The Official Work Pictures Thread

[stig]

Nice to see you in a tree again, Fi.
And quite the tree, that one.
Great pictures.

 

[Jomo]

The Bermster!

Mighty fine grade one prunin girl!

Class one Wonder Woman!

Jomo

 

[Burnham]

The Fi is in tha' House!

Nice work, lady.

 

[Raj]

Nice work Fi!

Just 4 little dead pine sticks. Long live the cart! Saved me a lot of work.

 

[pantheraba]

You need a draft mule to pull that load!

 

[SeanKroll]

Dragging what can you can roll is like, pedaling a bike with the tire rubbing the whole while.

Glad that's working out for you.
Downhills are the best!

 

[Burnham]

Sweet.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Did someone call for a draft mule?

Gee! Haw!

 

[Bermy]

Thanks guys, that picture was a week ago Friday out on a friend's farm, they raise fine Merino wool sheep and a bit of mixed cropping. The shoulder is doing ok, I did Thursday and Friday that week, then Monday and another Thursday and Friday...max six hrs on one job, and yes, I could feel it by yesterday, but so far only tired and sore muscles, nothing awful so it looks like the recovery is well on the way. I do have to give myself a few days rest in between still.
Thanks in no small way to the TreeHouse, I am back at it!!

 

[Burnham]

Easy does it, take the right amount of time to get back into a regular work schedule, Fi.

We are all proud of you, and proud to have been able to lend a hand. We just do that, here.

 

[Grendel]

Lovely Pictures Fiona. That tree didn't look as enormous at first, until you were in it for scale.

That cart is badass Peter

 

[MasterBlaster]

New Username!

"Badass Peter!"

 

[Raj]

Haha! May be Swamp ass.

 

[Buddy]

Great pictures Fiona!!!

Peter, every time I see one of those carts I think I need to build one. One of these days...

 

[Bermy]

Lovely Pictures Fiona. That tree didn't look as enormous at first, until you were in it for scale.

That cart is badass Peter

Haha Sam...what you don't know is anything I stand next to automatically looks big...'cause I'm little!

 

[flushcut]

Glad to see you pics again Fi they are like a mini vacation.

 

[Jed]

Willie: Nice Elm job!!

Fi: Best pics I've seen on here in some time. Man. That weird light on those weird clouds. Absolute pig too... well done, btw.

Just some meager stumpmanship today fer you guys. I took this Hemlock into the woods off wedges...

Then had Joe Hafich (this kid's starting to kill it a little bit) get the back-weight out of this other one that I high-stumped...

Then I went up and brushed-out and topped this pig of an alder before I fell the stick in the woods. This was one crazy Alder. 32" dbh and it held it's taper till way up there... when the sticked thumped the woods the Canadian home owner came running out with really wide eyes: "What was THAT!!" I point to the stick... He goes, "The entire hoos (house) shook!"

 

[Burnham]

Big alder, for sure.

 

[cory]

Jed seems like most of your hinges are straight across, do you do tapered hinges too or are you not a believer. Apologies if you have posted tapered hinge pics and I forgot.

 

[Jed]

Jed seems like most of your hinges are straight across, do you do tapered hinges too or are you not a believer. Apologies if you have posted tapered hinge pics and I forgot.

Dude, I'll get (I know myself) long-winded on this, so just cut me off if I start goin on fer too long....... uhh...... No, I mean, I'm a believer.... a little bit, I guess... but I'd have to confess that I'm not a big believer on that technique, in fact, the mechanics have never made a tone of sense to me. I dunno... I mean, I DO use it all the time... like, if you take a look at the Hemlock hinge you can see that It's a hair-bit thinner on the compression side...

O.K. I just figured it out! I feel like: in hardwoods... yer Cherries and Oaks and stuff like that... sure man, knock yerself out tapering the hinge a bit, cause the compression side can take it a good deal more... but.... the thing is.... in some pretty garbage fat-grained Hemlock or something like that... better take it easy on cutting up the comp. side too thin. I dunno. It's a "feel," thing definitely, and not so much a "think," thing. I feel like: in general the tapered hinge is a really good idea as long as you keep your taper quite minimal. In general though... I'm a WAY huger advocate of the Sizwill, (opening up a huge gap on the tension side ONLY) than I ever (most likely) will be about the tapered hinge. I dunno. You know what!?... the tapered hinge will actualy PREVENT a real huge tree from going over sometimes... you'll be crackin-on wedges like yer Tiger stinkin Woods sometimes, when watcha shoulda just did is to have just cut up an even hinge.

Oh how RUDE!! How DARE you guys interrupt an arborist whose pretending to be a timber cutter when he's just getting into full swing ... I was just getting warmed up gents! Ohhh... have it your way, then...

Scary-dead Maple today over fancy-schmancy landscaping...



There were even super-yucky bugs and stuff too, gents...



I LOVE dead holding wood...



Right here, I'm like, "Oh please GOD, let this work."....



And then, right here, I'm like... "Tee Heee, heee, hee he, he."



Hey!... Check out this Sun Dog I shot today...



Here's a pic I took from my house about a week ago...



Man, I don't know when to quit sometimes.

 

[Levi]

Nice run, Jed! That maple is sketch, you are a brave soul. Nice sun dog.

 

[SkwerI]

Very nice, Jed. You gots skillz.

 

[cory]

Good thoughts on the tapered hinge.

Good use of junky 3 strand for the abusive hold-at-the-stump cut.

 

[Burnham]

Well done, Jed.

 

[SkwerI]

I have a couple pics on my dumb phone but have no way to get them on the interwebs. Anyone here willing to have me text you the pics and then email them back to me so I can get them on my computer?