The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Burnham]

Effin' fine, Mick. You have hit the bigtime with that machine. It will keep you working many a year longer than without, I'd bet

Yep, wolfie is what you get with open grown DF. Huge limbs/knots.

 

[SeanKroll]

That will put a smile on your face, I bet. In person, stuff like that makes me laugh out loud.

Loader-envy

 

[Raj]

Nice purchase Mick!

 

[bstewert]

Before and after. Took out dead, crossing, and branches against the house. I know nobody here does "little" stuff, but just in case. . .

 

[PCTREE]

Weird client this week, he called me on Tuesday and said he had been told a competitor had told him he had a tree that had to come down immediately. Went to look and gave him a price and said I could pull off of a trim job and do it that afternoon. He said he wanted to shop prices.... When I looked at it there was a 4-5" gap between the stump and the ground as the tree had moved... When we came back on thursday to do it I noticed he had filled the gap with mulch so it didn't look so bad???



This was a pretty big hickory going right for the neighbors house



Lots of brush but luckily Brutus was hungry


Robbie sleeping on the freakin job



It was a really tight setup but I figured we could get it done, Charged $3750, next lowest was $6k and apparently most were $12k range I suck at bidding. Done in 5 hours

 

[SkwerI]

5 hours? Dude, you are a beast!

bstewert, looks great. Any tree guy in Florida would have simply cut off every small branch and leaf up to 6-8' and called it good. I've met maybe 3 decent trim guys here in 30 years.

 

[squisher]

I'm not sure if you caught up on everything Brian. But Paul rocks his own crane now. That's 'the beast'. Still five hours is quick!

 

[PCTREE]

Not really, just an old fat guy sitting in a crane with the right equipment in place to make it efficient. The biggest problem with my system is I need employees, TreeMek looks interesting...

FWIW we did that with 3 of us, me crane op, Robbie climber and a new guy on the ground running chipper.

 

[SkwerI]

Most times any more than 3 guys on a job means somebody is wasting space. Awesome setup, Paul.

Local guy here used to rock his own tree business. Sold it then bought a crane and began doing crane work for other tree co's. Brought in his former climber and they would sub out for a $400 minimum on the crane and $200 minimum on the climber, then knock out 3-4 jobs per day. Think he's at $500 minimum on the crane now, and he has two.

 

[cory]

I know nobody here does "little" stuff, but just in case. . .

 

[SeanKroll]

I love a japanese maple prune, Bob. Some of my favorites.

I had a similar structured one...put in a central hub ring and 6 light duty cables. They are beautiful trees, prone to snow/ice and wind- load break outs. Something to consider. All Home Depot in-stock materials, pretty cheap.

Just had to put some damage-control hardware in another split Japanese maple.

 

[Burnham]

A really nice job you did there, Bob. Perfect.

 

[pantheraba]

I LIKE little stuff...prefer it. Usually pays better. The big ones I tend to look sideways at as I sidle away.

 

[SkwerI]

I don't care for these types of jobs but it pays well. City of Orlando code enforcement work (subcontracted from a big landscape outfit). Blown down trees on vacant lots down in Da Hood. I cut them up and sort of stacked/piled them up for the grapple truck company to pick up on Monday. Took a bit over 2 hours and only had 7 people stop and ask us for money. Had to evict one guy before I could start cutting this morning.

 

[Bermy]

Hey Bob, I do little stuff too, check back a few posts for my 'dehacking job...
I find fine pruning very satisfying as well as restoration pruning

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Bob, love doing the little work. Love Japanese Maples as well. Nice work on that one. It looks great!

Brian, I can see where rolling the smaller truck on jobs like that are better bank. Sure would love a grapple truck following me somedays

 

[treebilly]

Did small work all day today. A coipl of Bradford pear reductions, a cherry limb lift, some more clean out trims with some abomination nursery made up bullshit tree ( seriously can't identify but it had 8 feet of new growth in two years) , and finished with a clump river birch that the power co jacked up pretty bad. A good day but I didn't take any pics.

 

[SkwerI]

Did small work all day today. A coipl of Bradford pear reductions, a cherry limb lift, some more clean out trims with some abomination nursery made up bullshit tree ( seriously can't identify but it had 8 feet of new growth in two years) , and finished with a clump river birch that the power co jacked up pretty bad. A good day but I didn't take any pics.

Well then I'd say you're in the wrong thread!

 

[Sgriff]

Gotta love the little stuff...

 

[bstewert]

Just teasing about the small stuff. . .I think most everyone here does them. But it seems most of the posts are for big removals, which btw, I have utmost respect for. I get tired sometimes just looking at the pictures!

Another maple nearly finished (guessing it's around 100 years old). It's a little bigger!

 

[stig]

That is one pretty tree right there.

 

[Raj]

Great work all!

 

[pantheraba]

That is one pretty tree right there.

Yes...and well framed by the photographer.

 

[bstewert]

Thanks. Have been working on this tree for 10 years.

 

[stig]

I'd say you did good.
It looks like something out of a Japanese painting.