The Official Work Pictures Thread

[cory]

"38.5?" Are you sure about that .5??

So you like the zk1, eh Jed? Ever tried the 2? Just curious.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just knock that shit out and go home.

 

[Jed]

"38.5?" Are you sure about that .5??

So you like the zk1, eh Jed? Ever tried the 2? Just curious.

I knew someone was going to call me on that. That came about because I was pissed at our salesman who wrote up the job as a "33" dbh, Cottonwood. I stuck a tape around that pig and divided by pi. hence the .5. You see I'm not messin' around. I'm sort of the Barney Fife of the tree world.

Uhhh... the zk1... lets see... it's got this super scary, tiny, tiny, little ball-lock deal on the slick-pin holding the whole thing in there that just scares me sideways. It's never popped out, but it's just wrong. The new one doesn't have that. It's got this way bigger wedge shaped deal that wouldn't pop out if you smashed it with the butt of an axe. Never tried the zk 2, but my new young friend has that in addition to the rope-runner which I did try. Let's just say that once we get our greedy little paws on those, we certainly won't be messing with any stupid wrenches anymore.

 

[Mick!]

Are the valve stems exposed, Mick? On the Parks' skidder I ran, there was a shield of threaded pipe cap, on a piece of pipe, welded on the rim. Probably easy to add.

Yes they are, on this occasion the valve just blew due to too much pressure/too old.
I'll look out for those anyway, thanks.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Like this, with a threaded pipe end, for a threaded pipe cap.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Any by the way, Mick, what is the meaning of your signature?

 

[Mick!]

I saw it on a tweet somewhere. I thought it was funny.
Whenever I do something challenging I think of who will be annoyed if I succeed.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I knew someone was going to call me on that. That came about because I was pissed at our salesman who wrote up the job as a "33" dbh, Cottonwood. I stuck a tape around that pig and divided by pi. hence the .5. You see I'm not messin' around. I'm sort of the Barney Fife of the tree world.

Uhhh... the zk1... lets see... it's got this super scary, tiny, tiny, little ball-lock deal on the slick-pin holding the whole thing in there that just scares me sideways. It's never popped out, but it's just wrong. The new one doesn't have that. It's got this way bigger wedge shaped deal that wouldn't pop out if you smashed it with the butt of an axe. Never tried the zk 2, but my new young friend has that in addition to the rope-runner which I did try. Let's just say that once we get our greedy little paws on those, we certainly won't be messing with any stupid wrenches anymore.

Jed, it doesn't matter if the RW comes off, its not life support. It friction sharing. The hitch will lock up. NO worries. IF that were to come loose, and be lost, you'd just need to use some boot friction instead of RW friction to keep the hitch functioning to get down, or change to DdRT.

 

[cory]

we certainly won't be messing with any stupid wrenches anymore.

 

[cory]

I'm sort of the Barney Fife of the tree world.
.

 

[Jed]

Jed, it doesn't matter if the RW comes off, its not life support. It friction sharing. The hitch will lock up. NO worries. IF that were to come loose, and be lost, you'd just need to use some boot friction instead of RW friction to keep the hitch functioning to get down, or change to DdRT.

I've tried to mollify myself with that in the past, but I'm a worry-wort at heart, plus I run my hitch super loosey-goosey for convenience. Maybe you're right though. Makes me feal better anyway.

Cory: All I meant by that remark was that Bingham's surpassing genius had yet surpassed itself again with the advent of the Runner. It's not that the wrench isn't a great tool on it's own merits, it's just that, next to the Runner, it's greatly inferior. The architects tell us that there is nothing big or small save by comparison.

Finished roping out my Cottonwood today (I was able to leave a 30' "snag") but my oil cap started leaking...



Insane weather though... snapped this on the way home...

 

[cory]

Holy chit that is a picture and a half!!

Worry warts have less accidents in tree work, I believe.

Kevin's a geinius for sure, but a lot of folks like the RW iterations over the RR, as I'm sure you know, just saying.

 

[treebilly]

A couple of an Amish feller and a fence jumping skidder op
They had me remove a lot of side wieght prior and set their winch line at 25'. He used a 20" bar to fell it. I was impressed even with his blasphemous husky donning a stihl bar.
Kinda ugly stump but it went where he said it would

 

[treebilly]

Big pin oak I decided to drop instead of strip out. Saved a ton of head ache from the worried nieghbor. She took two days off work to make sure we didn't touch her house. She swore at me till it hit the ground and decided her house was safe.
My frustration kicked in while stripping down another pin oak in the back and the truck overheated( shutting off with me aloft). We got the temp down a bit and I tested the fan clutch by stopping it with my boot. The mechanic agreed that it was bad after telling me how stupid I was.
My redneck fix for today while parts were delivered. We put the new clutch in after I finished tonight.

 

[cory]

Cool pic and description of the Amish guy and skidder deal.

Very nice redneck fix, imo.

I gotta say, Internationals used to be the work truck to have and they were everywhere. Now, afaik they kinda suck and I see very few of them around. Ive heard the new emission motors they have really suck. I feel like Freightliner took over their #1 spot.

Just saying. If you love your International then I'm glad for you.

 

[pantheraba]

That's a lot of tree there, Rich....beautiful fell. 10-4 on saving a LOT of rigging.

And mechanics??? What do they know?

 

[cory]

That's a lot of tree there, Rich

For sure. Rich does your 20" chipper just demolish all those big limbs and leaders, leaving just the trunk to deal with?

You should get some vid of that!

 

[treebilly]

Yeah the 2100 just eats it up. Doesn't like bushy spruce much though. Leaving firewood becomes such a head ache with this machine

Yeah the mechanic agreed with my diagnosis, just not my test methods

 

[August Hunicke]

Rich (treebilly)
That might be the most interesting stinkin' post I've ever perused.
The Amish guy should be ashamed of himself for picking up a power saw. He needs to re-examine is dogma… and his face cut. Looks like it was his first time. Especially next to your work. Breaking Amish all over again.
That blower mounted to the front of the bucket truck LOL, can I take that picture and put it on Instagram please? I will credit you with the name of your outfit. What is it?

 

[August Hunicke]

Jed, wrench may always have a place. I find it the smoothest rappel I've ever experienced. Especially with zigzag (shhhh) And I have a rope runner.

 

[treebilly]

You can post it, but no credit. I was actually embarrassed to be seen
I think ( at least whatever type we have around here) the Amish can do whatever as long as it makes money.

 

[Jed]

Jed, wrench may always have a place. I find it the smoothest rappel I've ever experienced. Especially with zigzag (shhhh) And I have a rope runner.

Wow, that's a cool idea about the wrench and zigzag. The reason that I insist on the wrench's marked inferiority has to do with it's reliance on friction cord whose heat distribution limitations and friction erosion is obviously much greater than the all metal Runner. I'm amazed that you think that it could ever be smother than the Runner, but then I never would have had the presence of mind to combine it with the zig.

Rich: Yeah I like your cutting a lot better than his. Man that oak is so pretty when it's cut. The stumps show so much detail of even the individual saw teeth.

Cory: No I didn't know, while this is probably all old-hat to you, and doubtless has been hashed out with nauseating tedium on the various climbing forums which I never had patience for. But then you seem to know a great deal that I don't. I still boast at work about the new (to me) trick of back-chaining the low stumps in such a way as to avoid dragging any sediment back through the cut.

 

[cory]

I still boast at work about the new (to me) trick of back-chaining the low stumps in such a way as to avoid dragging any sediment back through the cut.

I'm humbled I could contribute something. Btw, the key of course is dragging no sediment/debris through the cut. You can do it with either a pushing chain or pulling chain, though more often than not on stumps, a pulling chain is best, with the tip buried. I'm sure you know this but the 'back-chaining' reference threw me a little.

 

[Jed]

Oh, o.k... top of the bar cutting or what have you. Andy and I definitely made good use of it on these logs I had to flop into the dirt today. 35" dbh x 125' Firpig up in Shoreline today. His twin fell over and crushed the poor guy's really nice R.V. This one was heaving the ground a bit, so down it had to come...

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Andy and Christian the Atheist by the windfall. (From right to left )

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Had a ton of room for a nice big top and a nice butt-stick...



Weird sweep-grain butt on this pig. Notice the sweep of the grain in the hinge...



Andy crackin the buttstick into firewood...



The tip of the buttstick dug up this doll out of the neighbor's yard. Pretty weird.

 

[BOTS]

The legendary Jedi hinge is back...nice cutting man!!