The Official Work Pictures Thread

[stig]

Stig: Oh never mind the fiber-pull you stupid Viking... I'm an arborist for crying out loud!

Anyway... here's the vid I was talking about. This guy's amazingly good, by our West-coast standards, and I would imagine that you'd exhibit similar skills, albeit differently adapted due to the regional variation that our geographical seperation warrants. Please let us know what you think.https://youtu.be/X1hHzJYUUSc?t=138

Good video, but we do things a lot different here.
Shorter bars, as so often mentioned, and more borecutting.

On that last tree, if I was afraid of barberchairing, one thing I'd do was gut the hinge.
It is easily done from the backside, when you borecut, so doesn't really cost you any time.
You just swing the bar tip out through the middle of the hinge as you work around the tree doing your backcut.
Of course that means, you have to know exactly where the tip of your bar is, but for a pro faller that is pretty much given.

 

[pete mctree]

This is some tidy cutting of a serious head leaner for you Cory. Bore cut, with a strap to release, in quite an awkward spot too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MX5Ogb0iBFc

 

[stig]

Nice!

 

[Bodean]

Rad for the awkward.

Little Palm. Wind was humming. Learned to throw the fronds stem first and they sail like paper planes.....first several caught the wind and hit the neighbors.

Chunky Monkey.

Done by lunch....even threw in a free 20" pine stump......turned out to be a round buried in the ground.....don't tell the HO that though. I'm a charmer.

 

[Levi]

HaHa, that's funny!

 

[cory]

This is some tidy cutting of a serious head leaner for you Cory. Bore cut, with a strap to release, in quite an awkward spot too.

Cool vid, thanks for posting. Big difference I see between that tree and the one posted earlier is the previous one was considerably bigger and extremely rotten in the center. I'm still wondering if in the pnw, fallers will use a plunge and a strap release on a tree like that or are the trees just to big and tall causing too much extreme leverage to use a strap release. And so instead they just do a regular back cut as seen in the vid and they hope for the best. The guy in the earlier vid had to know that tree was full of rot, but he cut it conventionally anyway.

 

[Jed]

Rad for the awkward. ...I'm a charmer.

Really cool post, Deva. Thanks.

Stig: Thanks. If you guys get a slow day, why not try to throw up a vid of a weird head-leaner or something?

I love watching the shortbar bore-cut stuff. I'm just unfamiliar with it and so use what's regionally traditional.

 

[stig]

I don't know how to do video.

 

[stig]

Yesterday we took a load of Ivy and dead wood off an old pear tree in the City of Copenhagen.
Richard had evaluated the health of the tree and condemned it, since it had bad basal rot and was leaning over a playground.
Problem is, in the city all trees over 10" DBH are protected, so the city sent out a "specialist" ( Not an arbo but a biologist) who found the tree to be sound enough in his opinion, so he nixed the removal.
So we were hired to dead wood and remove Ivy.
Doing so we found the tree to be completely hollow, with lots of holes, to be honst we were a bit leery about climbing it.
These pictures along with a written report will go off to the city, so I guess before long we'll get permission to fall it.

 

[stig]

After being in the city, we needed an antidote, so we did a couple of hazard trees today.
Too risky to top, so we shot a dyneema line up and broke them apart with a winch.
Fun

Then we ringed 5 large beech trees that were standing on a 3000 year old grave mound.
The State forest was afraid they were going to blow over in a storm and pull huge root wads.
Archaeologists HATE it when that happens on a grave mound.
They didn't want to fall them, because they have been whacked over the nose for leaving too little dead wood in the forests, so someone came up with the idea of ringing them.
Then they'll break at that height and the stem can be left as fodder for bugs and fungie.

I guess what we should have done was bring some Fomes Fomentarium mycelium from one of the hazard trees and stuck that on the ringed part.
Then they would have broken at that height for sure.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Never heard of ringing trees like that. Interesting!

 

[Mick!]

Big day for a couple of guys.

Firstly Wooden Top finally finished today, I sent him up the spar to knock 6mtrs off as I left it too high to fell in the garden, he did ok, glad to see the back of him anyway.
Then a young man of 16 years who wants to be in the biz came for his first days official work as a man. He was nervous, I remember my first day of work, quite a step.
He starts college in September, this is just a fill in till then.
Some Douglas we were stripping, felling the spars Monday when the timber lorry arrives.

 

[Bodean]

Looking idyllic.

 

[pantheraba]

Good sized poles there, Mick. Hope your student works out OK. At least he doesn't look grumpy.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Git UP there!

 

[Mick!]

Thanks, he'll do, the older guy is back next week as well, so between them we can do the job till I hire someone in September.
Me and the Dutchman parted on reasonable terms.
In the future maybe we'll make money together, I'll do his grinding etc. for the moment I'm happy to be free of the tension.

 

[PCTREE]

Stig you get some crazy jobs, thats for sure!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I hope all goes well with trying to resolve your labor issues Mick.

Stig, cool work man. You do get interesting work.

 

[BOTS]

Mick and Stig great work and pics

 

[Limbrat]

Hope your student works out OK. At least he doesn't look grumpy.

Looks a little soft but I'm sure you'll take care of that. Big sticks Mick! Cool pics Stig, looks like a tall beaver got a hold of 'em.

 

[Sgriff]

That's interesting Stig,not every day one spends time girdling trees.

 

[woodworkingboy]

4 trees done in four hours, even got my wife working in the white hardhat, her first tree job. She did real well.

A hot spring hotel just down the lane from my place. Been cultivating this client over a long period, things are working out.

Crane op is a great guy, that`s him helping with the cleanup. A fine op as well, second generation now running the company his dad started. Well liked, they are very busy locally. Mainly tree work. He hustled it up so to only charge me a half day rate (four bills), though the estimate I gave to the hotel was for a full day. Made out well for a change. Very humid, but an enjoyable day.

 

[Mick!]

Good stuff Jay, what's happening to the brash?

 

[Levi]

Nice photos Jay, thanks for sharing. It's a beautiful place you live in.

 

[cory]

Cool photos and post! What's up with that log pile, it looks very nippponese just seating there so neatly in that setting. Is there anything sloppy or half assed over there (aside from the detectives you dealt with lol)?