The Official Work Pictures Thread

[August Hunicke]

Cory isn't here right now but he deputized me corrector in his absence.

 

[biggun]

I think I must have had a brain fart as I was typing...

I should go back and correct my mistake but then it would make your two posts look like you were having one as well.

 

[August Hunicke]

It's ok, I'll take the hit.

 

[Raj]

Slow ground help is frustrating Peter. As long as you got it done in a reasonable time with no damage though you did good in my book. Is the ash borer affecting the trees around you as well. I bet half my residential removals are ash

Yup EAB up here doing damage. I hoped for 3 hours but quoted for 5. I don't feel bad, Davey took 4 hours to fly a bucket on a smaller ash 2 doors down from my house.

 

[pete mctree]

You saying Davey took 4hours to do that tree with all those toys? They must spend there wages in coffee & donuts stretching a job like that. Not cool IMO

 

[cory]

Cory isn't here right now but he deputized me corrector in his absence.

Yikes, do I correct a lot?

 

[August Hunicke]

haha, I don't know but your good at it.

 

[cory]

Go figure.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Pines and more Pines The other day's job and the log guys came and I had to stick around to help, and yesterday's location. A tricky one over an adjacent residence to the one in the photo, not in the pic. We said let's think about it Monday.

 

[Raj]

You saying Davey took 4hours to do that tree with all those toys? They must spend there wages in coffee & donuts stretching a job like that. Not cool IMO

Well, to be fair their saws didn't work right and with all the people walking underneath them.......

 

[Raj]

Spruce grind, 40 minutes. No clean up.

 

[RopeArmour]

This is the 1st vid to pop up when you enter D T
http://youtu.be/GCLbbcWvZ5M

 

[Bodean]

Nice Grinder!

Rad equipment, Jay!

 

[Bodean]

Why not plant big trees near buildings? ......oh right. The tension root or whatever.

Buried tree with high water table and some rot.....

 

[woodworkingboy]

Deva, trees become unfriendly when you put them too close to buildings.
Peter, i was wondering how your grinder had progressed. Good job, man!

 

[Bermy]

Jay, I love those crane trucks! Loads of guys have them in Bermuda for general deliveries and construction. I knew a guy had one with a 50' crane, we did a lot of work together.

Ok, I finally worked on a tree big enough to qualify for this recent spate of tree pictures.
The broken hung-up Lombardi poplar I told you about around Christmas. Most of the leaves finally died so I could get a better view, saw one suitable TIP right above in an adjacent stem so decided to give it a go without cranes or cherry pickers, owners needed it gone, it was creaking like mad in the breeze.
So, Saturday, no wind, several hrs later...done. Yes, I was slow, but way up there with 14" tops either heavily leaning or caught in the next top, I wasn't taking any chances! No blood, nobody died, tree is cut down to where its stuck, everybody's happy. Last picture is of a weary me standing in front of one of the trunks still left in the grove...I know I'm small but those trees are big!

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nice pics, Fiona, great that the job worked out well.

Crane trucks are all over here too, if you are driving around, a day won't go by without seeing some. Oddly, unless things have changed, they never seemed popular in the states. I could never figure out why. For hauling work and construction like you mention, the only way to go. Lots of gardeners have a basket attacked to the end of theirs, and that's how they trim, move the boom around by remote. Metal fabricators, it's a given that they will have one.

 

[Steve Mack]

Nice going Fiona. Is that Lantana growing there?

 

[treebilly]

Nice work Fiona

 

[Bodean]

Bravo Fi!

 

[sotc]

Love that last shot of you. Poplar is the rat of the tree world

 

[pantheraba]

Hahaha...it is the 2nd rat...1st is probably sweetgum.

Looking good, Fi!! That is one tangled up and broken up mess. Looked like a fine TIP...love the high ones for maneuverability.

 

[Raj]

Nice pics! Kinda looks like a big game of pick-up-sticks.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Good Work, Fiona. I wondered about that project, recently, probably passing some lombardis or seeing them out my window.

 

[biggun]

Great work on the Lombardi.