The Official Work Pictures Thread

[SouthSoundTree-]

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.

Can you expand on that crossing wedges that you mention, please?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just stagger then instead of aligning them together. Sounds like good advice!

 

[BOTS]

working with Bixler today taking out a double trunk Black Oak with branches near home and Other breakables...

snap-cut it all down

Bixler says Hey

 

[cory]

Fun pics!

How come Bix stopped posting I wonder?

 

[MasterBlaster]

What is that big red round thang on your hip?

 

[BOTS]

Thats Brian, its a retractible lanyard

 

[MasterBlaster]

I was thinking so, wasn't sure...

 

[BOTS]

groundie just sent these pics of that black oak removal...gives you the size...

me in orange Bixler in green

 

[MasterBlaster]

Fun times, eh!!!

 

[BOTS]

fun and makes work go by faster!

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

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[BOTS]

yep thats the one Sean!

 

[sawman]

it would be friggin cool to watch you and bixler work a tree!
I wish some of the wise man here lived closer, I would drag brush all day to pick up tricks of the trade.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Aint that the truth!

 

[Raj]

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.

I was thinking about this, sometimes the hip D rings on my cougar get uncomfortable on some smaller spars. How would two alpine butterfly knots spaced apart on a rope bridge work?

 

[Limbrat]

Man, ya'll are looking good Scott, big tree and a lot of wood. Do you guys have an outlet for it? I've never climbed with a partner doing tree work but I know in line work it was a great asset to have an extra set of hands and eyes, especially on a nasty pole. I can see advantages in a big tree too, especially if you have enough ground help to keep up.

 

[sotc]

Can you expand on that crossing wedges that you mention, please?

Insert a thousand words here

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

huh. never seen that done intentionally.

 

[sotc]

Much more stable than straight stacked

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Thanks. Looks like the top wedge is a double taper. Does it stack okay/ well when stacked like that? Was that just a handy wedge for a picture? I thought sometimes double-tapered wedges don't stack well. I've used them very little. I gathered that they are good for second-growth timber from Nice Guy Dave, iirc.

 

[sotc]

You won't double up generally until you've drove a single wedge at least part way. If that's the case, the primary taper doesn't even come into play

 

[sotc]

You have to drive them evenly and not beat them overly hard

 

[BOTS]

it would be friggin cool to watch you and bixler work a tree!
I wish some of the wise man here lived closer, I would drag brush all day to pick up tricks of the trade.

Aint that the truth!

thanks guys, if you ever in the area just let me know

 

[BOTS]

Man, ya'll are looking good Scott, big tree and a lot of wood. Do you guys have an outlet for it? I've never climbed with a partner doing tree work but I know in line work it was a great asset to have an extra set of hands and eyes, especially on a nasty pole. I can see advantages in a big tree too, especially if you have enough ground help to keep up.

thanks Big Ray!

yep, one of these oaks is like removing two or three trees at once, nice to have 2nd climber up there as well

we had 3 groundies which was nice

 

[cory]

Interesting trick, Willie. Why is it more stable?