The Official Work Pictures Thread

[August Hunicke]

No smeller? That's rough.

 

[pantheraba]

The Jedster's back! Signature hinge again.

A slew of good pictures.

 

[sotc]

Went to help a buddy today. Tree that got scorched all the way to the top 2 summers ago was hanging over his water tank.

had to drive past this hungry buncha brisket.

With this guy bawling at the beef

these 2 were threatening the water supply line.

so he dumped this one in the creek.

mine had even more headlean so I bored it and it still went before I was done but landed perfectly on top of the other.

so Orrin got to help Unc clean out the creek.

Bella Got cold and high graded my coat.

Cade & Orrin we're still cleaning.

Katreese and Trevin were catching sticks that come through the culvert.

ride home started un eventful

till this guy couldn't...quite...reach... His smokes...

 

[August Hunicke]

Wow man. Great story in pics, thanks for sharing.
Smokes are bad for yer health I guess.

 

[pantheraba]

Yeah...good stuff. Crazy tree over that tank. Running an excavator!!! A kid's dream...cool stuff. A great outside day for your kids.

 

[Fiddler]

Damn man! So you got nada? Can't smell grill cheese or a rib eye cooking?

Never have had the pleasure.
Learned by reading, it's possibly caused by a serious concussion when very young.
I was taken (saved) from my birth mothers home when a babe and was adopted.

 

[August Hunicke]

You need to write a song about this.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Do you mean Me, Henry?

Haha, yea... for some reason I thought that was a Max post...

 

[Fiddler]

Not sure which subject you meant (if you were referring to me) August but there are definitely some possibilities there.

The not smelling thing could turn quite humorous, and I can see the other falling right into my usual writing style.
Could be fun...I haven't tried writing anything since around '96 or '98.

 

[squisher]

"Bella got cold and high-graded my coat".

I see, that pink would look good on you.

 

[squisher]

Dang Dave. No smell, that's tough.

 

[August Hunicke]

Yes Dave, I could see how you could make it a funny bluegrass style song without having to smell certain things. But the childhood story sounded intriguing. Probably a way to tie it all together. I do love writing.

 

[Fiddler]

I do too, just haven't (other than college papers) in a long time. My english professor tried to get me to talk to a couple publishers once, but i never followed through on it.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

100 trees tagged, for hazards or disease mostly. A couple plain dead. I can't really guess accurately, but with a 1 in 20 ratio, which is possible, I could have inspected 2000 trees.

The problem with a bid-priced survey is you don't know how much to expect, or time involved. The harder you work, the more you find, the more time inspecting, documenting, and reporting.

Siht ton of pini and schweinitzii. Evidently, the 80' oak didn't like 3' of gravel to surround it. Its in a pit with big ganoderma conks.

I look forward to climbing, pruning, wrecking, and felling trees for a while. Its been a rest on my body for a few weeks. I'm feeling a little soft.

 

[rskybiz]

Sounds like quite the job Sean. Glad to know I'm not alone in my chicken scratch writing are you a lefty too?

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Righty, just writing on an awkwardly held pad. I'm transcribing to Excel, now. 25 to go. Then some proof-reading of the text, like 30-40 pages.

Using the same abbreviations turns into short-hand. I've found it helpful for complicated bids.

 

[sotc]

That's where specs ahead of time help. Something like a level 1 driveby inspection of the 2000 trees costs this much and will identify which trees should have a level 2 and possibly level 3 each of which are bid after the previous.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Thanks for mentioning Willie.


I was in a rush at the time, because they were in a rush at the time. Live and learn. I was not independently trying to figure how many trees (way underestimated), without the distraction of preliminary site evals, and such.

It is a walking site, more than less.

I had a hard time figuring a good way to model the scope of work for predicting hours involved.

Weather was a definite factor. You can't see as much when its raining, and rain in the eyes doesn't work well. Glasses in the rain don't work well. We have had a record wet winter (by some stat or other).

Next time Write in the Rain Paper. Kept forgetting to get to Home Depot for some, or order some.

It was a maze of yellow walled, clay roof spanish style architecture with very tall trees everywhere.

Way different that a large residential property level.


In the end, they are getting 102+ mapped, tagged trees, rough DBH, species, defect and/ or disease, object of threat, some medium and high priorities to address more readily. A lot of resistograph and monitor recommendations.

Some plain as day red flag removal recommendations (couple fully or near dead).
CRZ improvements, RCX/ SGR pruning recommendations. Etc.

One to grow on.


Outside my normal service area. I was hesistant, but got the call around Christmas, when it was slower, and pruning season was still coming. I could have called customers to schedule annual pruning early, but it seemed like an opportunity worth pursuing and brain work without such body fatigue. A little bit of a body vacation to rest and repair.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Some much would be totally missed by a driveby. I didn't know how to make a rough walk-by work. How do you frame the proposal to start with missing 50% of what you're looking for?

Every building had hazards nearby, whether advanced root disease, heart rot, or big co-dominant leaders.


How to word such a thing?

 

[sotc]

You do what you're doing and get better each time. Seriously, go take the risk assessment qual. You mixed levels 1,2 and inventory with recommendations for level 3s. A level 1 should (I'm assuming) have been sold and bid on a walk by basis to identify which trees needed a closer inspection. Then you know you need a level 2 on 57 (or however many) trees. That is much easier to bid and write about. At least it's hard to lose money unless you're missing other work.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Thanks.


I am interested to take the Traq, but just haven't found time.

 

[woodslinger]

Had 2 half days of work for some relatives, they took me out to lunch both days
Didn't take many pictures, but I got this one after I dropped this pine top



Here's the top of the spar, I cut the hinge as it fell to make sure the but slid off so it wouldn't bounce back at the house.



And here's the spar hinge, I came in a little low on the far side of the back cut but had no issues.



It was a good weekend, except for my 450 running like crap today, barely made it up the hills to get home. Quick diagnostic revealed at least 3 dead cylinders (1 plug wire didn't want to let go of the distributor), so there's my project for this week.

 

[biggun]

I love the smell of freshly cut sweet chestnut.

It smells just like Tangy Toms. A cheap packet of ketchup flavoured corn snacks we used to get as kids.

 

[treebilly]

Nice Chris. I see you've learned to leave a few limbs on the spar when taking the top. Helps a lot on conifers.
And since I've been corrected multiple times, that looks like a spruce. Not a pine. Norway spruce is my guess

 

[Limbrat]

Cool pics Chris, looks like a perfect shot on that top and some great looking cuts. We're still doing a little tornado cleanup work. I've driven by this big gnarly long leaf hundreds of times and for some crazy reason always thought I'd end up taking it down and what a rigging nightmare it might be. The tornado took care of the rigging part.