The Official Work Pictures Thread

[BIGTWIG]

Thanks Stephen, luckily the track fix isn't terrible, poor dingo just isn't getting around as well as it was earlier on this job. Constant ice buildup on the drive wheel and against the frame. Then it's a propane torch and a screwdriver before we can get it back on.

Pehaps why I gave BOTS a hard time about being "icy" there... The struggle is real, LOL.

 

[Jed]

Rich: I mighta said the same thing for you!

Tom: Excellent looking work there brother. Clean cuts. Beautiful equiptment, sir.

Joel: What the heck's goin' on there brother? Looks like you're hand-loggin a tree farm!

 

[rskybiz]

Sure feels like it! It's only 12yr old growth and just two acres plus 30ft drive swath. Pulpwood guys were not interested to small they say/said.
Lost a skid steer tire a day before this job they are a not so easy a size to find local and I don't know why nothing more than a baler tread. Any way it has made it far more hard work than planned and slower.

All things heavenly rarify to air. Trees produce that heavenly air. Breathe air and take care!

 

[BOTS]

Dang Rsky, you felling Christmas trees now...lol....stacking and racking, nice work

 

[Jed]

Sorry to hear that Joel. That's just the way stuff tends to go in this work sometimes.

 

[Bodean]

You guys have rad pictures of you guys working....


I have some bidding pictures and watching some other people work lately...

Here's some fodder to view on.

Trim it...

Check out the subtle root pruning of this euc.

Little IVY job.

Deadwooding in Chinatown.
When is the slow time?

Sudden pine drop.

@$ha...is this ok?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yowsa!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Sudden pine drop
Kinda like the one I had yesterday

 

[bstewert]

Andrey, always enjoy your pics! Those cemetery pics are something else.

 

[sotc]

Thanks Stephen, luckily the track fix isn't terrible, poor dingo just isn't getting around as well as it was earlier on this job. Constant ice buildup on the drive wheel and against the frame. Then it's a propane torch and a screwdriver before we can get it back on.

Pehaps why I gave BOTS a hard time about being "icy" there... The struggle is real, LOL.

I wonder if a liberal coat of wd40 would help with the ice. I've used it on the eyes of a fishing pole when fishing in freezing weather. Might be worth a try.

 

[Reddog]

Or PAM cooking spray. Works in snow blowers as does Fluid film.

 

[cory]

I just bought a fluid film sprayer, eager to try it, brushing and aerosol cans are pita.

 

[BIGTWIG]

Thanks for the recommendations, that's a great idea. I'll try to give that a shot on Monday!

 

[Jed]

Here's some fodder to view on.

Man, Deva those urban jobs can be a real pain in the neck.

 

[rskybiz]

Just gotta love planned obsolescence!
The urban work is cool though.

 

[Jed]

Yeah, but it's the pedestrians that will scare you worse that you've ever been scared.

Typical Golf Course Fir today, before sidewalling some Cottonwoods. Man, those golf courses got it figured out! Cut all the Firs down for your stupid golf course except the three that hang over the homebuyer's house. The wind came along and heaved the rootwad. I was too scared to wedge that pig because of a 7 degree back lean, a weird cat-face, plus all the limbs on the house side, so I went all the way up to bust out a tiny top, and then hung a rope. Wedged right over after all that. 133' on the log-tape. 28" handle on the axe.....

 

[BIGTWIG]

Nice work Jed!

Willie and Reddog, we hit the dingo with wd40 twice today.... Worked amazing, no ice buildup. Owe you guys a beer or six!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Now thats a proper wedge beating tool! Not a bad hinge either!

You were a ways up there eh? Scare me to death.

 

[sotc]

Nice work Jed!

Willie and Reddog, we hit the dingo with wd40 twice today.... Worked amazing, no ice buildup. Owe you guys a beer or six!

 

[treebilly]

WD-40 or duct tape will fix anything

 

[Reddog]

Cool!

Simple fixes are always nice.

 

[Jed]

You were a ways up there eh? Scare me to death.

Yeah, it scared me too Jim. I went clean to the top just to keep the brush a hair-bit closer to the chipper. The drag was long enough as it was and the boys were pissed. If I had streched it into the golf-course "woods," (and we were contracted to chip all the brush) they might have mutinyed.

 

[Sgriff]

Yeah, but it's the pedestrians that will scare you worse that you've ever been scared.

Typical Golf Course Fir today, before sidewalling some Cottonwoods. Man, those golf courses got it figured out! Cut all the Firs down for your stupid golf course except the three that hang over the homebuyer's house. The wind came along and heaved the rootwad. I was too scared to wedge that pig because of a 7 degree back lean, a weird cat-face, plus all the limbs on the house side, so I went all the way up to bust out a tiny top, and then hung a rope. Wedged right over after all that. 133' on the log-tape. 28" handle on the axe.....

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That is quite a pole there Jed,👍 way to be.

 

[BIGTWIG]

Do you guys get a dingo on every job Jed?

 

[pantheraba]

Jed, that is one high, skinny pecker wood pole!! Mind boggling to see...you are a trooper going all the way to the top of that one. How was the oscillation factor when you threw the top?