The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Jed]

I'm singing some George Straight in my head right now Jed

Wait... I even like George Straight, but I can't think of what song that would be. I've been leaving my phone in the truck too. I HEAR ya on keeping the boss away for a few.

Stephen: You got us beat for sure down there. Probably the tallest stuff we ever get into is 165' at the very best.

Gary: You're knockin some serious stuff out there, sir. PLEASE do send the vid our way.

So anyways... I got into the shop really early yesterday, but that was ok cause I had really dull knives, and knew that I could drag the knife-flip process out long enough to keep the boss off my tail. So... Andy and I flip the little deal open and start wrenchin off the chipper knives. After two knives are off (disk chipper) I go: "Hang on a sec Andy while I grab a sharp set of knives." I go into the shop...... no sharp knives....... Anyways.... I just end up putting a new disk on the little hand-grinder and going to town on the the dull knives in a nice, snug vice. (You guys are wonderin why in the world I'm goin into all a this anecdotal evidence... You'll see ) Well, uhhh... I ended up... well, first let me say that I took a TON of material off the heal, but I ended up putting an absolute razor's edge on all four of the knives. So...again... anyways... again... out to the job this morning taking out some small, but extremely tall (maybe 85/90') little Cottonwoods. Nothin big... not even worth milking a stump pic or two out of. ANYWAYS!... I'm up there about 65 feet roping down limbs with my climb-line, when I hear Andy's emergency whistle blaring full tilt. I'm like: "What the " Dude........ He chipped my stinkin climb line. I never even felt a tug. I was like, "Oh, thank you God. Thank you that I'm a sharpening geek, and for some random reason was able to sharpen my blades yesterday." Andy felt awful.

When I got back to the shop, I told my friend Chris, but made him promise not to say anything. He said, "Yeah, I've never even heard of the knives cutting through the rope. You got super lucky... usually the drum just wraps the rope up untill it breaks or pulls the stem over." Now you gents just have to believe me... at roughly 6,500 lbs a.b.s... where I was in that skinny little stem... it would have just broke off easy peasy. Again, God... thank you.

140' Yale Spearmint 16 strand reduced to (approx.) 100'.

 

[pantheraba]

You got super lucky... usually the drum just wraps the rope up untill it breaks or pulls the stem over.

And that is very bad scary. Y'all gotta do a serious review of how that happened. Something has got to be changed.

Glad you are here to post for us, Jed. I have read of some guys that just always keep their rope with them in the tree. It's a hassle for me but could save your life.

What is that first picture?

 

[cory]

Y'all gotta do a serious review of how that happened. Something has got to be changed.

Glad you are here to post for us, Jed.

+1

Is it a bandit chipper? They have a rope cutting anvil in addition to the regular anvil

The whistles, do you like em? Nice idea.

 

[treebilly]

You got damn lucky Jed! I know he feels bad about it, but make sure he knows how serious that could have been.
I had to sneak the bucket into a tight area today. A lot of Austin Powers action to make the turns, only to confirm what I told the boss the night before. I could reach one of the three removals with it. The one I could reach was the tallest and made a good rigging point for most of the other two.

A lot of wood in a little place. Those guys did great today.

I'm so glad that I finally put this on my saddle. It's been in my bag for 6 months and I finally took the time to replace a caritool. Holds the 461 very well

 

[pantheraba]

Here is the video of that dead top pull:

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[flushcut]

Crispy critter!
HO "it died last week"

 

[BOTS]

Jed, glad you made it out ok brother!!!

You should always wear a back pack with rope in it when that chipper is going, I wear mine even if no chipper..... doesnt get caught on branches going down...I use 120ft of 11mm with HH2....nuff to get you down, just choke and repel down...

 

[BOTS]

Cool vid Gary!! thats the way to get it down

 

[Grendel]

Jed! Damn dog. I'm glad you're a sharpening geek. That was a super close call!! I bet a lot fewer guys get to tell the story about that than don't. . . Really glad you're ok Brother!!!

Rich, those transporters are great aren't they? Like that saw man!

Great way to handle that Gary! I'm really going to have to try to remember this. My dumbass would have tried to climb it, I know I would have, and gotten all sketched out half way up. . .

Jed, again, I'm really glad you're ok!!!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

BOTS...

 

[pantheraba]

Hahaha, Grendel

My dumbass would have tried to climb it, I know I would have, and gotten all sketched out half way up. . .

Totally understand all of that statement...dumbass, sketched out...done all that here, too. Glad the skidsteer was available.

Scott....thanks...now....Where, oh, where is TITS? You're scaring me with that picture. Straighten me out!

Boss....I are with sads, too:

BOTS...

 

[MasterBlaster]

One is none...

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Crispy critter!
HO "it died last week"

Yeah that was crispy.
Jed. Dilligence. keep an eye on dem guys. Or like Scott pointed out, bag that shat. That's how I roll.
And as far as tallervtrees. You guys up there have damn tall fir.

More from the job... we are there one more day.

 

[Jed]

NICE pics Stephen, and thanks to all of you for the well-wishes and good advice. I've definitely been re-thinking stuff... whatever we've been doing up to this point is just clearly not sustainable. I'm liking the backpack idea.

Yeah... I'm almost always just on a (non-steel-core) flipline too with no second tie. Ashamed to admit this after the rope-chip thing. Really ashamed. I really respect Butch's and Gary's opinion, and clearly need to change-up my show.

It would suck to have God save me all of those times, only to let Darwin get me in the end.

 

[pantheraba]

Hahaha...yes, don't screw up God's good work!

 

[Sgriff]

Dayum Jed!!!! Crazy stuff brother,glad it worked out for the better mang,idk why I can't quite tell what im seein in the pic before the cut rope...

 

[biggun]

Lucky Jed.

Glad your ok brother.

I backpack up when doing pine or spruce mainly so the crap doesn't cover my rope at the base of the tree. Most work over here the chipper is well away from the tree so I just leave the tail dangling.

 

[Grendel]

Get a 50'er with a HH and keep in a little ditty bag. Perfect for spar work and doesn't get in the way at all.

We wanna keep you guys around! hahaha

Cheers

 

[Grendel]

 

[Limbrat]

Just caught up with you Jed, thank God you're okay. No coincidence you sharpened those knives, you know that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. Great pics Sam, I love speed/zip lines. Killed a couple of sappy long leafs on the bay today. Slick as glass out there on the water and still pretty hot. It would've been a great day to go fishing.

 

[Grendel]

Just awesome Ray!

 

[Sgriff]

X2👍💪👊

 

[MasterBlaster]

No stubs!

 

[BOTS]

Great pics Stephen!

I love those bay pics Big Ray (and work pics ) what a cool place to work

 

[BOTS]

My day was tall pondo's dead wooding with Bixler




***You knows its tall when u hook up another throw line on your throw line...




***Brother Bixler wraptoring his way up