The Official Work Pictures Thread

[SouthSoundTree-]

Interesting. Thanks.

 

[rskybiz]

Great photo's Reg. Background info as well.
Enjoyed working with the crane yet again. Nothing much but it happened

Wish I could get some of the vid footage up but every upload to YouTube seems to break or get fragmented.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Pics works just fine!

 

[RegC]

Interesting. Thanks.

Im a pretty well rounded treeman Sean. But Ive only been in BC for a little over 4 years. I have much to learn here before Id start consulting at that level of liability.

 

[Jed]

Great photo's Reg. Background info as well.
Enjoyed working with the crane yet again. Nothing much but it happened

Yeah, it did man... good job.

Here's a couple Firpigs I fell today. The first was about 150'/160'x35"dbh. It had about 6 degrees of back-lean plus some phototropic limb weight toward the house, plus the tiniest bit of limb lock. I felt brave and wedged it into the woods with no rope.

The second had been stone dead for some time with small fruiting bodies from about 20' up all the way to the top. I climbed it to bust it in half, but upon seeing the face-cut wood. I got scared, went down and just chewed it off from the butt. (140'x40"dbh)



O.k. Stig... You deserve a good laugh at my face-cut.



This is what decayed Dougfir looks like.
Andy and St. Patric... thankful for an easy day.

 

[cory]

Wow that first tree with the lean, limb weight and just wedges took a set of brass ones. And/or lots of skill and experience. Nice time saver! Was the custy home?

 

[Jed]

Yeah, he was sweating it though... Ended up giving us each $20.00

You can see from my cutting, that I should have hung a rope. I always tell people I have tons of experience, but, uhhh....

Here's another nice one of Andy

 

[BOTS]

Nice Jed, them were some fat Pigs!!

 

[BOTS]

Nothing to write home about Jed. They just grow fast in that particular region. Very slow taper. I got some video of that job, Ill edit when I have time. Thanks

How tall them be Reg, mabey 160-180 footers?

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Jed, Popcorn/ pouch fungus, sap-rotter fungi? Makes wedging questionable. Normally, doug-fir is like cheating, I think. Sapwood rot changes things. I can't see the condition of the wood from the picts.


Reg, please share what the Consultant says. Interesting to hear.

Nico Dankers (I believe) has done some presentations on managing large PNW conifers. I didn't make it to ISA's annual training conference for the last two years, and missed it the time before. He was/ is with Tree Solutions, Inc. in Seattle. Scott Baker is the principle consultant/ owner there (fully consulting arbs). They have a tomograph. Scott came down and did some work with it on a 7' Doug-fir in Oly (not for me). Shell off a tree, but they work differently than hardwood, I sorta gathered. That, and it broke out at about 4"' at 170.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Looks like a lot of what we were up to the last few days at the camp.
Nice pictures!
Here was my view from one....
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[sawman]

man,the house has some bad mofo's
great pics and vids today!!!!!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

 

[RegC]

How tall them be Reg, mabey 160-180 footers?

Id have guessed 150 the tallest one. At least, no less.

 

[RegC]

Looks like a lot of what we were up to the last few days at the camp.
Nice pictures!
Here was my view from one....
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Boy that took a while to land. Well done

 

[Mick!]

Nice view as well. All those dead looking trees beetle kill?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks Reg.
Yes Mick. Those are all beetle kill..

 

[MasterBlaster]

Dayum!

 

[Mick!]

I'll have to research that a bit before asking some more questions.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Here you go Mick. The size of a grain of rice.
We have several species that kill our trees. This is the worst one at present.. The rest sort of just join in to help the death along.
http://www.barkbeetles.org/western/WPBFIDL1.htm

 

[Mick!]

Cheers, I'm off to work now. Will read later.

 

[Jed]

Jed, Popcorn/ pouch fungus, sap-rotter fungi? Makes wedging questionable. Normally, doug-fir is like cheating, I think. Sapwood rot changes things. I can't see the condition of the wood from the pic

Ahhh! Popcorn Fungus... the very thing! Thanks. It was the smaller (29") facecut that was all brown in the pics, but now that I look again, of course you can't see it. I've had really bad experiences trying to wedge trees with rot.

 

[sotc]

Jed, Popcorn/ pouch fungus, sap-rotter fungi? Makes wedging questionable. Normally, doug-fir is like cheating, I think. Sapwood rot changes things. I can't see the condition of the wood from the picts.


Reg, please share what the Consultant says. Interesting to hear.

Nico Dankers (I believe) has done some presentations on managing large PNW conifers. I didn't make it to ISA's annual training conference for the last two years, and missed it the time before. He was/ is with Tree Solutions, Inc. in Seattle. Scott Baker is the principle consultant/ owner there (fully consulting arbs). They have a tomograph. Scott came down and did some work with it on a 7' Doug-fir in Oly (not for me). Shell off a tree, but they work differently than hardwood, I sorta gathered. That, and it broke out at about 4"' at 170.

Like this? Guys ran into this 80-90 feet up the outage other day

 

[cory]

Scary.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I'm not sure what you mean Willie by that, and how they heck did you teach you're guys to bore-cut with a Silky????

Please post a video of this technique. Seems like more than words would spell out.