The Official Work Pictures Thread

[August Hunicke]

Love the jet backdrop!

 

[BOTS]

Scott...you ARE Mr. Casual, pushing that chunk away like that.

 

[Levi]

Good shot indeed Scott!

Willard, is that the brand name, "Muck Truck"? Edit: I found them for sale, decent price, except you have to hand load it

 

[Raj]

Great pics!


Worked the past two mornings to take down half this 50ft maple, to favour a fall. Lots of rigging.


Flopped with the aid of a maasdam and wedges. Wind died down for the fall.


In the market for a bigger saw, my 290 isn't cutting it, too much fooling around. Kinda got worried when dirt started coming out during the backcut.



Left a hot mess, HO clean up.

 

[biggun]

Had to go out to a Beech tree this afternoon. The customer is renovating their property and wanted the tree cut back as hard as possible.

The guy I was combing fr had arranged for the tree to be cut back by approx 2 m. Better options for growth points.

Nice tree to climb and make use of the redirects .

A bit harsh IMO but the customer is happy and tree is still there.

 

[biggun]

Sorry about the sideways picture gents.

 

[cory]

Doesn't look harsh at all imo.

 

[Grendel]

Wanted to investigate this hangup a little bit before we pull the whole thing out. One 4" limb is holding up the whole event. The support tree is just mangled up there from the year of contact. They both probably should come out.

 

[brendonv]

So long good friend, i hope your weekends are spent being washed and waxed like we spent most our time together.

 

[Limbrat]

just a small pondo removal and some canyon live oak trimming today

I think Scott is just holding that chunk to make it look like an action shot. He probably put it on the end of his bar and spun it like a basketball. Cool customer that one.

 

[HolmenTree]

Good shot indeed Scott!

Willard, is that the brand name, "Muck Truck"? Edit: I found them for sale, decent price, except you have to hand load it

Yep Muck Truck Max. Make sure you get the Max model.
Bought mine new about 8 years ago and never had a bit of trouble with it yet.
Little guy only weighs 285 lbs and 27 inches wide. It's rated to carry 800 lbs but I've had double then that on it a few times, once with 18 bags of cement on it, that's about 1,700 LBs.

Full load it'll climb stairs or slopes up to 40%.
I got a 2" ball on mine and have pushed my 6500 LB trailer into tiny backyards to chip up brush or load blocks. It's rated to pull a 10,000LB trailer for short distances.
When I get to my job site I load it up with all my gear, saws etc. and go straight to the tree.
Levi, when you get to do all this with it , loading it by hand would be the last thing on your mind.
If not then you're in the wrong business

 

[MasterBlaster]

So long good friend, i hope your weekends are spent being washed and waxed like we spent most our time together.

 

[Peter]

So long good friend, i hope your weekends are spent being washed and waxed like we spent most our time together.

I can't imagine there's many tree firms that look after their kit as well as you do.

 

[squisher]

Am I correct in remembering that that truck was Corys before Brendon's?

What an immaculate looking unit. Someone got themselves a hell of a truck.

 

[BOTS]

I think Scott is just holding that chunk to make it look like an action shot. He probably put it on the end of his bar and spun it like a basketball. Cool customer that one.

Ha, lol, I only do that when neighbors are watching, its a bid winner, brings in more work in the hood

 

[brendonv]

Yep. Cory has my disease too. He's responsible for keeping it so clean all those years.

 

[cory]

Hehe, I like things just so it is true, but not like my bro Bren, last weekend he very kindly spiced me an ABR ring, I saw his latest sly device for keeping things clean, a small handheld battery powered blower, about the size of a drill. He keeps it at arm's reach I think.

I just searched for a picture, no luck, I think he has the only prototype.

 

[treesmith]

I had an interesting barber chair today. 36"-ish red oak, heavy toward shop with antique car under it. We set a line good and high, tensions with the truck, back cut until it began easing over, then I went an snatched it on over with the truck. It came over to around 45*, then barber-chaired pretty as you please. I had left approx. 4" of hinge to hold against the side lean. It tapered a bit wider in the center. I guess that was more than it could stand, though I've never seen a tree this big split, especially once it's well on its way over.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Scary . Happy no one was hurt!

 

[Bodean]

Whoa. Learning opportunity.

 

[treebilly]

Nasty looking barberchair. Glad you're ok

Only one from today. Pin oak that leaned about 30 degrees over the primary. The arm I left on the spar had wounds from the power line and I decided to leave it on rather than rig it out.

 

[HolmenTree]

Back out in cottage country today. More big spruce with ant /woodpecker degrade at the base, beautiful working day with put them on the ground with no cleanup.
Only distraction was a damn roaring waterfall a hundred yards away.

Worked on my stumper tonight , blown drive axle bearing and the spindles were seized to the axle. Got out the recuperating saw and cut the axle in half. Changed bearing and welded axle back together with a piece of schedule 60 pipe. Ordered complete front axle with spindles and all ....next winter project.
My welding beads are nothing to brag about........ but last time I welded was over 10 years ago when I built my all in one trailer.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Got this pig ready for a crane day early this week. Unfortunately, the whole back yard is so swampy, we won't be able to get a crane into it for at least two more weeks. Maybe a month. Idea is to get as much in each neighbourhood we can get ready and then just move the crane in when things dry out some.
Mike climbed the pig. I had to reduce a hollow nasty dead black oak as well. Did not take long. Damn thing is about ready to fall over. It was green a month ago. It has been in demise for a while. Good thing there is a tree I had dead wooded a couple years prior to tie into. I should be able to crane both trees on one set up.
Mike's tree had an antennae in it. Wire.. Metal... nasty tops.
I relieved him on the negative blocking.
Fodder.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Big pig!!!

 

[August Hunicke]

Great run of pics. I especially like this one