The Official Work Pictures Thread
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RegC
TreeHouser
Great pics Scott. That first one saved a lot of climbing.
Jed
TreeHouser
Cedar, Cedar till you can't sleep!
We've got till Friday to turn these nine (6 Deodar and 3 Red) Cedars into firewood. Should go pretty good God willing. Tons of room for a Resy-job. Trouble is... The Deodars have so many stinkin tops whose limbs are all wrapped around each other, and the whole shootin match leans over the neighbors.
We could fall one of the reds (the shortest, at about 80'), but the other one (about 90') I chose to high-stump at about 12'.
Fail! My far corner on this double-cut is about 2" low.
Spent the rest of the day goofin around with this 100' Deodar labyrinth. (All these shots are of just one tree.)
Andy... Bull-buckin.
Rich... Like Mick done told it... False modesty, brother. You guys would own this place around two months after your arrival. A man your age could expect his legs to be in shape around two weeks after you get here.
We've got till Friday to turn these nine (6 Deodar and 3 Red) Cedars into firewood. Should go pretty good God willing. Tons of room for a Resy-job. Trouble is... The Deodars have so many stinkin tops whose limbs are all wrapped around each other, and the whole shootin match leans over the neighbors.
We could fall one of the reds (the shortest, at about 80'), but the other one (about 90') I chose to high-stump at about 12'.
Fail! My far corner on this double-cut is about 2" low.
Spent the rest of the day goofin around with this 100' Deodar labyrinth. (All these shots are of just one tree.)
Andy... Bull-buckin.
Rich... Like Mick done told it... False modesty, brother. You guys would own this place around two months after your arrival. A man your age could expect his legs to be in shape around two weeks after you get here.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
The cedar that just keeps on giving eh Jed 
Nice Bixler shot Scott!
Hella top!
Seems most the new guys get jelly legs over 100 feet. It's standing on the skinny that does it. Like when you have about 4" of stem in front of you. But, climb high, cut smaller I tell them.
Jason's knees still knock. But I have barely pushed him to 80 feet yet
Mike just never seemed comfy at height, but pushed himself through it. Most guys just get fatigued out. That's where SRT saves your butt.
Nice Bixler shot Scott!
Hella top!
Seems most the new guys get jelly legs over 100 feet. It's standing on the skinny that does it. Like when you have about 4" of stem in front of you. But, climb high, cut smaller I tell them.
Jason's knees still knock. But I have barely pushed him to 80 feet yet
Mike just never seemed comfy at height, but pushed himself through it. Most guys just get fatigued out. That's where SRT saves your butt.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Often times you are topping out at about 80-100' and there is 10" -12 " of stem in front of you... It's when you really need it small that gets fun 
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
I've been tied in to 4" on oaks and a few pine or spruce at 100' here but closing in on two hundred might be different. Doesn't matter much as I don't plan to move anytime in the forseeable future but a working vacation might be in the next couple of years.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
Had five easy sugar maples to remove today. The township is replacing a storm drain that sits five foot beside them. The youngster was in the bucket in the pic. He's getting better. The only one on the crew that didn't fly was the minute milker. He said he got to sunburnt this week end to wear a bucket harness
. Oh well the other two needed the experience. Back to Cleveland tomorrow to deal with more bat trees.
Grendel
TreeHouser
Great stuff everybody!! Man Jed, that thing really intertwined itself hey?
I love this stuff. . .
I love this stuff. . .
bstewert
TreeHouser
Doesn't anybody work on small trees anymore? I just got the job to prune seven Japanese maples that have been let go. . . all in one yard. Yippee!
First time climbing on spikes in a tree. I climbed on pretty big mature trees doing deadwooding/ pruning before as well as rec climbing. But this was a first being able to plan out how I want to dismantle it and executing while climbing vs bucket/aerial lift. Long story short, I'm hooked.
Josh
Jed
TreeHouser
Right on Josh and good pics.
Jed
TreeHouser
Oh yeah... you betcha... Pig took me a ton of reaming today just to get the grafts (3 of em!) ripped through so that I could fall the logs individually. Got a super dirty air filter now.
Rajan: Sure...... It just tends to ebb and flow around here. I'll have the Felco's in my hands again
before too long, don't you worry. O.k... we've got the "befores," now what we need are the "afters."Coupla more from today... Dude, wait till you see our firewood pile. I'll try to get a couple pics of it on Friday, our last day (God willing). Land Sakes!
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Boy oh boy.
Real McCoy There.
Hey Bob, I'm all about the small trees now...kinda makes me laugh...but the small trees are the future. Those Japanese Maples look rad....
Real McCoy There.
Hey Bob, I'm all about the small trees now...kinda makes me laugh...but the small trees are the future. Those Japanese Maples look rad....
Grendel
TreeHouser
And not gonna gloss over that textbook perfect hinge work Jed. You do it all the time, so we're used to seeing it. But dude, that is art.
Cheers
Cheers
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
Tomorrows victim if it didn't rain in Cleveland this evening. They cancel the bat survey with rain.
I hate hornets!! True to my word. If I get stung by one the whole colony dies! Bagged and tagged
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
That's what I've been missing from you Jed. Great to see your masterful stump pics.
RegC
TreeHouser
Some falling pics from today. I have about 3 more days on this site.
MasterBlaster
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Such high cuts!
RegC
TreeHouser
He want them all like that. Good, makes my job easier.
Ok, some little tree pics, a dead palm I removed just before leaving Bermuda.
Got there and the bottom half was only half diameter, either something struck it years ago or maybe lightning?? Wee bit of '...oh, didn't plan on seeing THAT!' Old princess palm.
Crowded drop zone, nursery, specimen trees, etc.
Did the absolute classic amateur's mistake, didn't check the fuel in my saw before I went up, small job at the end of the day, so yes, got all the way up and the saw wouldn't start...had to rappel down, get the 150 and go all the way back up. Client was cool though, just happy to get the palm down with no damage to his precious trees.
Got there and the bottom half was only half diameter, either something struck it years ago or maybe lightning?? Wee bit of '...oh, didn't plan on seeing THAT!' Old princess palm.
Crowded drop zone, nursery, specimen trees, etc.
Did the absolute classic amateur's mistake, didn't check the fuel in my saw before I went up, small job at the end of the day, so yes, got all the way up and the saw wouldn't start...had to rappel down, get the 150 and go all the way back up. Client was cool though, just happy to get the palm down with no damage to his precious trees.
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MasterBlaster
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Grip your lanyard lower...
More on the rope...
More on the rope...
...and back in Tassie Land, a wee bit bigger.
Rocked up to check the job and this is what we found, standing dead, rotten pine, top broken and resting in the adjacent tree!
Came back first thing the next morning, got a rope up into the broken top, pulled it out with the ute, then stripped off the lower branches and bark from the stump, rope back up top, cut, pull, BAM!!!
(truck in picture was backed up closer one the tree was down just in case anyone is worried...)
How's my hinge...
Rocked up to check the job and this is what we found, standing dead, rotten pine, top broken and resting in the adjacent tree!
Came back first thing the next morning, got a rope up into the broken top, pulled it out with the ute, then stripped off the lower branches and bark from the stump, rope back up top, cut, pull, BAM!!!
(truck in picture was backed up closer one the tree was down just in case anyone is worried...)
How's my hinge...
