The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Bodean]

Great stuff. Cool pictures....




Smashing tree houses in the park.

Structure pruning and clearance.

How is a tree supposed to thrive here?
Looks warm....

 

[Mick!]

Yes Mick, but sometimes with great reluctance. Last winter I had to dump a four foot Maple into the woods that ate one of my lines... it just submarined about 18" down into the woods floor, and there was absolutely no way that we are going to buck the line out in time without cutting it. Since then, when there is little or no property damage to incur from losing a tree over backwards, I've kept a really nice throw-line in a bucket in hopes that I could get a line part way up if I felt like I couldn't lift a tree or whatever. The Washington woods really sucks for pulling trees into. Just trying to get a man in there with a pulling device can be a 30 min affair. You'll almost always have a ton of stuff interfering with the lines, and there are (for me) too many safety issues for the guy in the woods. On the other hand, as an arb I have very little experience stacking wedges. My wedges are usually crappy and don't stack well and tend to twist while driving them, which could turn me into a fast runner.

Oh... a really good trick that can let you lift up to a ten degree back-leaner is to make the back-cut first, chasing it in with wedges as you go. (You make the back-cut entirely) and THEN put in your face being careful not to pinch your bar OR cut off your far corner.

Ok Jed, that's one I'll try when there's no targets. Thanks.

 

[stig]

Jed, on any face like that, with front facing bark, we routinely make a small horizontal cut about 2 inches below the face in that side of the hinge.
Just deep enough to break tose fibers off instead of them pulling the tree out of line and ripping a piece out of the saw log.

 

[Limbrat]

Great pics guys. Removed several pines from a yard in Apalachicola today and my partner snapped a few pictures. Pretty straightforward stuff, no surprises except the HO's dog ran out as I was dropping one spar, could've been ugly but thankfully she scooted out of the way just in time. Scared the dickens out of her when the log hit the ground. Two more to take down there in the morning. Dog beware!

 

[pantheraba]

Excellent pictures. Crisp, clear, colorful.

 

[Fiddler]

T-shirts!...supposed to get 2-4" snow here tomorrow night

 

[Limbrat]

Thanks Gary, my kids bought me the camera, actually a waterproof underwater type but I haven't got it wet yet. Beautiful blue sky today, cool in the morning, a great day to be alive and in a tree.

 

[pantheraba]

What kind of camera is it? Brand? Very Good quality.

 

[flushcut]

This was an 80'er over two houses
Hard at work.

 

[Limbrat]

T-shirts!...supposed to get 2-4" snow here tomorrow night

Snow? Wow, it was mid 80s here. It's an Olympus Gary. It's got a ton of features but I have no idea how to use them. I put it on auto and hit the button

 

[BOTS]

Great stuff going on there Big Ray!!...look like some fun pines, nice weather

 

[pantheraba]

Snow? Wow, it was mid 80s here. It's an Olympus Gary. It's got a ton of features but I have no idea how to use them. I put it on auto and hit the button

hahaha...I understand about features and using Auto.

I googled Olympus waterproof cameras...they look good...certainly take nice pictures. Pass along some underwater shots when you can.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Great shots!
Ray and Rajan gettin er done

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Good stuff, Jed. Wedges do wonders.

. On the other hand, as an arb I have very little experience stacking wedges. My wedges are usually crappy and don't stack well and tend to twist while driving them, which could turn me into a fast runner.

Jed, I figured out one day that if you bury a wedge in a bind, you can back-chain the mushroom off. If its not tightly held, the wedge can fling out forward, though.

Mushroomed wedges are BS for stacking.

I'm an odd duck to use a maul over an ax. When I started out, that's what I had, free. Actually, I like to be able to hit both wedges simultaneously, sometimes. Over two years of an ax, pounding over trees in the parks, didn't really sway me strongly to buy an ax, though I was eyeing one the other day. Gear geeking. Depending on your back-cut height, either really low or high, you can get the ax head/ handle to be oriented 90 degree, more or less, allowing you to strike both together. Its helpful when you hit one, and the other slides out, negating the lift.

Lots of wedges spreads out the force, and seems to me to work a lot better than one wedge/ one pair. If you've got a shitty tree, like hollow cottonwood, you are not putting as much compression force focused on the hinge fibers. If you have sapwood rot, like pouch fungus/ popcorn fungus on dead/ declining doug-fir, spreading the force as much as possible is important to not blow out the back of the back-cut, and have it start moving backward.

If a stack starts to slide out, its good to have multiple pairs of wedges to hold it up.


If a backleaner sits down on your wedges, with a lot of wood compression, closing the kerf, you can bore-cut a slot perpendicular to the hinge (typical wedge orientation), and create a slot to set more wedges, one at a time.

If a stack starts to slide out, its good to have multiple pairs of wedges to hold it up.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

This was an 80'er over two houses
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What species?

 

[flushcut]

Ash. Is there any other species? That's all we have been doing for A LOOONG time. I am thankful for the work but I hate ash now and will toast their demise.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

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Three skinny birches next to the house and hedge. One with a back crotch, one with a tear out, one that was pretty skinny and had a lot of sap sucker damage. I pieced them apart, rigging some, then flopping two into the lay.

Towing the Arbor Trolley up a steep drive on the waterfront property to where we will chip into the woods.

 

[stig]

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[SouthSoundTree-]

Sometimes, tapatalk app doesn't bring up this thread, somehow. If I post a period from my desktop, I can use the Timeline on Tapatalk, allowing me to access and post pictures from my phone.

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That's why there was a random period for a post, now the first part of the post.

 

[stig]

Ah!
I just figured to one-up you with a semicolon.

 

[Limbrat]

Nice Sean. Looks like your new saddle in the foreground in the first picture. What are your thoughts on it so far? Do the rings that replaced the dees make any difference in getting clipped in?

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Not much time in the MCRS yet. That job was just to keep me from falling from feet at 14-15' up the ladder. Didn't trust either the ladder up so high, or the trees.

The rings work okay for my snap, in place of D-rings. I like the large rings down lower. I use a flipline with snap frequently, and have times to avoid the Circle of Death. Rigging plates don't accept snaps well or at all. Another harness had smaller lower rings, too hard to get a snap in, hard to get a carabiner in.

Working out how to hang my climbing saw.

 

[sotc]

I HATE stacking wedges.

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Have you tried crossing your wedges? When there is as much room as you have there I'd rather cross them, less likely to dance around.

 

[Fiddler]

a little cutting around home and next door before I returned the lift.

 

[Fiddler]

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