The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Jed]

Man, that's a big pull, Deva.

Jake: Gotta love that!!

Four 150' Cottonwoods today on the log tape.... biggest one on the stump was 36", a headleaning Alder, and a little Fir. Had to pull one. Wedged the other three.



Look at the water pouring off the axe... must be an early spring...



Here's George, our new guy (amazing, fast!! ) going up to rig the back-leaner...

 

[sotc]

Nice shot Jake!

Couple hooters to drop March first if all goes well. The first one we brushed and topped 2 years ago.

 

[cory]

How tall is that spar?

 

[sotc]

Idk, 120- 130 ish

 

[cory]

Quite a beast.

 

[pantheraba]

Jed...good pictures. Like seeing your work.

Tell me about that long fiber pull...can that be significant enough to influence the direction of the fall or is it small enough the tree didn't even react to it?

 

[pantheraba]

Willie, will you be able to fell that tall spar towards the camera..parallel to the house? In one piece?

 

[sotc]

Yeah, not quite to the camera but close. We'll plow snow across the boat ramp and move that propane tank. Should be an epic snow splat!

 

[sotc]

Got to pull a sign out too, right in the lay

 

[Bodean]

Rad. Those look like fun Willie.

Jed, we all want a fast new guy willing to learn. Congratulations.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

yous guys have all the fun. Looks like a good job Willie.

 

[RegC]

I agree with some previous posters, Reg. That's one of the very best vids I've ever seen, and really shows what it's like to do heavy negative blocking. Love it, takes me back in a flash, my man!!! Thanks very much.

My pleasure. Thanks all.

When we first moved out to BC, I got involved with a big lot clearance job on a 30 acre site. I was sub contacting to a long established Co who were using me for 3 days a week until the job was complete. I'd imagine this was a lot like your old stomping ground Burnham. Lot of tall mossy firs.
The imagery might suggest that we could just drop stuff anywhere, but that wasn't the case. Lots of power lines and protected trees around and about. So, scrutinizing the distance of fall in many instances came to within a couple of meters. This is an older narrow view head cam....but perhaps a more accurate perception of height.

https://youtu.be/7oXhd75JH3M

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[biggun]

It says not available Reg. I am on iPhone though. I'll give it a click when I am at my Mac.

 

[Jed]

Ahhh... that was cool to see again Reg. I love that dead top just floating down seemingly forever without changing attitude at all... and then the dust... pooof!

Willie: You have all the fun, man! Snow pooof!

Gary: The experience that I have falling Black Cottonwood up here is limited, and hasn't been all that great, but I do think that you want all the possible fiber-pull you can get; and yes... they do influence the fall as they are on the tension side from limb-weight or slight side lean, and so help to steer it to the lay. Those trees don't like to hold much side-lean at all. I was lucky in that all four were really quite straight. It was pretty scary watching one of them compress around the wedges when we drove them. Pretty spongey stuff.

 

[Limbrat]

Took down four 60' to 100' long leafs on the bay. One pretty nasty viney one that had been lightning struck many years ago, was pretty sketchy about 50' up and I could see through it three ways. Pretty high winds didn't help but all went well.

 

[Merle Nelson]

Yeah, lucky they had you on the job. Seeing through a tree three ways and high winds always has me remember I've got something else to do today.

 

[Limbrat]

A couple more for Jed

 

[treebilly]

Nice Ray. I'm hoping you could use another tree for a tie in.

 

[pantheraba]

Not used to seeing hollow pines at all...don't think I ever cut a hollow pine.

 

[Limbrat]

Nice Ray. I'm hoping you could use another tree for a tie in.

I did Rich. All those trees were full of steel too. I took the axe and shaved bark all the way around and still hit iron on 2 out of 4 back cuts, one nail about fifty years in. Gary the only hollow ones I can remember were all either lightning struck or turpentine trees from way back.

 

[treebilly]

To quote Squisher " I got the sharpest metal detectors in town"

I've seen a small handful of hollow pines. All lightning struck. What do you mean by turpentine trees?

 

[Jed]

That was cool Ray. I like the tree to tree transition shot. Perfect hinge too.

 

[BIGTWIG]

Great work and pics, Ray !

 

[BOTS]

Awesome big Ray, great work and pics, thanks for posting em up!!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Great to see that vid again Reg. Good stuff man.

Nice work Ray.