windstorm, lodging itself in a declining Madrone. Septic impact likely. Lombardi's are big.

Tied off the butt where it caught a fork on a stub.

. Solo. SRT. Put on ground only. Crash and dash.

 

[squisher]

Just don't forget the cash!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Three cuts!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nice to see you in a live one Scott

Ugggggg Ivy!

Mine was just mistletoe again...

 

[BOTS]

Nice one Stephen!

I did a ton of mistletoe jobs this year, glad to be in the pondos for a change!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Everybody that can afford is trying to save what trees they can. Mistletoe removal is high on the list. Can't save the pines, save the oaks

 

[Luckydad]

This was my view for the day, its a test stand for rockets.

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[Luckydad]

And this is the pump house for the water to cool it. We had to cut some trees from the perimeter.

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[CurSedVoyce]

Very Cool!

 

[treebilly]

This view ruined my day. Rotten old retaining wall that decided to fall when a piece of wood hit the spar and shook it enough to vibrate the ground I guess. The home owner didn't seem to upset but I don't think he wanted to replace it quite yet.

 

[FireFighterZero]

That would be a neat place to work.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Interesting place, Chris!