The Official Work Pictures Thread

[BOTS]

Thats looks like a wild one Ray!...nice pics...hope you didnt get "churched" on that one...lol

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

An electrical substation construction project had this maple, which, believe it or not is a stump sprout. About 7-8 leads from suckers from decent sized stump, from back in the day. They have excavators and mini-xs on site. Just make a mess and go. I bid this a bit light, but hourly I was sorta on track.

Hard to know what a normal hour of production should look like when you have the right tools, compared to older ways. (SRT, Wraptor, APTA). This was about 4.5 hours of climbing, with a short break on the ground in there.

Good to get some work through a big fencing contractor (employee is a customer) who does a bunch of work for the main construction Gen Contractor. Hopefully, a good entry into their vendor pools. Not a giveaway tree. There is a barb wire fence line and two piles of material, beyond. Having to rig a lot of the stuff on the right.




Didn't finish today. My employee quit mid-day.

Same repetitious battle. Training doesn't stick if there is a short break, like him being sick, or bad weather then I did some evaluation work for a few days.

Drama I didn't need.

Next!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Well sorry the guy did not work out sean. Good grounmen are hard to find. Revolving door sometimes.

Nasty tree Ray. Gotcha an ata boy for that TD.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Onward and upward. He wasn't really moving it climber territory. That's what I'm after.

I would like to have a robot, short of that, I would love a radio control mini like those knuckle boom remotes. I'd need some sort a hydraulic chain saw on the BMG. And an arm for loading and running the bollard.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I just need three or four me's...

Worries over, problems solved!

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

It would just be a 4 man tree army.

Star Trek Borg, anyone?

 

[sawman]

nice work sean,I get a lot of work from a buddy of mine who does fencing.
I would love to get a chance to run ropes and drag brush for you( I'm sure I could learn a lot)but the commute would kill me

 

[FireFighterZero]

I have thought about that too. How cool it would be to help one of these guys out for a week.

I will start practicing my bowline if anyone is interested!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

LOL.....

Some tree bondage from a hazard tree we climbed and rigged down.
Three guys and then four to hold it up, stabilise a tie in and prevent drift left. Broken and hung in other trees like that crane job we did. Some wires nearby. 10 hours billable with no crane cost. Chipped and broad casted off the driveway. Bucked to firewood. Work table stump.
Little dark from the weather..
Fodder.
Hobbs worked wonderfully BTW

 

[Limbrat]

That is some pretty wild and amazing rigging there Stephen! Coordination between ground help and climber must be critical in a job like that, you've obviously got some pretty sharp knives in your drawer. Just planning and setting everything up must've taken a good part of the day.

 

[flushcut]

I hate cutting up trees for firewood like that on a job. Load it big and haul it is what I like.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Fire wood is heat... old folks need to stay warm
Kids too
Dave got busy in the broken tree setting himself up with a tie in. I rigged the adjacent tree with the necessary pulleys and lines. Then set another tie in for my self SRT off the the same tree I set rigging in to climb another lead on the compromised tree from another rigging point I stripped it from over the roof. We had the rigging set and all the brush stripped out and chipped in 7 hours with two groundsmen.
3 hours the following day all the wood was down and bucked.

 

[Bodean]

Great job, Stephen! Cool to have Dave out there too, I bet!

The only time I put the bar in the Hobbs like that is to carry it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yeah, on my early on experience of wraps on the hobbs, the bar took a hit from chunk I was swinging over a road... oops. Bent.
Rob likes the covenience. All we were doing was tensioning guys as weight came off repeatedly. But I see a new bar (s) in my future.....

 

[CurSedVoyce]

See what goes on after the boss leaves?

 

[Limbrat]

When the cat's away............

 

[BOTS]

.........the mice play!!!

 

[BOTS]

Nice one there Stephen, them live oaks are a lot of work....chipping the brush of a Live oak gives me bloody arms...lol

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Brutus the chipper don't care

 

[biggun]

Cracking pictures.

Thanks for posting them.

 

[BIGTWIG]

NASTY tree Ray! good work

Impressive Rigging Stephen!

Sorry to hear about your guy walking, Sean, probably better that way honestly... Could've been worse, I'd help ya finish that tree if I was closer!

Jim, you're welcome to give us a hand sometime if you can get away from the ranch.

 

[Merle Nelson]

Working with other skilled people is my favorite pass time. Bet you would really enjoy it Jim.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Sorry to hear about your guy walking, Sean, probably better that way honestly... Could've been worse, I'd help ya finish that tree if I was closer!

No big deal, really. I have realized that I put up with too much from employees. Three strikes and you're out at a lot of places, from late, to not following protocol, to negligence with equipment (rarely a problem, thankfully).

I have realized I was way past Peak-Gary (like Peak-Oil). I can always find 5 guys tomorrow that will take a job where they get almost all the training OJT. Gary was not a faller, but a hard worker and could run a ground saw pretty well, and wasn't afraid to chip and rake.

I need to let people go because I see its not a long-term fit, and worth investing into, rather than waiting to fire them/ they quit. Better for both of us. They can move on, I can try to find a good fit who is worth training to be a good climber, pruner, feller, machine op, and promoting. Laborers are easy to find.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Man, that would be cool Tom, thanks for the offer.

Remember, I would be working for free, so no yelling unless I really have it coming!

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Say...weren't Merle and Cory going to post some pictures?