The Official Work Pictures Thread

[pantheraba]

Different kind of job...pretty cool how you get on the roof there.

 

[bstewert]

I've never used a chainsaw in water. What's it like, Sean?

 

[treebilly]

Joe tying off a good sized piece and here it is sitting at the chipper. It's been a while since I was on the bottom side of rigging. Took a few till got smooth with it.

What's left of my tree from yesterday.

 

[treebilly]

I've never used a chainsaw in water. What's it like, Sean?

You get wet

 

[sotc]

And the water robs a lot of your power

 

[pantheraba]

Think rooster tail of water as you cut. I took apart a beaver dam with a chainsaw before...very messy stuff.

 

[bstewert]

I vaguely remember that scene from “Sometimes a Great Notion."

 

[Raj]

A HO finally cleaned up a spruce (for the most part) I took down for them last year, so I can grind the stump, 20 minutes. The tweek on the handles made a world of difference for controlling, I personally can't stand the straight across bars like the dosko's, the straight back worked a world better for me, but the angled grips are even better.





Then on to pull over a back leaning maple stick with the maasdam, and ground it and another stump. Have some storm clean up this afternoon. Motor shop is dead, Good Friday.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

What do you have going on there, Peter, with that little "wall" on the garage-side of the hinge?




Bob, I hollowed out the bucking cuts to cut as much as possible for cutting with no water in the kerf.

I tried to back-chain where I could.

Tried to prevent soaking the hot muffler, figuring rapid cooling and heating is not helping anything.

I rolled the log to try to limb it out of the water. Funny how it moved the log back and forth for small limbing cuts. Equal and opposite reaction, and all that.

I tried to run more oil into the bar/ tip by cutting above water, or spinning the chain in the air, then back into wet bucking cuts. I roasted the tip on my bar, which was already on its way out, showing signs of burning at the sprocket. Time for a new tip.

Sorta messy, but not too bad. Maybe 5-6 bucking cuts.

 

[stig]

No chance of getting a boat to tow that thing away, I guess.

Would have been quick and easy.

 

[Raj]

Sean, the tree was being pulley through two other maples to the left, I had concerns it rolling off the other maples and twisting off and back on the hinge and into the siding. It ended up laying softly down.

 

[Grendel]

run a loose chain for cutting water. Nothing can save the tip. We've cut a lot of Ice block out up here, and it is murder on the bar.

 

[Sgriff]

^ that's good to know 👍

 

[Bermy]

Ok, had to throw in a water picture...from a few years ago in Bermuda after a hurricane...

 

[FJR]

You can always just grab it out of the water.

 

[cory]

FJ, has that loader led to a lot of extra profit? No doubt it has saved a lot of physical labor and time, but I'm wondering if it is a game changer for you as a piece of equipment, one of those, 'why didn't I buy this sooner' things? For example the pictured job...

Thanks.

 

[FJR]

Cory, it has been a big game changer for us and has been very profitable. It is just so versatile and we use it for so many things. Did it save a lot of work at the pictured job? Yes, but that is a rare occurrence. It is all of the things it does on a day to day basis that makes it so worthwhile. If you do a lot of removals, you have great reliable employees, and have a lot of work to do then it is a no brainer.

 

[pantheraba]

Ok, had to throw in a water picture...from a few years ago in Bermuda after a hurricane...

Good on the safetied in...you would sink like a stone with a saddle on...trying to get a saddle off under water would be very dicey. Cool picture.

 

[August Hunicke]

I've done some floating-log-hopping-log-jam-trigger-tripping on the Rogue River. 1997, was dumb but pulled it off...

 

[cory]

FJR

 

[biggun]

Very well put, Peter, I dug those shots of the top of the hedge, cuz in my book, that is hard freaking work. And you guys just knock it out. Dayum!

Yup personal awesomeness... Or more likely the fact I have done so many of the fookers they seem to stay level themselves these days.

If you look on one of the pictures I posted, you can see my mates little blue helmet.

 

[cory]

I think i see the blue helmet. Looking again, that hedge is a monster, high and wide. Serious stuff!

 

[Jed]

I go by feel Jed

Dang. Then that's some good cutting then.

I just cheat.

Hey, you hedgemiesters... you guys are men! I got out of the hedges this week only to land in a fine-pruning job... sort of out of the frying pan and into fire, imho.

 

[rskybiz]

Been plenty busy and shorthanded don't help hope that was cured today.
Recent wind damage some fodder tied the splits together as it seemed extremely needed, put a 5in round over the fracture to keep the rope from cutting.

Managed to back the car out after we removed th brush and a few leads hovering one of which broke out his back window but didn't crush the roof.

Then just kept walking it back different leads to keep it headed the intended direction. Bucket truck would have made it sweet though.

The other side I cut close to free then pulled off the trunk with my truck.

Today worked at a daycare carved a pair of mushrooms for the kids that I will touch up when I go back to plant two peach trees with the kids and show them the time lapse and video clips.
Wife sold three more trim jobs while there as well made for a great day.

 

[pantheraba]

Risky...you have a LOT going on. Good storm work there.

Never seen mushrooms carved before....looks good!