The Official Work Pictures Thread

[CurSedVoyce]

Nasty...
But inquiring minds wanna know

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Hoped to pop a top and be able to dump the rest. I didn't go big enough on the top, so I couldn't fit the rest. Long fir limbs (had lost top more than once) would have tangled and possibly held the next chunk of trunk and limbs, letting it flop onto the fence, so I speed lined off some limbs to make space, then dropped one more log before felling the last 50' with a couple limbs.

My original plan was to speedline everything over the fence, then dump a spar. A limb crash pad. Decided to try to use the attached limbs as a crash pad. Had to change plans. Note to self...don't second guess.

I took out a Pondo pine next to this one. Owners decided they wanted to compensate by getting solar.

This fir threatened the house and solar panels. Long, long limbs ~30'. 6" on the butt of the limbs.

Solar system has each panel monitored and operating seperately. He saw the solar input going up as we worked.

 

[Mick!]

Good stuff, you guys do a lot more conifers than we are used to across the pond.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

They can get monotonous, sometimes, if there isn't a lot to protect beneath. Washington State (Left Coast, not Washington, DC, right coast) is the Evergreen State. Conifer State didn't have the same ring to it.

 

[sotc]

Very advanced technique Sean!

We went to plan B on that tree, it's still standing, I'll have to take the boat up. Have to move a couple boat docks, dump a 50' top in the lake and push it back to shore with the boat

 

[cory]

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

Wow, except for a coupla typos, that was a really well written, coprehensive, concise beetle write up.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I should have used my clinometer app before going up the tree, making sure that I could drop the butt in on shot by taking a large enough top. My phone was charging in the truck, so i didn't have the clinometer readily available to me. Should have hauled it up.

The trunk was about 10' from the fence, with a neighbor's service drop over the pull line (rope ducked 10' under service drop, anchored to Maadsam rope puller on the hitch).

If I went too big, and too far clockwise right, I'd hit the service drop/ comm line. If I went more to the left, I worried about dropping limbs onto the fence, as the top was likely to break some stuff off. Aiming somewhere in between, I could break stuff off at will, and it should clear the fence.

A time where going bigger would have been better. I second guessed myself.

 

[stig]

We did a little crane job today.
4 linden in a church yard.
The 3 were perfectly healthy, but another arborist firm had told the church elders ( Or whatever they are called) that they represented a danger and must be removed.
Trying to make work for themselves is my guess. We couldn't convince the elders that they were good for at least another 50 years with a bit of care, but got the removal by being the cheapest bidder.
Which tells me that the other firm must have bid WAY high, since I always overcharge like mad when working for churches.

Brought in a 60 ton crane and had all four out and cleaned up in 5 hours. Took the two trees nearest the road out in one piece. 6,2 tons was the heaviest, and since the crane had a 16 ton capacity in that position, we were nowhere near maxing it out.
Paul, that was my first crane job with the SENAs. Man, oh man, do they rock for that. Thank you

 

[stig]

We ran into a problem.
The lower parts of the two trees were so filled with gravel and little stones, swept into the sucker clumps and overgrown over the last 200 years, that we couldn't cut them down.
I bought a carbide tipped chain and it lasted for 4 cuts before it started smoking.
The saw on top of that stump is a 661 with a 30" bar. Just to set the scale of the thing.
It'll have to be ground up.
If we set our little 32 HP Bandit to that task, it would probably end up puking on a grave stone, so we had to call in some grinding specialists with a huge grinder.
That'll cut our profit some, but since we overcharged in the first place, we'll still make out ok.

 

[pantheraba]

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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That was a good vid of the top falling. What kept you from just falling the whole tree...I assume it wouldn't fit somewhere but there looked to be some likely avenues to drop it. Even with the top out the spar had to be over 100 feet...right? Of course whatever you say is fine with me...I have never felled anything that long, tall and spindly at all...so just yarn away if you like.

 

[Mick!]

Good pics and backstory.
Someone somewhere is moaning about being undercut on that job because they didn't have the hutzpah to bang it out with a crane.

 

[cory]

I always overcharge like mad when working for churches.

 

[PCTREE]

Wow Stig impressive job, impressive crane too.

Is it rude to ask what price you had on that?? Pm me if its better

 

[cory]

Ill make a guess, using local prices. 60t would be $1650.00 for the day. 3 man crew with small chipper, no bucket, call it $1600.00 normally or $3000.00 for the high price, call the stumps $2k including cleanup, say $1000.00 for wood removal.

$7650.39.

 

[Jed]

Really great pics Stig, and sounds like you guys just slayed it on the production. Man, you and I both had to deal with some nasty stumps today... Five foot pig of a Maple. 90'. You overcharge for Churches, and our assistant manager undercharges for beer drinkers.



Inbred poser...

 

[sotc]

Ill make a guess, using local prices. 60t would be $1650.00 for the day. 3 man crew with small chipper, no bucket, call it $1600.00 normally or $3000.00 for the high price, call the stumps $2k including cleanup, say $1000.00 for wood removal.

$7650.39.

 

[pantheraba]

Ugly mess of a tree, Jed. They waited long enough to get rid of it. Does that moss effect your lanyard grabbing?

 

[Jed]

Does that moss effect your lanyard grabbing?

Not really Gary... I wish you could feel that stuff though... if it's hasn't been raining, you can just sit down and rest on a big limb covered with it, and it's about like a lazy boy. When it's raining, it weighs a ton.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

That was a good vid of the top falling. What kept you from just falling the whole tree...I assume it wouldn't fit somewhere but there looked to be some likely avenues to drop it. Even with the top out the spar had to be over 100 feet...right? Of course whatever you say is fine with me...I have never felled anything that long, tall and spindly at all...so just yarn away if you like.

We had some limits to work with. We were not allowed to drop the tree across the one road since it would end up on county property or another private property. We had a county permit and could have dropped most of I in the road. Some thing I rather not do. A lot of traffic due to the line clearance crews, neighbours and looky loos. Best shot was a clean stem through a narrow opening in canopy between two black oaks. Minimal clean up as we only had to clear the driveway and let the rest of the log lie. Some one else will be harvesting the wood and bucking it. I doubt that tree took an hour all told.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Mean while, on the other side. They brought in a 70 ton at the end of our clients drove way on the other property. Two sets of primaries around these.
https://youtu.be/6lnDACEaZAI

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[SouthSoundTree-]

Is that one of those no-leaf maples, Jed?

Soon people will be wanting to get their maples down for the year, before the leafs fall.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

We had some limits to work with. We were not allowed to drop the tree across the one road since it would end up on county property or another private property. We had a county permit and could have dropped most of I in the road. Some thing I rather not do. A lot of traffic due to the line clearance crews, neighbours and looky loos. Best shot was a clean stem through a narrow opening in canopy between two black oaks. Minimal clean up as we only had to clear the driveway and let the rest of the log lie. Some one else will be harvesting the wood and bucking it. I doubt that tree took an hour all told.

Is that 'cause you were cheating with a Wraptor?

 

[Jed]

Is that one of those no-leaf maples, Jed?

Soon people will be wanting to get their maples down for the year, before the leafs fall.

All too true in this area Sean.... not this one though. Stone dead. Truly mysterious. Zero construction damage or anything. A real arborist in our area might have an educated guess, but all of the rest of us are just going to say that it was too dry of a summer. The pig WAS super rotten though.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Let's just say the bucket across the street took longer Sean

 

[Mick!]

A few of a job I'm on at the moment.
A fishing lake where the trees on the dam had compromised it effectiveness to the point where it emptied in a couple of days!
We have to get the trees gone before the big diggers arrive to repair it.
Timber lorry on the dam wall had its work cut out.